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The History of Computing Auctioned at Christie's
Larry Groebe writes "The most amazing unified collection of books, papers, and similar material on the history of computing is about to go on sale at Christie's auction house. Want a signed copy of 'Rossum's Universal Robots?' Original papers on the Eniac? Alan Turning's original proof of universal computability? Letters from Charles Babbage himself? It's in there, to anyone with (a whole lot of) money. Check out the estimated price on the 1974 journal article by Vinton Cerf describing IP addressing. It's increased in value in the past 30 years...just a bit."
for great justice!!!
eh?
If I were Bill Gates I'd shell out some money for that stuff.
CELEBRATE!!!
THE MOST CENSORSHIP-HAPPY, ANTI-SPEECH IDIOT SLASHDOT EDITOR HAS BEEN CAST AWAY FROM THIS RETARDED WEBSITE? IF THIS IS REALLY TRUE, THEN SCORE ONE FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN ***TRUE*** FREE SPEECH! MICHAEL SIMS WAS SLASHDOT'S EQUIVALENT OF ITS HEMORRHOID, CONTINUALLY MAKING THE PASSING OF SHIT PAINFUL! BUT IF HE'S GONE, THEN ONE FUCKING RETARD IS GONE, TO LEAVE A GAP IN THE REMAINING RANKS OF THE SLASHDOT "EDITARD" GROUP! FUCK YOU MICHAEL SIMS, I HOPE YOU FUCKING ROT IN HELL FOR YOUR SINS!
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Imagine it.
In this corner, hailing from the great state of Washington, weighing in at 160 lbs, the richest human being to ever walk the face of the planet, the man who could buy and sell my ass with his couch change, "Dollar" Bill Gates!
And in this corner, the dark horse challenger hailing from parts unknown, weighing in at a whopping 13 stone, sporting a dapper "Villain on a traintrack with a rope and damsel" beard, "BulletProof (TM)" Larry Ellison.
Of course, Bill bought the judges after the damn promoters ruined the sport....
Further more Susan, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that all four of them habitually smoked marijuana cig
Truly a bonanza...damn if only my job hadn't been outsourced, I could bid!
Keep your chin up, Michael - with your /. experience, a professorship in journalism is only a matter of time.
Why on earth is this kind of mindless dribble "funny"? How about a Beowulf cluster of Korean old people in Russia, you insensitive clod, too? Jesus people, this is as bad as "at first I though it said..."