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[off topic] For the people still using old 16bit vintage PCS - ngIRCd - IRC Server

Carsten Strotmann carsten at strotmann.de

Tue Aug 31 09:24:43 BST 2021

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On 31 Aug 2021, at 10:11, defdefred wrote:

Single Board Computer, like RaspberryPi.

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On Monday, August 30th, 2021 at 17:56, Sergei Gnezdov <sergei.gnezdov at gmail.com> wrote:

What is SBC?

On 8/30/21 7:33 AM, defdefred wrote:

Why not switching to SBC with less energy used?

because SBCs are not "vintage computers".

The goal of "vintage computing" is not using low resource machines, but keeping, using and preserving "old" machines.

ngIRCd enables "vintage computer" enthusiasts to use vintage hardware for as an IRC server, for example on vintage computer meetings.

Some people (like me) have fun doing so.

A project like ngIRCd is not aimed to have such an IRC-Server run 24h/365d in the Internet (but I guess some people will do, because they can).

Greetings

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