What a PANC is

A PANC is an electric computing device that is

  • Personal & Programmable
  • Affordable & Accessible
  • Networkable & Nonfictional
It should be usable too, but that is trivial nowadays.

Examples: - Xerox Alto: not accessible and not affordable - Apple II: networkability not that good, all else ok - Commodore PET: networkability not that good, all else ok - Commodore 64: networkability not that good, affordability very good - XEROX Star: bad affordability - IBM PC: networkability not good but coming, affordability in US - Apple Lisa: medium networkability and bad affordability - SUN I: pretty bad affordability - Apple McIntosh: pretty bad networkability and affordability

The second half of the 80ies solved all affordability and local networkability problems through ethernet and productivity gains in the cloning industry. Wide area networkability for the masses was available through different networks and the telephone but stayed rather bad for some while. The second half of the nineties brought real mobility and widespread affordable decent connectivity through the Internet, the mobile processor and new forms of signal modulation on twisted pairs and coax cable.

Only just the software seems to stagflate in many ways, not in all though.

 
last updated: 05.04.22, 07:16
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