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From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:02

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On 16/02/2018 16:36, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2018-02-16, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 2018-02-15, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
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>>> 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.
>>
>> I consider that unlikely.
> 
> Agreed.  I can't accept that the creators of the Internet don't know
> as much as the script kiddie who abuses it.
> 
> Too many doting parents think their kid is a computer genius
> simply because he knows how to click a mouse.
> 

I once contrated in a company where the meme that kids were
ace on computers was held. The son of one of the directors had
produced their first computerised product, all in machine code,
and all typed in manually into a "Softy" PROM programmer.

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