Vintage Computer Festival Midwest (Chicago)

1. 2024-03-14 at 7:12 PM UTC

   #1
   

   Fonaplats victim of incest [daylong jump-start that nome]
   
   
   
   https://www.vcfmw.org/
   
   I'm going. Booked a room and everything. Anyone else going?
2. 2024-03-14 at 8:29 PM UTC

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   Lanny Bird of Courage
   I always see these things and think they’re cool to check out, computer history museum was fun for an hour or two, but I don’t think I’ll ever understand people who spend hella time and money on retro computers. God bless them because I get some enjoyment out of being a spectator, but if I wanted to work with really shitty old hardware I’d just do embedded programming for something that’s still manufactured, or fire up a mips emulator or something.
   
   I get it a bit more for like old consoles or general computers that had worthwhile games, but sometimes it’s these old ass IBM machines that just do payroll, or did industrial job control, and I just don’t see what you get out of refurbishing something like that. It’s like spending a year fixing up a 1995 Toyota Corolla.
   
   Constraints inspire creativity and all that, but there are cheaper constraints you could impose and actually get something out of.
3. 2024-03-14 at 9:37 PM UTC

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   Fonaplats victim of incest [daylong jump-start that nome]

   Originally posted by Lanny I always see these things and think they’re cool to check out, computer history museum was fun for an hour or two, but I don’t think I’ll ever understand people who spend hella time and money on retro computers. God bless them because I get some enjoyment out of being a spectator, but if I wanted to work with really shitty old hardware I’d just do embedded programming for something that’s still manufactured, or fire up a mips emulator or something.
   
   I get it a bit more for like old consoles or general computers that had worthwhile games, but sometimes it’s these old ass IBM machines that just do payroll, or did industrial job control, and I just don’t see what you get out of refurbishing something like that. It’s like spending a year fixing up a 1995 Toyota Corolla.
   
   Constraints inspire creativity and all that, but there are cheaper constraints you could impose and actually get something out of.

   
   Why would you have to fix a 1995 Toyota Corolla?
   
   And old computers smell nice.
4. 2024-03-20 at 10:11 AM UTC

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   RIPtotse victim of incest [my adversative decurved garbo]
   If uxdont come pick up this pc when u go fona ima sperg out
5. 2024-03-20 at 10:15 AM UTC

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   ner vegas African Astronaut
   CUM CABLE
6. 2024-03-20 at 10:16 AM UTC

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   RETARTEDFAGET Houston

   Originally posted by ner vegas CUM CABLE

   
   a man can dream...
7. 2024-03-20 at 10:44 AM UTC

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   Solstice Naturally Camouflaged

   Originally posted by Fonaplats I'm going. Booked a room and everything. Anyone else going?

   
   Sorry, the rest of us have much better things to spend our hard earned money on.
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8. 2024-03-20 at 10:47 AM UTC

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   RETARTEDFAGET Houston

   Originally posted by Solstice Sorry, the rest of us have much better things to spend our hard earned money on.

   
   name three things other than pussy and weed
9. 2024-03-20 at 10:57 AM UTC

   #9
   

   ner vegas African Astronaut
   guns gold girls
10. 2024-03-20 at 10:58 AM UTC

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    RETARTEDFAGET Houston

    Originally posted by ner vegas guns gold girls

    
    guns and gold to procure weed, and girls have pussies.
    
    I REPEAT: GIRLS HAVE PUSSIES.
11. 2024-03-20 at 11:09 AM UTC

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    Solstice Naturally Camouflaged

    Originally posted by RETARTEDFAGET name three things other than pussy and weed

    
    Bills, food, crack cocaine
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12. 2024-03-20 at 11:11 AM UTC

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    RETARTEDFAGET Houston

    Originally posted by Solstice Bills, food, crack cocaine

    
    weed bills, food for munchies, crack cocaine is just thc crystals dumbass
13. 2024-03-20 at 11:12 AM UTC

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    ner vegas African Astronaut
    DREADFULLY REDUCTIVE
14. 2024-03-20 at 11:14 AM UTC

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    Solstice Naturally Camouflaged

    Originally posted by RETARTEDFAGET weed bills, food for munchies, crack cocaine is just thc crystals dumbass

    
    I cook up my crack with ground up bones of dead jedi infants
15. 2024-03-20 at 6:19 PM UTC

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    ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Black Hole

    Originally posted by Lanny I always see these things and think they’re cool to check out, computer history museum was fun for an hour or two, but I don’t think I’ll ever understand people who spend hella time and money on retro computers. God bless them because I get some enjoyment out of being a spectator, but if I wanted to work with really shitty old hardware I’d just do embedded programming for something that’s still manufactured, or fire up a mips emulator or something.
    
    I get it a bit more for like old consoles or general computers that had worthwhile games, but sometimes it’s these old ass IBM machines that just do payroll, or did industrial job control, and I just don’t see what you get out of refurbishing something like that. It’s like spending a year fixing up a 1995 Toyota Corolla.
    
    Constraints inspire creativity and all that, but there are cheaper constraints you could impose and actually get something out of.

    
    It's more a reconnecting, nostalgia thing than a practical one. People want to relive the days when it was a much simpler time.
16. 2024-03-20 at 7:01 PM UTC

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    RETARTEDFAGET Houston

    Originally posted by Solstice I cook up my crack with ground up bones of dead jedi infants

    
    
    
    

    Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It's more a reconnecting, nostalgia thing than a practical one. People want to relive the days when it was a much simpler time.