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Back in the days, we used to program our computers or wait for 10 mins while the tape loaded. When you turn your computer on you get a flashing cursor and thats it!!!

Many hours were spent learning pokes, peeks and assembly code just to do things as basic as reprogram the ascii set into a custom graphics set. This was before sprites.

People today do not understand the effort that has gone into OS to make computers easy too use. If you all had to invoke 20 lines of code just to make an MP3 play then computers would only be used by us OLD computer nerds for trading porn. Just imagine that you had to code a video codec to watch a film, you are talking many lines of code and a good understanding of encoding.

As always, I recommend like this....

Q. I want a computer, what one should I get.
A. If you do not understand computers then get an Apple based system.
A. If you are techno-savvy and understand computers then buy a PC.