Flash Time #01 10 июля 1997

But seriously - The development (as appeared Spectrum).

Text: SLACK DEN
COPYRIGHT 1997


            DEVELOPMENT

   This story began long
long ago, many thousands of years BC. Sat once ancient
people on the shore of an ancient river -
catch count. "So," he muttered, today I caught ten fishes, and
neighboring tribe zabilo mammoth.
How mamontinogo meat I get to replace my fishes if the entire
Mammoth costs thirty fishes?
Hard-zadachka have to think .. "
And he began to draw on a twig
sand fishes and mammoth. So people
learned how to record information.

   Gone are the millennium. Relationship
people became more complicated.
Chronicle is not fit even
on the largest scrolls, well
enormously long royal decrees (and certainly
the more laws), wound tube, it was just embarrassing to read. 
Long it lasted, but once a handyman come up with

stapling together several sheets. So on this book.

   Sped century. The book became a
recognized source of knowledge. The richest library
looked like the city, consisting
tens of thousands of bookshelves. One was bad: to
find answers to complicated questions,
sometimes spend prihidilos
so much time ... So much so that
once impatient dreamer
heads to create a library that would fit entirely in a small 
metal box. So first computer.


   Flying years. Computer in
office became commonplace. But really
painfully prosaic it was:
solid letters and numbers. Games
primitive. Sound-fie ... And do not
Say! So we languished,
poor, no joy in life
not knowing if one is not an inveterate romantic thought:
"And it would be good ..." So there was

          SPECTRUM!!!