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Article #625131Re: Old tech (was Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s)
From: J. Clarke
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 12:43
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 12:43
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On 4 Aug 2018 06:56:09 GMT, ma...@mail.com wrote: >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. As I understand it, mostly to yourself, unless you know what you're doing and have access to some very expensive equipment.
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