Re: Student publishes 800-page Apple II computer manual

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Friday, November 16, 2012 12:07:51 PM UTC-6, Sean Fahey wrote:
> On Thursday, November 15, 2012 9:54:47 PM UTC-6, Michael Black wrote:
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> > Actually, you're kind of old for the Apple II.
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> > The prime time for playing with computers was about when you are sixteen.
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> > You want one, you get one, you spend all your time with it, you spend the 
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> > rest of the time reading the magazines and books.  (Of course, no internet 
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> > to distract you back when the computer was new.)  You dream of programs, 
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> > or being in a program (I can never remember what I was dreaming), a result 
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> > of spending so much time programming.
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> > When you're older it lessens, other things come along.
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> Girls.

taxes.  And weddings... and funerals... and then even sometimes children and the other things they do that constitute a total loss of your so-called spare time.

-B