Collection policy was Re: No space for vinatge computers in

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwightk.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Tue May 27 17:11:01 2003

>From: ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk
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>
>> different today, how can people relate to this? While there are still a few
>> people who know how to make a horseshoe at a blacksmiths there will be
>> nobody who knows how to run the early mainframes in 50 years, things are
>
>Rubbish!. Are you seriously trying to tell me that these skills can't be
>learnt? I would claim that anybody who _truely_ understood a modern
>machine would have no problems on an older one. The fact that very few
>people understand modern computers is the problem, not that the older
>machines are so different.
>
>-tony
>

Hi
 I think these older machines are easier to work on. Things
are more exposed and excessable. Most of the newer machines
one has today are not even as repairable( motherboard fails,
swap out motherboard! ).
Dwight
Received on Tue May 27 2003 - 17:11:01 BST