I think it was obvious at a certain point that modern conveniences such as fax machines and email just meant that you were expected to get that much more done in a day.
On Wed, 25 Feb 2026 at 21:32, B 9 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >> >
