Maybe I wanted to remain ignorant :-) Lee - Back to the QL- ----- Original Message ----- From: Tony Firshman To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] 57 images of dismantling a Sinclair ZX-81.
Lee Privett wrote, on 23/Feb/11 08:46 | Feb23: > I liked the following comment by one observer and couldn't put it better myself "Those were great times before the internet and IBM-compatibles distracted us from real computing. " > > One of Dave's survey questions asked about the internet and although it is a useful resource, >I have lost many an evening looking at one site which is hardly productive (entertaining maybe). > Ignorance is bliss (Matrix, but maybe from somewhere else also), I really do not know many benefits of the QL having full access to the 'web' compared to other more pressing priorities. > No 'maybe' about it. My first thought was, of course, Shakespeare, but it is in fact the closing lines by Thomas Gray (16th c) from http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode_on_a_Distant_Prospect_of_Eton_College "where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise." You should have wasted some prime internet time Googling for that (8-)# Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:257/67) +44(0)1442-828255 [email protected] http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
