[vcf-midatlantic] Unscientific informal keyboard poll...
Evan Koblentz
evan at vcfed.org
Sun Feb 4 15:10:47 EST 2018
>
> eh-hem,
> in the proverbial query of paleotechnology,
> of which came first,
> the Tackball came first
> the Mouse came much after
> so technically the Mouse is an upside Trackball ;)
Very good!
I've said many times (and maybe wrote in my book -- I forget!) that
mobile computing (clay tablets, abacus, quipu, etc.) came before
non-mobile computing, so we should be calling mobile computers just
regular computers, and we should be calling regular computers non-mobile
computers. :)
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