Annals of the History of Computing: "bitsavers" is referenced

Brian L. Stuart blstuart at bellsouth.net
Thu Jan 29 15:51:02 CST 2009


> articles written by (and for) normal (if a bit fannish) humans and
> lots of pictures of old hardware and stuff. You could call it "Classic
> Bits" or something actually catchy. I'll bet the inhabitants of this
> list could cook up a better product almost overnight.

I guess it depends on how you define better.  Maybe
I'm not normal, but I for one would like to see some
of the conversations here have more of the character
of AHC and rather less of the "what was the first...?"
and "A was so much better than B."  Even endless discussions
of how to archive floppies are more useful and interesting
in the early stages when they're focused on physics
and engineering.  By the time they digress to the
relative virtues and disasters in FPGAs or XML, there's
not much reason to keep reading the thread.

Just 20 milli-dollars from one who keeps a foot
in both the industrial and academic worlds.

BLS



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