Classic computers endangered!

Jim Brain brain at jbrain.com
Thu Oct 1 23:13:53 CDT 2009


Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>> I read an article today in 'New Scientist' entitled 'Innovation: Classic
>> computers on the danger list' with Tom Simonite writing: "Pretty much every
>> adult alive today has seen computers change the world, but we are doing
>> precious little to celebrate the influence of the computers and software
>> that created our society." Indeed! Are we failing to preserve the earliest
>> part of microcomputing history? Will classiccmp.org discuss early ucomputers
>> in 5 yrs., 10 yrs.?
>>     
>
> I like to think us fresh-faced young whippersnappers will carry the torch,
> once we're off everybody's lawn. ;-)
>
>   
Don't we have to grow a beard and get a "real computer" first?

http://tomayko.com/writings/that-dilbert-cartoon

Jim "mumbles something about the list telling him he can;t be one of 
them until he's programmed a machine on a *REAL* TTY, where TTY involved 
something mechanical" Brain


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Jim Brain, Brain Innovations                                      (X)
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