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? >
