Routed via Slashdot comes the story of the disposable paperboard computer, which can “can collect, process, and exchange several pages of encrypted data.” It even has a generous 32KB of memory.
After reading about this, I couldn’t help but thinking that we’ve already had disposable, paper-based computers around since, well, forever. It’s called pen and paper.
And hey, if you throw in one of those sweet old-school PeeChee folders (why the hell can’t I find a web page for those things?? Other than online school supplies lists, I mean), you’ve instantly upgraded: not only your storage capacity, but processing power because you’ve got all those conversion and multiplication tables and various references at your fingertips!
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Have spent over 2 hrs looking for images of those darn old school PeeChees and stumbled across your comments about them. Did you ever find any images by chance? I did see a few sites that said PeeChees were a "West Coast" thing and that would explain why my girl doesn’t remember them and I am on a mission to prove these darn things were once "hot"
No, it’s the craziest thing. It’s like there’s a conspiracy against them or something. I actually have a few floating around (I used to use them for my writing folders), so maybe I’ll have to take some pictures and post them.
http://www.innisbrook.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?DID=7&Product_ID=922&CATID=52
no one believes me either, they think i just made the word up, want to buy one to prove them wrong!! here is a pic of one.