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Originally Posted by stovens

Have voice recognition on phone, but will look into setting up on the home PC. Thanks for the heads up!

Your phone gives you speech in text format?

Yeah it's a droid. You can say your google searches instead of typing them in and use it for text messaging and navigation searches.

Originally Posted by stovens

Yeah it's a droid. You can say your google searches instead of typing them in and use it for text messaging and navigation searches.

I'm behind the times, had no idea of the droid did that.

I have it on my Droid phone and in my wifes car!

All this stuff is absolutely amazing. It was almost 30 years ago when I got a Commodore 32 as a first computer, my thermostat is now smarter than that thing. About 20 years ago my first cell was the historic Motorola "brick"..................a couple months ago got a Droid 4g based phone. It takes way better pics than the first digital we got for the shop about 15 years ago, plus all the things Steve mentioned and more. I did have a glitch with the voice recognition last week after an update was loaded, it wouldn't recognize a simple word like "Mom" (had to call on her birthday) until it heard it half a dozen times. Small problem for such technology though.......

Bob do you remember Trash 80 Radio Shack computers? I think my first windows pc had a 120 mb hard drive which was huge compared to my roomates computers which had something like 40 mb. I also had 2 mb ram which was huge too. Funny that most memory sticks hold at least 4 gbs now, and we just got a backup external hardrive that has 2 TB.

Yeah Steve, I remember a couple small business guys I worked with in the late '70s had TRS 80s for basic book keeping.............geek head pioneers. Ten years ago we had a wonderful program at the shop that kept track of job scheduling, did parts ordering and inventory control, all the basic book keeping and payroll stuff, accounts recievables and payables, insurance billings and updates, and on and on, mostly single entry stuff that cascaded throughout the program if done correctly. I would imagine that now, a decade or so later, they're even more powerful. Single terrabite storage is almost the basic for a home computer, and for business........................holy cow!!

My first home computer (around 20 years ago) had a 10 MB hard drive. The one I have now has two 320 MB hard drives. I also have a 1TB external drive.

Who da thunk it back then.

I think I still have a TI99 in the box unopened in the attic. Probably burned up from the heat. TI was a customer of our company when they decided to get out of the computer business and sold their finished inventory for $50.00ea.. It's amazing what we have seen evolve technology wise!

Things have changed a lot in the last 20 years. In the past I'd always buy a cheap PC with year old specs. About 4 months ago I splurged for the 1st time on my new PC, and I'm so glad I did. Never had this kind of speed before. Running (2) 256 GB solid state drives in a raid 0 configuration for programs, 1.5 TB regular "spinning" hard drive for file storage, and an intel i7 CPU, water cooled and over clocked to 5 Ghz. Life is good.

Originally Posted by deckofficer

...and over clocked to 5 Ghz. Life is good.

Hot rodder forever!!!