Life used to be so simple
We had Edit, we had Edlin
But simple did not give us today's amazing video performance.
Floppy disc drives couldn't spit out data fast enough.
Hard drives could, and I remember, while owning a home town Radio Shack for five years,
selling lots of ten meg external hard drives for $569
Ten meg; almost a uselessly small size now. One pic for your camera?
Times really have changed, and it's been fun to watch.
So much more performance for so much less money.
Computers are cheap now! My little Chrome notebook is inexpensive and gives me the radar weather while I'm downstairs vs
my main pc up in my office upstairs. I open the lid, within ten seconds it has grabbed my wifi and gone live. I find that amazing.
Ten seconds.
Those of us old enough thought our lives were passing by needlessly while inserting ten diskettes to get a simple program to run.
And oh I wish I had saved that one last 8 inch floppy I had on a peg on the wall in the computer room of my store. No son, that's not a frisbee...
Yes, i sold the Tandy 100's but I quickly found Acer and sold them alongside, and that was a great decision. Acer has been like Panasonic, never the top but always
pumping out good quality equipment. I rarely had to fix an Acer computer. Of course they were built like tanks back then. Just keep the dirt out of them and don't bang the circuit boards loose and they just ran and ran. Must have had good oem power supplies.
But then processor speed started to accelerate and all the old stuff was left sucking wind, soldiering on running your Quicken program, but not being able to run a modern game or a HD movie. So everyone bought new, or the smart ones upgraded internally, but many motherboards were limited.
Reminds me of cars today; we have amazingly powerful vehicles out there, most will never be on the autobahn, but all like to move out from the light or pass in a blur.
Just like our computers. Today we wait for nothing. Perhaps that is why we have more road rage on the road. Our computers today provide instant gratification.
No brrr brrr brrr brrrr
Now if I could just get rid of the noisy fans I've been plagued with on the last two computers. They need to quiet them down; mine is variable and whines and warbles, has since almost new. Fans can't be expensive and usually not hard to replace. Asus pc, before an HP.
I'm not sure I could tell if Windows could go any faster now, except perhaps on some videos. My internet is 80 down/8 up, which is plenty fast for me.
Suddenlink rep yesterday (changing out an underground cable line gone bad) told me they now offered 500 down in the larger city 30 miles to the West.
So with a fast computer, and fast internet, I'm just not sure what I actually see will change much. I don't play games on my pc, used to, but rather watch history shows on YouTube.
And I bet Microsoft would really like to collect my viewing history on YouTube, so when I switch to TBN, the ad on the page will be perfectly tailored to me.
For now, I am amused by the constant barrage of Orkin and other bug companies that are constantly popping up now that I once searched for local bug exterminators.
Orkin is tenacious; they must pay a lot of money for good positioning.
