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Festival of Inappropriate Technology

Posted by Hemos on from the sounds-like-fine dept.

A reader writes " NTK Magazine and Mute Magazine are holding a Festival of Inappropriate Technology in London city centre on the 9th of June. Featuring the Commodore 64 underground, The Classic Amiga Preservation Society, DNSCon, the EFF plus many more talks and stalls. There will also be wired and wireless network access available. The Register will also be there. Should make for a great day, all are welcome!"

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  1. Can I...... by echucker · · Score: 3, Funny

    bring my UNIVAC that I play Pong on?

  2. Hmm... Not enough time... by rickthewizkid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wish I had known about this earlier....

    But then again, considering that the average piece of software takes 5 minutes to load on one of those Commodores... well... maybe I can leave my house now and get there before the show is over...

    (As a side thought)

    Time required to load GEOS on a C64 - 5 minutes
    Time required to load DOS + Windows 3.1 on a 486 - 5 minutes
    Time requiree to load WinXP on a P3 - 3 minutes
    Time required to load Red Hat on a P3 workstation - 5 minutes...

    -Rick

  3. been there by mocktor · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just got home from it... the wifi access is nothing to write home about but the old hardware is cool and the guy with the wearable spectrum rocked

    If any of you go - the entrance is around the back of the building, not on euston road - took me a while to figure that out :/

  4. Timing? by HuskyDog · · Score: 4, Informative
    Of course, it might have been a nice idea if this item had appeared a few days ago. As it is, it seems to have been posted about 2 hours AFTER the event started!!

    From here, trains to London take about 1 hour, but what with getting to the station, waiting for a train (not frequent on Sundays) and getting across London I won't be there until its nearly over.

    Mind you, I subscribe to the mailing lists of the EFF and Campaign for Digital Rights. Both are supposed to have stands and neither bothered to tell me about it.

  5. Sure...I'll just whip out my old commie... by Rhinobird · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sure...I'll just whip out my old commie and surf on over to that site and see what's up...


    Oh my GAWD!!!! you can surf with a commodore 64!

    --
    If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
  6. I'm there - blogging live by BenHmm · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm blogging live from the stage

  7. Check out "Fallen Angels" by Niven and Pournelle by ibirman · · Score: 3, Informative

    I just read a great book that talks about "Inappropriate Technology" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The book is available for free at the Baen Free Library. It is a great read and was very enjoyable. Really puts a different perspective on "good" and "bad" technology. Funny that they used the same term for the show.