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Article #619590Re: 1947--the future of walkie-talkies
From: Peter Flass
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 14:22
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 14:22
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Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > On 2018-01-24, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > > [27 lines snipped] > >> Yes, despite the romance of steam, > > Which I have never understood. AFAIAC, they're inefficient, polluting, > dirty, self propelled piles of scrap. Might as well get all misty > eyed about meat safes and gas lighting. > > Indeed, I have no interest whatsoever in how the railway service is > implemented, other than that it is clean, comfortable, punctual and > reasonably priced - a set of criteria which it seems signally unable > to provide in most countries. > It's similar with computer nostalgia. Certainly a small, quiet, fast laptop is better than the old stuff, but we old guys get nostalgic for room-size computers with lots of blinkenlights. -- Pete
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