[Coco] Glenside website (new & old)

[Aaron Wolfe]

For me the appeal is twofold.. there is a nostalgic aspect, especially
in that now I can try out all those awesome things I read about in the
Rainbow but never had access to as a kid growing up in the middle of
nowhere with my CoCo.  But more compelling is the appeal of
programming on a system that can be entirely understood.  The CoCo's
architecture can "fit in your head".. there are no massive OS
interfaces to multiple layers of abstraction, no huge chunks of "black
box" style code to work with/around.  If you need to, you can track
down every single byte of what is going on.  That makes it a fun
machine.

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:42 AM, L. Curtis Boyle
<curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
> I think part of it is that the older systems are simple enough that a young person can actually learn all about it (the OS, how the hardware works, how to build custom hardware, etc. ). Modern systems are far too complicated than that, and thus the old systems are far less daunting).
> Of course, older parents "infecting" their children with a love of the old machines may have an effect, too...  :)
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 2013-04-18, at 8:36 AM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On Apr 18, 2013, at 9:20 AM, "Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)" <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't understand why people still like old stuff, like they never
>>> evolve... let me get back to my coco OH WAIT! :P
>>
>> We are a strange breed.
>>
>> In the 1990s, the 8-bits were losing. I used to say: It is like someone who keeps an old car around and works on it. There are newer cars that ride nicer, faster, better... I think retrocomputing is like that.
>>
>> For us old people. It's nostalgia, of our past, or younger days.
>>
>> But when I see a YOUNG person getting in to them... That I cannot explain :)
>>
>>        -- ALlen
>>
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