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Re: Computers and personalities

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On 04/09/15 17:42, mm0fmf wrote:
> On 04/09/2015 11:13, James Harris wrote:
>> I wondered if, in the future, people would be as nostialgic for the
>> Raspberry Pi - in, say, 30 years time.
>
> My first job out of university in 1983 was writing games and games
> development software for Spectrum, Vic20, C64. I didn't think they were
> great machines when they paid my wages and I certainly am not nostalgic
> for them now.
>
> Nor for the Amiga and its godawful OS software. I did think the Atari ST
> was OK. Awful OS but the hardware was cheap and powerful for the time.
>
> What I did enjoy was that people thought about the games and there were
> many excellent games that were fun to play despite the pishy hardware
> they ran on. i.e. the game idea was fun. You still come across games
> which are fun amongst the quest for more graphical realism.
>
> Raspberry Pi, it's a cheap bit of computing hardware. Nothing more.

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Computers and personalities "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 11:13 +0100
  Re: Computers and personalities mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2015-09-04 17:42 +0100
    Re: Computers and personalities The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-05 07:33 +0100
      Re: Computers and personalities David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-09-05 11:43 +0100
        Re: Computers and personalities Folderol <general@musically.me.uk> - 2015-09-05 12:06 +0100
        Re: Computers and personalities Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-05 14:37 +0100
        Re: Computers and personalities "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 14:45 +0100
    Re: Computers and personalities "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 14:41 +0100
    Re: Computers and personalities "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 15:02 +0100
      Re: Computers and personalities Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-09-05 15:46 +0000
      Re: Computers and personalities druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-09-13 12:02 +0100

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