If you could bring back one computer from your past, which would you choose?
Retro? 90s? That perfect Thinkpad W701DS?
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If you could bring back one computer from your past, which would you choose?
Retro? 90s? That perfect Thinkpad W701DS?
CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) reshared this.
Vincent Van Dinsky
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in reply to hackaday • • •I coded an FM music synthesizer in assembly language. I used the onboard BASIC sin function to create wavetables in memory, and the synchronous bus made it possible to send samples to the onboard DAC. The DAC wasn't very good, but it also had a socket intended for memory expansion which I used to break out to a breadboard and made my own DAC and other DIY circuits.
It was also the cheapest thing you could get that had a full mechanical keyboard.
Ross Stenersen
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in reply to hackaday • • •My Commodore 64 from 1983. Understanding EVERYTHING, and changing ANYTHING, was realistically within reach for every user-owner. I didn't, but I COULD have. Everything was accessible and mutable.
That unmediated integrity between transparent machine and autonomous user was the magic.
The growing popularity of #retrocomputing is not mere nostalgia. It is a return to this value.
The passion for #foss #libre software is not mere stridency. It is a return to this value.
#emacs
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Poloniousmonk
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You get it.
Sooner or later, people get tired of being lied to by their devices.
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in reply to hackaday • • •black IBM Aptiva, I think 486 or the first pentium series? I forget.
The first computer we had that I learned so much on and got me to start the life I have now.
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in reply to hackaday • • •2) The first desktop computer I assembled myself, and then installed my first Linux distro on
Brian Clark
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in reply to hackaday • • •just before the turn of the century I had an HP quad-processor server that could do no wrong.
For something in my house, about 35 years ago my PS2 model 30/286 had a long life and was friendly.
And my old Kaypro/II was an honest and beefy machine.
lp0 on fire
in reply to hackaday • • •@hackaday, not sure.
Considering various ones which I've used or owned…
ZX81? ZX Spectrum (original 48K)? +3?
Oric 1?
BBC model B? BBC Master?
A3000? A3010? Risc PC?
I'd probably end up with the Risc PC because I can run on it most things which I'd want to run on the older ones, either directly or via emulation.
But which CPU – ARM710 (more compatible) or SA110 (faster)…
Fritz Adalis
in reply to hackaday • • •The '486 that ran my BBS and was full of junk scsi hard drives. IBM wanted me to mail it to them to troubleshoot an OS/2 problem but wouldn't give me a loaner.
Korbs
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in reply to hackaday • • •That was a dream machine for me and at one time I had triple boot with windows, Linux and MacOS (remember hackintosh?) running on it with a custom bootlogo and then a GUI style grub2 to select the OS.
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