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Article #620649Re: Nostalgia
From: Peter Flass
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 14:59
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 14:59
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<hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote: > On Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 4:14:16 PM UTC-5, Peter Flass wrote: > >> The nostalgia is for the sights, sounds, and smells those days. I can still >> recall leaning over the 1132 printer waiting for my printout to start. >> We're also nostalgic for out first acquaintance with the wonders of >> computers. Now every kid over 8 knows more than we did 50 years ago. If I >> still wanted to play with an 1130 I could use an emulator, but it wouldn't >> be fun anymore. I'd have to be crazy to want to get involved with ancient >> hardware. > > Did you ever get your printout?<g> The 1132 was so S L O W ! 300lpm, not that slow. We gave it a workout, since we were doing program development. > > I think our nostalgia is not as much for the "sights and sounds", > but rather "first acquaintance with the wonders of computers". > > I well remember writing my first BASIC program that did a bunch > of calculations. In those days we didn't have calculators, and it > was amazing to see (a) writing a very simple statement with a > few LET statements do all the work and (b) seeing the answers > print out fast. > > -- Pete
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