brostenen wrote:Yeah...
People just don't understand my love for retro computing as well.
Only my oldest brother understand it, and he is only i […]
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Yeah...
People just don't understand my love for retro computing as well.
Only my oldest brother understand it, and he is only into dynablaster and a couple of older games as I am into the hardware aspect and gaming secondly.
As a matter of fact, I have only come across one person in the entire country, wich are into retro computing as well, in the past 5 years or so. All others are saying "Why"....
I am more lucky 😀 I was completely alone for the first several months until I joined the forums, but later I met more retro enthusiasts than I would expect. One man was staying in Omsk (the city where I live) for a while, he posted an add "PCI FM radio and ISA TV tuner giveaway in Omsk", we met, he even gave me a Zip250 USB and PIII-550 on top of that. And then he started to talk about his notebook collection. It always surprises me how much lust retro enthusiasts have at the first sight of understanding in the collocutor's eyes. We spoke for more than an hour and all I did was nod and insert comments, I owed him that 😀
The next guy I met was a 14-year-old boy from our city, Eugene, with a hint of mustache and a strong interest in Tualatin systems. We met via local add, he was giving away a nice Vibra16 sound card and we ended up talking a lot. Later I gave him that PIII-550 I mentionned earlier.
The third guy I ran across was Igor, a middle-aged CPU collector. This guy found me on a forum and asked for a phone number immediately 😀 We keep in touch and help each other out when it comes to local adds.
The forth guy I met is around my age, name is Yuri, as in Yuri's Revenge. Giveaway add once again 😀 We exchanged gifts, among other stuff I got a zip drive once again 🤣 this time 100Mb ATAPI.
So, if you're looking for an associate, post up a giveaway add! Someone might show up when and where you least expect.