IanJoyner

I worked for NetComm Australia when it was four of us in Ray's house in North Rocks. Ray and Luke where the ICL hardware engineers and Owen and I the Burroughs software guys (we did a version of Burroughs ALGOL on the Apple II to avoid both BASIC or Assembler).

I remember when Ray and Luke raised a big cheer one day when they got the first character to transfer between two Apple IIs with their networking card.

Apple Australia were enthusiastic. Ray and Luke's next project was to do a modem card. That actually became the basis of NetComm business.

Owen left, and he and I went on to do SNA for Burroughs machines at American Express. However, we did not get funding for that, and I returned to doing work for NetComm, but it was more Macintosh by then in MacApp. So I was one of the first people doing OO, at least in this country. Shame Apple wrecked MacApp with C++.

I can see how the interpretation is destroying previous things, but I think the interpretation should or could be all of those things being put into a single device.
Perhaps a better visual would be all those things being sucked into a box like a wormhole in a non-destructive way, and out comes the iPad.

TheSparkle said:

No sooner are Labour in power… /s

Ho hum, the old boring whatever <political party> must be to blame, most typically Labour.

I got a Philips 32E1N5800L 4K 32" monitor for $A400 (around $US300). Anything 5K was over $1,000. I avoid Samsung.