Thread: Slightly OT - Texas Instruments ad from 1977 - Two Bytes are better than one
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Old March 30th 20, 01:56 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Default Slightly OT - Texas Instruments ad from 1977 - Two Bytes are better than one
On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 14:51:37 -0500,
lid (MummyChunk) wrote:

Oh- how far we have come with computers. Seeing this ad really gave a
reminder today.

A niche marketing, though significant at least for developed countries
and an interest capable then to afford a relative specialty provided
at higher to exponential costs. Instrumental grade entities, though
not to be underplayed, as in the case of early HP's RPN calculators. A
180-shift in phase whereby to place a similar liking for a Raspberry
Pi, UK's present answer to at least in economically positioning the Pi
at an affordable juncture, one so applied for universally
affordability. Although not a convincing one when, especially,
practically where that market indeed would lie, being in handheld *NIX
dependency operand subsets run from candy-flavored droid systems.
Rootkits where firmware circumvention is possible are far more
intriguing, much to a kindred spirit then, yet are seen allied to a
fuller expectancy of resources from a proper Intel instruction sets,
nonetheless, obsequious to computer resources and interface convenient
to augment their conventions by such as USB linkage. Although
potential benefits indeed are an astounding attestation to
advancement, still, that 8" entry backlit display on Bozo's FireHD
Amazon tablet, reasonably on sale at under $50/US, is scarcely
distinguishable, if and at that level, from a true Chinese
Surveillance State whence its impetus, the wholesale societal adoption
of "Asian answer" to Microsoft, is derived.