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What’s the point of owning it then? Serious question, after seeing that article on junk that was on the front page earlier. Pull it out, fire it up. I had an 80
by wincy 4y ago
What’s the point of owning it then? Serious question, after seeing that article on junk that was on the front page earlier. Pull it out, fire it up. I had an 8088 “laptop” that I had a lot of fun with as a kid. By then it was obsolete but I got the OS running using one floppy and Megaman launching using the second floppy disk. Good memories.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoI have a tube of ten of them waiting to be built into a Beowulf cluster.
- citrin_ru 4y ago1. There is a sizable community of retro-computing enthusiasts. It's a fun to being able bring back to action an old computer. 2. Computers evolve very quickly and they are small compare to other artifacts of human history so it is more feasible to have an interesting museum-like collection at home. I consider collecting some old CPUs - hope by the time I will afford to have more possessions they will not be too expensive.
- jstanley 4y agoThe question wasn't "what's the point in owning old hardware?", it was "what's the point in owning old hardware if you're not willing to turn it on?".
- tssva 4y agoIt isn't often that you hear good memories being associated with the DOS version of Megaman. I don't mean to mess with your childhood memories, buy it was widely and rightfully considered an awful game. Capcom wasn't involved in the development of it, and it is a whole new game rather than a port of the original nes game.
- wincy 4y agoHahah! Well I was maybe 8 years old and just assumed I was terrible at the game. It was just magical to see a game run on a computer when I’d only ever used NES or SNES before.
- Natsu 4y agoI sorta feel like it's a historical relic at this point and want to preserve it, but you're right that it's just occupying closet space meaninglessly.