i don't see why he deserves credit. he produced no innovation or breakthrough which is why his device was dead on arrival, a non functional dud. merely an idea waiting for others to do the work necessary to make it useful. and anyone can have such an idea so its hardly something to celebrate. most of that stuff in the picture is just common sense, buttons and digital devices weren't exactly unknown in that time. and screens..well they tend to be on the FRONT of the device. think about it, startrek the original series started in 1966. What are tricorders? they are PDAs. just because it could be imagined doesn't mean squat. look at a basic calculator from the time, sometimes form follows function. its just obvious.
whats worse is that every blog site is running the same story with little investigation. so just how much did 3.5minutes of memory cost in 1979? was it stereo at a high bitrate? or was it some scratchy dodgy sounding garbage? how much did this thing cost to make? 20 years later it still cost atleast 150 dollars for a 32mb rio 300 pmp.
and anyways, as early as the 1950s computer researchers were getting music from computers. where do you think the inspiration for the hal 9000 daisy song comes from, it was real.
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i don't see why he deserves credit. he produced no innovation or breakthrough which is why his device was dead on arrival, a non functional dud. merely an idea waiting for others to do the work necessary to make it useful. and anyone can have such an idea so its hardly something to celebrate. most of that stuff in the picture is just common sense, buttons and digital devices weren't exactly unknown in that time. and screens..well they tend to be on the FRONT of the device. think about it, startrek the original series started in 1966. What are tricorders? they are PDAs. just because it could be imagined doesn't mean squat. look at a basic calculator from the time, sometimes form follows function. its just obvious.
whats worse is that every blog site is running the same story with little investigation. so just how much did 3.5minutes of memory cost in 1979? was it stereo at a high bitrate? or was it some scratchy dodgy sounding garbage? how much did this thing cost to make? 20 years later it still cost atleast 150 dollars for a 32mb rio 300 pmp.
and anyways, as early as the 1950s computer researchers were getting music from computers. where do you think the inspiration for the hal 9000 daisy song comes from, it was real.