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Deconstructing the PC Revolution

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the looking-back dept.

coondoggie writes to mention that room-sized computers and other recollections were shared over the weekend at the Vintage Computer Festival in Silicon Valley. "About 200 people, many of them of the gray-haired pony tail, bifocals and middle-age paunch variety, attended the event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif."

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  1. Smarter than that by Wellington+Grey · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the article: The refrigerator-sized machine stored just 5Mb of data. Hoagland's PowerPoint presentation on the restoration project, at 9.16MB, would have crashed it.

    I'll bet that the old guys who wrote it were smart enough to actually check the size of a file before copying it -- you know, actually worrying about resource management. Not like these young pups who think that CPU speeds and hard disk space are so large as to be infinite and not worth bothering with.

    -Grey

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  2. Hey! by MECC · · Score: 5, Funny

    About 200 people, many of them of the gray-haired pony tail, bifocals and middle-age paunch variety

    ... hey!
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    - E.M. Cioran