My employer resisted mobile phones for years. He wanted engineers to solve problems by actual problem solving, not ringing people.
On Fri, 27 Feb 2026, 9:51 am Scott McDonnell, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >>> >>
