Re: Computers, anyone?

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From: ma...
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 09:01

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On 2018-07-01, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> There are things to be nostalgic for. When a Video Display Terminal cost $15,000, then, strange to relate, it 
> had a better quality keyboard than today's computers usually do.

I visited the Victoria Albert many years ago. Most of the people were
looking at a classic car that was near the Entrance, years later,
I was  at the Smithsonian, where people were around a classic car, etc.

The classic computers would be More interesting for the ideas involved,
rather than the hardware.

--

greymaus.ireland.ie
Will Rant for Food.

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