A recent email from a popular consulting / prognostication firm declared this: "Get Ready for the Post-PC Era!"
Why is this at one time both insightful and ignorant?
The PC (or desktop Mac or something very much like it) will be with us for a long time, but it represents an inscrutable world that many people couldn't penetrate until they had a phone that made it simple, if much more restrictive.
The lesson: give simple technology with few choices to business leaders in order to enable business growth around it.
The "post-PC" message is directed to those who view the desktop as archaic and those who work on them as anachronisms, which is not entirely unreasonable until you try to accomplish some real work without them.
[2013-04-25]
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My First IBM-Compatible was an Amstrad PC 1512. Dual 5.25" floppies, no hard drive, 64K RAM.
Before that I owned an Amstrad PCW 8256, which was a dedicated word processor with some LOCA and BASIC programming ability. It used 3" floppies (which were expensive and hard to find) but had a nice 29 pin dot matrix printer IIRC, which was good for the day.
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