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I am so freakin' impressed with retro technology. check this out
This is a TRS-80 Model 4 that I've had forever. It had stopped working and I kind of gave up on it and tonight, I decided to dig it out and see if it worked. It didn't, but I found a lose wire inside, soldered it back, and Holy shit, it worked!
Not only that, but I was able to boot old versions of DOS (TRS-DOS, MS-DOS, etc) from 5.25" floppy diskettes too!
And not only that, but, I was able to load an old game called Cosmic Fighter, from a freaking Cassette!! Both the cassette and the cassette player are over 35 years old, and they both still work!
(For you youngins' - 5.25" Flopies were THE TITS when it came to reading and writing programs and files. THE TITS I Say!
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It doesn't take an Einstein to figure out that you're a bit of a computer nerd. On the other hand I'm the direct opposite of you and therefore I go to bed every night praying for a giant solar flair to pound us back into the stone age.
So I'll just throw this out to you as something for you to think about.
Old tech was better tech,
It required a human being element to make it work and it was tough to destroy. A good example is my hobby of restoring cars. For the most part every car, regardless of make, that's been newer than 2008 has been a piece of shit. One repair problem after the next and 60% of the time it's the computer that's faulty. Even if I find a used ECM I'm required to pay a mechanic a tidy sum of money to flash it with my VIN.
Even when it's the ECM I've got to tear down large parts of the vehicle to get at the faulty part. For example I had to change an alternator on a 5.7 Charger by removing a drive axel and large sections of the under body to get at it. Now compare this to my collection of 80s and 70s cars and the repairs are about as easy as your old Tandy Computer.
Old tech is reliable, fixable, never needs updating and the human being maintains control. New tech breaks when you sneeze on it, is hard to fix, outdates within months and humans are quickly becoming obsolete. Ultimately today's version of technology just costs us money while lowering our earning potential. A good example of this is the porn industry, we used to spend $250K just to make a movie versus $250 to film a POV hooker.
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