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Article #625132Re: Old tech (was Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s)
From: Joe Pfeiffer
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 14:21
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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