20 Jan
2023
20 Jan
'23
7:15 a.m.
Well, that's a comforting thought, I hope it goes that way.
On 01/19/2023 06:10 PM, John Cowan wrote:
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 5:23 PM Luther Johnson <luther(a)makerlisp.com
<mailto:luther@makerlisp.com>> wrote:
Computers that are not smart phone-like are definitely on the
endangered
species list. You know, the kind on a desk, with a keyboard ...
I don't have statistics for this, but I doubt it. Consider amateur
radio, which has been around for a century now. Amateur stations are
an ever-shrinking *fraction* of all transmitters, to say nothing of
receivers, but in absolute terms there are now more than 2 million
hams in the world, which is almost certainly more than ever.