Bill Cosby The Computer Dude

So what if it was a Texas Instruments

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[gjc82071]

That's not surprising. My generation grew up with it (& Atari, Commodore, etc) 20-25 years from now, your kids will be asking you, "Dad, what the heck was a "PSP3/X-Box/Wii?". Then they might see some old commercials of them & say "How the heck do you play it? It doesn't even have a "mind link"! What's a "joystick"? Those graphics were so slow & primitive! Noting like our 2048bit, 5000ghz games. BTW dad, I need a new 10,000 terabyte flash drive for school. They're on sale for $10". :-P

[fjccommish]

It had the Jello Pudding cartridge, the picture pages cartridge, the Fat Albert "HEY HEY HEY" cartridge, kids saying funny things, Theo get a job, bahdooo, hoddey, boo boo.

[scaleop4]

@gjc82071 so very right .

[cs512tr]

@gjc82071 so true.

just like from the movie back to the future "you have to use your hands to play" ...

[gjc82071]

@lazarusthehucast Obviously I was grossly exaggerating in my initial PC speeds/power comment. Ever hear the saying: Everything is possible , the impossible just takes a little longer. There is really no way to know what the future has in store. At 1 time, the worlds greatest scientist were positive that the speed of sound could not be broken. Ancient astronomers were positive that the sun revolved around the earth, manned flight was impossible, etc. Never say "never". :-)

[lazarusthehucast]

@gjc82071 You tell me to chill out yet I'm very calm. Quit sounding so paranoid lol. Yeah I'd say in about 12 years there will be a somewhat new type of computer with a new architechture and all, but no I would not say it will be as revolutionary as microchips compared to vacuum tubes. That difference is about 5000x fold in difference, which makes me believe you werent joking in your post. Trust me it wont ever make that kind of jump again.

[gjc82071]

It was just a joke man. Chill out. And only the CPU speeds have kinda stagnated. Not the actual computing power. In 20-40 years, there will probably be some totally new type of computer. It will be as revolutionary as microchips were to vacuum tubes. They are actually working on something like that now, but I can't remember the name. Quantum, Quantitative, etc? I don't know, I only read a small article 2 years ago. But it's a totally new/different approach to CPU's.

[lazarusthehucast]

@gjc82071 Fail. you tried way too hard. Computers are semi-plateauing right now.

[bountyhunter552]

@gjc82071 10PB Flashdrive? Probably.

[gardnerbm]

I just played GTA 4 on it yesterday

[GWhiz99]

I was a middle school student in the rural South when Bill Cosby shilled for Texas Instruments TI-99 home computers in 1980s TV ads. Never athletic or romance love-machine material in school, I gravitated toward technology and longed for peers to share that interest. It wasn't sports. You couldn’t pay them! My first was not a Texas Instruments TI 99, but an Atari 800XL with a whopping 64 kilobytes of RAM—laughable by today's standards since wristwatches have more. Jersey Girl got a Commodore 64