I am in tears

Alright, some background: I have been developing this thing called code for 34 years, every single day - except for some 40 days in total - and I have seen screens and standards come, and quite quickly, go. I no longer drool at EGA.

But, at this I do. Drool, that is; it brings me back to the cradle, when life was simple: get up, pretend to partake in the life outside the computer and then run home to turn on that prompt. Ah, the sounds; the curvature; the often failed attempts to solder mysterious color chips to a motherboard just to revert back to the green or yellow friendly characters, or even HIRES!

And, the problem (with my brain) is that it is not only nostalgia, but I *truly* use this terminal for coding at times; it sparkles some neurons (or at least synapses) that have been dormant for a few decades, as I have transitioned from Applesoft Basic and Pascal to Node.js and Haskell.

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