12 Aug
2012
12 Aug
'12
1:43 p.m.
On 12 Aug 2012 at 13:54, William Donzelli wrote:
And I will add...
> That is why simulators are so important. You can get most of the
> feel of the machine from the comfort of your own home.
Or word processors (who collects those?) Plenty of typewriter
collectors, but I've not seen a lot of word processor collections.
A working 7090 and peripherals might have some appeal in the same
sort of way that a steam locomotive captures the imagination. Not
more powerful or efficient or faster than an modern diesel-electric,
but very impressive with the steam and noise of it all.
I doubt that many of the younger folk viewing such an exhibition
could tell you the procedure to make a telephone call between, say,
Gleason, Wisconsin and Miami, Florida in 1959 (much less between Gnaw
Bone, Indiana and Horta, Portugal.)
--Chuck