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On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 4:11:23 AM UTC-4, 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.

I think a lot of nostalgia is based on fond memories of our
youth or days gone by, generally not a longing to actually
regularly use old technology.  For instance, I miss working
with punched-card equipment, but would not want to do it
every day.  I would not want to have to key in a program
on an 029; I'm too spoiled by terminals.

However, in some cases people do miss a simpler time where
things seemed less confused and goals more clearly defined.

In any event, in my humble opinion, most folks working in
computers aren't very nostalgic.