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> [1] Is the past already so far away that todays kids do not know
> these any more? Now I _do_ feel old.

it's not THAT far away - I'm 18 and I remember the days of the Amstrads and
Toshiba laptops :-p jeez, my first computer was a 1512 :-) and I made those
GUIs myself - out of batch files, 'cos I was still young and didn't know
alot back then - oh how things have changed - I still don't know anything
tho....