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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | uk.comp.vintage |
| Subject | Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. |
| Date | 2019-09-03 10:05 +0000 |
| Organization | Piglet's Pickles & Preserves |
| Message-ID | <gt6s74Fa8h5U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (5 earlier) <lHJsDwCBRUadFw6y@jhall_nospamxx.co.uk> <9f55d7ee-79b2-90e9-b439-017b428b3732@clerew.man.ac.uk> <w3UpfrC1CkadFwb$@jhall_nospamxx.co.uk> <qkj3mu$80t$1@dont-email.me> <qQgQKGCnqTbdFwj4@jhall_nospamxx.co.uk> |
On 2019-09-02, John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <qkj3mu$80t$1@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk>
> writes
[snippage]
>>*all* mag tape and punched cards are on holiday.
>>
>
> I get much amusement from SF TV programmes and films made in the 1960s
> supposedly featuring computers from hundreds of years in the future. One
> always sees the computer occupying a large room, with banks of magnetic
> tape drives with tapes whirring round.
The computers in SF films still annoy me. I expect something much more
along the lines of Iain M Banks' "Minds", and I'm generally disappointed
(ditto with weapons - where are the antimatter bombs, the relativistic
railguns and the like?)
--
Today is Sweetmorn, the 27th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3185
Rising above bedlam
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The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-08-27 05:16 +0000
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-08-27 05:20 +0000
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-08-29 12:24 +0100
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Folderol <general@musically.me.uk> - 2019-08-29 14:02 +0100
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-08-30 13:32 +0100
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-08-31 13:50 +0000
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> - 2019-08-29 16:34 +0100
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-08-29 18:58 +0000
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-08-30 10:49 +0100
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-08-30 13:38 +0100
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-08-30 10:52 +0100
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> - 2019-08-30 16:44 +0100
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> - 2019-08-30 17:21 +0100
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Folderol <general@musically.me.uk> - 2019-08-30 18:43 +0100
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> - 2019-08-31 10:41 +0100
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2019-09-01 20:54 +0100
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-09-02 14:03 +0100
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-09-02 13:59 +0100
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> - 2019-09-02 16:52 +0100
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-09-03 10:05 +0000
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> - 2019-09-03 18:22 +0100
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-09-03 18:54 +0000
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-08-31 13:50 +0000
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-09-02 14:05 +0100
Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> - 2019-09-02 17:02 +0100
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