Yeah. I resisted cell phones until around 2006. I laughed at the ads
claiming that it gave you more freedom when really it just meant you
were going to be always available to work.
On 2/26/2026 1:32 PM, Peter Vollan wrote:
I think it was obvious at a certain point that modern conveniences
such as fax machines and email just meant that you were expected to
get that much more done in a day.
On Wed, 25 Feb 2026 at 21:32, B 9 <[email protected]> wrote:
I often think of this quote from Alex Schure who founded the New
York Institute of Technology's computer graphics lab in the 1970s
(from whence Pixar sprang):
Our vision is to speed up time,
eventually eliminating it.
—b9
On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 6:51 PM Scott McDonnell
<[email protected]> wrote:
The pun was completely unintentional. :D
I encounter that realization of plenty fast every time I load
a disk on
my Commodore 64 and remember that the wait never felt like a
big deal to
me at the time. It feels like free time was just more
plentiful back
then for some reason. Either time has sped up or everything
else did
while I slowed down.
Scott
On 2/25/2026 2:45 PM, B9 wrote:
>
> On February 25, 2026 1:22:09 AM PST, Scott McDonnell
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> I bet basic will be plenty fast.
> Back in the day, people would have laughed at that
statement, but I think it is often true. This little computer
will get you where you're going eventually and for many of us
that is "plenty fast".
>
>> [...] so I finally bit the bullet [...and] I will at the
very least have some frame of reference.
> Heh. Yes, a frame capture device will do that for you. :-D
>
> --b9
>
> P.S. Thinking about "plenty fast", I realized that BASIC on
the Model T computers has, over the years, grown to become my
favorite 8-bit development environment. Anybody else feel the
same?
