In article <m1H9dMl-000J0HC at p850ug1>,
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) writes:
Many
retro-computer people I know have full time careers, one is a surgeon
(he can't solder to save his life), a majority just don't have the time to
I am seriously puzzled how anyone who has the manual dexterity to become
a surgeon is unable to learn to solder.
So you're puzzled, big deal.
But then you go on to a pejorative analysis of why they didn't do what
you would do. The bottom line is that not everyone is you and they
make different choices.
What sticks in people's craw is that you portray your set of choices
as demonstrably and obviously superior, when in fact, they are simply
different choices.
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