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From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sat May 24 22:19:00 2003

On Sat, 24 May 2003, TeoZ wrote:

> Anything can be learned if you have the documentation of the machine in
> question, and a good idea of the technology used up to the time the machine
> was made. The problem I was trying to show is that the interface to the
> machines has changed quite a bit, and in 50 to 100 years will probably
> change quite a bit more. Put somebody that only knows a keyboard, mouse, and
> supervga screen in front of a IMSAI 8080 and they wont know what to do.

But Tony's point is--and I agree--that it can be learned.
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