LOL Yeah, old computers fucking sucked. I absolutely hated (most) computers up until about the time they got over 1 GHz in speed. When it got to the point of dual-core 1.2 GHz (which was a very, very long time coming) is when they started to be fast enough so that I didn't fucking hate them.
I did love dedicated computation devices such as a scientific calculator. That was actually faster than me.
Also, computers didn't do a fucking thing the way they came. If you wanted your computer to do something, you had to fucking write it yourself. You could buy software, but none of the COTS software what I needed it to do. So, I spent a whole lot of years programming - and I absolutely despised programming. I fucking hated it. I fucking hated computers.
But, I had to use 'em. Ain't no way I was doing all those calculations manually.
Yeah I do remember back in those days where if you wanted the computer to do what you wanted it to do you had to sit down and program the damned thing. Then you get one decimal place in the wrong spot and the code wont run. Then to sit there and look through it to try to find the mistake was a pain in the ass
These days, I don't do much programming - but I do a bunch of scripting. The WordPress sites I have are heavily customized. I do some PHP scripting with them. I enjoy that. It's fun geeking out like that.
I have not done any programming for many years. Since the 80s. All I have to do is run scripts and verify they completed successfully
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