rasz_pl wrote:
What is the difference, other than loss of utility, between owning two $1K computers (A2000 + 386DX40) versus owning one that cost you >$2000 and is slower?
I don't know. Eventually people kept on to what they had, and then moved on to a totally new machine. And in this case, it was an x86 Dos based and not Amiga. Most people only bought an a500 anyway between 1988 and 1991. Then briefly an 1200 if they had the money. Else people ditched Amiga's completely in 1994, because they thought that the platform was dead when Commodore died. And is true to an extend. This way people never bought a bridgeboard anyway.
rasz_pl wrote:
Same tradition in Poland, 14 and whole family drops $. Either in small gifts or In 1990ties often into one pile for fancy bike/watch/computer.
I bought a Philips MIDI stereo in 1990 for the money I got. It was with CD-Player and turntable. Double casette deck.
rasz_pl wrote:
was that on religious grounds? 😉
Nope. People did not put any religion into any everyday activity or pattern of thinking. Danes have been living like atheists since the 1960's. More or less. Like I have never had an religeous upbringing at all, and church was just something we went to, when there was something to go to church for. Like december the 24'th, wedding, babtising or confirmation. A lot of people get married at the city hall these days, and that is without a priest. It is like we have reverted back to the time of the end of the Viking era. Were people attended the christian service, just because it is a thing to do. Not because people believe in it. To us, christianity is like taking the overall guideline and nothing else. That is to behave and be nice to each other and nothing more than that. Actually... Churches are mostly empty at sunday these days, and so the priest is holding a service for aprox 5 people in a town of 25000 and sometimes there are no people on sunday. Most danes say that they believe that there most likely is something spiritual, yet it is not the christian view that are what's out there.
It was just a general fear of technology. Violent games makes you a psycho murder. Television gives you square eyes. And so on. It have always been like that. As an example, then in the 1930's, then parents thought that all those chrime radio-play and other tales they aired in the radio, would make children violent and make killers out of them. The same when book's became cheap. Parents have always been like this with any new technology or media or whatever that was "the new thing".
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
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