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Article #620638Re: Nostalgia
From: Quadibloc
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:25
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:25
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On Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 2:14:16 PM UTC-7, Peter Flass wrote: > The nostalgia is for the sights, sounds, and smells those days. That is a part of it. However, there is more to it. One sight, the blinking lights of a computer front panel, for example, has a practical value - theoretically, it lets you see everything the computer is doing. What a great idea for security! As computers got more powerful, though, front panels became less practical. And when a computer terminal could cost over $1,000, since the computer itself cost millions, naturally it would have a high-quality keyboard. And when computers communicated to the user by typing back... not with a graphical interface, computer programs were simpler to write. As computers have become more powerful, we have lost certain positive things we had when they were much weaker. Having those things while retaining the much greater power and economy of today's computers, though, isn't an easy puzzle to solve. John Savard
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