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Article #625123Re: Old tech (was Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s)
From: Peter Flass
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 09:34
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 09:34
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Scott <nob...@example.org> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 19:11:24 -0400, Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> > wrote: > >> On Fri, 3 Aug 2018, Mike Spencer wrote: >>> [1] Someone will surely correct my choice of technical terms. Y'all >>> are career hackers; I'm just a blacksmith with pretentions to >>> technology. >>> >> Blacksmithing isn't technology? Just because something is familiar >> doesn't cease to make it technology. It might be "old technology" but >> still technology. > > Oh, there's always someone. "Bending metal? With FIRE!? Wow you must > be old, why don't you just 3D print that shit?" > > Bad enough that naive youth dismiss technology invented since I was > born, worse that they call it "old" that was invented since I left > college. Always another wheel to reinvent. With bluetooth. And apps. > > Although a while back I finally figured out that hardware is only > called "legacy" by someone who's selling something. > Blacksmiths were once considered to be priests or magicians (often the same thing). Smithing was taught by a god. -- Pete
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