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2026-02-07 01:10 UTC
@quinn it's more of a mix than I expected!
(I had guessed just 10% of retrocomputing folk didn't, when they were first released, have access to the machines that are currently their retrocomputers of choice. The poll indicates right now it's over 20%, which I find encouraging, as it indicates there's a sizeable chunk for whom retrocomputing is not about nostalgia primarily.)
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@geraldew@fosstodon.org 2026-02-07 07:38
@fluidlogic @quinn maybe more of a mix than you might guess. I'm not active in any "retro" sense, but I did work for an 8-bit maker in the 1980s - as well as having the same gear personally. Which means I don't have a rosy nostalgia and instead remember how flaky the hardware was, how scant the documentation was, how few were our ways to get answers - etc. But what I am grateful for in retrospect, is how understandable those systems were. So much of what I learned then, still guides me.