On February 5, Claude.W wrote:
> > Full books but stay with families IE: VAX, PDP-11, CPM S100 as a
> > set covers many varients
>
> Cant agree, lotta reference stuff can be looked up and printed from right of
> the www when needed!!!
...until the person putting the stuff online decides "nobody needs
this old stuff anymore" and takes it down. And MANY companies are
famous for the "we don't want to SELL these anymore so we don't want
to tell anyone about them" bullshit. Having been involved with the
world-wide web from its beginning, it makes me sick to point this
out...but the WWW is primarily a SALES tool nowadays. The fact that
we get information from it that is actually useful is a pleasant
side-effect. What is driving it is SALES. Suits figuring out more
efficient ways of taking peoples' money. Nothing more.
If everyone takes the "someone else will maintain this information"
attitude, who will maintain the information? We ALL must take
responsibility for this. Every one of us who cares about it.
> > With care and appling to specific systems or technoligies, not
> > complete archives of say Byte.
>
> Fun to look at but apart from that...
And highly educational. I read a very interesting article in an issue
of BYTE from 1984 while eating dinner last night. It compared a whole
slew of 32-bit processors that were due to be introduced that year.
The specific information was interesting from a historical
perspective, but it was also very useful because understanding what
drove our technology to where it is now an often help understand
CURRENT stuff more completely.
> I have taught of getting a bigger house but is too many hobbies a reason for
> moving it all and getting a bigger house...?
What is life for if you can't enjoy it?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
Received on Tue Feb 05 2002 - 11:15:01 GMT