Comments on: So long, Apple Computer… http://www.solsken.com/blog/2007/01/09/so-long-apple-computer-incorporated/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:10:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Rob http://www.solsken.com/blog/2007/01/09/so-long-apple-computer-incorporated/#comment-162 Rob Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:02:54 +0000 http://www.solsken.com/blog/2007/01/09/so-long-apple-computer-incorporated/#comment-162 This little machine changed my life. I only paid $1140 for it though! And of course I still have it...though the current machine in use today is a GothBook. It is going to be quite interesting seeing how Multi Touch invades our lives. Such a clever way to introduce it too. I am rather surprised that the tablet machines out there didn't implement multi touch - although upon thinking about it the reasons become obvious. Here is an unrelated though similar technology sure to delight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc&mode=related&search= -Rob- This little machine changed my life. I only paid $1140 for it though! And of course I still have it…though the current machine in use today is a GothBook.

It is going to be quite interesting seeing how Multi Touch invades our lives. Such a clever way to introduce it too. I am rather surprised that the tablet machines out there didn’t implement multi touch - although upon thinking about it the reasons become obvious.

Here is an unrelated though similar technology sure to delight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc&mode=related&search=

-Rob-

]]> By: Lars http://www.solsken.com/blog/2007/01/09/so-long-apple-computer-incorporated/#comment-34 Lars Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:28:30 +0000 http://www.solsken.com/blog/2007/01/09/so-long-apple-computer-incorporated/#comment-34 Hee... let it be known that Geeti always have the best stories! Did you end up finding a hotel, perchance?? I don't recall cross-connection days, though I did have a really crappy land line through which I could sometimes make out conversations of other network callers. Not sure how or why this occurred, but it did make for surreptitious fun :) Hee… let it be known that Geeti always have the best stories! Did you end up finding a hotel, perchance?? I don’t recall cross-connection days, though I did have a really crappy land line through which I could sometimes make out conversations of other network callers. Not sure how or why this occurred, but it did make for surreptitious fun :)

]]> By: Geeti http://www.solsken.com/blog/2007/01/09/so-long-apple-computer-incorporated/#comment-28 Geeti Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:51:22 +0000 http://www.solsken.com/blog/2007/01/09/so-long-apple-computer-incorporated/#comment-28 Why, just the other day I was reminiscing about the days of the cross-connection. Did you have those in the US? In India, before the economy opened up, when there was one government telephone service, making a phone call was always a bit of an adventure. You never knew if the line would be working, or dead, or working but somehow mixed up with someone else's line, in which case you either worked out an arrangement that satisfied both parties, or argued ferociously, trusting that eventually the lines would be uncrossed again. The longest one I remember lasted about 4 days when I was at that age where you spend hours talking with classmates about who likes whom, and a really angry man kept yelling at us in Hindi to find a hotel. Why am I nostalgic for this? I suspect an early onset of senile dementia. Happy New Year, Lars! Why, just the other day I was reminiscing about the days of the cross-connection. Did you have those in the US? In India, before the economy opened up, when there was one government telephone service, making a phone call was always a bit of an adventure. You never knew if the line would be working, or dead, or working but somehow mixed up with someone else’s line, in which case you either worked out an arrangement that satisfied both parties, or argued ferociously, trusting that eventually the lines would be uncrossed again. The longest one I remember lasted about 4 days when I was at that age where you spend hours talking with classmates about who likes whom, and a really angry man kept yelling at us in Hindi to find a hotel. Why am I nostalgic for this? I suspect an early onset of senile dementia. Happy New Year, Lars!

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