🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 13:01:31 -0400, Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net>
wrote:

>On Wed, 27 Jun 2018, AndyW wrote:
>
>> On 27/06/2018 08:10, maus wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
>Maybe for many, but there are small groups who are really into the old 
>computers, not just collecting, but using them.  Actually, they are more 
>likely sticking with computers they started with when they were current. 
>It's nostalgia, but it's not anti-technology, they generally do have more 
>recent computers.  But they are the ones who keep the software available 
>or improve it, and create and buy new upgrades.  It's not a minor thing to 
>them.  I can sort of grasp it all, but I can't get as excited.
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>I first tried C on a Radio Shack Color Computer, I guess by then it was 
>the III maybe with 512K or RAM (I may not have had the upgrade when I got 
>C) and only 2 5.25" floppy drives.
>
>It was painful, and I had no other experience to compare it to.  I'd type 
>in a program, leaving endless errors since I was just starting, and it 
>would take it's time to compile even a short program, and then a long 
>stream of error messages.  I soon gave up on C.
>
>But yes, even on a 1GHz computer with 512K or RAM circa 2005, I tried C 
>again and it was snappy.  A short program would compile in no time, it was 
>like running a BASIC program on a 1MHz computer.  It makes so much 
>difference.
>
>   Michael

I fired up my Amiga A3000 around 10-12 years ago. I worked fine.
Couldn't get on the Internet though. No external modem, and likely no
dial-up available. But it did other things I wanted to do.