Re: CRAP Poll: Does The Tech Still Impress?

Am 23.06.24 um 22:09 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:

What about you? Does the tech still impress? Did it ever? And do you
care?

I think the last computer which really impressed me, speaking of computers only was the NeXT Cube.
There was this period from lets say 1980 til 1992 or 3, when there was this machine which came out every 2-3 years which felt like magic or from the future, first it was the mac, then the Amiga and then the NeXT Cube after that things became boring lets say until the iPhone and iPad arrived.
Funny thing is none of what those machines did really was new, it was just that it was not broadly known and simply well executed for its time.
Nowadays I am more into vintage computing, and can understand my university professors more who were collecting first transistor based super computers from the 50s, for them those machines were magical!
Not that I would buy a next cube though, an ex colleque of mine bought an SGI Indigo a years ago the machine was loud obnoxious and by modern standards slow, it was collecting dust, like the super computers the professors bought back then.