11th May 2004, 5:36 PM
Um, what on earth? Tell us where those quotes are from, and the actual CONTEXT. What were they talking about? If it was a portable, well, portable systems really aren't consoles per say. I've always thought of them as a differnet sort of system. I kinda thought of consoles as "things you put on the floor and hook to your TV".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)