[Milsurplus] RS-6 ID thot
William Donzelli
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Sun, 5 Oct 2003 21:18:16 -0400 (EDT)
> It kinda amazes me, how once one technology or even instrument of
> technology is abandoned, how quickly the knowledge of technique
> and procedure are disremembered, and the documents lost. This
> even applies to stuff i've seen change at work, like microfilm data
> storage or that strange honeycomb mass-store for the IBM main-
> frame (water cooled ) computer.
It should be noted that there is a group of guys, numbering at least several
hundred by now, that collect and fool around with mini and mainframe
computer systems. A few of us fools even play with both BAs *and* mainframes.
I want a SAGE console...and a noodle picker...
William Donzelli
[email protected]