29 May
1999
29 May
'99
3:10 p.m.
Fair enough, You make a point regarding continued aviability of classic
computers. And going straight to the press would indeed be foolish. But
it may make sense that the public be educated on this issue otherwise
somebody may inadvertently create some vital-info leak an all the press
jumps the bandwagon in a way that will make every body as distrustfull
as
about the Y2K issue.
Therefore my remarks should have been taken a bit ironously. :)
Sipkw
Tony Duell wrote:
Maybe you should inform the press. Taking care that they do not publish
any sensitive data and stipulating that your personalia will not be
revealed.
Isn't that the _worst_ thing you could do?
At the moment there is no problem. All of us here (I hope) are sensible
about deleting personal data. So there is no risk in giving any of us a
machine with such data on it.
The last thing we need is the public saying "I couldn't be sure that none
of my [love letters/tax returns/medical records] were on that
[Altair/PERQ/DEC 10/etc] so I broke it into little pieces so that nobody
could ever read them"
-tony