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Article #624212Re: Computers, anyone?
From: Neil Thompson
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 08:36
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 08:36
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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...
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