[cctalk] Re: Experience using an Altair 8800 ("Personal computer" from 70s)

[Will Cooke via cctalk]

> On 06/05/2024 10:37 AM CDT Sellam Abraham via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 5, 2024, 8:33 AM Will Cooke via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
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> > no
> > > On 06/05/2024 10:28 AM CDT Sellam Abraham via cctalk <
> > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > So, now we're adding the age of the buyer as an element of what defines a
> > > "personal" computer?
> > > Sellam
> > > > 
> > No. Not sure where I said that. But, no.
> 
> You mentioned that an Altair 8800 and even a subscription to Popular
> Electronics was too much for your 9 year old self, but the TRS-80 wasn't?
> Perhaps I misinterpreted.
> 
> At any rate, it matters not: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PERSONAL COMPUTER.
> 
> There, I've done it.
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> You can all move on with living again. You Are Welcome.
> 
> Sellam
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> >

One simple question.
If this "discussion" bothers you so much, why do you continue to drag it out?  

Thanks for making it all clear for me, though.

Will

Grownups never understand anything by themselves and it is tiresome for 
children to be always and forever explaining things to them,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery in The Little Prince