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| Authored by: rcsteiner on Monday, May 21 2012 @ 10:50 PM EDT |
And I should also add that this process has been going on since at least the
early 60's, and that there are many people a lot older and smarter than I who
have seen many good or even brilliant ideas flow by as a matter of course.
Even in the 60's the folks who were writing software in the airline industry
(where I work) numbered in the hundreds. That's a lot of brainpower used for
projects, and a lot of knowledge that has vanished into the ether as far as
formal documentation goes, but which is still around in various less substantial
format in terms of the core concepts that most of us learned to use in school
and from observing others work.
How do you resurrect ideas that you know existed and that companies depended on
in the past when the hardware and software no longer exists? Does that mean
those ideas never existed? Or the lessons learned when writing them?
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-Rich Steiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA
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| Authored by: Wol on Tuesday, May 22 2012 @ 07:59 AM EDT |
Dunno whether they've got the manuals you want, but take a look.
And if anybody has any old manuals they can scan and contribute? I've got a
bunch I need to get round to scanning and sending to them.
Personally, I'm interested in the Prime stuff, and they seem to have an
interesting bunch of technical manuals. They might well have a load of stuff
about prior art there.
Cheers,
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