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Re: Old tech (was Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s)

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From: Joe Pfeiffer
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 14:21
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J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

As I told a friend who asked me if I'd downloaded an STL for a Colt
1911, "I like having two hands".
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