In the retro world we’ve already had the incongruent “64k RAM vs 8GB Storage” conundrum to deal with for decades.
My Oric Atmos with LOCI rig has every bit of software every developed for the Oric, ever, stored on its 8GB USB stick and literally has ~8GB left in storage. It used space is more like a rounding error at this point.
I hope that changes, though! ;)
Old computers never die - their users do!
Paula’s intention, I believe, is to make computing approachable again - her many, many synthesizer designs encode a form of nostalgic whimsy for older technology, and she produced a full-scale CPU project using only logic chips for the purposes of education - and as I know she is a huge UFO (TV Series) fan, she’s got a fair bit of creative potential being applied to the alt-computing track of things.
As a retro- nerd myself, I hope to see her laptop in action in real life some day. Would be awesome to see an Oric-1/Atmos ROM for it ..
Oh, it is very much a truth, I agree. The machine is the purpose - you can see it in all of her designs, which are very directed, intentionally, towards well-stated goals.
As for the goal of making systems which cannot run AI - this goal has always been intrinsically fulfilled by Moores law. For as long as we were progressing towards the singularity, we were incapable of it. Whether that is of importance now, as if it were ever not, is a matter of interest in the results: do we panic about AI now, or 20 years ago?
I think that there is enough of Paula Maddox out there to prove we don’t really need AI to do great things, just great people.
My Oric Atmos with LOCI rig has every bit of software every developed for the Oric, ever, stored on its 8GB USB stick and literally has ~8GB left in storage. It used space is more like a rounding error at this point.
I hope that changes, though! ;)
Old computers never die - their users do!
Paula’s intention, I believe, is to make computing approachable again - her many, many synthesizer designs encode a form of nostalgic whimsy for older technology, and she produced a full-scale CPU project using only logic chips for the purposes of education - and as I know she is a huge UFO (TV Series) fan, she’s got a fair bit of creative potential being applied to the alt-computing track of things.
As a retro- nerd myself, I hope to see her laptop in action in real life some day. Would be awesome to see an Oric-1/Atmos ROM for it ..