From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 8 6:30:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (smtpproxy1.mitre.org [129.83.20.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9AF537B426 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 06:30:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g08EU9808260 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:30:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g08EU8s06623 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:30:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from dhcp-48-37.mitre.org (128.29.48.37) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 8843165; Tue, 08 Jan 2002 09:30:06 -0500 Message-ID: <3C3B0393.7E7DE887@mitre.org> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 09:34:59 -0500 From: "PSI, Mike Smith" Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en]C-20010313M (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Those of you out there whose memories include CHANGING diapers not WEARING them might appreciate this. At the Smithsonian they have an exhibit on the history of computers. They have all of the old, and I use the term loosely, systems on display, most still working. What's pathetic is that my wife (who is also in this field) and I walked down the ENTIRE line going "used it, programmed it, programmed it, used it". Didn't miss a one. Definitely worth a look see if you are in D.C. area and can take the revelation that you are part of what the Smithsonian considers "HISTORY" :-{ My pride and joy was a Dec Rainbow. It had dual processors! (Z80 and 8086) and single sided quad density floppies. Oh the joy of having your operating system (CP/M), program AND data accessible all at the same time! If you don't know what a .ovl extension represents and have never patched Wordstar, I'm sure this message has no meaning to you. Oh to be young again. Mike Smith mlsmith@mitre.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message