Electronics That Last: How I Built an Heirloom Laptop
What's the age of the oldest physical artifact that is simultaneously personal, inheritable, and usable?<p>Most are things that have a larger scale, gross appeal, aren't personal. A water wheel, a stone bridge, a building. Perhaps a gun, or a watch, comes closest.<p>Start with that and what would an heirloom computer look like?<p>Somewhere on the continuum of abacus, slide rule.  What's the computational era's equivalent?  An HP-11, HP-12 series calculator?<p>Sometimes I think: we're all making expendable shit.