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I want to introduce you all to my idea of a "pleasant computer" - It's a computer, either factory made or built yourself, that brings you calm and comfort to use. Maybe a gentle sense of nostalgia. It might not have the biggest and best specs out there. It might not even have modern hardware. But a pleasant computer is a joy to use. For me, it's a beige box Pentium machine that runs Windows 95 or 3.1. What about you all? Any pleasant computer builds? :)
2 weeks ago · 👍 bavarianbarbarian, byte
mine is thiccpad t430 with minimalistic linux, the only unpleasant thing about it is the screen. but I plan to get a proper IPS for it · 19 hours ago
Amiga 1200HD, or the 3000UX in my dreams · 1 week ago
An Atari 1040ST with an XM301 modem to access BBSs, Gopher and Gemini, an external 5 inch Disk Drive, and a dot matrix printer. · 2 weeks ago
I'd have to say my thinkpad x60s running OpenBSD which I use to browse gemini-space · 2 weeks ago
I have a lot of nostalgia for DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 98, the iMacs they had at my local library around the turn of the millenium, and whichever OS my uncle's Apple PowerPC used to run. I wouldn't say these would be a joy to use now, though. So much of what I liked about my experiences with those machines depended on everything else that was going on in the world and in my life at the time. I've built and emulated retro machines, but it's not the same.
I'm presently trying to build a "pleasant computing" experience for my current stage of life, but it's a fairly big undertaking given the depth of my requirements now. · 2 weeks ago
My Dell Latitude D800 from 2001. It runs Windows XP and I play Flight Simulator 98 on it. :) · 2 weeks ago