10 Dec
1998
10 Dec
'98
7:57 a.m.
> I have a chance to speak with the designers of
some of the machines in my
> collection. But other than the basic "when was it intro'd, what are the
> specs, what did it cost" stuff, what should I ask? What sorts of stories,
> info, etc. should I be trying to preserve?
Why did you use <insert CPU> instead of
<insert other popular CPU at the
time>? How long did it take to design? What was the indended market? What
was the actual market? Stuff like that.
Are you shure this is interesting ? I doubt. Why X was used
instead of Y has almost no meaning - Stories around - thats
the stuff I like (For example about the orgin of a cigarette
burn in the operator table of the 2002 in the Deutsches
Museum) and stories how they did id, how they fighted the
management, the technic, the supply, etc. (and I guess
these are also the stories that they like more to tell :)
Gruss
Hans
--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK