Saustrup<p>.. and suddenly I find myself back in the <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>90s</span></a> where we saw the future of home computing unfold before our eyes. The <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/PC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PC</span></a> - a bulky expensive machine for boring tunaheads running WordPerfect suddenly got graphics and sound that didn't suck. </p><p>Young aspiring programmers (that would be <em>coders</em> for you young people) wrote code in assembler and made the PC do thing it was never meant to. Awesome things. Things that blew your mind. Some wrote <em>trackers</em> for composing sample based music, and suddenly everyone could compose music on their PC.</p><p>The level of optimism and creativity was mind blowing, and I feel so incredibly lucky for having been a part of it. Sure, our demos were too horrible to be shown on the big screen, but we did submit at least one for <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/TheParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheParty</span></a> back in '92 or '94.</p><p>I miss the 90s.</p><p>This, by the way, is a sweet <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/Pentium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pentium</span></a> 200MMX system with <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/PicoGUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PicoGUS</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/SoundBlaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoundBlaster</span></a> Vibra16 and an <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/TsengLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TsengLabs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/ET6000" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ET6000</span></a> graphics card (that's <em>GPU</em> for you young'uns).</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a></p>