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by camus_absurd 682 days ago
> I can’t even be bothered to make time to go there to throw them away

This made me physically cringe with sadness. I’d love to even find one and people are just tossing them.
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lnxg33k1 681 days ago
I'm sure if you had one you wouldn't even connect it to the power, it has a command line, some GUI and prince of persia, which you can play now even on modern PCs with emulators, it has really no use, rather than, I don't know
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Bluecobra 681 days ago
This is simply not true. There is a very active retro computing community these days and multiple vintage computer shows each year.

https://www.youtube.com/@The8BitGuy

https://www.youtube.com/@adriansdigitalbasement

https://www.youtube.com/@LGR

https://www.youtube.com/@TechTangents

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LightBug1 681 days ago
You'd be surprised. Why do people drive classic cars?

Man, I'd love to, once, run a program from a cassette again just for the nostalgic hell of it!

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vintermann 681 days ago
It was pretty fun that we could actually run games from ~40 year old tape. It impressed my son. It also impressed me actually, because I remember how often those things broke...
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