Why I tune in here often. Another great catch from my favorite blogfielder.

Good quotes both of them.

Not sure about the iPad though. Same could be said of the smart phone.

Funny he schooled hipster in a Ptown coffee shop. Which one I wonder?

That's the World Cup coffee shop on Glisan in NW Portland.

That's the father of Walden Kirsch, former KGW-er. Excellent blog post....thanks for finding it.

As owner of iPad, Android tablet, Kindle, smartphone, Macbooks, and PC laptops, I have to agree.

A smartphone and computer or laptop are more effective at communicating and creating. Tablets and readers are more efficient at consuming information.

No one tool can do everything; it's great that the plethora of tools provide us with a choice.

Thanks for the story link!

PS Doing my part to keeping the economy going...

Thanks Jack for a great read. How many times have we heard, "You can't do that, it's impossible."? It's hard to tune out the rest of the world and be confident in one's own muse. Carpe diem.

Carpe vitae or whatever.

The first computer I ever worked with, in 1974, took up 3.5 walls of a large room. It used ferromagnetic cores and vacuum tubes, and there was a small aisle behind it from which, armed with a set of tweezers, one removed moths and other insects attracted by the tubes. Although generally performed before programming (which was accomplished by sequential flipping of toggle switches to generate binary code), it was sometimes necessary to return to the aisle to remove other insects.

This became widely known as "debugging".

In 1978, that system was supplanted by a state-of-the-art OSI Challenger microcomputer system, which incorporated 32k of onboard RAM, a keyboard, and a monochrome display crt. As much as 130k of program could be saved to an eight-inch floppy disk.

A few years later, I bought my first computer system for $3,000. It featured 128k of bank-switched RAM and the ability to store 360k of data on a 5.25" floppy disk.

Well, hate to burst your bubble, folks but I heard this same story on LARS a day or two ago. Jack scooped by Lars -- will probably send Tensk off the deep end.

Apparently Lars worked with Walden Kirsch's wife and knew them both, so he related this story about the senior Kirsch on his program the other day. Very nice.

The blog post I link to here was from August 2. But why on earth does it matter to you that Lars Larson talked about this guy before I linked to that post? I don't listen to Lars Larson. Too many commercials and too much hate.

And this is not some kind of race.

Thanks Jack. I've passed that along to a number of people.

Thank God there are still people who believe in God. Just imagine all these godless hipsters in Portland ever inventing anything of consequence.

Sorry, Jack. It does not matter to me at all who found it first. It was more of a dig at Tensk, who seems to harbor some kind of visceral hate for Lars. Bad joke that came off poorly. My apologies.