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

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From: Mike Spencer
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 18:38

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nob...@example.org (Scott) writes:

> 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?"

Um, leaving aside some (well, all) technical details of materials
science, engineering and so on:

   Because it's boring; for the same reason you don't dance by doing
   stuff on your touch screen.  The dynamics of doing stuff involves,
   yew know, actually *doing* stuff.

      Through their results, dynamics modify the setting for
      subsequent dynamics.  Dynamically created forms, if somhow
      consolidated, become molds for the course of further activity.

                                -- Paul Weiss, 1 + 1 != 2 

> 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.

Ah yes, technologies invented in my lifetime, some of which I never
got around to adopting, that are now completely obsolete.

> Although a while back I finally figured out that hardware is only
> called "legacy" by someone who's selling something.

Just so.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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