Lets say PCs never existed what would you have instead been doing with your time?

WyteWatt

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I quite frankly don't know. I can't imagine a world without pcs or where they never existed!

Could you imagine how boring it would be?
 

Coquito

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I just came back from the park. I'd probably stay there a bit longer & come home & take a nap.
 

Zenmervolt

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I'd read even more. Probably actually write some too. I also would have never met my two best friends.

ZV
 

Zenmervolt

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Originally posted by: keeleysam
Well, I'd be posting from my PoweMac G5 which I currently am :)
PC != x86. PC = Personal Computer. A Mac is a PC. Unless you're claiming your Mac isn't a computer.

ZV
 

keeleysam

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Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: keeleysam
Well, I'd be posting from my PoweMac G5 which I currently am :)
PC != x86. PC = Personal Computer. A Mac is a PC. Unless you're claiming your Mac isn't a computer.

ZV

Well, in the real world, the term "PC" equals "Windows-based x86 computer"
 

CKent

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Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
I'd read even more. Probably actually write some too. I also would have never met my two best friends.

ZV

Same here on all counts. Well, that or seppuku.
 

CKent

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Originally posted by: keeleysam
Well, in the real world, the term "PC" equals "Windows-based x86 computer"

Really depends more on the context and person saying it
Originally posted by: Blazin Trav
Reading, sports, women, more bbqs, more console video games.

Wouldn't exist without PCs.
 

ultimatebob

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Interesting.... I wonder if IT jobs like mine would be like if PC's didn't exist? Would everyone still have dumb terminals on their desk, plugged into a giant mainframe or something?

I guess that the Internet would technically still exist, although web browsers probably wouldn't. E-Mail could still be popular, I guess, but I doubt that we would have the fancy instant messaging clients like we have today. I have a hunch that we're still doing most of our work on the command line, too, since most mainframe guys think that graphics are a "waste of system resources".

Microsoft probably wouldn't exist, but then neither would Google or Yahoo. Forget Apple and AOL as well, since their businesses were almost completely founded on the popularity of personal computers. Companies like Intel and AMD would probably be small time players, making things like flash memory for cell phones or whatnot. Oh... And everyone would hate mainframe companies like IBM, because THEY would the big evil computer monopolies that everyone would get forced into using. I bet that some of the OLD computer companies like Digital and Honeywell would still be in business, too.

Heh, thanks for giving me something to think about... I'm stuck at work doing a server upgrade today :)
 

AgaBoogaBoo

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Right now? Probably working somewhere or running a landscaping business since I wouldn't have started Cernax.com

In general? More reading, probably work out more, get more sleep, etc.
 

aplefka

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I dunno. I mean it's invented now and whereas I used to rely on it heavily for entertainment I go out pretty much every night now so I'd probably just go out all the time.
 

jimbob200521

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Originally posted by: DEMO24
probably farming some corn or wheat :|

or soybeans. cant forget soybeans. i hate pickin em

anyway.... are you talking the world exactly as it is today, minus computers, or if computers had never ever ever ever been invented? in either case, i wouldnt have job right now, so prolly more manual labor. have i mentioned lately that i love computers? :)
 

tami

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Originally posted by: imtim83
I quite frankly don't know. I can't imagine a world without pcs or where they never existed!

Could you imagine how boring it would be?

i know what you'd be doing! you'd be flying high in a hurricane!!!!!
 

funboy6942

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I know before I got a pc I was gaming on a Playstation all the time so I guess I just be doing hometheater and console gaming liek I used to.