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>>sohkam+(OP)
Recording the history of computing for future generations will be so important for a wide range of studies.

It's great people collect, restore, and publish valuable historical pieces like these.

>>calrai+C
I'm not disagreeing, but I'm not necessarily convinced there's real value "for future generations". I love nostalgia, but it seems pretty useless beyond the entertainment value.

What benefits do you, or others, see in looking back at these computer systems?

Thanks.

>>pbhjpb+4o
I think history is worth mining for future ideas for producitvity software – especially when we finish mining everything LLMs and RAG can do, we might go back to past experiments in information retrieval. We might know the history now that we're reading this thread... but who's to say that a developer in 2030 who's never read HN has?