15 Apr
2013
15 Apr
'13
2:18 p.m.
On 04/15/2013 03:37 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
I would do the same if I had more repair skill and an endless assortment
of spare electronic components. I'm still acquiring stockpiles. ;)
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments
If you ask me, computing itself is something of
the past. What is
actually 'computed' nowadays on the tons of worthless 'smart phones'
and other nonsensical wastes of cycles and electricity?
I think I've mentioend this before, but whenever I see an advert for a
computer, or some poor salesman tries to sell me one, they tell me it can
store all my photos [1], store all my msuic [2]. etc. Not a single word
about programming it . And yet that's waht I want a computer for.
[1] Oh yes? What, even 5*4 sheet film?
[2] And 1/4" recording tape?
I'm not even near as old as some of those posting here and I'm
already bittered (or was, certainly, more so a while back).
I've come to accept that it's a consumerist culture where
everything is disposable. (In this supposedly 'more and more'
"green" world.) So, I've started not to care much and not
attach to much to a computer.
I actively look for things I can repair (even simple, cheap things) and
flatly refuse ot buy any product consint more than, say \pounds 10.00
that I cannot fix. If this means I have to use older, better-built
things, so be it.
I do have these SGIs here to remind me of better times, with
one still very capable (SGI Tezro) to actually do some work
on.
My classic computers do all I need to do....
-tony