17 Jun
2008
17 Jun
'08
12:03 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Me, I miss the big iron. But even if I owned a full
7090
installation or STAR-100 "supercomputer" and could afford the utility
bills to run them, there would always be the itch in the back of my
skull that a personal computer could run rings around the behemoths--
and be one heckuva a lot quieter and more reliable.
Personally I think I get just as much enjoyment - if not more - out of the
sound/feel/smell of an old machine as I do from the actual running of software
on it. In other words, all the stuff that a modern machine (either in
emulation or with native software), *doesn't* provide.
I end up not caring how slow, unreliable, power-hungry or anything else the
old system is - it's still more fun!
cheers
Jules