30 Dec
1999
30 Dec
'99
1:45 a.m.
Do you just write code for the sheer challenge of
writing code?
Have you written real-world apps? Is it just nostalgia? Or do you
keep them running purely for historical reasons and don't have any
practical day-to-day use for them?
Yes to all save for the last bit. Like any computer unless it's broken
there is always a practical day to day use. Even the most limited
machines are useful for teaching computer fundementals or word processing
for examples.
It just fascinates me that there are so many of you
who run these
beasts and I'd just like to know why.
Everest! It's there. Though that is often at best a partial reason.
All too often the assumption is OLD .EQ. USELESS and that is invalid
all too often. My old Z80 crate (northstar* Horizon ca1978) is an
excellent text editing system and also has a potload of really good cross
assemblers for other CPUs some still widely used (8051 series). Not bad
for a 21 year old system.
Allison