Comment Lost Computer Skills, too... (Score 1) 814
This isn't so much of a "hacking analog" as just plain "hacking," but repairing and programming ancient computers qualifies as a "lost art," I think...
I recently got a PDP-8/E (circa early-mid 1970s). How many people these days know how to program a system in octal using only the front panel switches and indicator lights, hand assembling code on the fly? It's a real thrill for me to do this kind of thing, even if the end result just makes the accumulator lights strobe like the front of Kitt from "Knight Rider."
I recently got a PDP-8/E (circa early-mid 1970s). How many people these days know how to program a system in octal using only the front panel switches and indicator lights, hand assembling code on the fly? It's a real thrill for me to do this kind of thing, even if the end result just makes the accumulator lights strobe like the front of Kitt from "Knight Rider."
