haven't times changed

[SPKmes]

Reading the windows 9 thread and all the this and that of OS's...thinking...we just don't know when we have it good..then check out the herald site and see this... made me laugh a bit.. from 1981 about the internet
...Damn... even the phones were hard to use back then  hahahaha

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/video.cfm?c_id=5&gal_cid=5&gallery_id=140331

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[Randy1]

Quality of phone's sound quality has decreased significantly in the past several years.  Odd that so many people accept the poor quality.  I guess it goes with the acceptance poor compressed digital music reproduction.

[Meatwad]

And the poorly made commercials on the radio that are compressed so bad you can hear the artifacts clear as day in it

[smoe]

Reading the windows 9 thread and all the this and that of OS's...thinking...we just don't know when we have it good..then check out the herald site and see this... made me laugh a bit.. from 1981 about the internet
...Damn... even the phones were hard to use back then  hahahaha

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/video.cfm?c_id=5&gal_cid=5&gallery_id=140331

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It'll never happen.

Quality of phone's sound quality has decreased significantly in the past several years.  Odd that so many people accept the poor quality.  I guess it goes with the acceptance poor compressed digital music reproduction.

The smart phones have the bad quality. What's really funny is the flip phones have the best voice quality and the smart phoner's are making fun of the flip phoner's like they are less than human. As a matter of fact I can't stand talking to people on their smart phone because they sound like they are in a tunnel.

[homersipes]

I hate talking on smart phones, feels like I am talking to a friggin piece of wood, the way its all flat. yeah its crazy how far pcs have came in 20 years.  I remember my mom going to my computer lab when I was in 3rd grade on the old macs.  the directions said to find the mouse and she was looking on the screen for a mouse

[Randy1]

The old analog cell phones were pretty darn good.  I agree on the smart phones, very poor phone qualities.  I wlll keep my flip phone.

[RotBaron]

Have iphone 4, hate it actually. The only thing it does better than my old Blackberry is browse quicker. Too bad RIM didn't have more innovators, saw they were suing some Hollywood elite for infringement, they're unfortunately in death spiral.

[BluBerry]

Reading the windows 9 thread and all the this and that of OS's...thinking...we just don't know when we have it good..then check out the herald site and see this... made me laugh a bit.. from 1981 about the internet
...Damn... even the phones were hard to use back then  hahahaha

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/video.cfm?c_id=5&gal_cid=5&gallery_id=140331

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That is a trip to watch.

[Latrobe]

I remember seeing a picture somewhere where something like a 500MB Hard Drive (think it was 500, it wasn't very spectacular by today's standards) was selling for several thousand dollars when it first came out. Now we can buy 2TB Hard Drives for about $100-200! Technology is neat and advancing quickly!   

[rpm]

The old analog cell phones were pretty darn good.  I agree on the smart phones, very poor phone qualities.  I wlll keep my flip phone.

[colmbo]

I remember seeing a picture somewhere where something like a 500MB Hard Drive (think it was 500, it wasn't very spectacular by today's standards) was selling for several thousand dollars when it first came out. Now we can buy 2TB Hard Drives for about $100-200! Technology is neat and advancing quickly!   

My first hard drive was a 20MB, $750 monstrosity.  At the time I thought that was more storage than I would ever need.   

[Randy1]

Go back a little further to the Amiga tape drive days.

[Tank-Ace]

Bunch of old farts, hating on the smart phone  .

[katanaso]

I remember seeing a picture somewhere where something like a 500MB Hard Drive (think it was 500, it wasn't very spectacular by today's standards) was selling for several thousand dollars when it first came out. Now we can buy 2TB Hard Drives for about $100-200! Technology is neat and advancing quickly!   

How about 10MB, which required an expansion chassis if you had two 5.25" floppy drives.  The cost was a few thousand in 1982.

http://www.vintage-computer.com/ibm_pc.shtml

The whole IBM setup is still in my folks' closet at their house.

[Karnak]

No issues with sound quality on my Galaxy SIII.

It is much better than the landline I have to use at work.