We were promised a paperless society by the technology gurus of the 1980s. It’s been over 30 years since IBM launched the concept of the desktop computer. It was going to revolutionize personal communication – even before the advent of the internet – and they were right. But that vision was gratuitously optimistic. I worked for the company that built the wiring systems for these beasts…back when they were the size of a gas furnace and ran on steam power and 47″ floppy discs containing 64k of memory. We were contracted to build about 150 wiring systems a week for their machines. I went to head office in Don Mills where they had motorized robotic pool tables shuttling CPU’s and 70 lb. Scare-o-Vision cathode driven monitors through a warehouse larger than Cape Canaveral. They were moving 10 of these units at a time…and over the course of a year they were selling less than 50,000 of these.
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ROCK, PAPER, SNIFFERS by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags Beer, Bill Gates, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, computers, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, five senses, Frampton Comes Alive, Gutenberg Bible, hearing, IBM, Jaimie Vernon, Jetsons, Kindle, Magic markers, paperless, rec rooms, record collection, Skynet, Smartphones, smell, stale sex, Steve Jobs, Taste, technology, the sixth sense, touch, weed, Wozniak on November 2, 2020 by segariniDarrell Vickers: Perhaps I Should Have Just Bought Candy
Posted in Opinion with tags Darrell Vickers, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Humour, Pasadena, record collection, Records, segarini on June 22, 2015 by segarini
It was a Christmas morning a very long time ago, when the world was still rosy-cheeked and I was but a sprig of a lad. And behold, there was much rejoicing in the land, for the Jolliest Elf had gifted me with 10 whole dollars. The Queen’s picture was on it back then and I’m not talking about Sir John A. MacDonald.
JAIMIE VERNON – HEY, NINETEEN
Posted in Opinion with tags Anniversary., BMG Music, Bob Segarini, Bryan Adams, Bullseye Records, Canadian Music, Cheap Trick, DBAWIS, Derek Longmuir, divorce, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Donny Osmond, Duke Street Diner, El Mocambo, Great White Noise Magazine, Honeymoon Suite, Jaimie Vernon, Jeff Healey, Kings X, Kingswood, little black dress, Liverpool, Made In Canada, Maureen Leeson, Moving Targetz, P.A.M., Paul Anand, Paul White, record collection, rock and roll love letter, Sharon Vernon, Spare Parts, Spin Doctors, The Bay City Rollers, The Eagles, The Kings on March 14, 2015 by segarini
As you read this my wife Sharon Vernon and I have just celebrated our 19th anniversary. We went to Cleveland to see two of her favourite bands – the American act Red Wanting Blue and Canadian rock darling The Trews who I introduced her to (musically) in 2003 after seeing them in a club in Halifax during the ECMA’s. We’ve done a lot of that on our anniversaries – going to see live acts. That includes Lighthouse on our 17th and Ian Mitchell of the Bay City Rollers (see story below).
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 