23 Sep
2004
23 Sep
'04
12:44 a.m.
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 21:56, Teo Zenios wrote:
People always talk about Atlantis because its
something mythical
to search for, if it was documented 100% nobody would care, it would
be like
reading 10 years on income tax forms.
Wow, so you're arguing that we should lose things so that those that do
remain will be more interesting?!
I really think people here collect computers because
deep inside it
means
something to them, not because they want to preserve it for others.
I agree that's probably true to some degree, large or small.
Do you
really want to document every single thing we treasure about a
specific
machine to the Nth degree so somebody even 20 years from now could
just look
it up as needed,
Well, yes!
or do you really wish something important was
forgotten
from the archive so that somebody decides to find one, put it
together, and
find out what the hunk of metal really does?
I find this idea really strange. So we should intentionally leave
puzzles of the present for the future to decode?!