29 Jan
2009
29 Jan
'09
4:18 p.m.
Ye gads... If that's the leading publication on Computer History, it
looks like the market could stand another. Something more along the
lines of the excellent UK magazine "Retro Gamer" perhaps, with
articles written by (and for) normal (if a bit fannish) humans and
lots of pictures of old hardware and stuff. You could call it "Classic
Bits" or something actually catchy. I'll bet the inhabitants of this
list could cook up a better product almost overnight.
Mike
29 Jan
29 Jan
4:27 p.m.
> I'll bet the inhabitants of this list could
cook up a better product
almost overnight.
What a dumb comment. How can you compare a glossy fanboy gamer magazine to
an academic journal?
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Subject: Re: Annals of the History of Computing: "bitsavers" is referenced
Ye gads... If that's the leading publication on Computer History, it looks
like the market could stand another. Something more along the lines of the
excellent UK magazine "Retro Gamer" perhaps, with articles written by (and
for) normal (if a bit fannish) humans and lots of pictures of old hardware
and stuff. You could call it "Classic Bits" or something actually catchy.
I'll bet the inhabitants of this list could cook up a better product almost
overnight.
Mike
4:51 p.m.
articles written by (and for) normal (if a bit
fannish) humans and
lots of pictures of old hardware and stuff. You could call it "Classic
Bits" or something actually catchy. I'll bet the inhabitants of this
list could cook up a better product almost overnight.
I guess it depends on how you define better. Maybe
I'm not normal, but I for one would like to see some
of the conversations here have more of the character
of AHC and rather less of the "what was the first...?"
and "A was so much better than B." Even endless discussions
of how to archive floppies are more useful and interesting
in the early stages when they're focused on physics
and engineering. By the time they digress to the
relative virtues and disasters in FPGAs or XML, there's
not much reason to keep reading the thread.
Just 20 milli-dollars from one who keeps a foot
in both the industrial and academic worlds.
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