1988 vs. 2008: A Tech Retrospective

[tyler811]

how do you spend your money?

 

[Mo0o]

Hmm... most of those haven't been adjusted for inflation... would be more interesting to see that.

 

[tyler811]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Hmm... most of those haven't been adjusted for inflation... would be more interesting to see that.

1988: Tandy 1000 TL

Price: $1,400 ($2,454 adjusted for inflation)
CPU: Intel 80286
RAM: 640KB
Storage: 3.5-inch floppy
Monitor: 14-inch, 640-by-200 RGB CRT, 16 colors

Everyone I looked at was

 

[jdoggg12]

Sharp predicts that by 2015 the average TV screen size will have increased to 60 inches.

Pfff, what are they smoking?

 

[AMDZen]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Hmm... most of those haven't been adjusted for inflation... would be more interesting to see that.

Whatchu talkin bout? Every one IS adjusted

 

[Nitemare]

Speed: 38 mbps down/30 mbps up on the Motorola Surfboard? Is this all?

 

[dethman]

2400 baud modem, woohoo!

 

[tyler811]

Originally posted by: jdoggg12

Sharp predicts that by 2015 the average TV screen size will have increased to 60 inches.

Pfff, what are they smoking?

Hmmm Am I the only one who still has a 32 inch CRT tv. I bought it for $25 last fall and it works great.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: tyler811

Originally posted by: jdoggg12

Sharp predicts that by 2015 the average TV screen size will have increased to 60 inches.

Pfff, what are they smoking?

Hmmm Am I the only one who still has a 32 inch CRT tv. I bought it for $25 last fall and it works great.

have a smaller CRT, but do have a HiDef TV card

 

[AMDZen]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Speed: 38 mbps down/30 mbps up on the Motorola Surfboard? Is this all?

Yes

DOCSIS 3.0 will support 152+ Mbps but cable Internet doesn't support anything above 12 Mbps or so right now so I doubt we'll see a rise to more then 38 Mbps down for a while with cable internet. And upload won't hit 30 Mbps for another 10 years probably, unless more areas get decent fiber lines (FTTN, FTTH) where cable needs to compete better.

The only markets where cable even tries are those with FIOS, and why would you have cable if you had FIOS as an option? I have no clue

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: tyler811

Originally posted by: jdoggg12

Sharp predicts that by 2015 the average TV screen size will have increased to 60 inches.

Pfff, what are they smoking?

Hmmm Am I the only one who still has a 32 inch CRT tv. I bought it for $25 last fall and it works great.

I have a 19" CRT TV, 27" CRT HDTV monitor, and 20" LCD HDTV.

...that is in the order of how often they're used. Odd?

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: AMDZen

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Speed: 38 mbps down/30 mbps up on the Motorola Surfboard? Is this all?

Yes

DOCSIS 3.0 will support 152+ Mbps but cable Internet doesn't support anything above 12 Mbps or so right now so I doubt we'll see a rise to more then 38 Mbps down for a while with cable internet. And upload won't hit 30 Mbps for another 10 years probably, unless more areas get decent fiber lines (FTTN, FTTH) where cable needs to compete better.

The only markets where cable even tries are those with FIOS, and why would you have cable if you had FIOS as an option? I have no clue

The cable companies have a monopoly here, we won't be getting FIOS for along time.

 

[Phokus]

Originally posted by: dethman
2400 baud modem, woohoo!

I had one of those... used to play MUDs on it

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: dethman
2400 baud modem, woohoo!

I had one of those... used to play MUDs on it

Trade Wars FTW!

 

[AMDZen]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: AMDZen

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Speed: 38 mbps down/30 mbps up on the Motorola Surfboard? Is this all?

Yes

DOCSIS 3.0 will support 152+ Mbps but cable Internet doesn't support anything above 12 Mbps or so right now so I doubt we'll see a rise to more then 38 Mbps down for a while with cable internet. And upload won't hit 30 Mbps for another 10 years probably, unless more areas get decent fiber lines (FTTN, FTTH) where cable needs to compete better.

The only markets where cable even tries are those with FIOS, and why would you have cable if you had FIOS as an option? I have no clue

The cable companies have a monopoly here, we won't be getting FIOS for along time.

Well then you, like me, won't have anything that fully utilizes a DOCSIS 2.0 modem for a while.

Its not that Cable has a monopoly here, the telecom simply doesn't care that cable modem is so much faster. DSL seems to market to the layman who doesn't do anything except check email - cable modem is for those who want fast download speeds. Both customers have to sacrifice a lot - DSL users sacrifice download speed and Cable sacrifices upload speed