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What's your white whale? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
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What piece of retro tech is your white whale? What do you aspire to own but probably won't ever have the chance to?

I grew up around and was mentored by many DEC veterans. I even work in one of their old manufacturing facilities. I'd love to own a DEC mainframe from their peak in the early 80s. Even a minicomputer is unreasonable for most of us hobbiests. One can dream though

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[–] edgerunneralexis@dataterm.digital 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Amiga 4000 with one of those accelerators that comes with a compact flash hard drive adaptor, 128MB of RAM, and an 060 at 65Mhz, plus maybe a retargetable graphics card, as well as as a proper original Commodore CRT monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

[–] Twig@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Any big box Amiga really!

[–] sandlot8625@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Oof, that's a dream machine! Especially with a full video editing rig from the era.