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kirbyddd · 1 year ago

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guess whos about to find themselves steward of a half century of irreplacable hardware🫣

half of it was literally mine anyways and i left it in the hoarder pile where i knew it could remain untouched for years til i escaped to a stable living situation where it could be set up safely.

thats... still not happening anytime soon, and may never. but the pile's gotten so much more extreme and filthy it's being actively destroyed where it is now so i gotta emergency airlift it to the less dangerous situation. scary stuff either way

#feel like it's the vita situation again.#keep stuff protected for years for its sheer technological value and suddenly find that unexpectedly im the one it benefited in the end #protecting things of beauty sometimes comes back around to you i guess. you might end up being the one it was protected for #with how much i absolutely adore this kinda stuff it should be a dream to have such a trove come into my posession #but... im not in any situation to make anything of it. both in living situation and just my wrecked body and brain right now #it's just more responsibility to protect when i cant even protect myself right now #but im tired of seeing dreams slip through my fingers while im trapped in hell. im not gonna let this one go #I'll keep it as safe as i can for the day i can actually make anything of it... or one of us is destroyed #pray the stuff that was thrown and crushed still functions.#and pray the 70s boxes are still ok. those are the ones i specifically kept tucked away in the safest most inaccessible closet possible #those ones are literally priceless. an intact personal collection of everyday computing stuff from a half century ago. the full suite.#it's so unreal ive literally never even processed that it's in my life. probably never will. but so ive kept it as safe as i possibly can #hopeless dream of one day setting it up studying its manuals and becoming a true computer person who can code for hardware #these day you need university for that stuff. but back then it was in all the manuals cause it was the ONLY way to make software #i wanna learn it from the source #wonder if there are any museums that lend out personal collections.#dont want to outright donate because im not gonna let functioning tech be abandoned to a warehouse or display case as a historical novelty #it's like locking away a Stradivari for its incomparable sound ...ensuring it is never heard again.#of course once it's so fragile it can no longer be played preserve it for future study. but as long it still has life in it it must sing #theres no difference between a thing of beauty and a discarded piece of refuse if it's sealed where none will ever experience it again #the tech already has its every spec and parameter thoroughly documented in every possible way. theres nothing more to be documented of it #its not being saved for some sort of future study. the only thing it has to be saved for is future use.#otherwise it will just be another piece of electronic waste taking up space #so imma make sure it's saved for a meaningful purpose. one worthy of its beauty. a strad needs to be played

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