./ does the Reuters article... :(

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Sun Jan 5 21:10:05 2003

On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Jeffrey H. Ingber wrote:

> This is SOP for Slashdot. If you think the news snippet is a slam, wait
> until you read the feedback. You will not find a single positive,
> constructive comment.

It seems to me this has more to do with the moderators than the posters. I
actually did find some positive and constructive comments, but I had to
dig for them.

I'd imagine that Slashdot in general is mostly going to be read by folks
with little or no interest in older technology (newer is *always* better
right??), so I'm not at all surprised by the overall feedback. It could
also be that some posters don't want to risk being embarrassed in public
by talking about their favorite old computer ;)

Yet another likely reason for the lack of supportive comments is that many
of the potential posters (and moderators) are not very familiar with the
systems that are frequently discussed on classiccmp. Heck, one poster
seems to think that magnetic core memory isn't going to function due to
its age.

-Toth
Received on Sun Jan 05 2003 - 21:10:05 GMT