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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Plenty, because it was what they had.
How many people would watch it today, when colour is common and available?
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Dennis
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Beyond the US - worldwide, I think it could be huge. Schools here in France are currently giving students iPads, but I doubt that schools in Africa and Asia could afford to do that, whereas they might be able to afford B&W readers. Obviously it would depend on how soon colour becomes available, what the prices are, and the differential is.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Hmmm. (Dennis looks in the mirror, and notes the hair is mostly grey, then recalls the first computer he ever used, which was an IBM mainframe at a bank in the late 70's, when the original IBM PC running Lotus 1,2,3 was first displacing the venerable Apple II running VisiCalc on everyone's desktop, and thinks back over 3 decades of active technology involvement...)
I don't claim that age brings wisdom, as I've seen too many cases where it did quite the opposite. But it does bring a sense of perspective, and a certain amount of pragmatism.
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He he ... in which case, you're still young, in my book. I remember using Ge transistors, a PDP-8, and being excited when the 8" floppy arrived. I could go on, but I won't. However, there's a bloke in the UK called Alan Sugar, who made a fortune buying up 8-bit Z80 microprocessors - after PCs had progressed to 16-bit - and used them to produce low cost word processors. There's a whole world out there that doesn't need, and can't afford cutting-edge technology.