>>perhaps only as something covered with a drape, sitting somewhere in the corner. The VAX which I managed on the previous job was then sold at a price lower than the huge AC it had to have.
Amazing to think of the spectacular leaps in technology we've lived through.
It's about to happen again in personal transport. I'm seriously considering purchasing the insane CLS63S Shooting Brake that is the last of the big European V8s (no longer being produced as of 2017) and will be the last car I own that I can drive myself.
"... 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
