Timeline for Is this site heading in the right direction?
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| Nov 8, 2020 at 14:23 | comment | added | knol | "Does this site want to be the home of the armchair amateur computer historian or the practical user of historic equipment?" Yes, I think it does. | |
| Nov 7, 2020 at 20:43 | history | edited | user3840170 |
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| May 17, 2019 at 22:38 | answer | added | Raffzahn | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 16, 2019 at 23:39 | comment | added | Mazura | You can't use your old Apple if it's dead... That's EE.SE; beginning with, How to trace a circuit. I don't like, What was the first... questions either, but I wouldn't want to see historical questions thrown out with the bathwater. "WHY" something was done some way, is SE in its purest form. | |
| May 8, 2019 at 13:00 | comment | added | Maury Markowitz | Well all I can say is that I love having a place to ask historical questions, and couldn't give a crap what it's name is. People use wrenches to hammer nails all the time, and I use retrocomputing to ask (and get great answers on) history. Is the name really that much of an issue? | |
| May 7, 2019 at 14:16 | answer | added | DrSheldon | timeline score: 16 | |
| May 7, 2019 at 11:37 | comment | added | tofro | @alephzero Running a, say, ZX Spectrum on your desk and having problems (or solutions) with it is somewhat different (I guess) from operating a WW1 plane. | |
| May 7, 2019 at 8:50 | comment | added | alephzero | Dumb question: Who exactly IS "a practical user of historic [computing] equipment", in 2019? I remember a comment from an engineering co-worker who was deeply into the history of WWI aviation (note, WWI not WWII) who once remarked in a conversation about internet forums, "if I have a question, there are about ten people in the world who might know the answer, and I already have all their email addresses, so why would I want to post the question on a website?" | |
| May 7, 2019 at 1:38 | answer | added | Brian H | timeline score: 10 | |
| May 6, 2019 at 17:37 | comment | added | Cody Gray | I don't have any problem with computer history questions, but I really dislike all these questions of the form, "Was there ever a...?" | |
| May 6, 2019 at 14:00 | comment | added | pipe | Thank you for asking. I was happy when I first found this Stack Exchange, but was quickly turned away by all the pointless opinion based "Why did Acorn use Philips screws and not Torx?" and "What's the oldest X?". | |
| May 4, 2019 at 11:13 | answer | added | wizzwizz4Mod | timeline score: 14 | |
| May 4, 2019 at 10:40 | history | asked | tofro | CC BY-SA 4.0 |