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- noun The
hobby of usingobsolete computer equipment .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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The lead developer behind the project is retrocomputing enthusiast Cameron Kaiser, one of the few remaining champions of gopherspace.
PROnetworks 2010
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About other works of mine, and hobbies, retrocomputing and vintage games, ornitology, and sciences in general.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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About other works of mine, and hobbies, retrocomputing and vintage games, ornitology, and sciences in general.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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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
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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
hernesheir commented on the word retrocomputing
A portmanteau word, retro + computing. The use of old computer hardware to run newer software, often as a dedicated hobby.
November 19, 2010