Re: Google Groups exiles: an alternative?

On 7/7/2025 11:17 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:28:27 -0400, William Hyde
<wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
 

I am an old guy who shakes his cane at computers (note to self, get a
cane).  Nonetheless I was able to switch from google to
seamonkey/eternal September in about 15 minutes, without breaking a
single monitor.
>

Whereas my gift to myself when I finished my first degree was to
purchase an Apple // (early model //+) and purchased a 1200 baud dial
up modem two years later.
 My children (now in their mid-30s) grew up with a dial-up modem and
early model programs like Microsoft Dogs (the coyote on that desk
drove our Corgi nuts!) around the time I got my first cable hookup.
 Needless to say I've had plenty of computers since my Apple II and
cried the day I left that old box at the dump long after it was no
longer working and I had something spiffier and shinier after having
submitted most of my papers in grad school printed by a dot matrix
printer back before lasers and ink-jets were commonplace.

The typed versions of the names were
Apple ][
Apple ][+
Apple ///
I bought my self a ][+. It came home with 16 kb of
user RAM.
My current laptop has 64 Gb of RAM, 4,000,000 times
as much. Tis 'boggling.
I still have the Apple ][+. but haven't powered it
up in at least 20 years.
pt