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

  • oleorunEnglish
    6•12 days ago

    We could swap those boards out and in like a fucking NASCAR pit crew.

    • @kbotc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•12 days ago

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

      • NatanoxEnglish
        1•12 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).