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Anyone other young people into Retro Computing? (self.retrocomputing)

submitted 2 days ago by RetroDragon to c/retrocomputing

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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.

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[–] lessthanluigi 4 points 2 days ago

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.