18 Jun
2009
18 Jun
'09
9:38 a.m.
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 19:44 -0400, Dan Roganti wrote:
What's the point in
restoring vintage equipment of you like to 'circumvent' the original
design by using something which didn't exist for that particular era.
Because that way you get to build the computer you *wanted* when you
were 11, rather than the computer you *had*. You know, the ZX Spectrum
with the 32-channel sound, 512kBytes of memory and several MBytes -
GBytes even - of disk space. Wow, imagine having a computer like that.
Imagine not having to wait six minutes for Jet Set Willy to load, you
could just have it in battery-backed RAM.
How many people who own classic cars *now* had posters of them on their
bedroom wall when they were kids?
Gordon