On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:01:47 -0700 (PDT)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > One thing puzzles me. What's so significant about 40 years?
> >
> > Why wasn't there a similar message on this list 8 years ago, saying that
> > the 360 was 32 years old -- a nice round number ?
>
> Because 8 years ago this hobby was at a level that is a small fraction of
> its current state. Way more people are cognizant today of the importance
> of celebrating computer history than 8 years ago.
>
I shudder sometimes to think of the things I walked by and ignored 10 years ago at swapmeets. I shudder to think of some of the hardware I passed up at surplus stores back then. So many of us were in pursuit of hardware we could strip memory out of to run Windows faster (speaking for self and some of crowd I associated with, not everyone here.) What a pitiful pursuit, looking back at it now. Some of the things I could have stored away that I would appreciate now...
I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
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