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   BOB KLAHN to JOHN GUILLORY   
   The Computer Retrochallen   
   14 Apr 12 17:34:14   
   
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    JG> minutes to warm up before you could use it or format it....   
    JG>  Imagine if you could go back in time when folks used   
    JG>  full-heighth hard drives and bring a laptop hard drive to   
    JG>  them with an IDE controller card, and tell them... Your   
    JG>  10mb hard drive died, I'll just hook up this 200gb hard   
    JG>  drive with 20 million times more space in far less size   
    JG>  hard drive... Not to mention, the speed would blow their   
    JG>  mind! --- ---   
    JG>  ---   
      
    That truly would have been funny.   
      
    OTOH, there was a science fiction story quite a few years ago,   
    in which a woman went back to the 1950s. She became a Science   
    Fiction writer, using the style of various great SF writers.   
    When some of them became suspicious because she was writing   
    stories they had intended to one of them investigated. When he   
    confronted her she showed him her pocket calculator.   
      
    After a short demonstration he asked her, "How many centuries in   
    the future did you come from?"   
      
    She answered, "Thirty years."   
      
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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