“I remember WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS the way a non-nerd might remember a vintage Mustang. You could just take that thing out and go, man.”
– Writer and programmer
Paul Ford, making the case for reliving computing history through emulation. “You can’t understand software from screenshots any more than you can understand music from album reviews,” he writes. “Emulation reminds me to ask myself whether the computing
experience is always getting better.”