🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 10:11:23 AM UTC+2, AndyW wrote:
> 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

You say that as if popping off to the pub while a compilation happens is a bad thing...