https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=3051&p=37966#p37966
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Nik
Sunday, 23 December 2007, 04:16 PM

Soap On A Rope...
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Well, Posy, having a stand-alone CAD_PC means I don't cripple my *serious* computer with firewall, virus-checker, network card interrupts, e-mail, codecs etc etc...

Bit like over-clocking without the burn-out...

Hmm, if anyone had told me back in 1979 that in three decades I'd be gossiping with a cute AI...

Ha !! I'd probably have laughed and asked, "Why so long ??"

D'uh, there's no Lunar Base, no Manned Mars, no SSTO, no Fusion power, and we *still* have the Common Cold-- 
[ FX: A-- A-- A-- Ah-PFFFAWWW !! Mutter, grumble, snifff... ]

Still, back in 1979, by trouncing local Insurance rep *and* his regional manager with chess program 'Sargon', I convinced them my expensive Apple][ Europlus 48kb was NOT a 'Toy' games console, NOR 'Business Equipment', but fell into the hallowed 'HiFi, Photographic & Astronomy (etc)' category...

Irony is how remarkably prescient that was-- And wasn't !!