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Old 09-16-2010, 07:42 AM   #251
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williemeikle wrote:

>Star Trek had their "tricorders" and such in the late '60s...

which were _not_ usable as general purpose computers and had little beyond sensor input, minimal processing power and storage capacity --- remember Spock having to make a computer of ``stone knives and bear skins'' in _City on the Edge of Forever_?

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