./ does the Reuters article... :(

On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Jeffrey H. Ingber wrote: It seems to me this has more to do with the moderators than the posters. I actually did find some positive and constructive comments, but I had to dig for them. I'd imagine that Slashdot in general is mostly going to be read by folks with little or no interest in older technology (newer is *always* better right??), so I'm not at all surprised by the overall feedback. It could also be that some posters don't want to risk being embarrassed in public by talking about their favorite old computer ;) Yet another likely reason for the lack of supportive comments is that many of the potential posters (and moderators) are not very familiar with the systems that are frequently discussed on classiccmp. Heck, one poster seems to think that magnetic core memory isn't going to function due to its age. -Toth