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I must confess I was rather touched to see PC Pro republish its 1st ever PC review, to celebrate the magazine's 18th birthday Touched, because I wrote that review back in 1994. It was of a rather unpleasant Escom Pentium desktop computer built from cheap parts. The sort of stuff that used to come from a plethora of small PC building businesses that flourished at the time. They were bigger than a high street shop, but way smaller than Evesham, Tiny or the other UK vendors at the time. I skimmed through the review nasty tin box, pretty unpleasant motherboard, a monitor best used as a doorstop, drab performance and a notable lack of stability then went to make a cup of coffee. While waiting for the beans to grind, a worry started to form in my head. Surely I had misread the article? It couldn't have been? I went back to look. Yes, indeed, the price was 1,400, which is about 2,350 at today's prices if you factor in the 18 years of inflation. But it was the machine specification that really made me blink. Four megabytes of RAM? Megabytes? Of core RAM? I said Windows for Workgroups felt decidedly wobbly and Word six brought the machine to its knees. Well yes, but 4MB? And 406MB of hard disk space? Surely this was a typo? But no, with a wry smile, I recalled that we used to have Windows running on machines with only 4MB of RAM. Today, of course, a decent machine has 8GB of RAM, and a whole terabyte of hard disk to play with. This isn't one or two, but some number of orders of magnitude more. And it isn't only PCs that have done this. Back in 1994, I was running a 9600 Baud modem in my office. Today it is a 100Mbits/sec symmetrical IP connection on fibre that, though somewhat high end by small business standards, is within reach of customers on Virgin cable or BT Infinity. Back then, I used to have a monthly phone bill that ran to hundreds of pounds caused by dial up internet costs. Today, it is a not many tens of pounds. My eldest nephew, Matthew, has just turned 18 and went off to university. He was able to go with a top end laptop and smartphone. He needed a printer, so he got a brand new colour laser that cost the princely sum of 130 and does photo quality output. Back in the early 1990s, I bought an HP LaserJet II the workhorse of businesses at the time and it cost nearly two great. it is intriguing to look forward 18 years and wonder what will happen. In truth, what we have today is just like what we had back then, except it is far faster, higher quality and very cheaper. Today, I am writing this part in Word for Windows, the same software I used in 1994, although some versions afterward of course. I used a desktop machine, with a decent sized monitor. I typed into a keyboard, and used a mouse. I had a laser printer. obviously this down price trend can not continue: if it did, we'd have computers costing 30 at today's money, and that simply is not going to happen. Except, maybe... One other major change is the rise of portability, and the sheer number of devices we own. Back then I had one computer. Today I have a raft of them, from a pocket smartphone through tablet and laptop to desktop machines. Many homes are now a multiple PC space, just like the way the TV went from an expensive device in the living room to something that's in every bedroom. If this price/performance curve continues, we will have to divorce ourselves from typing and working with fixed screens. Devices will be smartphone sized or smaller. we will use a range of interfaces, from screens to window panels to TV units. Voice, both in room and in ear will be everywhere. Do not ignore the beaming, steerable audio technologies that are coming, too, to let you to stand in a puddle of your localised audio. Speech will take over from typing, and face and body recognition will be centre stage. Walk into a room, talk to the fabric of the house, and use whatever interfaces are proper and available to you at that time. On the one hand, I was happy to re read that review from the 1st issue of PC Pro. Then I became despondent at how little had changed, and happy again at the price reductions, and the plurality of devices we have today. And now I am really intrigued by the far larger changes to come over the next 18 years. How better to celebrate PC Pro's coming of age?
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