ScuzzBlog: Diaries May 2017
Entry 11th May 2017: Post: 1
What is truly amazing
Hi
Something we all probably appreciate but the kids today just wouldn't
understand is that we all probably remember a day, not too far back,
when we couldn't even save 3 frames of full colour animation, let alone
play them. We all grew up through the era of processor power and storage
limitations. It would be interesting to surmise as to when we think the
watershed was when these two issues no longer became a burden.
I was reflecting on whether it would have been dangerous for me to have
had an Amiga 1000 or 500 growing up as a kid. Whether I would have tried
so hard at school and college. Life for me was collecting miniature
soldiers, painting them, playing Subbuteo and playing real football
nearly every night. I was always active, so had I had a computer would I
have lost out on much. Probably everything else, but then that would
simply have been a different time scenario. For now I would be in the
Call of Duty, mobile phone and Facebook era. I'm not judging which was
better.... just as long as you enjoy yourself. However, man, what I
would have given for a faster processor and 500GB of storage, at least
in 1993, so I could have done so much more with the Amiga. Cus in truth
storage was my biggest problem, and memory, and accelerator power...
just so limiting. And yet today, probably not even a consideration.
Looks at floppy 880K.. looks at old crappy USB stick 32MB. That' t the
only regret. Truly amazing.
By the way limitations make you try. As a kid I built my own microscope
out of a collection of lenses. I also learnt how to create my own slides
from taking photographs of black and white negatives and processing them
so the double negative became a positive. And then I built my own
projector out of lenses and light bulbs. I even built my very own
computer using knitting needles and card index with a hole puncher. With
Lego I built my own 3D game puzzles where you dropped in a marble and
then had to negotiate the maze to get the marble out. I built marble
sorting machines that started with five marbles and then by riding them
through a Moustrap style maze split them off into 3 , 2 and just 1. I
guess being creative with an active imagination can be a blessing. The
computer gives you way more things to play with... Happy days.
PS Still playing with my toys..... I have that annoying Sonic the
Hedgehog music going through my head at the moment. Don't ask.
scuzz
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