29 Oct
2002
29 Oct
'02
1:51 p.m.
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Lawrence Walker wrote:
And of course the younger generation (as always)
views anything that
isn't on the "bleeding edge" of anything, as unworthy or useless.
Well, not always. I started deliberately collecting older systems when
I was in college--around 1994. My girlfriend, who is younger still, has
nice start on a collection of her own; included in it are some NeXTs, a
Mac SE, a Televideo terminal, and an Apple IIc. She even spent one
summer aiding in the cleaning of the Memory Test Computer from Project
Whirlwind at the MIT Museum:
<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2001/sep26/compaq.html>
I have the best girlfriend EVER!
-brian.