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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

My elementary school had those chunky, colorful iMac G3s that I played hella coolmathgames on. At home we had an old Compaq desktop with Windows 2000 (later XP).

I never learned anything useful except general computer literacy but I sure do miss those days.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Wait, if "Linux"=autistic, what does that make us GNU/Linux users?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

First home family computer was a Packard Bell, windows 3.1...was forbidden from taking it apart or messing with the settings.

First computer that I was allowed to mess with was a thrift store Commodor 64...

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I started with System 7 on the Mac and because of that I had to quickly learn ResEdit and hex editing. Ironically this made me better later in life with windows and Linux, that shit is a breeze in comparison.

Also HyperCard fucking slapped

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish Linux existed when I was twelve.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

It did when I was, and it was a nightmare even though I was very tech savvy

It’s so much better now

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My commodore 64 laughs at the false dichotomy.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

careful, you mentioned linux on 196, that's a hangin' offense

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Correlation does not imply causation though...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Indeed. It can hint towards more required research.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Where does TRS-80 fit into this study?

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