"Hacker Oscarv wanted a PDP-8 mini computer" the question needs to be asked... why? This is part of humanity I just don't understand. An infinite number of useful potential projects lay before me and the thought of playing around playing with or restoring 'vintage hardware' is just opportunity cost.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Friday March 27, 2015 @02:08PM (#49356027)
You're looking at it wrong. You are trying to understand it using economics, and of course it wouldn't make sense from that standpoint. He is probably looking at it from an emotional or respect standpoint, or a desire to understand those people that came before him, and that is worth more to him.
Now go kill your gramps because frankly he's outdated and society's resources could better be spent on someone younger.
Economics is generally a terrible way to try to understand a motivation since, broken down to its roots, it has no value judgements in it. Every economic model or approach takes an outside value preference as an input.
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"Hacker Oscarv wanted a PDP-8 mini computer" the question needs to be asked... why? This is part of humanity I just don't understand. An infinite number of useful potential projects lay before me and the thought of playing around playing with or restoring 'vintage hardware' is just opportunity cost.
Re:Why??? (Score:1)
Now go kill your gramps because frankly he's outdated and society's resources could better be spent on someone younger.
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