10 Jun
2006
10 Jun
'06
12:17 a.m.
Dan Williams wrote:
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I suspect that the faster devices with sub-micron technologies
will *die* before then (EM, etc.). Yet another reason for running
older/slower hardware?? :>
Which is strange if you think about it - much of
this hobby will be
dead in 50
years time as the era of collectible systems is pretty much over (who
wants to
go around collecting PCs, Playstations and X-Boxes?). There'll still be
emulators, documentation, research, and non-functional systems, but the
running machines - which are of primary interest to most on this list I
suspect - will be gone.
I don't know about 50 years but it would be great if in 10-15 years
some of the top 500 super computers appeared on ebay. There is also
some nice stuff like tadpole sparc books and quad G5's, Alphas, IBM
power pc and especially that new Sun 32x1ghz spark processor that
will become more affordable.