Really liked Knoppix for a lot of things, though. Used to take it to the county used-sales office and boot the PCs they were selling to test for functionality and Linux compatibility.
I was fortunate to go to a high school that got a single Apple ][+ in the science department for physics, and a grant to pay a student programmer to develop educational physics software. I was further fortunate to be the student programmer, which was amazing after spending the past few years punching FORTRAN IV and COBOL on cards using an IBM 029 and batching them to the school district's IBM 360 overnight.
From what I've seen, it's the other way around - computers are still fun for the old nerds.
I go to events like vintage computer festivals, and old folks are having a party with computers.
I look at younger people with computers, and for the most part they are just commodity tools for hosting apps and watching media. Even younger people describing what they are doing for fun with computers are building "home labs" of application hosting systems.
Sending a carriage return and linefeed to a TTY 33 and then printing works fine.
Doing them in the opposite order, if the carriage is to the right of the page, will result in a linefeed (platen rotation) happening quickly, then the carriage starting to move left to the beginning of the next line, and then the next printed character will print wherever the carriage happens to be at the time - not yet to the left. So you will be missing a character at the beginning of the line because it's in between the two lines in an unexpected column-ish.
I have run into (in my mind, "hipster") code where the programmer for some reason reversed the order of CR and LF.
That's exactly what happened in Ashburn. Loudoun County VA is currently meeting pretty much its entire operating budget with data center tax revenue, and property tax rates have been going down for years.
More importantly, Loudoun went from being the fastest growing county in the US, borrowing money and building roads, schools, fire stations, etc. at a fierce clip, to a much more maintainable population growth curve (= more compatible with residential sprawl).
Super common technique. Aircraft cockpit videos usually exhibit stroboscopic effects because of the scan rate of the camera and the refresh rate of the displays, and those are very expensive devices.
Short shutter time photos are just not a case I think most displays are designed for.
ASCII was started in 1960. A terminal then would have been a mostly-mechanical teletype (keyboard and printer, possibly with paper tape reader/punch), without much by way of "circuit logic". Think of it more as a bit caused a physical shift of a linkage to do something like hit the upper or lower part of a hammer, or a separate set of hammers for the same remaining bits.
In the "Flight Levels", altitudes are referred to not in feet above sea level but as "FLxxx" where xxx is a nominal altitude in 100s of feet.
Altimetry is done using barometric pressure. Since this varies with weather, airplanes at lower altitudes set their altimeters to the local barometric pressure for a reasonably accurate reading. In the flight levels, where planes are typically covering ground quickly and there is very little chance of your path conflicting with the surface of the Earth, every plane sets to an agreed-upon reference of 29.92 inches of mercury as the altimeter setting.
This seems to be a bit of an echo of the 1980s and the power shift brought about by the introduction of the IBM PC - the decentralization of control over data and processes from the walled garden of the computer room to the people at their desks with VisiCalc and BASIC, and then the explosion of productivity software.
There are a great many modern modifications available for the 8-bit Ataris, many of them from Poland where the machines saw good sales quite late compared to the US.
Using modern electronics (FPGAs etc.), processors, and high-density memories, you can imagine the processing, graphics, and I/O improvements that can be made for relatively low cost.
Many hobbyist machines at this point are highly modified, with much new software taking advantage of the new features, so specifying "classic unmodified" pretty much means a system into which you could have slapped a ROM cartridge purchased at your local computer store back in the day. XL/XE sounds like it rules out the original 800 and 400 models.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X
Really liked Knoppix for a lot of things, though. Used to take it to the county used-sales office and boot the PCs they were selling to test for functionality and Linux compatibility.