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Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer
I well remember reading WIRED magazine in 1991 talking about RS-232 controlled home-milling machines (this 20 years before the advent of home 3d-printing!)
I personally think for a large municipality a group of 10 machines networked together would be an invaluable resource if you're trying to keep track of managing food, people, etc.; I just don't think Joe Everyman would give a fig about having a working PC any more. Time spent playing DOOM, DOOM2, or Quake (all 3 released prior to the TDM) is less time spent chopping organic matter for the still for the generator that keeps other more important electrical devices running (lights, refrigerator).
But a local government would still make good use of them, I'd wager. Hospitals would find them invaluable, not just for patient records but for research purposes...
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I still have trouble seeing the need to use computers for inventory but let me elabrate on where Im coming from. In 1991 I worked in a warehouse and we had no computers. Once a month or so we would do inventory and input it all into a computer in the main office. Otherwise daily inventory was simply in our heads or a quick manual count. When it got low orders were made via phone by a manager.
To be fair it wasnt a big warehouse (this was at an amusement park) at least for our section. The other group would have benefited from a computer system. Perhaps its a questsion of scale and scope. The more smallish items you have that have infrequent usage the more a compter would help.
For my team we making deliveies every day over an over so we really could keep it in our heads. Even part numbers.
I totally agree on the games part. Power is so rare in T2k that using to play DOOM would be almost criminal