27 May
2003
27 May
'03
6:01 p.m.
Did you suggest that they check the date code on all
the other cards ;-)
NO, I gave up with them, and decided I'd rather give these flip-chips to
people who actually _wanted_ them :-).
I doubt it
would destroy the machine in the sense that it could no longer
be used as an exhibit, or indeed that it could no longer be restored
again. In that sense, a machine that had been restored and then failed
during the museum demonstration is no different to a machine that's never
been restored.
An makes the demonstration closer to real life when machines DID break
down. I even imagine demonstrations of engineers fixing and testing the machines, a regular occurrence. Today you simply go
aout an buy a new
one :-(
Well, you might, but I certainly don't. Component-level repair is alive
and well round here...
Rubbish!. Are
you seriously trying to tell me that these skills can't be
learnt? I would claim that anybody who _truely_ understood a modern
machine would have no problems on an older one. The fact that very few
people understand modern computers is the problem, not that the older
machines are so different.
Precisely! and I see the older machines as offering a path towards
better understanding.