In packing my house up to move, I am going through boxes of my technology and Autodesk history items and having a blast remembering all the tech and fun times.
There is a slew of my phones and PDA, from the Palm to the super teeny iPhone 5s. The Blackberry with the missing scroll ball saved my life many years ago while in my shirt pocket during a gas fireplace explosion, and my Blackberry was taking the shard of glass instead of me. The other Blackberry was fried when we at Autodesk tested the world’s largest HD screen array at the time for a huge live crowd 360-degree immersive demo at Autodesk University with a wireless network of high-power computers. I learned to not stand in the middle of all those machines due to the radio frequencies or EMF and my screen showed crazy Unicode characters and never worked again. Then Autodesk CEO Carl Bass was standing nearby and showed the fried Blackberry said, “Cool!”.
There was also a bonus USB-based CD-ROM player. Today this is a real nice…