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Article #619600Re: 1947--the future of walkie-talkies
From: Peter Flass
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:54
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:54
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<hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 9:22:47 AM UTC-5, Peter Flass wrote: > >>>> Yes, despite the romance of steam, > >> 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. > > > It is common in railroad facilities to find a picture on the wall > of an old train, a current calendar with old pictures, or an old > logo on the wall. Likewise, there are numerous museums with both > static and actual-operating exhibits of trains and trolleys. > Steam engines are enormously expensive to keep running, but a > number of places do so. > > Conversely, personally, FWIW I've never knew of any nostalgia in > any I.T. facility, and the only I.T. people I know interested in > computer history are those in this newsgroup. The only computer > museum I know of is the one in California*, That's the best known, but there are lots, both in the US and Europe. I was very unhappy when it moved from Boston to Cali. > while there are many > train museums. I had a few pictures of tab machines at my desk > and my co-workers thought it was foolish. > > I've visited the IBM archives, and let's just say I never had a > problem finding a parking spot or had to wait in line. (I don't > know about the Charles Babbage Institute). > Does the Archives have much besides ...archives? Some of the colleges have collections of stuff. -- Pete
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