And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, April 7, 2022
I'm so old I can say I used one of these bricks for a couple of years. Plus, I had a Palm Pilot. Remember those?
Still have my last palm compatible model in the drawer, don't know where the charger for it went. I found a program "B-Folders" that allowed me to transfer the entire database from the handheld to my computers. Over thirty years of notes, appointments, and passwords to systems that were shut down in the 2oth century. I just tried to sort it to find the oldest entry, which is tough since all transferred files are dated 2013 from the initial transfer, and this popped up.
" In 1962, as he gave his Guest of Honor speech at the World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago, science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon delivered the following anecdote about writer's block and fellow novelist, Robert Heinlein:
"I went into a horrible dry spell one time. It was a desperate dry spell and an awful lot depended on me getting writing again. Finally, I wrote to Bob Heinlein. I told him my troubles; that I couldn't write—perhaps it was that I had no ideas in my head that would strike a story. By return airmail—I don't know how he did it—I got back 26 story ideas. Some of them ran for a page and a half; one or two of them were a line or two. I mean, there were story ideas that some writers would give their left ear for. Some of them were merely suggestions; just little hints, things that will spark a writer like, 'Ghost of a little cat patting around eternity looking for a familiar lap to sit in.' "
For some reason, I'm glad I still have all this mishegaas.
Hey, not only do I still have my brick phone and palm pilot, I have my HP-35, the world's first Scientific Calculator that had trig and exponential functions and used Reverse Polish Notation for data entry. It cost $395 in 1973 and was very advanced for the time.
My first one was a Nokia 900 in '88 or '89. About the size of a current smartphone, but about 1.5" thick. Came in a zip up belt mounted bag that turned out to be just the right size for a .38 2" snubbie. Gave it to my dad a couple years later, to replace his dash mounted phone in his Fiat Spider.
Had them both
ReplyDeleteSame. Wish i still did. Would help my paparazzi problem and limit NSA snooping on me.
DeleteHad a wall phone and 3x5 cards...
ReplyDeleteI still have the 3x5 cards, these days that's my memory system.
DeleteStill have my last palm compatible model in the drawer, don't know where the charger for it went.
ReplyDeleteI found a program "B-Folders" that allowed me to transfer the entire database from the handheld to my computers. Over thirty years of notes, appointments, and passwords to systems that were shut down in the 2oth century.
I just tried to sort it to find the oldest entry, which is tough since all transferred files are dated 2013 from the initial transfer, and this popped up.
" In 1962, as he gave his Guest of Honor speech at the World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago, science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon delivered the following anecdote about writer's block and fellow novelist, Robert Heinlein:
"I went into a horrible dry spell one time. It was a desperate dry spell and an awful lot depended on me getting writing again. Finally, I wrote to Bob Heinlein. I told him my troubles; that I couldn't write—perhaps it was that I had no ideas in my head that would strike a story. By return airmail—I don't know how he did it—I got back 26 story ideas. Some of them ran for a page and a half; one or two of them were a line or two. I mean, there were story ideas that some writers would give their left ear for.
Some of them were merely suggestions; just little hints, things that will spark a writer like, 'Ghost of a little cat patting around eternity looking for a familiar lap to sit in.' "
For some reason, I'm glad I still have all this mishegaas.
Still have my Motorola like the one in the picture. Bought it used..
ReplyDeleteI thought we were going to have to tranquilize my husband when they shut the palm pilot down.
ReplyDeleteHad both of these in the day.
ReplyDeleteNow for a real obscure one - anyone else have a "Simon" which was a combo cellphone, fax and rather dumb smartphone about the size of a brick?
https://infogalactic.com/info/IBM_Simon
Great concept, awful implementation.
Yes. I liked my brick because it worked.
ReplyDeleteMy first was a Sony, about 1994.
ReplyDeleteIt's in a box over there in the corner with all the others since.
Hey, not only do I still have my brick phone and palm pilot, I have my HP-35, the world's first Scientific Calculator that had trig and exponential functions and used Reverse Polish Notation for data entry. It cost $395 in 1973 and was very advanced for the time.
ReplyDeleteI remember when cordless phones first came out, they were a big deal.
ReplyDeleteThen there was the Zune...
ReplyDeleteMy first one was a Nokia 900 in '88 or '89. About the size of a current smartphone, but about 1.5" thick. Came in a zip up belt mounted bag that turned out to be just the right size for a .38 2" snubbie. Gave it to my dad a couple years later, to replace his dash mounted phone in his Fiat Spider.
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