Monty over at AoSHQ asked "What are y'all reading?" so I'll respond. I'm halfway through "Startup" by Jerry Kaplan, the former CEO of the GO Corporation. GO was trying to create a pen-based computer but it's pretty clear they were ahead of their time. To put it another way, they had a great idea but the hardware of the late-1980s just couldn't keep up:
"Cost is the other problem," Kevin [Doren] continued. "SRAM is expensive, about six hundred dollars a megabyte today."You read right: megabyte. Makes me nostalgic for my TI-99/4A.
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