Subj : Re: Thin client PC to run
To   : Gamgee
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Dec 01 2025 09:06:20

  Re: Re: Thin client PC to run
  By: Gamgee to Dumas Walker on Sun Nov 30 2025 08:11 pm

 Ga> I have often thought that that "era" (let's call it '85 to '97 or so) of
 Ga> computing was my favorite time with computers.  Sure, we now have so much
 Ga> more capability, and Linux, and graphics galore and all.... but.... that
 Ga> period of time was when I feel like I "peaked" in many abilities. All the
 Ga> stuff you had to know to maximize MSDOS, and batch files, and putting *so*
 Ga> many pieces of software together to run a complete BBS/Mailer setup.  I
 Ga> think of it as the "Golden Years".  ;-)

What I liked about that time (and I was also fairly young and didn't get my own PC until 1992) was that upgrades were a lot more significant, so it was a much more noticeable difference.  For instance, going from a 12mhz 286 to a 40mhz 386 or from monochrome graphics to color, or adding a sound card to a PC, were exciting upgrades.  After making those kinds of upgrades, I was excited to use my computer.  Also, home computers were still a relatively new thing in those times, so there was the novelty of it too.  And things like being able to run a BBS from your home computer was pretty cool.

Although I like today's computers too, I feel like technology has reached a bit of a plateau, and computer upgrades these days often don't seem quite as significant or noticeable.

Nightfox

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