>>Can't wait for monochrome, light grey on black, and ASCII graphics and "pick-a-number menus" to become trendy again...
Ha. My first machine was a TRS-80 Level II. Monochrome upper case text only (Tandy saved a few pennies that way) and graphics 128*48, actually contrived via ascii characters with 6 blocks per character on the 64*16 screen. Still have it. That thing had a ROM OS and booted in about a second. Even the floppy disk OS loaded off disk in about 4 seconds.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
