I’m looking at all my old computers that I need to decommission for scrap or giving away and it pains me that, whilst with a ton of time and effort I can get them running as well as possible, there is no practical use I can put them to; software has failed them.
A 10 year old computer is in many respects in a worse position than a 20 or 30 year old one because it’s software is built around the same principles of today, but is unusable slow for those tasks — an 8 bit computer is more useful than a Pentium 4 machine!
#retrocomputing
Kroc Camen
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