retrocomputing love

Definitions

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  • noun The hobby of using obsolete computer equipment.

Etymologies

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retro- + computing

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Examples

  • One of the many appeals of retrocomputing is the fact that, once upon a time, everyone expected their machine to work right out of the box, as advertised.

    Sell Dell « BuzzMachine 2005

  • The lead developer behind the project is retrocomputing enthusiast Cameron Kaiser, one of the few remaining champions of gopherspace.

    PROnetworks 2010

  • About other works of mine, and hobbies, retrocomputing and vintage games, ornitology, and sciences in general.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • About other works of mine, and hobbies, retrocomputing and vintage games, ornitology, and sciences in general.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Acorn User magazine and author of numerous computer-related books. quest to preserve retrocomputing documents, here is a very interesting reference of the orginal Acorn RISC Machine (ARM) computing platform and the RISC OS Operating System.

    pagetable.com 2009

  • I have been told that there are several people in Apple's operating system kernel team today that are younger than the original Macintosh, therefore I see this as act of preserving retrocomputing documents; the times when someone cared about the copyright of this must have long been gone.

    pagetable.com 2008

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