Wired93: lucky seven
I’m writing this from the living room in Maryland, where the power is resoundingly out this afternoon. One conclusion that can be drawn from this incident is that, unlike 1993, there is very little reason to have a computer without internet connectivity in 2011. I can’t even remember the last time I wrote while offline – how will I link?!
Pages 84 – 89 (review pages):
- WatchIT!TV, a full-size, 16-bit PC expansion card that allowed for analog television tuning – and the author’s awesome VCR recording pass-through
- “Information plugs us into the world of computerized productivity, but the open space of books balances our computer logic with the graces of intuition.” – The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality
- Wired began using Music Access to provide samples of reviewed albums by 900 number at a cost of 95¢/min
- Ambulance: An Electronic Novel, which came packaged on 2 high-density floppies and required 2 MB of RAM
- touch tone dialer (?)
- page 89’s ad for OMD’s new album – and that is all that needs to be said