There's nothing wrong with having old machines that still work. Classic cars, for instance. And though it's arguable, the US space shuttles.
That does remind me of a story about a supposed real true time traveler who went back in time from the far future where the world is on it's last legs, looking for some old computer because he was told it could process a certain kind of computer language that the future Earth needed to save itself. He supposedly disappeared after his story went public and hasn't been seen for over 20 years. The stinger is, when people investigated the computer, IBM confirmed that the model of computer he was after had a secret ability to process this other language, but the ability was deemed unnecessary and was phased out and unadvertised.
As for your trip, sometimes it's good to take a ride.
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Date: 2009-10-22 05:33 am (UTC)That does remind me of a story about a supposed real true time traveler who went back in time from the far future where the world is on it's last legs, looking for some old computer because he was told it could process a certain kind of computer language that the future Earth needed to save itself. He supposedly disappeared after his story went public and hasn't been seen for over 20 years. The stinger is, when people investigated the computer, IBM confirmed that the model of computer he was after had a secret ability to process this other language, but the ability was deemed unnecessary and was phased out and unadvertised.
As for your trip, sometimes it's good to take a ride.