As computers grew more powerful and gained colorful displays, somehow they felt less arcane...
@jmarcelino @hackaday I had the amber-screen compaq suitcase and yeah, that's a vibe. Everything you could do on there felt like hacking.
May 2, 2026 路 11:28 AM UTC
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@hackaday Oops, I lied! It was green! All I had was Back to the Future and some Office suite, thus began my thing for ascii art. I think the Apple IIc that I also had at the time had an amber screen but I'd plug it into the TV for color sometimes. Everything changed when I got a PS/2.
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@hackaday My first workplace machine was one from Epson and had EGA.
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