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Thank you; interesting machines. A modern, compact industrial-grade metal keyboard case PC with an external PSU, and some quality of life goodies, built around
by spankibalt 1y ago
Thank you; interesting machines. A modern, compact industrial-grade metal keyboard case PC with an external PSU, and some quality of life goodies, built around a Pentium MMX or Pentium II CPU, is really something I would fork over money for. Essentially something along the lines of C64EVOs planned MODLR case. [1]
> But still I couldn't help but think: "wow, you had that in 1989?". There was no comparison with the PCs of its time.
This speaks more of local market realities, e. g. "demo software" on hardware in an actual computer shop or, as in your example, at a friend's home, especially in the form of 2D arcade action games, then at its peak of popularity on 8- and 16-bit home computers... and yet to shine on PCs (and as opposed to glossies and the like, where the first 486 machines stepped onto the stage turn of the year 89/90).
But at that time I wasn't thinking about computers that much, still digesting the beginning of the end of the GDR.
1. [https://xcancel.com/C64EVO/status/1893158033917669785 https://xcancel.com/C64EVO/status/1893158033917669785]