From: sparcipx@sdf.lonestar.org   
      
   John Z  wrote:   
   > I'd very probably be one of those nostalgic buyers /if/ I had luck to   
   > own one when I was a kid. My parents just couldn't afford it, so I was one of   
   > the C64 kids who later just jumped ships onto IBM PC's.   
   >   
   > Its kinda weird, wanting to have nostalgic memories of something I   
   > never had in the first place :-D   
      
   I hear ya, that's how I ended up with an Atari 7800 recently...   
      
   >   
   >> Heh, retrocomputing is pretty much *all* I do.  I don't think I own a   
   >> computer that was built during this millenium, apart from my Raspberry   
   >> Pi and an old Tadpole Voyager server...   
   >   
   > *tips the hat*   
      
   It didn't take much effort: the two contemporary PCs I owned both died   
   (mobo), I just never replaced them.   
      
   >   
   > Just the other day, I rolled in a Sony Trinitron CRT from a seller   
   > that -luckily- lived just up the street! I already have bought a HDMI->S-rgb   
   > module so the moment it was connected, I ran some MAME (Final Fight),   
   > VICE (Ghostbusters) and some UAE (Alien Breed).   
   >   
   > Wife and kids think I'm retarded.   
      
   Mine too.  They may be onto something ... ;)   
      
      
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