Featued in Terminator 2 and so slick all my friends asssumed it was just a movie prop, not a real device.
Also a weird feeling using an IBM XT (huuuuge computer) in school and the see a friend run the same software on his Portfolio. Disonnance and very much "the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed".
I wrote thousands of lines of C code on an Atari Portfolio, which was my portable development machine for a few years .. it had Turbo C on it, booted up real fast, and was all I needed to make tweaks in between visiting customers - I wrote database recovery software with it .. It was always very fun to break it out at the conference table upon arrival, make the needed changes (magic numbers), do a quick build and then plop the .com onto the target machine for processing ..
Still have those machines somewhere, great little devices.
If you squinted hard, the first iPhone was practically a 2001 PowerBook G4 (or a 2000 Power Mac desktop) in a pocket format. The CPU and GPU architectures were different but the performance was roughly the same. On the software side, all the OS underpinnings were carried over from Mac OS X even though the high-level UI framework had been trimmed down and somewhat redesigned for touch.
actionfromafar|2 years ago
Featued in Terminator 2 and so slick all my friends asssumed it was just a movie prop, not a real device.
Also a weird feeling using an IBM XT (huuuuge computer) in school and the see a friend run the same software on his Portfolio. Disonnance and very much "the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed".
boffinAudio|2 years ago
Still have those machines somewhere, great little devices.
pavlov|2 years ago