This was cutting edge tech… I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs…

  • kbotc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Between the capacitor plague and the tin whiskers from the phaseout of lead, hardware from that era failed constantly.

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      4 days ago

      We somehow avoided that, luckily.

      I had the pleasure of getting sold a cheap power supply though. It was rather fascinating to learn that, indeed, even burning hardware can still provide sufficient power to play games (for a few seconds).