Almoststew1990 wrote:A year later I have a cupboard full of old computers stored. huh.
Haha, I do the same. It's not complete useless, though. Keep in mind that we're no business people.
We love our stuff and take good care of it. This comes in handy if developers of emulators need our help, for example.
Our hobby makes us to preservers of the past, preservers of the beginning of the computer age and digital society.
In 60 or 90 years, we or our successors will be the last to have the knowledge to repair or operate these machines.
And the original hardware of course. Museums and universities, maybe too. But they are a minority and throw their
stuff out of their collections sometimes.
This reminds me of an article on the news: Amiga freaks saved digital paintings of a popular artist who drew them in the 80s.
The paintings were drawn on an A1000 with an early painting program and stored on 3.5" floppies in Amiga format.
A normal computer user of today would not have been able to read them, maybe trying to put them in an USB floppy
drive on Windows 10 or Linux and getting to the false conclusion that these disks were damaged.
"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
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