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From January 2021:
For all the personal technology introduced and popularized in 2020 — upscale fitness bikes, at-home Covid tests, game consoles new and old — the personal computer lands on the list with a bit of a thud. PCs lack the novelty of other gadgets, but they’re practical, essential even, in a year when work, school and social life have come to rely heavily upon them.
While modern, ever more efficient computers are selling better than they have in years, vintage computers — impractical old devices in need of repairs and out-of-production parts — are also in demand on sites like eBay. Collectors also flock to message boards, subreddits and Discord servers to buy, sell and trade parts.
People are buying these PCs not necessarily for daily use, but for the satisfaction they get from rebuilding them. It’s a trend one might chalk up to quarantine boredom, though it’s been gaining traction for years.
Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/style/retrocomputing.html
Here is a bit of Retro-Random-Computing-News from 2015. . . An entire school district is using an 80’s era Amiga to control their climate system in their schools. What? Cool. Literally, cool! Click on the image below to visit Engadget to read the full article.
Here’s another random pick from a 2015 article taking a look at the inside of computer stores from the 70’s and 80’s. Click on the image to visit this 2015 PCMag article.
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