15 Oct
2013
15 Oct
'13
2:34 p.m.
On 16 October 2013 20:06, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
It was a joke, Tony.
I was not referring to the manual.
Chuck asked what was the point of such an old manual. I commented that
this was a strange question, because what is the point of old
computers anyway.
My comment meant that the members of the ClassicCmp lists keep and run
vintage machines for many reasons - for nostalgia, for pleasure, or as
parts of collections - but not for actual practical use.
With the exception of you, who often proudly state that you /use/ your
classic and vintage machines and will not use any remotely modern or
current hardware either as schematics are unavailable, or because they
cannot be repaired if they fail due to tiny surface-mount components
and so on.
I'm sorry if I am misrepresenting you here.
But the point of the message to which you're supplying was humorous.
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Odd question
to ask on this list. For nostalgia, for pleasure, for
completing a collection, but /practical applicability/ is about bottom
of the list. Unless you're Tony, anyway.
Come again?
I do not run any CDC machiens, so it's not goinh to be of use to me
running them
I am not a programmer, so I am unliukely to attempt to implement this
version of a language on some other hardware
Surprisingly, althought I am a physicist, I have never written a single
line of Fortran.
So quite why do you think this manaul would ahve been of use to me?