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Article #625122Old tech (was Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s)
From: nob... Scott
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 22:02
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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.
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