I continue to no longer attend vintage computer festivals
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I continue to no longer attend vintage computer festivals
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#2submission is a follow-up to this original post: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5587
prior discussion of the original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40005150
Re: I continue to no longer attend vintage computer festivals
#3I was in Google Patent Litigation, and we actively collected old stuff, for possible use as prior art. I even went to Beryl Nelson's house before she died to collect her old Bell System Technical Journals.
A lot of old stuff has no value to anyone. That can be hard to accept, but it's true. Even old wood furniture -- no one wants it. Old PC or Byte Magazines? Forget it; they're all over.
Re: I continue to no longer attend vintage computer festivals
#4Why would you take all this stuff only to toss it all out?
Though to he fair, it seems the person that took it was pushed out and replaced?
In which case, why, if you do not take this stuff, would you work for a VCF?
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#5Hug-of-death happened and there's only three comments
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#8I was in Google Patent Litigation, and we actively collected old stuff, for possible use as prior art. I even went to Beryl Nelson's house before she died to collect her old Bell System Technical Journals. A lot of old stuff has no value to anyone. That can be hard to accept, but it's true. Even old wood furniture -- no one wants it. Old PC or Byte Magazines? Forget it; they're all over.
So why did they take the material? If you don’t want it, then don’t take it.
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#9this dude used all the vintage parts to run a Beowulf cluster of 8086's to host this site.
Re: I continue to no longer attend vintage computer festivals
#10submission is a follow-up to this original post: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5587 prior discussion of the original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40005150