History remembers engineering build up at the focal ratio of Moore ’s Law , gallop between semiconductors and clock speeds . But the real challenge has always been getting masses to bear it into their life . Andas Alexis Madrigal at the Atlantic remind us , that has , from time to sentence , meant get the best grain prejudices .
Here ’s the write up : TheGRiD Compassis by most accounting the existence ’s first pick out laptop computer . It deal , in 1982 , for $ 8150 , which was a preposterous amount of money . ( About $ 20,000 in today ’s dollar . ) But it still sold anyway . And when it did n’t , often it was n’t the monetary value that was the sticking point . It was the social deduction of doing your own typing .
Here was an example of the abstract thought , according to Jeff Hawkins , who was there for the former sales pitch :
This is an awful fact . We had this intersection . It was contrive for business executives . And the biggest obstacle , one of the biggest obstacles , we had for deal the product was the fact — consider it or not — that it had a keyboard . I was in sales and marketing . I see this first - deal . At that metre , 1982 , business sector citizenry , who were in their 40s and L , did not have any computer or keyboard in their offices . And it was associated with being part of the secretarial pool or the Logos processing ( remember that industry ? ) department . And so you ’d put this thing in their office and they ’d say , “ Get that out of here . ” It was like getting a demotion . They really were uncomfortable with it .
Because secretarial work is for the women , not a gravel - chewing , fire - pooping , dock worker of a business executive . ( Another reason was that they did n’t get laid how to typecast , and a man who count weak in his place of work is no man at all . ) Glad we left all that sexism and preconception in the past , correct guy cable ? [ The Atlantic ]
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