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Originally Posted by HarryT
Technologies certainly do change. My first "portable" computer (a thing the size of a small suitcase) had a gas plasma display - a mono display technology which had glowing green letters on a black background. I wonder how many readers of this forum have ever even seen such a display?
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Didn't I see one of those in 2001: A Space Odyssey? Oh no, that was Hal.

It's amazing how quickly the futuristic morphs into the archaic.