I feel like I’m kind of alone in this. I was born in 2004 so the two retro computers I tinker with the most (a C64 and a 486 clone) are way older than I am. Are there any other younger retro enthusiasts who never grew up with the hardware but are into it now? Also this is my first post on Lemmy, so I’m sorry if this is out of place here.
90’s kid and the earliest system I remember using is WinXP. Hate it now, but I love Win98FE, Win2K, Vista and, from the little I have used it, Macintosh 7. I still want to get a NEC PC-98, but any of the models are as expensive as a cheaper car. 🥹
Nope, sadly most of these retro things are younger than me. 😆Guess that makes me retro too. Anyhow, always good to see younger generations enjoying the classics.
can confirm there’s at least a few of us
Vogager gives you a baby icon (the new account indicator), which makes you seem very young indeed
lol. i moved from lemmy.sdf.org because their servers had issues too often. seems like it’s back now tho @hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
I think maintaining two accounts is sensible as servers/instances die all the time. I’ve got my subscriptions synchronised between this account and one on infosec.pub.
i’ll be fully migrating, tho i still occasionally login to the old instance due to muscle memory… lol gotta setup a redirect
Try out Desqview/X on that 486 if you get a chance!
Definitely will give that a try.
I was born After 2000s and yeah I love Retro Computing! Before I really got into the Looks and aesthetics of Retro Computers Like the Commodore PET, so when I saw one in an Auction for surprisingly Little Money I took a Bid on it, thinking I’d get outbid anyway… I didn’t!
Once I had this Massive Historic Machine in front of me, my Passion was set in stone. I got into History Videos and Technical Analysis of Old Hardware and got a Small Collection together!
Due to Budgetary issues as of recent I’ve had to Cool on this Hobby of mine tho. Hope I get to expand my Collection with an Amiga or any of the Atari Systems later this year hopefully!
Born 2001, I work at a local charity shop that handles a lot of older tech. Usually nothing too fancy but I spend a lot of time testing older stuff that’s dropped off. I picked up an old Apple PowerBook a couple years back which was a lot of fun trying to get usable.
I think there is a good number of people who are interested, it’s just harder to get involved in it as a hobby without having time/money to throw around.
Also this is my first post on Lemmy, so I’m sorry if this is out of place here.
Nope you’re good, and welcome :)
1990, so not really ‘young’ anymore, but we’re compatriots in thinking computers older than us are cool. By the first time I touched a computer, the machines I like to tinker with now were very obsolete.
That first computer I touched, by the way? It was a 70s model Apple II.
I don’t know how young being born in 1996 is, but I definitely got into retro computing when I was in High School. Between watching JonTron, LGR, and a field trip to a retro computer museum with working computers, I fell in love. I ran DOSbox on my school laptop and FreeDOS off of a USB stick. My senior year, mostly playing solitare on Windows 3.1 through DOSBox on my windows 7 school laptop in class.
In terms of physical hardware, I have a Win98/XP KVM setup with a Trinitron monitor, which I love immensely, especially getting to using 3 1/2 floppy disks. Before I found out about KDE Plasma, I loved to do everything through the retro computers more than the modern ones.
Also check out protoweb. It brings the late 90s internet back to life on real hardware.
Although I have never used a commodore 64, now you got me wanting to buy one. I just need to find a way to fit it in with what I have.
Born 2005, I have a whole apple iie setup
@RetroDragon Wow! … I was born in 1951, our computers then were big as a house. I just like tinkering with stuff, making a beat-up old computer work gives me a feeling of accomplishment. My first computer was a TS1000. I still have it and it still works. For me, this retro stuff is just fun.
No worries, I don’t think this is out of place. Funnily enough, I think this marks my first Lemmy comment lol.
I was born in the early 00s and I love retro computers. To be more specific:
- The practicality, or whether or not they can still be used today, e.g. permacomputing
- The art aspect, or how they’re relatively simple and transparent
- The challenge of squeezing an impressive program into constrained hardware, e.g. demoscene
The oldest computer I have as of writing is a Fujitsu-Siemens K Amilo 7600 from 2004. The laptop’s GPU lacks 3D acceleration via modern Linux/BSDs and struggles with period-accurate games, so I prefer to use it for studying and maybe a bit of ClassiCube and Quake 3. Most of my exposure to retro computers otherwise is via emulators like 86Box, MAME, and VICE.
Born in 89, so “old” compared to you, but I really want to get into Amigas. They’re slightly older than myself, but they were never sold in Brazil, not even as contraband.
I would try to get into PC-88/98 and Sharp X68000, but I can’t overcome the language barrier yet
