No worries, I don’t think this is out of place. Funnily enough, I think this marks my first Lemmy comment lol.

I was born in the early 00s and I love retro computers. To be more specific:

• The practicality, or whether or not they can still be used today, e.g. permacomputing
• The art aspect, or how they’re relatively simple and transparent
• The challenge and constraint of squeezing a program into inadequate hardware, e.g. demoscene

The oldest computer I have as of writing is a Fujitsu-Siemens K Amilo 7600 from 2004. The laptop’s GPU lacks 3D acceleration via modern Linux/BSDs and struggles with period-accurate games, so I prefer to use it for studying and maybe a bit of ClassiCube. Most of my exposure to retro computers otherwise is via emulators like 86Box, MAME, and VICE.