19 May
2010
19 May
'10
12:42 p.m.
When I showed off a DEC GT40 vector graphics terminal at the VCF, I used
a Palm III to load the Moonlander game into it, but I didn't get written
Wimp :-). When I demonstrated my homebrew GT40 (11/05 + VT11 in a
hand-wrapped backplane), I had custom-programmed boot ROMs and a Trend
papper tape reader...
up in Wired.
I am stil lowndering what is so great about replacing something with 10
transsitors (a cassette recorder) with something with sevreral million
transistos, I know which I'd rather have to keep running in 40 years
time (and yes, I do have a cassette recorder over that age, all it's ever
needed are new belts).
-tony