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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 12:52:36 JST nixCraft 🐧

   This machine has all the essential drives/storage and even comes with a turbo button for those older games or apps. The name "turbo" was misleading, as it didn't actually boost performance. Turbo "Off" means slowing down the CPU's clock speed, often down to the speeds of older processors.

   • ObjectVoice / Matthew Walker (objectvoice@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 13:15:11 JST ObjectVoice / Matthew Walker

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     @nixCraft looking for the purple Iomega Zip drive. “That’s just capacity beyond what we’ll ever need. Why would you ever need 100mb?”

   • Michael Emory Cerquoni 🎮🐧🔺 (nebadon2025@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 13:35:53 JST Michael Emory Cerquoni 🎮🐧🔺

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     @nixCraft I love the tron sticker

   • 12" LP Version (bransonturner@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 15:59:28 JST 12" LP Version

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     @nixCraft Encom inside.

   • arix (arix@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 18:41:26 JST arix

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     @nixCraft

   • Owen Tyme (owentyme@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 20:12:42 JST Owen Tyme

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     @nixCraft Ah, yesterday's turbo is today's snail. So much has changed and yet so much stays the same.

     Now I've got literal microcontrollers that run faster and have more RAM: an ESP32-S3 Feather. I used two to make an RC car and wifi remote.

     And such big cases those old beasts came in.

     I still remember the first computer I used (age 3): an IBM XT in a flatbed case big enough to set the monitor on it. It booted games from 5 1/4 inch floppies, even though it had a hard drive.

     Ah, good times.