Not merely undaunted — inspired. They knew what could be done, in theory, and were annoyed that the hardware wasn't there yet. So they did what they could with

Not merely undaunted — inspired. They knew what could be done, in theory, and were annoyed that the hardware wasn't there yet. So they did what they could with what they had. The software landscape was a wildly different place then, and I still wonder how many good ideas were attempted and left on the ground then which would be easy / practical to implement today.