ot: Technology

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Hey guys

I know there's a debate sometimes about what is and what is not available re: high tech pre-1997, so for clarity's sake you might all want to take a gander at this:

http://books.google.com/books/serial/ISSN:01996649rview=1&rview=1&source=gbs_navlinks_s

This is all issues of Information World going back to 1982 (when it was the Intelligent Machines Journal). I thought it might shed some light on things a bit. I mean not that much of it will still be working but it might help you decide that if you're going to throw the party a bone and let them find a working desktop PC or laptop or server just what exactly it would look and feel like and what OS it would be running...

EDIT: a discussion of laptops came up. Here is the November 24, 1997 (day before!) issue of InfoWorld and a state-of-the-art notebook advertisement...

http://books.google.com/booksid=zjsEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&rview=1&pg=PA115#v=onepage&q&f=false

[Legbreaker]

a discussion of laptops came up. Here is the November 24, 1997 (day before!) issue of InfoWorld and a state-of-the-art notebook advertisement...

http://books.google.com/booksid=zjsE...page&q&f=false

And it's still not EMP shielded.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

And it's still not EMP shielded.

The point isn't that the stuff would keep working after TDM; the point is that the stuff was around pre-TDM. See the discussion on laptops, finding discarded cell phones, etc. etc.