museums of misinformation

From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <(allisonp_at_world.std.com)>
Date: Wed May 19 11:43:00 1999

While taking a minute to follow a thread of links on the WWW I hit
the ALayers site at SFU...

PET PEAVE TIME:: the asstounding lack of infomation or worse yet outright
errors. In the case that triggered this an ICS suitcase computer is said
to use a NEC 8255 cpu! that's a parallel port chip and the CPU is 8080,
further the board is the NEC TK80A design repackaged.

I see this sort of error, cru mmy pictures (lowres, dark or not
informational)all too often. If one is going to go to the effort of
documenting a system or whatever accuracy is a good thing. That means
all too often not getting it from an other inaccurate site! Why do
archeologits revisit sites? So they can assure that their studies are not
loaded with anothers errors or assumptions.

So I ranted,

Allison
Received on Wed May 19 1999 - 11:43:00 BST