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Article #625130Re: Old tech (was Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s)
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Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 06:56
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 06:56
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On 2018-08-03, 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. As someone who has used a lathe (eyesight gone too bad to do it any more) I get hot under my collar when I read of people 3dprinting stuff like that. I suppose that if you 3dprinted a gun, you might only use it once or twice, but do a lot of damage. -- Ma...@ireland.com Will Rant For Food
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