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On 27/06/2018 08:10, maus wrote:
> On 2018-06-27, AndyW <An...@nojunqmail.com> wrote:
>> On 26/06/2018 20:55, Scott wrote:
>>> On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:31:32 +0100, Gareth's Downstairs Computer
>>> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yankland and its politics is increasingly irrelevant on
>>>> a day-to-day basis to the rest of the world (Trump and
>>>> Clinton the only candidates????? ), so is anyone here
>>>> interested in computers?
>>>
>>> Cleaning out my shed, I just unearthed some boxes of my old Tandy
>> and a capacitor or two.
>> I still have it and a second one I bought on impulse on ebay but never used.
>> ...and yes Nostalgia is funny. I loved my Atom and loved playing games
>> and programming it (with a built-in assembler you could do a lot with a
>> few kB) But I fired it up recently and it is not a good experience.
>>
> 
> 
> You can never go home!


I think a lot of people who get misty eyed over old computers have never 
tried to go back and use them.
I used to use a pr1me system at university and I was in awe of it.
I had the chance to use one a few years ago and it is rubbish. Similarly 
I dug out an old CP/M machine and it is not at all as much fun how I 
remembered it.

I have been spoiled by GHz of speed, GB of memory, TB of disk space and 
Mega-mega pixels of screen resolutions.
Compilation time of a few seconds is not the same as setting the program 
to compile and popping off to the pub.

Nostalgia is a lovely country until you go there and visit.

Andy