At 10:25 PM 5/5/99 -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote:
>
>Yeah, then I spray-painted it neon pink because I didn't
like the original
>color. Core memory is cool.
No way. It wouldn't be Art until you made it into a dress,
as a
commentary on the way technology has shaped our lives.
- John
This is too much like what actually happened to me.
A few years ago I learned that someone had an IMSAI
8080 they wanted to get rid of, in a city 150 miles
from where I live.
I was willing to make the trip to go and rescue it.
But when I finally got in touch with the owner by phone,
they said "I wish you had gotten ahold of us sooner!
We just gave it to an artist who wanted to use it
for a collage."
I can still imagine that front panel plastered in
bright-colored goo, along with a bunch of other
techno-junk, hanging on some wall in humiliation!
--- Mark Metzler
VON NEUMANN MACHINES
Online Computer History Bookstore/Museum
http://home.pacbell.net/mmetzler/vnm.html
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Received on Fri May 07 1999 - 01:09:46 BST