15 Jan
2004
15 Jan
'04
2:48 p.m.
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
This (no
more low-level tech hackers) might very well be a reality,
yes, if the current trends keep up. Scaring thought...
And any decent
electronics hacker can interface electron-tube logic to
modern-day logic with fairly minimal effort. I expect the analogous
statement to be true 50 years from now.
If there are any electronics hackers in the future. That sort of activity
may either be banned or the knowledge lost to time and bad laws, or a
combination thereof. Or maybe we won't even be around in fifty years. Sorry, I'm a pessimist these days :(
Thats
why you should go out more, Sellam... and I know *just* the
place where we should go (first) :) Next week, gotta go to court
tonight and tomorrow :(
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