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Vihar posted a new comment:
actionparsnip,
Thank you for the Youtube's link!
I had fun watching it because that man sang part of my thoughts. And he does it very impressively :-)
Well, only part of my thoughts. From the opposite point of view nowadays you can have much more fun with computers, especially regarding sound and video transducing, due to the power processors, huge memory ammount and high speed intercomputer connection.
But this concerns only the fun I think...

As this man sang I started with 32 then 64 Mb RAM (128 and 256 being luxuries that came after), HD under 1 Gb, don't remember the exact capabilities of the processors but you can imagine (no fan over it, it's slightly warm when you touch it). But I still could do the half of the REAL work that I can do now. It's amazing! Good enough word processor, spreadsheet (to say Lotus 1,2,3), math and plot programs, games some of them pseudo 3D, etc. (the graphics were simple but satisfying). Ofcourse no real sound, no video, web-cams and so on. And no time lags due to loading/reloading programs/images. If the lag was more than fourth of second I assumed something is not going well on the system. Programs larger than 200 000 bytes were assumed "big" and power. Yes, the files were shown in bytes, the Kb shortness came later. The system crashed only for yours unadequate decision or a fatal hardware failure and was easy to find the reason.
After that Windows 3.11 came... And the game of which the man sings began.
May be at that time point should be a branch there in evolving for people who want to stay with the simplicity. Now there's no way for simplicity.

A few times I discussed this with my daughter in the way "Once upon a
time...":-) and yes, she has not a clue what am I talking abuot and
takes it as a fairytail.

Well, it's a kind of nostalgy here but someone clever should compare the
efectiveness of "those" computers an nowadays monsters. I'm a dude but
suspect much of the power (and money for ;-)) of contemporary PC's is
vanishing for ineffective actions.

You know, they launched Pathfinder to Mars with 8-bit processors in it only...
I'm using links2 to connect with sites like this; guess why do I use it?

I'll show my daughter the clip and she'll have fun too, I'm sure;-)!

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