Feelings about vintage systems

Rumor has it that Chuck Guzis may have mentioned these words: Like anything else, depends on the person. Me? that makes very little (if any) difference. <MODE="GD&R"> Your theory sucks. If what you say was true, more people would hate IBMs because assembly coding on the 80x86 platform sucks canal water. </MODE> ;-) I'm kidding... mostly anyway. ;-) Having learnt assembly on the 6809 & later the 6800 (which, coming from the 6809 felt rather constraining), I'm not at all keen on 8085 assembly, yet my Tandy 200 just gives me the warm fuzzies. It's also the machine I owned the longest before popping the warranty seal (13(ish) years - had to replace the internal NiCad). It's my toaster. I turn it on, type, program in Basic, work with the spreadsheet, and not one heckuva lot else. Yet, because it's been the most dependable computer I've ever owned [[ despite it being the least hacked & durned near the slowest overall as well ]] that it is still one of my favorite platforms of all time. But maybe I'm just weird. [[ OK, I *am* weird, but that's another show. ;-) ]] That's my story & I'm hiding under it, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | Anarchy doesn't scale well. -- Me zmerch at 30below.com. | SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers