One thing I've learned hanging out on vintage computer communities is that you can not use your lenses to understand the motivations of the folks who practice t

One thing I've learned hanging out on vintage computer communities is that you can not use your lenses to understand the motivations of the folks who practice the hobby. Commercial nostalgia has been around since classic cars, Happy Days, and 50's diners. I do know that, on the whole, this stuff is not for me, and that's fine. But I still like to hang out and reminisce about the time of my youth and the foundations of computing as I experienced them. That said, I have a Model 100 that I can't part with. A friend of mine has a small collection of vintage Macs. He has a very nice specimen of the G4 Cube that I dabbled with one day. It's a beautiful piece of hardware. But, oh my word, is that box slow. It is glacial. I don't know how good it was in the day, I have to assume it was competitive, which means everything we did back then was glacial, we just couldn't appreciate it. But it's a nice piece of sorta kinetic sculpture, and it brings him joy, so who's to question that. Hang out on vintage forums with folks with their racks of PDPs, assortments of beige, 90's PCs, old Apples. Trying to bring Windows 98 to life to play a game, connecting a pair of modems to call each other, rebuilding a power supply on some garage filling Data General Nova, etc. Just eclectic collectors. No different from Hummel figurines.