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Compare to the price of a Symbolics Lisp Machine back when they were on the market.
by equalunique 7y ago
Compare to the price of a Symbolics Lisp Machine back when they were on the market.
- KirinDave 7y agoNo. That's ridiculous. To some extent I want the fun of the retro machine without the hassle or $30k price tags of the days of old that helped inculcate that reverence in me. I can't help but compare this to the Nvidia Jetson I just bought that can run SBCL just fine, costs 1/3 as much for the entire feature kit sans laser cut Labo-style keyboard, and uh... I could actually do things with. I don't expect to get exactly the same value from a limited run retrocomputing platform, but I at least expect full transparency on the source before I buy, and an emulator so if I do make something I like and the board faults out I'm not SOL.
- lispm 7y agoHaving a computer with a much simpler (like several orders of magnitude simpler) software stack has its own appeal. Though I wouldn't buy it either, since I have already more computers which can run Lisp than I have time to. Including a Nvidia Jetson Nano and actual Symbolics machines.