On 01/10/2017 10:58 PM, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
It's sad, but what I've noticed over the years at VCF is that the general public is more interested in games than anything else. Even when I brought the HP minicomputer setup, they wanted to know what kind of games ran on it.
Sigh. And we wonder why China is eating our lunch. We're all a bunch of anesthetized children anymore.
Can you connect a couple of terminals to it? Dig up the source for Rogue or Hack and let 'em play.
This only reinforces the idea that computers are only toys for children. If someone is looking for games, they can go find them. There will be people there who are looking for more mature material. The event will continue to lose credibility in their eyes if they see even very serious computers reduced to toys. Please don't reinforce it. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA