27 Mar
2012
27 Mar
'12
3:57 p.m.
> Perhaps there are worthy uses of rosewood - maybe
a PDP-8 front
> panel is one of them - but simply saying 'this is just one little
> bit, it doesn't matter' isn't an argument.
I believe it is, though, in this case. The reason it
would be in
other circumstances is that once one person justifies it, everyone
will want to do it. Are we losing sight of the fact that "everyone",
in this case, means the handful of remaining Straight-8s in the
world, and only the subset of those that happen to need new panels?
That's missing the point. Your one-off use, my (different) one-off
use, someone else's (yet different) one-off use, _that_ is the
"everyone" that matters here. Even if each one truly is a one-off, and
I suspect that's pretty close to true for PDP-8 restoration, in the
aggregate it's still just as much "everyone" as far as its impact goes
as it would be if we were talking something like furniture.
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