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When Irreplaceable History Lives on Obsolete Tech
Popular Mechanics ^ | 2 July 2015 | John Wenz

Posted on 07/04/2015 7:11:01 PM PDT by ShadowAce

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To: ShadowAce

Meanwhile, the history on Hillary’s server and the IRS emails are erased and no one bothers a whit.


41 posted on 07/05/2015 8:23:21 AM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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Some of the issues in this thread remind me of a similar issue with software. Back in 1999 I was approached by a client of a client for whom I had written software years before. One of the “plugins” I had used for the compiler with which I designed their software had a Y2K bug. I had the source code, but putting together a programming platform was hard, because I had to find all of the plugins originally used to make the thing in the first place. Then I had to update the DateTimePicker plugin I had used, which was the source of the bug.


42 posted on 07/06/2015 7:21:36 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: Bobalu

I have one of each of those Atari’s.
My son had a blast getting it to work at his graduation party.(geeky isn’t it?)

My dad brought them to me a couple of years ago.
He used to use them for his teaching in the ‘80’s.

He had quite a few programs but more games than anything else.
His favorite was River Raid.

Still works on the 55’flat screen!

Better than the Nintendo 64 does.
The gun doesn’t hit the target on the LCD screen.

Remember “Only one plough per customer”?


43 posted on 07/16/2015 3:54:08 PM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (As long as America's tolerence of failure is not overwhelmed by a desire to succeed, we will fail.)
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