[HN Gopher] I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Shou...
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       I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Should You
        
       Author : tcmb
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2021-01-26 18:09 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | boyadjian wrote:
       | What was fantastic, during this period, was Moore's Law. Just
       | waiting one year, you could see hardware selling prices divided
       | by two, that was magic.
        
       | krylon wrote:
       | I really dislike titles of this form ("I love to do X, and so
       | should you"). It might not be the most rational response, but I
       | intuitively refuse to let some article in some magazine tell me
       | what I should or should not do, let alone "love".
       | 
       | Just to be clear, I find the history of computing fascinating,
       | and I have a big soft spot for old-school hardware. My heart
       | still skips a beat when I hear a modem/fax screeching, and every
       | time I visit my doctor who still uses a dot matrix printer, I
       | smile when it does its thing.
        
         | jolmg wrote:
         | > who still uses a dot matrix printer, I smile when it does its
         | thing.
         | 
         | They're sold brand new on Amazon. Oki Data is still alive and
         | kicking.
         | 
         | There's also new-ish fax machine models from the major printer
         | companies.
        
           | the_only_law wrote:
           | No freaking way, a lot of these even still have rs232 and
           | parallel interfaces. I've been needing an rs232 printer to go
           | with some of my retro protocol analyzers.
        
       | Minor49er wrote:
       | This wasn't a formal thing at all, but people on message boards
       | would sometimes get together and watch old episodes of The
       | Computer Chronicles. It's delightfully nostalgiac and really
       | helped us to remember our fascination with technology and the
       | World Wide Web:
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       | https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerChroniclesYT/videos
        
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