Re: Will we screw the pooch on the NBN Re: Happy Birthday CSIRAC!..

From	felix <me@nothere.invalid>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: Will we screw the pooch on the NBN Re: Happy Birthday CSIRAC!..
Date	2016-06-14 19:19 +1000
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On 13-June-2016 7:07 PM, Petzl wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 23:25:07 -0000 (UTC), news16 <news16@woa.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 08:19:59 +1000, Jeßus wrote:
>>
>>
>>> All a bit underwhelming, and it appears whomever is caretaking the thing
>>> can't raise much support to maintain it either. A nice piece of history
>>> regardless.
>> Old guys, old net approach.
>> their skill is in maintaining the machines.
>> The collection will just become another piece(many actually) of
>> Australian History that will end up scrapped.
>>
>> I should also point out that the computers shown in The Dish were the
>> Original computers from the tracking station and they were loaned from
>> the ACMS collection.
>>
> "WE" are still alive today because of those computers!
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/26/us-nuclear-arsenal-controlled-by-1970s-computers-8in-floppy-disks
>    http://bit.ly/1sBxszs

Wow!

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  Re: Happy Birthday CSIRAC!.. Jeßus <j@j.j> - 2016-06-12 07:02 +1000
    Re: Happy Birthday CSIRAC!.. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2016-06-12 00:56 +0000
      Re: Happy Birthday CSIRAC!.. Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> - 2016-06-13 07:43 +1000
      Re: Happy Birthday CSIRAC!.. Jeßus <j@j.j> - 2016-06-13 08:16 +1000
    Re: Happy Birthday CSIRAC!.. felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-06-13 16:02 +1000
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    Re: Will we screw the pooch on the NBN Re: Happy Birthday CSIRAC!.. Jeßus <j@j.j> - 2016-06-13 08:19 +1000
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