Re: PC--What is it good for?

Matthias Warkus wrote:
> lurking horror schrieb:
>> Per person? Junior may require his own node, but there is no reason for
>> Mom's personal Recipe database to be on a seperate computer. As well as
>> Dad's encripted collection of internet ****. One computer, as many
>> nodes as you desire.
> 
> Why is it that visions of highly computerised future everyday life 
> always go along with a 1960s vision of family life?
> 
> mawa

What I want to know is why so many authors are so obsessed with Big Iron 
computers? Maybe it's just me, but I keep running into authors who want 
to bring back Big Iron where the users are only given terminals. That's 
another weird throwback to the 1960s that I'll never grasp.

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