Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray
On Friday 28 August 2015 06:24:33 Seeker wrote:
> On 8/27/2015 12:48 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 August 2015 19:30:48 Seeker wrote:
> >> On a marginally related but not relevant note, that was at a time when
> >> hooking a computer to a TV
> >> was not so common,
> >
> > My, we have some youngsters on this list now. ;-)
>
> LOL
>
> > Connecting home computers to TVs came _before_ connecting them to
> > monitors. The circle has merely come back to the beginning.
> >
> > Lisi
>
> I had a Commodor 64, but did not have the accessories to actually use it
> like a computer
> so it was just a game system to me.
>
> It was probably 2007-2008 so it wasn't *that* long ago,
No - I was referring to c. 1981 when Sinclair launched the ZX81 and Atari
launched its home computer (or was that in 1982?). We used TVs for display.
2007 is really recent.
Lisi
> but the TV we
> had was a few years old
> at the time.
>
> We did have another smaller TV in a back bedroom that was specifically
> designed to also
> work as a computer monitor, but we didn't really want to gather the
> family around in the
> back bedroom to watch the show.
>
> Later, Seeker
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