YATYRD (was: PalmOS no more? :(

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:

> > I don't agree that crap makes something classic, vintage, or worth
> > preserving.
>
> 'Classic' and 'vintage' are marketing weasel words.

They also happen to describe the charter of this mailing list.  Go figure,
eh?

> A serious computer conservator wants to preserve all the warts and bugs
> of the original.

Sure, but only if the original is worth preserving in the first place.

> If you have a time machine, load it into that.  There will be somebody
> eagerly waiting at the other end fourty years from now.  I guarantee it.
>  All that will have been 'preserved' are what were perceived as the
> 'good' bits by the casual hobbyists.

My "time machine" costs me $.80/sqft.  I can't afford that for the next 40
years ;)

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