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Posted by Listerene
Aug 14, 2024 at 11:49 AM
IF you’ve been using PCO/WordStar/WordPefect ad nauseum for the last 40 years THEN (Boomer) maybe it makes sense to continue; devoting your remaining months/years to learning something new probably isn’t the best use of your time.
HOWEVER, IF you’re saying “gee, I should try using these ancient, long-abandoned apps for the first time because they sound fun” THEN you’re doing it wrong: Keep the 1980’s in the distant past, where it belongs. 1200k baud modems & Monday-night user group meetings were exciting and whatnot back then but tech has thankfully moved on and nobody should be even wistful about that.
As a Boomer myself, it makes me sad that some of us are stuck in those 1980’s and, frankly, they are giving us a bad name. So if you’re one of them, kindly keep your quirks to yourselves: PC-Outline isn’t how you rage against the dying of the light.
Posted by Amontillado
Aug 14, 2024 at 02:41 PM
Well, that could have been a little cheerier.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Aug 14, 2024 at 03:12 PM
I dunno, I can think of worse ways to rage against the dying of the light… ;-)
What you need, Listerene, is to discover the Laundry Files series by Charles Stross. Actually, all us Boomers need to read it. It’s very, very salutary…
Listerene wrote:
>PC-Outline isn’t how you
>rage against the dying of the light.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 14, 2024 at 04:43 PM
I don’t know if you have a deep enough familiarity with the works of George R.R. Martin to have done this on purpose (kudos if you did), but Martin—one of those espousing the joy of still using Wordstar, as noted earlier in the thread—wrote a novel called “Dying of the Light.” It is science fiction and a pretty good novel if my memory 45 years later hasn’t white-washed it.
MadaboutDana wrote:
I dunno, I can think of worse ways to rage against the dying of the
>light… ;-)
>
>What you need, Listerene, is to discover the Laundry Files series by
>Charles Stross. Actually, all us Boomers need to read it. It’s
>very, very salutary…
>
>Listerene wrote:
>>PC-Outline isn’t how you
>>rage against the dying of the light.
Posted by Jon Polish
Aug 14, 2024 at 07:29 PM
Thank you for mentioning this. Never heard of it and on your suggestion, read a sample and bought it.
Jon
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
I don’t know if you have a deep enough familiarity with the works of
>George R.R. Martin to have done this on purpose (kudos if you did), but
>Martin—one of those espousing the joy of still using Wordstar, as
>noted earlier in the thread—wrote a novel called “Dying of the
>Light.” It is science fiction and a pretty good novel if my memory 45
>years later hasn’t white-washed it.
>
>MadaboutDana wrote:
>I dunno, I can think of worse ways to rage against the dying of the
>>light… ;-)
>>
>>What you need, Listerene, is to discover the Laundry Files series by
>>Charles Stross. Actually, all us Boomers need to read it. It’s
>>very, very salutary…
>>
>>Listerene wrote:
>>>PC-Outline isn’t how you
>>>rage against the dying of the light.