20 Mar
2008
20 Mar
'08
2:12 p.m.
Is the printer still available? what model is it?
s shumaker
Roger Holmes wrote:
>> It is sad that he has passed on. He was
a brilliant, visionary man
>> that, luckily for us, left a legacy of great writings that will live
>> on.
> True. But if I remember authors right, 2001 never did come true.
But geostationary communications satellites did.
Nor did 1984 - however, meanwhile, I hear people
call Orwell an optimist.
Anyway, the old SF visionaries are leaving us. Asimov, Lem, now Clarke;
the golden times of SF disappear.
Concerning 2001: I doubt I really want to have a HAL9000.
Nothing wrong with the hardware, it had been programmed to be a serial
murderer under certain conditions. Deliberate, not even a bug and of
course contrary to the laws of robotics. Somewhat like HAL, sadly my
father has dementia and likes reciting nursery rhymes (and gets them
wrong), which gets under the skin of the other residents of his nursing
home and he had a fight with an old lady who broke his glasses and he
hit her with his walking stick. The staff took the stick away and later
we got a call to say he had had a fall, hardly surprising.
Gone slightly off topic there a bit, sorry.
Does anyone here have a use for a BROKEN wide format Hewlett Packard ink
jet printer? I think we got it in 2000, so not ten years old quite yet
but useful for printing schematics if you have the knowledge/patience to
repair it. It might even be a current model, things move slowly in the
wide format side of things where low volumes force design costs to be
recouped over longer periods.