<div dir="auto">Maybe it is nostalgia. But men were kids :)</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 27, 2021, 10:11 Solomon Peachy <<a href="mailto:pizza@shaftnet.org">pizza@shaftnet.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 09:28:50AM -0400, Boris Borisov wrote:<br>
> I think the appeal for old cars is that you can work on these and fix it<br>
> yourself. Except the 80s cars where they put so much hoses to get the<br>
> compliance with emissions its a nightmare.<br>
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Sure, they're simpler, but they were easier to work on because they<br>
_required_ a lot more work, for both routine maintainence and actual <br>
repairs. (Plus a general lack of integration...)<br>
<br>
> Same with rising interest in 8-bits computers. You basically can learn<br>
> everything from hardware to assembly software.<br>
<br>
Or maybe it's just nostalgia for the good old days, when Men Were Men <br>
and Sheep Were Scared.<br>
<br>
- Solomon<br>
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Solomon Peachy pizza at shaftnet dot org (email&xmpp)<br>
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