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| I was bringing home my "luggable" (so called portable | | | | But consider, the nearly portable was a huge leap |
| computer). That's correct, before the debut of | | | | forward from the entire room of tape input that had |
| wholesale computers as small as a purse, the luggable | | | | signaled the commencement of the computer era only |
| computer was an incredible advance. Weighing in at | | | | a few years before. Take a computer home? That |
| about 30-40 pounds, it was the size of carry-on | | | | was just unbelievable! |
| suitcase. It had a flat black screen that was about the | | | | And that was the beginning of the work around the |
| size of a note card attached to the CPU which in turn | | | | clock mindset that has now descended upon us all. In |
| occupied the bulk the device. The keyboard formed | | | | the old days, before the wholesale computer |
| the top of the 'suitcase". It was full size which meant | | | | technological revolution and the other advances in |
| approximately the same thing it does now and it | | | | things like cell phone technology and email, netbooks |
| snapped onto the front, affording a carrying strap to | | | | and notebooks, and laptops, you could control |
| cart the big baby around. When you plugged it in, after | | | | approaches to a CEO, a customer, anybody. Then |
| several minutes, the miniature black screen would light | | | | you had excuses readily at hand: "I'll take a look at that |
| up dimly with dull green lettering and you could type to | | | | when I get to the office "Your letter hasn't arrived in |
| your heart's content. You had to be somewhat familiar | | | | the mail." "I won't be near a phone." "Can you fax?" |
| with MS-Dos because that is how you gave certain | | | | In short, then, you were not call all the time. You could |
| commands. | | | | not get things done overnight because the tools simply |
| Where could you go with it? Well, unlike your | | | | did not allow it. Now, workers are so supremely |
| wholesale computer notebooks that go with you on | | | | content with their wholesale computers and other hi |
| plane flights, bicycles and to coffee shops, as a | | | | tech gadgets, do they recognize it means they have |
| practical matter, you could only take your luggable | | | | to work and stay in touch each second of every day? |
| computer home. Then you would prepare some | | | | Wow, never did I guess my so called portable |
| documents, then haul it back to the office to plug into a | | | | computer was the start of no breaks, no time off, no |
| mammoth parent computer and start up on your work | | | | intervals. |
| that way. | | | | |