[Newsbot]

Title: Computer pioneer Ken Olsen dead at age 84
Category: Business
Posted By: wildrosegirl
Date: 2011-02-08 18:58:52

[DrCaleb]

RIP. Most won't recognize his name, but he did as much for computer technology as Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.

[Curtman]

$1:

And Olsen is still remembered for his 1977 prediction that "there is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." He later insisted the quote was taken out of context and that he simply meant he could not envision a day when computers would run people's lives.

I don't think anyone could have envisioned the effect Farmville would have on some people.

[PostFactum]

RIP. Thanks to him.

[bootlegga]

RIP

[BartSimpson]

Reminds me of how the ignorant kids these days laugh at me when I tell them one of the first computers I worked on was a Digital. After I educate them on how 'Digital' was a company that made computers then I go on and tell them I also used to play with my Wang.

[DrCaleb]

I used to have some bad Wyses' too Bart.

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I used to have some bad Wyses' too Bart.

You mean the old orange screen mugs? I hated those things. But about ten years back WYSE came out with what are probably still the best thin client terminal emulators I've ever seen. I love those things.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I used to have some bad Wyses' too Bart.

You mean the old orange screen mugs? I hated those things. But about ten years back WYSE came out with what are probably still the best thin client terminal emulators I've ever seen. I love those things.

It was a pun. 'Vices', playing with your 'Wang' . . .they are never funny if I have to explain them.

Yea, their thin clients were pretty good. At that time, I was using IBM thin clients, and they were pretty decent too.