[Coco] Old techies

[steve]

>From a computing standpoint, yes. But Cell phones need constantly recharged 
and they need a tower ever so many miles with a whole infrastructure in 
place. Communicators seem to run a long time with no charge or battery 
change and they could talk to the ship in space and people half way across 
the planet. Tricorders are where the computing power was. :p

Steve

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From: "Mark McDougall" <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:42 PM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Old techies 

Fred D. Provoncha wrote:

>They tended to UNDERESTIMATE advancement in computers. We 
> have cell phones now that appear more powerful than Kirk's communicators 

> in Star Trek's 23rd Century. 

Heh, good point, that's something that never occurred to me! I never did 
see 
Kirk run a Coco emulator on his communicator while waiting for Scotty to 
beam him up!!! ;)

Regards,

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