Re: Nostalgia

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From: hanc...
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 21:51

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On Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 4:14:16 PM UTC-5, Peter Flass wrote:

> The nostalgia is for the sights, sounds, and smells those days. I can still
> recall leaning over the 1132 printer waiting for my printout to start.
> We're also nostalgic for out first acquaintance with the wonders of
> computers. Now every kid over 8 knows more than we did 50 years ago. If I
> still wanted to play with an 1130 I could use an emulator, but it wouldn't
> be fun anymore. I'd have to be crazy to want to get involved with ancient
> hardware. 

Did you ever get your printout?<g>  The 1132 was so S L O W !  

I think our nostalgia is not as much for the "sights and sounds", 
but rather "first acquaintance with the wonders of computers".

I well remember writing my first BASIC program that did a bunch
of calculations.  In those days we didn't have calculators, and it
was amazing to see (a) writing a very simple statement with a
few LET statements do all the work and (b) seeing the answers
print out fast.

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