Ready to go retro?
Retro tech, I mean.
It seems many people
are not ready to pay the price for the latest and greatest and tech, especially
when there are so many items available that were "the latest and
greatest" at one time.
Take national
defense, for example.
It would seem that
some of the nations in the world are investing in retro tech instead of the
latest and great thing to come from Microsoft or Apple or even Google.
The
Portable One website cites "The Guardian" newspaper from the United
Kingdom as saying "most
nuclear deterrent systems operated by the US, Russia, UK, France, China, India,
Pakistan, Israel and North Korea, are run using a variant, or several thereof,
of Microsoft Windows XP as the operating system, and even older systems."
So,
while Microsoft pushes us to upgrade our home computer systems to Windows 10
and while Apple pushes our company to upgrade our Macintosh computers to the
latest and greatest version of the Apple operating system, "El
Capitan," the world's leaders are sticking with, not the latest, not the
operating system before that, but with Windows XP as the platform to run their
nuclear deterrent systems on.
Long
ago in tech years (probably six months ago)
we were told we had to ditch Windows XP because Microsoft wouldn't
support it any longer. Apparently, it runs just fine without Windows support.
Take
the high cost of the new Samsung and Apple smartphones.
I
wrote a column not long ago saying I wouldn't pay $30 per month for 30 months
($900) for a smartphone and it still goes.
But, I
went to an AT&T retailer and found a ZTE smartphone and an Asus tablet that
works on the cellular data network for about $50 total cost. For both.
No,
it's not the latest and greatest but it does every bit as well as the
smartphone my new phone replaced and I have a new tablet as well.
We're
even going retro- tech for entertainment.
We
dusted off an old Atari 2600. Guess what,
"Ms. Pacman" and "Missile Defender" and the other
games are just as much fun as they ever were.
Have
we "advanced" so far that retro tech is cool?
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