Article View: alt.folklore.computers
Article #625124Re: Old tech (was Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s)
From: Mike Spencer
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 18:56
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 18:56
19 lines
2725 bytes
2725 bytes
Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> writes: > Blacksmiths were once considered to be priests or magicians (often the > same thing). With some justification. I think the PBS documentary, "Secrets of the Viking Sword" is on-line somewhere if you look. The average Man In The Street^H^H^H^H^H^H Muddy Lane had neither the wit nor the patience to learn to do somthing so tedious and demanding of persistent attention to detail. (Nothing has changed. :-) > Smithing was taught by a god. There a smiths of both the present and recently past generations that we regard more or less as demigods. -- Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<87muu2gdvg.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>Path:
mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!l67-v6ni2678itl.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mailReferences:
<pis39j$mii$1@sdf.lonestar.org> <pjfunr$mfr$1@sdf.lonestar.org> <0bdfaae7-ccd1-4617-975c-4994af3ed1a5@googlegroups.com> <930f8190-5ab3-465e-8c51-55a8ace70fe8@googlegroups.com> <slrnplp0gp.4k5.mausg@smaus.org> <20180728174042.a45a47406a109bfc579d70ce@eircom.net> <slrnplp8q2.6ma.mausg@smaus.org> <p2mpld9mmk79329sobc7utv88vb07sgpnv@4ax.com> <86794864-1ef9-40d3-814b-74346ff73b38@googlegroups.com> <pjrst2$79q$1@dont-email.me> <87va8r1aog.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> <alpine.LNX.2.20.1808031906510.7362@thrush> <5b64cf33.1025160250@news.xmission.com> <1620112940.555067713.974087.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Received: by 2002:a02:a319:: with SMTP id q25-v6mr5384639jai.44.1533409013999; Sat, 04 Aug 2018 11:56:53 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: alt.folklore.computers@googlegroups.com Received: by 2002:a6b:5b10:: with SMTP id v16-v6ls1172912ioh.17.gmail; Sat, 04 Aug 2018 11:56:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a6b:6d05:: with SMTP id a5-v6mr4952790iod.16.1533409013376; Sat, 04 Aug 2018 11:56:53 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!l67-v6ni2678itl.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Old tech (was Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s) Date: 04 Aug 2018 15:56:03 -0300 Organization: Bridgewater Institute for Advanced Study - Blacksmith Shop Lines: 19 Message-ID: <87muu2gdvg.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> References: <pis39j$mii$1@sdf.lonestar.org> <pjfunr$mfr$1@sdf.lonestar.org> <0bdfaae7-ccd1-4617-975c-4994af3ed1a5@googlegroups.com> <930f8190-5ab3-465e-8c51-55a8ace70fe8@googlegroups.com> <slrnplp0gp.4k5.mausg@smaus.org> <20180728174042.a45a47406a109bfc579d70ce@eircom.net> <slrnplp8q2.6ma.mausg@smaus.org> <p2mpld9mmk79329sobc7utv88vb07sgpnv@4ax.com> <86794864-1ef9-40d3-814b-74346ff73b38@googlegroups.com> <pjrst2$79q$1@dont-email.me> <87va8r1aog.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> <alpine.LNX.2.20.1808031906510.7362@thrush> <5b64cf33.1025160250@news.xmission.com> <1620112940.555067713.974087.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9896668e78199396957bb19f08f43558"; logging-data="25964"; mail-complaints-to="ab...@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/PrUa5nRhnWKo2PwcdJb7kpJHggwZ2G94=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Gi2CMH9qX8vImnz7Zn3+5OKaN2Q= X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 X-Clacks-Overhead: 4GH GNU Terry Pratchett Bytes: 2216 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit