19 Jan
2010
19 Jan
'10
12:06 p.m.
David Griffith wrote:
Whatever the speed of the newest computer is over time, there's always
one constant in this universe. And it's in this little 25yr old cartoon
about computer engineers that I hang right above my desk which I saved
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2010, at 2:14 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
>> Yester I was listening to the government owned radio and there was a
>> man
>> interviewed regarding a report of computer usage in schools. The
>> otherwise wellinformed man said that Sweden is among the top countries
>> when it comes to number of computers in schools,
First, I hate these comparisons of countries, it's always based on
percentage, and not actual numbers. One small country can't be compared
against a whole continent.
>> but that the computers
>> are getting old, and I translate: "They are on average three years old,
>> and as we know things get a bit crufty then"
>>
>> What load of *beep*, the advertisers mentioned above have really driven
>> their message home!
>
> Consumers in our society are extremely well-trained.
brainwashed would be more accurate
I am regularly offered 2+GHz Pentium-4 machines because it has gotten
around that I'm into "vintage computing". Scary.
What kind of people offer such machines?
from an old issue of EDN.
"It's fast alright, the only thing that goes faster is my paycheck." :)
=Dan
http://www.vintagecomputer.net/ragooman/