User talk:TedColes

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[edit] Welcome!

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--Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Minor edits

Please remember to mark your edits as minor when (and only when) they genuinely are minor edits (see Wikipedia:Minor edit). Marking a major change as a minor one (and vice versa) is considered poor etiquette. The rule of thumb is that only an edit that consists solely of spelling corrections, formatting and minor rearranging of text should be flagged as a 'minor edit'. Thanks! --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Early computer characteristics

I noticed you removed the color-coding from this template. I thought that the color-coding was useful. It helped to easily distinguish the features of the various early computing machines, and to indicate in a way that was immediately evident which machines introduced the features typical to present-day computers (electronic, digital, binary, programmable). Robert K S (talk) 19:50, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I got that, but it's silly to believe that it's possible to be non-judgmental when talking about computing machine characteristics. General-purpose machines have obvious usage advantages over special-purpose machines; digital machines have obvious accuracy advantages over analog machines; binary machines have obvious computation efficiency advantages over machines that use other bases; stored-program machines have obvious operator time advantages over machines that use clumsier programming schemes; electronic machines have obvious speed advantages over machines that compute or store data using partially mechanical or electro-mechanical means. History has made its judgment about all of these computing characteristics, and the evolution of computing machines to the present state of the art shows that some of these attributes have won out over their less-desirable counterparts. It is not wrongly "judgmental" to point out that some of these computing machines shared the characteristics found in modern computers, and some did not share all these characteristics. Robert K S (talk) 17:06, 10 June 2008 (UTC)