Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE:Ebay
From: Rolfe Tessem <rolfe@ldp.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 16:07:03 -0500
References: <NABBLIJOIFAICKBIEPJJAEHFEAAB.darkroom@ix.netcom.com>

Austin Franklin wrote:
>>And, of course, Ken Olsen truly believed it when he said that the PC was
>>"snake oil". :-)
> 
> 
> But the PC and DOS were snake oil at the time, and over a many year period,
> they advanced beyond that, obviously.
> 
> But, to Ken's credit, he did have the vision to believe that individual
> computers were not really as useful as ones that were networked to other
> systems, which the Internet has proven to be true.
> 
> Fact is, most people use their very expensive computer as an Internet
> terminal.

True enough.

Or, to paraphrase Sun's slogan,:

The network is the network; the computer is the computer. :-).

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Rolfe Tessem
Lucky Duck Productions, Inc.
rolfe@ldp.com

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