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Why do you care what other people are enthusiastic about? Like old computers are "interesting junk", if preservationists want them preserved the thing to do is
by maxerickson 4y ago
Why do you care what other people are enthusiastic about?
Like old computers are "interesting junk", if preservationists want them preserved the thing to do is buy them and preserve them.
- lewisflude 4y agoSorry, my phrasing was bad. I don't care what other's are enthusiastic about. You're right, old keyboards/computers are literally just junk that was once useful technology. It's up to every person to decide how exciting that is/isn't, and if they find one aspect interesting but not the other, that's fine. When I said "should be", what I really meant was that in my experience people aren't just buying sets of keyboards/computers and immediately chucking out the computer as the OP suggested when they said "I wince every time some funko popper discards a perfectly good machine but keeps the keyboard.". As in, this has not been my experience at all.
- charles_kaw 4y ago> Why do you care what other people are enthusiastic about? I care because I'm enthusiastic about old computers. I care because some of these systems have historic and cultural value. I care because I care. And when people separate these systems and render large swathes of them inoperable so that they can put some "rare keyboards" on their shelf, it hurts the ability of other people to experience these historically significant and interesting systems. And no, I'm not referring to standard x86 machines :)