12 Feb
2013
12 Feb
'13
1:36 a.m.
Or at least programming skills. I think the Vintage/classic years
were more exciting, but maybe that was because I was a kid, and these
adults let me play with all this cool adult stuff! (And sometimes
they didn't let me, but I did anyway...)
On 11 February 2013 22:45, Murray McCullough
<c.murray.mccullough at gmail.com> wrote:
Back in the early years of mass-computerism you had to
be a
hobbyist/experimenter with good soldering skills to make computers do
what you wanted them to do. Today they do it without your input and/or
knowledge. Is that not scary? Were there prognosticators who predicted
what would be now, 35-40 yrs. on? Vintage/classic computing were the
safer years, maybe not as exciting! Maybe part of the answer is not to
be connected but we would lose out on participating in this forum and
so much more.
Murray--
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