The click-and-drag tools and absolutely garbage code generators were integral to the experience, because they brought in the weirdos who didn't know we were doing it wrong. We learned, but lost something along the way.

Curiously, tho, I don't think it was a perfect 72dpi like the 9" CRT in compact Macs, so it's not precisely scaled with printed output.

[1] https://lowendmac.com/1989/macintosh-portrait-display/

Relativity Space is building 3D printers large enough to construct orbital-class rockets in one piece. Others will follow. If they can make printers work in vacuum at 0g, that's how we build our next-next generation of space stations. SpinLaunch wants to launch around the clock, multiple times per day. Just keep flinging materials and consumables to the construction robots building our future habs.

But I've found the dual thumb pads to be surprisingly good for mouse input. And with the inbuilt controller mapping software (WASD etc), I don't even need mouse all that much. I've been playing a little bit of Guild Wars 2, which doesn't even support controller input in the options. With a community-made control mapping provided in Steam, it works surprisingly well for casual adventuring (probably not for PvP).

But he wasn't a Texan, so I suppose I see your angle. Interesting bit of flavor.

But there has been at least 1 good printer, and HP made it: - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet_5

Also, 9-pin dot matrix printers were workhorses.

Everyone gets uptight about the word "uncivilized," but this kind of generational tribal conflict _is_ a failure of civilization. I don't know what causes civilization (it sure ain't skin tone), but without clear villain/victim narratives, and heroes to root for (brave Ukrainians fighting for their own liberation), no one will care. And that's tragic, too, but it's not a commentary on the underlying tragedy of human suffering and death, that people in every nation hurt the same.