Of mice and macs

I bought a new MacBook with 2 gigs of memory not long ago. It is our 8th Mac and we have had a Mac in the house since they brought out the first 512k Mac in 1985.
We had started computing way before that with a TI99/4A with all of 16k of memory. Programs? none, we programmed our own using Basic. Seems very primitive today but in those days it sure beat a slide rule and punch cards.
It is unbelievable the advance of technology in the last 30 years. I remember when I got my first Mac... BM (before Mac) you left spaces in your exams so that you could draw a diagram and cut and paste was done with scissors and glue. Barely 15 years ago if you wanted a web page you had to write the code by hand. Where will it all end? Well, I for one, won't be making any silly predictions because it is almost impossible to predict how far things will go. Some people however have tried....

• "I think that there is maybe a world market for 5 computers." Thomas Watson; Chairman of IBM, 1943
• "Computers of the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." Popular Mechanics 1949
• "But what is it good for? (about the microchip)" Engineer at the Advanced Computing Division of IBM, 1968
• "There is no reason to believe that anyone would want a computer in their home." Ken Olson founder of Digital Equipement Corporation, 1977
• "640K ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates 1981
• "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet."' -Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and Hewlett-Packard interested in the personal computer that he and Steve Wozniak created