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  • Did you ever give anything away thinking it's worthless, or that you'll never use or want it again, and then over a decade later think WHY TF DID I DO THAT I'M A COMPLETE IDIOT?!?!?!?!

    Yeah that's me.

    Missing my old Macintosh 512K from 1984 with second external disk drive, in perfect working condition. That I now want to tinker with bad, especially now that there are great storage/communications options that can be built for them.

    Retro-computing is EXPENSIVE now.

    </nerdregret>

    • The one thing I wanted back from the past is my Intellivision. It may or or be in a derelict shed. Gone either way.

      • I'll pour one out for it tonight.

        I wish I still had my childhood Commodore 64. Been on the lookout for one for a while now, but even the fixer-uppers are worth heaps. The days of $20 garage-sale specials are long gone!

      • I do still have 2 Nintendo game&watch😹 batteries cost more than the hardware now!

    • My dad bought a certain brand of keyboard for music, in the 80s, and he's accumulated many different ones now. I cannot remember the brand/model, but he sold it before I was born and kicks himself for it because 1) it's worth a lot now, and 2) he said it made the best sound and his current ones don't come close.

      My dream if I win the lotto, would be to buy him a moog

      • 70s/80s audio electronics were so much better, completely agree.

        I luckily DO have my dad's old hifi setup, the sound is just -chef's kiss-

        • Aw man that sound would be sick as from your dad's setup! Jelly as

          • Not gonna lie it’s pretty awesome ☺️ And as a bonus, our 5 year old is becoming great at turning records over for me at the end of the side! Especially the Bluey picture discs πŸ˜„

    • My husband had an IBM Original 286 that he still reminisces about to this day.

      My first computer was an Amstrad

    • As fun as retro computing and gaming is, I've found emulation to fulfill that itch for a more reasonable price.

      I use Qemu/KVM with virt-manager, I'm currently playing with Windows XP and trying to get games like AOE2, Warcraft3, etc running on it. Eventually I may get an old white LCD 4:3 monitor.

      Retro handhelds like the Miyoo Mini Plus, Anbernic RG35XX-H & Trimui Smart Pro are cheap and fun portable retro game handhelds, they are becoming very popular and the firmware mods are getting better.

      • Yeah I’m also well into emulation. VICE for commodore stuff, and omg how good is exodos! WinUAE for Amiga. I still long for the actual hardware though, I’ve got an old DOS machine and love it, though even that is still a bit too β€œnew” (it’s a PII)

    • On the upside, emulators exist any I still can play Dark Castle and Fools Errand.

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