Subj : Re: Day to day uses for retro computers
To   : Spectre
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Aug 08 2023 07:20:00

-=> Spectre wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Sp> They were exciting times... mine came about in a similar way only a
 Sp> fried worked for a government dept that had its network replaced, all
 Sp> the existing stuff went in the dumpster.

 At one of my recent jobs in 2016, my new boss told me that before I'd
 come in, they e-wasted pallets of old crap my predecessor hadn't gotten
 around to disposing of. IBM XTs, ATs and PS/2s, mostly. With IBM
 keyboards, mice and monitors.

 I wept silently.


.... All of this has happened before, and it will happen again...again...
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