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Similar for me but on BBC-B Micro. Rose tinted memories perhaps. And replication of that experience now would be a very interesting exercise in patience and acc
by digitalsankhara 4y ago
Similar for me but on BBC-B Micro. Rose tinted memories perhaps. And replication of that experience now would be a very interesting exercise in patience and acceptance for me. Indeed simpler times.
Could I personally go back? As much as technology has given us super fast hardware, very complex and flexible operating systems, GUIs and complex software am I any better off for it? Outside of my professional work where I have to deliver my work within a defined technology stack, I wonder how much I could do without and go back in time.
And even then a lot of what I produce professionally resides in text files, so I could originate them on an older system - the key to this is, of course, interconnectivity or a bridging technology. SCSI to USB stick anyone!
As much as there is an alternative lifestyle to be had rooted in minimalism and contentment in simpler things (which I aspire to) I am tempted to stop the hyper-driven tech world and get off!
Reading the work and enthusiasm of retro-computing people is actually quite inspiring.
- rbanffy 4y ago> And even then a lot of what I produce professionally resides in text files, so I could originate them on an older system - the key to this is, of course, interconnectivity or a bridging technology. SCSI to USB stick anyone! One think I did a lot, which is kind of cheating, is to use X to run the heavy lifting on my Linux box while sitting in front of a Sun. A lot of what we do is just larger versions of what we did before. We call batch processing ETL and use tables instead of tapes, but the ideas are there. And, unlike some MacBooks, a BBC has an ESC key ;-)