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See, thats where it all began - this malignant thought that 'old computers' are 'dead computers'. Computers don't stop being useful because of age - they stop
by seclorum 15y ago
See, thats where it all began - this malignant thought that 'old computers' are 'dead computers'. Computers don't stop being useful because of age - they stop being useful because someone makes the decision not to find a use for them.
- unimpressive 15y agoI don't see what you're getting at. Those machines were produced in the same time period. Old machines that only have KB of memory do stop being useful because of age. At this point it would be an egregious use of power to run these things to do calculations that can be done by your cellphone in milliseconds. If you want to experience ITS, run an emulator.
- seclorum 15y agoAt one point, 64kb was useful for something. There is an infinite number of uses for 64kb. Its only the decision being made that its not useful any more that makes it so - the users change, not the computers. I still break out my 8-bit machines now and then for some fun, localized, minimal computing. Its amazing how much you can get done in a little bit of RAM, but the 'amazing' is just the result of an arbitrary decision, nothing more.