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Vintage Computer Festival Revisits The PC Past

Posted by timothy on from the first-under-new-management dept.

OaklyBonn writes "The Vintage Computer Festival West is happening today at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. I've been to several of these, and they're always a blast. It is always amazing to see the things that our current sotware practices treat as not currently possible on todays machines (like, why is my 1ghz XP box sooo slooow?) Did the Beagle Brothers have a pact with Satan? Are we better off today than in the past?"

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  1. You know why they banned linux users? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because they walked around asking "But, can it run linux?"

    1. Re:You know why they banned linux users? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'd like to see you run linux on a single NAND gate.

  2. Computer History Museum in former SGI building by TheTranceFan · · Score: 4, Funny
    I love the way the Computer History Museum occupies an overdesigned former SGI building. It's one of the many extravagant buildings SGI built then sold in the 90s before everyone noticed SGI was totally irrelevant.

    Computer History indeed.

  3. Re:Apple //c for sale by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just some baking soda... Oh wait... the //c has no slots!

  4. HELL YES-Deja Vu computing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "YOU BET! I've lived thru the evolution of computing from the time computers were these giant things tended by acolytes in air-conditioned rooms. There's nothing I'd go back for."

    Then I guess you're going to hate thin clients and blade servers then.

  5. Re:Why is my 1Ghz box so slow? by WuphonsReach · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know a developer who did the same sort of thing in an initialization routine for a program he was writing for a customer. The first draft of the software that he showed them took around a minute to initialize all of the data tables /etc.

    When he was done writing the application, he removed the delay loop from the code and the system now initialized within 15-20 seconds.

    His reasoning was that it gave the customer something concrete to complain about during development... hopefully reducing the number of other absurd change requests.

    Me? I just shook my head...

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