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> There is more value to be extracted. Think even of a simple teaching model. Except mercury delay line memory is completely uninteresting except as a footnote
by msla 8y ago
> There is more value to be extracted. Think even of a simple teaching model.
Except mercury delay line memory is completely uninteresting except as a footnote to computer history, which doesn't change the fact they're heavy, expensive to run, and quite fragile. And I don't consider "It's a museum piece!" to mean something isn't obsolete.
- themodelplumber 8y agoKeep in mind that this is completely subjective/qualitative and that's the point. Disqualifying a substantially qualitative theory because you found an edge or corner case would in the first place be really silly, as every model is known to be broken in some way, and the point is that in the trade-off you generate value. But in the second--I'll bet if you really got into mercury delay line memory, you'd find some qualitative research gems. You are still referencing your comfortable normalized market, and that's a major point of departure for the thinking I'm describing.