This cartoon reminds me of the winter of ’74/’75 when I was working for a few months as a headhunter for a firm specializing in computer personnel. This is what computers looked like back then.
a big part of our work day was devoted to recruiting “fresh meat” for the mill. One day I made a cold call to a geek at Hewlett-Packard.
When we got around to the part of the interview where I asked “What are you working on now?” he said, “Oh, it’s real exciting. We’re working on ‘mini computers.'”
“What the hell are those? I asked.
“Oh,” he said, “these will be small computers that people will have on their desks in the office some day…”
“Yeah, sure thing, buddy, send me a postcard when that all works out, will ya?”
That was the end of the interview.
One More Good Adventure 