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Festival of Inappropriate Technology 126

A reader writes " NTK Magazine and Mute Magazine are holding a Festival of Inappropriate Technology in London city centre on the 9th of June. Featuring the Commodore 64 underground, The Classic Amiga Preservation Society, DNSCon, the EFF plus many more talks and stalls. There will also be wired and wireless network access available. The Register will also be there. Should make for a great day, all are welcome!"
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Festival of Inappropriate Technology

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  • by rickthewizkid ( 536429 ) on Sunday June 09, 2002 @08:42AM (#3668265)
    I wish I had known about this earlier....

    But then again, considering that the average piece of software takes 5 minutes to load on one of those Commodores... well... maybe I can leave my house now and get there before the show is over...

    (As a side thought)

    Time required to load GEOS on a C64 - 5 minutes
    Time required to load DOS + Windows 3.1 on a 486 - 5 minutes
    Time requiree to load WinXP on a P3 - 3 minutes
    Time required to load Red Hat on a P3 workstation - 5 minutes...

    -Rick
  • by Rhinobird ( 151521 ) on Sunday June 09, 2002 @09:43AM (#3668355) Homepage

    Sure...I'll just whip out my old commie and surf on over to that site and see what's up...


    Oh my GAWD!!!! you can surf [armory.com] with a commodore 64!

  • Re:The Best part... (Score:2, Interesting)

    by iank ( 18674 ) on Sunday June 09, 2002 @06:27PM (#3670075)
    A much better use for supermarket loyalty cards.... give a tramp a home.

    Let me explain. In the UK some bank ATM (cash points) are inside the bank building and the only way to get in (out of hours) is by swiping your ATM card to make the door open (the rest of the bank is shuttered off). I assume this is to stop tramps using it as a place to sleep. However I discovered that a supermarket loyalty card also lets you in. So if you really hate supermarket loyalty cards, you can now put them to good use and give a tramp a warm place to sleep. :-)

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