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Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gammitin/115510908112584601

I still have one of those. And yes, those machines were perfect on a young person's desk.
Sometimes the current minimalism can be...boring

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oscarfalcon
@oscarfalcon@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@stefano

Mine still runs as a jukebox with soundjam installed working PERFECTLY.

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arosano 🇩🇰🇮🇱
@arosano@mastodon.bsd.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@stefano I once went with my boss from the college to visit Dundee University in Scotland. We came into this huge room with #iMacs on each table. I was drooling!
When we came home I argued that we needed something like that.
"I'll let you buy a keyboard" my boss said.
I bought the keyboard 😉
Then I left for another college. 5 years later one of my old colleagues came for a visit. Out of his bag came the keyboard, "I believe this is yours" he said.
I still use that wonderful iMac keyboard on my #openbsd home server every day.
#nostalgia

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Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@arosano that's a great story! Thank you for sharing it

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arosano 🇩🇰🇮🇱
@arosano@mastodon.bsd.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@stefano You know Stefano, 55 years in computing has given many interesting, peculiar, strange, funny experiences. The right prompt/association makes them come back.

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Rocketman
@slothrop@chaos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@stefano yep. We’re basically back to the beige age, except this time it’s silver grey.

C’mon, manufacturers. Do something fun.

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Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@slothrop I agree. It's all so...boring

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Rocketman
@slothrop@chaos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@stefano Every laptop looks like a knockoff MacBook Air, give or take a few degrees of curve radius at the corners. Except ThinkPads, which look like ThinkPads from 30 years ago.

I feel like there’s a potential opening in the market there.

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