Is the Honeywell 316 on that list…
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You know what you can do with ships that have sailed? Sink the fuckers.
I refuse to give up that fight. We’re losing, we have been losing for decades, but we haven’t woken up properly yet. Our children are really offended at the bullshit and I don’t think they are going to go quietly.
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when i started college in 1979 my university had just moved to the vax-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX-11 --and it was like we were married to it because through the mid-90s any computer session began by “invoking the vax” with the command line prompt of something like “c cs vax” and then a pause and then a question mark to which you typed in a code number based on the class you were taking which set the level of privilege you had with the system.
the one cool thing about it was that if you knew the invocation for a mainframe in another school or institution you could type in that and be connected to a mainframe somewhere else.
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That analogy does not work.
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How so? If you mean the initial analogy of a ship doesn’t work… well okay. If you mean that we can’t sink a ship that has sailed, no way.
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Old computers!
My husband always dreams about universities getting rid of their 70s eras computing gear, but we suspect much of it is already long gone.
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Once the ship has left port it doesn’t matter whether it sinks or not.
It is gone and you have missed it, that’s the point the original metaphor makes.
too true.
when my university finally went to a networked client/server system with hundreds of servers networked as lans within each building and then into a wan for the whole campus they basically just hauled the vax out and put in a dumpster behind the computer science building. it was crazy.
a friend of mine working on his mfa in painting snagged it and took it apart and embedded parts of the circuit boards into paintings referencing the ichthys iconography. he called the series “fish and chips” and they were very much a lot of fun.
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And now, some would pay dearly for such a thing…
Nice!
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you know the old saying–
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Blue Box, 1972
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It makes no point then at all. I don’t want on that ship. I want it sunk. If a corporation is abusing my personal data I want it burnt.
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Must’ve been in the same envelope as the incriminating Hunter Biden documents…
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“Threatens To Beat Judges ‘Unconscious’ Unless They ‘Follow the GOT DAMN LAW!!!”
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trump supporter, presumably.
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Presumably it is a good deal compared to using a traditional land-line with a dial-up service.
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Fuck! They let trackers play games like that, but when I want have a script at localhost:8888 open a websocket at localhost:8889, the browser bitches at me, makes me jump through Access-Control-Allow-Origin hoops, and still messes up by sending an extra “pre-flight check” request that’s rejected because it’s not the protocol upgrade that the websocket is looking for. IDIOTS!
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Homestar Holiday classics, I guess.
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My generation’s peanuts! Or something…
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Amazon blasts past estimates, triples profits to $6.2bn but says COVID will cost it $4bn over the next quarter
Well, that’s a load off my mind…
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