> The orange gas plasma display from a Toshiba T3200SX (1989) For some reason I love the computers of the 1980s era, plus minus some more years, even up to abo

> The orange gas plasma display from a Toshiba T3200SX (1989) For some reason I love the computers of the 1980s era, plus minus some more years, even up to about 1995 or so. Today's computers are of course much more powerful and cheaper per calculating unit, but also more boring. Those things in the 1980s were so wild. Also before that, 1970s. 1950s and 1960s look outright alien - also very cool. Of course having all that in a small smartphone is epic too, but the hardware today just doesn't interest me anymore. It seems like a "problem solved" whereas in the past, people were trying harder, including micro-optimising all available resources. That required a different kind of creativity. Perhaps this will come back one day in the future but I doubt it. Quantum computers would mean people don't care much about maximizing everything to the bare metal if things are already mega-fast for most tasks to solve.