Cornered by Mike Baldwin for June 20, 2022

"Hack"neyed.

My old computers. They all run well with Ubuntu. One is 14 years old.

I do have to dust them occasionally.

Note the rich creamy color.

Note the programming is so obsolete.

Runs BASIC is my guess. Ah, the beauty. Did all the calculations for my thesis without Fortran which was F’ing ugly.

The cozy warmth of the CRT green screen monitor, and the soothing grind of the disk drive booting up. If all goes well you are rewarded with a reassuring C:\ .

You can keep your CRT display and your 1024 × 768 resolution. There’s nothing romantic about low-res.

We got our first computer in about 1986. A Tandy, it had an instruction book that said how to turn it on and how to write some programs for it. I constructed an autoexec.bat file for it. Very proud of myself. My tech skills have gone downhill since then.

With a full 100 megabytes of RAM!

What are doing in my attic?

I still have three of the old cast aluminium IBM XTs

comes complete with 3,000 floppy disks…

Take it to Antiques Roadshow