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   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Nick Charles" wrote in message   
   news:R46cnU_XEfW8wRP0nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@supernews.com...   
      
   >Thus, no one in 1965 foresaw everyone having a battery powered, wirelessly   
   >networked, cool, quiet and inexpensive computer in their pocket.  Because   
   >it was physically impossible!   
      
   No one included Gene Roddenberry and Stanley Kubrick. Yet the Intel 4004   
   arrived in 1971.   
      
   Also in 1971 I serviced a portable, wirelessly connected Army computer.  It   
   occupied 6 interconnected trailers, was Diesel powered and communicated by   
   troposcatter microwave. Even the hard drive was the size of a washing   
   machine, with the platter visible under a dome on top. The demo was hauling   
   it up the dirt road to a snow covered German mountain top and joining a data   
   network. We were asked to trade personal Teletype messages with other site   
   operators as test traffic but it was too disorganized back then, without an   
   address directory and they didn't understand CQ.   
      
   https://www.hewlettpackardhistory.com/item/arthur-clarkes-9100a/   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQ_(call)   
      
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