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(Message started by: Charlie on Sep 24^th, 2002, 4:21am)

Title: A Tad Off The Mark
Post by Charlie on Sep 24^th, 2002, 4:21am

OXYGEN & DISEASES
There are numerous diseases that can be not merely cured, but ultimately abolished when we have once discovered how to use oxygen adequately. Liquefied oxygen will no doubt be our sole disinfectant.
T. Baron Russell, A Hundred Years Hence, 1905

ARTHRITIS
We just won't have arthritis in 2000.
_Dr William Clark, president of the Arthritis Foundation, 1966

HUMAN INFECTION
"All human infectious diseases [will be] successfully eradicated."
_Prediction for the year 1999 by economist Feliz Kaufmann, 1980

NO LETTERS C, X OR Q
By the year 2000, there will be no C, X, or Q in our every-day alphabet
_Ladies' Home Journal,
December, 1900

CALCULATOR
"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh one ton."
_Popular Mechanics, March 1949

Charlie

Title: Re: A Tad Off The Mark
Post by catlind on Sep 24^th, 2002, 7:13am

Hmmm, can't seem to find those 1000 vacuum tubes in my puter....was hopin I'd find em so I could use em in my vacuum :)

Cat

Title: Re: A Tad Off The Mark
Post by Charlie on Sep 24^th, 2002, 4:28pm

A friend of mine who worked for GE told me that when these antique warehouse-sized computers were first developed, someone ran around with a shopping basket-like cart replacing tubes all the time. It was nearly a full time job.......so he said.

No doubt embellished but a good story.

No need for tubes in my steam vacuum cleaner. Gotta keep the oil cup full though.

Charlie

Title: Re: A Tad Off The Mark
Post by Jasmyn on Sep 24^th, 2002, 4:36pm

If the intellectual community, of bygone years, can miss the pot so historically, we may just have hope that the evolutionary process might contribute to a higher species, in the form of Charlie, doing jumping-jacks, and finding a cure! ::)

Out of breath, but it is said!

Title: Re: A Tad Off The Mark
Post by echo on Sep 24^th, 2002, 4:39pm

Wasn't it the CEO of IBM who stated that the demand for desk top computers would be less than 5 world wide. I think he stated that back in the 50's. Old Gates sure proved him wrong.

Title: Re: A Tad Off The Mark
Post by M.R. on Sep 24^th, 2002, 5:44pm

Hey charlie....as a kid my dad fixed TV's. I can remember testing those old vacuum for him on his tube tester about the size of a really large suitcase.

Title: Re: A Tad Off The Mark
Post by pjbgravely on Sep 24^th, 2002, 6:22pm

" Old Gates sure proved him wrong." ????????????????/

Since when did Bill Gates have anything to do with building computers????????????He does seem to have a knack at making each computer crash into cash in his pocket. Of course he is a genuis to make the altair do anything. Where did all the genuis go? Stop Windows.....Save Vindows!!!!!!

Title: Re: A Tad Off The Mark
Post by domm on Sep 24^th, 2002, 6:27pm

Hold on now - tubes are coming back.

http://club.aopen.com.tw/activity/tube/en/default.htm

being a pack rat, I may still have some from my old TV somewhere....

domm

Title: Re: A Tad Off The Mark
Post by Charlie on Sep 24^th, 2002, 10:41pm

Yer right. Dad fixed TVs on the side too. Next door neighbor had huge room with thousands of them. Guy fixed everything. Every drug store had a tube tester here and I still have our portable. Have some old Uniteds and RCAs. I have one here about 8 inches tall that screws into big porcelain base. For early radio sets and a neat thing. These things are worth some bucks now. My old Hammond organ is full of the things. I haven't used it in 15 years....

Charlie

Title: Re: A Tad Off The Mark
Post by eyes_afire on Sep 25^th, 2002, 5:53pm

In my mind, tubes never left. The best guitar amplifiers are tube amplifiers. Too bad they're not as durable as digital amplifiers. Damn, I wish my tube amplifier was still alive. :( :(

Title: Re: A Tad Off The Mark
Post by Not4Hire on Sep 25^th, 2002, 7:16pm

"640K ought to be enough for anybody".......Bill Gates

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." ..........Bill Gates

"I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion."
........Bill Gates

"ahruh?......" ........The Tool Man...Home Improvement

;D

Title: Re: A Tad Off The Mark
Post by domm on Sep 25^th, 2002, 7:23pm

add one more -

"no one will ever need more than a 20 meg hard drive" - Bill Gates upon the release of Windows 95.