> A real gold mine for a person like me who lives in a developing country with restricted access to old hardware. Interesting, because if anything I would assu

> A real gold mine for a person like me who lives in a developing country with restricted access to old hardware. Interesting, because if anything I would assume that old hardware would be more accessible in developing countries - I mean, that was the case 20+ years ago in my (still) developing country - I got my parts from an open air bazaar, where it wasn't weird to see 10yo items. Personally I was 5 years behind the state of the art. My oldest piece of hardware was a dot matrix printer, which I used for school as recently as in 2007. IIRC the mentioned bazaar was the only place where you could find a replacement ribbon for it. My hoarder relative still had some old crap from the 90s when I was clearing out his cellar a few years ago.