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On 2018-02-16, Gareth's Downstairs Computer
<headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.

Well, don't keep us in suspense.  Did it work?  Did it work well?

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