On that note, I'm moving to a teletype hooked up to a Unix server somewhere running Lynx...

Luckily for me, my old manual typewriter costs only as much as the ink and paper I put in it. :)

I have about 400 8-tracks at home, most of which probably sound just as good as the day they were taken out of the shrink wrap. My oldest is probably 40 or close to it (that's around when they superseded 4-tracks, which I also have a few of). With a little care and preliminary maintenance (if you've just bought one from a thrift store or whatnot), 8-tracks will not only play today, but remain playable for years to come. 8-tracks, like VHS, are big both in cartridge and tape; have mechanisms (internal in 8-tracks, external in VHS) that would seem to get finicky over the years; but are respectively proven and poised for longevity. CDs and DVDs might rot or get scratched and the digital data is irrecoverably gone, but analog tape can be spliced, have its playback tweaked to give the highest fidelity possible, and almost always still be *somewhat* playable, period. I'm just asking to be flamebait, but this old analog equipment is made to last, even though 8-tracks were implicitly conceived as a true throwaway format. A few of us cultists will be listening to our 8-tracks, records, and cassettes, and watching VHS movies, for years to come. :)

What kind of stuff do you use it for? Just novelty poking around, or something practical? I must admit, I only bring up my O2 to play the Tron light-cycle demo game. :P

My SGI O2 has you beat. :)

Not to nitpick, but Commodore, TI, Tandy-RadioShack, and hundreds of other, less-recognized companies helped start the very same bandwagon that Apple claimed to be leading with the II. Let's not forget that the virtually unchanged Commodore 64 sold 30 million. While the iPod dominates the portable digital media-player market, the Apple II back in the day was an expensive niche in an already-existing market. Kind of like the Macintosh today...hm...

On point 1, does that mean that you could just make a program that will go through a set of files, take pixel (0,0) from each and give it a random RGB value, and the hashes would be different enough just from that that they wouldn't match up with searches for known images' hashes?