3 Nov
2005
3 Nov
'05
5:25 a.m.
Holger Veit wrote:
[... lot before ... ]
When Hillary climbed the Mount Everest 50 years ago,
it was something
new, extraordinary. When tourist nowadays use sort of stairways to reach
the top (okay, it's not *that* extreme now), it is just uninteresting.
But standing on the top, is still a challenge and an experience for the
individual. However, what we lost now is a sense of wonder - that small
ALU based TTL circuit was built by myself, and I did it, and it is
irrelevant that some idiot could download a digital simulator and click
the same circuit together on a PC screen. I guess this is what makes the
difference between a real PDP-11 with some ridiculous 5MB storage disks
compared to a SIMH emulator running on a 3GHz Pentium.
Watch the blinkenlights.
Well said !!!