When did computers stop being exciting and new?

[doodab]

Right then, I think it's time I built myself a new computer. A proper one with flashing lights and a sexy robot voice.

I'm thinking a model of a Cray 1, the size of a large coffee mug, with an embedded processor and the game of life playing out on LEDs. Power could be derived from the heat of the coffee, thus requiring constant refills to keep it running. I reckon I could sell hundreds of them.

[Sysman]

If everyone only bought what they needed the global economy would collapse

It already has done, hasn't it?

Was it my fault?

on the butterfly in South America flapping its wings principle, I assume