On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Here are the items we have for the modern history exhibit ("everything on this wall is now in your phone"):
- alarm clock - notepad - newspaper - flashlight - pedometer - stopwatch - TV Guide - digital voice recorder (somehow we got two of these) - protractor - wristwatch - book - camera - calculator - scanner (but we may omit this due to size)
Here is what we still need: - small calendar - address book - stand-alone radio - pocket dictionary - directional compass - ipod (doesn't have to work -- we have one but we're using it for another purpose) - roadmap - Gameboy - photo album - credit card (how do we get one with a fake number?) - remote control for a TV - small portable TV (we may have one in the warehouse, I'm not sure) - answering machine - thermal-paper fax machine
you left out the most obvious category, the computer today's phones have enough number crunching power replacing even supercomputers up to 1990[maybe even later] the processing power of today's phones together with their gpu's approach several 100 gflops so you could, together with a bluetooth keyboard, write code and/or install/build software comparable to what you use on a desktop. so much of the work we did on a desktop which required hours of computation time could be done in minutes on your smartphone now if they could only hook up a big monitor is a different question :) Dan