How Do You Get Your Geek Nostalgia Fix? 422
Vrtigo1 writes "I keep a Pentium Pro CPU on my desk underneath my monitor because it reminds me of simpler times. Every once in a while I want to revisit the old days of the original Doom, the phonebook-sized Computer Shoppers, when you looked forward to the demo CD that came with Computer Gaming World because the Internet was too slow to distribute software, and when Falcon Northwest's Mach V was the envy of many a geek. IRC is just about the only technology I can think of that's still in use today and still looks the same as it did in the early nineties. So where do you go when you need to regress back to simpler times and get your nostalgia fix? I foolishly trashed my old tech mags, and there isn't a whole lot online that has survived from that long ago."
Re:Pentium Pro? Doom? (Score:4, Informative)
I keep my Commodore on the desktop, plugged in, READY. Right next to the 1541 (disk drive, for the young-un's) and 1702 (monitor). The other 1541 is plugged into a 386. I download software (written in the 80s) off the internet, save to floppy (3.5 inch) transfer to 386, and save to a REAL floppy (5.25 inch) for use in the '64.
And when I really want to get my nostalgia on, I read some old-school Compute!, Compute!'s Gazette, or RUN (all available in .pdf online).