28 Jun
2007
28 Jun
'07
2:45 p.m.
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
On Thursday 28 June 2007 13:58:28 Jay West wrote:
Has anyone ever built a spherical computer? That'd be interesting... dead easy
to move around, too :-)
Billy wrote...
It's never going to be "all things to all men", is it? Everyone has their
own
little sphere of interest > Come on people: there were computers long
before there were
> microcomputers.
I seem to remember a recent post complaining that this list
was nothing but
minicomputer and big-iron talk, no microcomputer discussion. Apparently
that was wrong, as now there is a complaint it's just micro talk? ;) I'm surprised there's not more about the UK
microcomputer scene.
Not enough UK list members, I suspect. I don't know where they all are... not
on uk.comp.vintage, that's for sure. Maybe there are just more vendor-specific
mailing lists for the UK scene [1] than there are for the US or something.
[1] Apply to other non-US countries too, of course.
And what of the things to keep the big *big* iron
running? I'm also
interested in stuff like the power plant and environmental plant around old
kit - but I can easily see how some would see that, and the Fairlight, as
offtopic.
Indeed... personally I'm a big fan of the mechanical precursors whose
mechanisms helped kick-start the computer age - not strictly on-topic, but
AFAIK there's nowhere else to discuss such things unfortunately.
Maybe we need some sort of map showing what we think
is on- and off-topic...
A big Venn diagram with DEC in the middle? ;-)