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and there are already over 700 angry comments by users discussing about the reasons for this step.
Members of Heise staff wrote that the database has grown too large and indexing kills too much performance now. And they note "editorial reasons" - leaving them nebulous:

"Wir starten morgen mit dem Löschen":

http://www.heise.de/extras/foren/S-Wir-starten-morgen-mit-dem-Loeschen/forum-7262/msg-15786090/read/

The heise newsticker is famous for the "troll postings" and conspiracy theories as well as many technical debates. It is Germany's most read IT website.

[Update:] Heise said it will not delete old posting due to users' protests. They will simply mark older threads as "read-only".

Yesterday I saved an old S-Bus (sun) ethernet scsi combi card from the trash. It's quite special because engineers seem to have forgotton a capacitor and a logic circuit on the board, so they did extra wiring and sticking to the produced card. Funny to see. I am wondering how many of these cards were corrected this way until a new revision of the board was developed.

And yes, it is "made in U.S.A." which it proudly "says" on its back.

The SCSI controller is a NCR 53CF96-1, the ethernet controller is the AMD chip under the green wirings. The big LSI chip seems to be a microcontroller, doing some bios work for the s-bus card.

Revision seems to be "210-2013-03 REV.50". And yes, these cards were expensive...

As Heise Online states, the days of Polaroid instant photography will be over soon.

It's all over now, baby blue... At least in my brain. After having read that Heise article, immediately I began thinking of my childhood, where I had such a camera and I almost never had a film pack for it, they were far too expensive.

But when you had one... Those bad pictures of parents just coming out of their bedroom (the kind of psycho terror of flashing them at 6am) and this chemical smell which was in the air when you saw the picture developping itself...

And a smile comes on my face, thinking about these "new" instant photographiers, connecting their little photo printer on their camera and working with bad software and many cables...

But wait... You still have an alternative... Fuji INSTAX! Without the polaroid feeling of course....

(Image source: Wikipedia).