perhaps a cutoff point would be 32bit os or less. cpm, dos, os/2 and it's pretty retro. anything with a 64bit os modern windows or linux is not applicable to this site?
I would prefer to stick to the bounds of good taste than a hard cutoff. IRIX on SGI equipment from the 1990s was 64-bit. It would be a shame to not post anything for that kit because it is 64-bit. iPod is on its way to be vintage / retro since. And what about the revive 800xl built totally on modern FPGA kit - an Atari with native HDMI.
At this point my post is going to tumbleweed along as it has not received a single upvote and will never see the front page. And I am ok with it if that is the will of the site.
Tbh. I spent a lot of time thinking on this today. My self regulation was to post an interesting cyberdeck link on “Cyberdeck Thursday”. Mostly im suckered by ones that harken back to gas plasma displays or look futuristic in some way.
Ultimately, I want to see this site succeed and grow . So many amazing things I’ve seen and learned about.
I always like them because they appear in so much cyberpunk art that predated the web. Especially this one in particular. Of what could have been instead of all the boring clamshells and beige boxes that define the PC era.
Retro doesn’t have to mean old. New guts in old cases. Atari vcs inspired case running an emulator so that old games from many eras could have another life.
That's fair. I like them too. I just worry that Two Stop Bits could get overrun with people's cyberdecks. But as I said above it's the users of Two Stop Bits who upvote stuff so we'll see where it goes.
I think we only have issues if we wake up one morning and the front page is all cyberdeck or any other mono topic. I try to draw from my links file randomly to keep the site interesting and varied.
At this point my post is going to tumbleweed along as it has not received a single upvote and will never see the front page. And I am ok with it if that is the will of the site.
perhaps a better definition would be 2 out of 3 of ancient, obsolete, legendary?
Ultimately, I want to see this site succeed and grow . So many amazing things I’ve seen and learned about.
Retro doesn’t have to mean old. New guts in old cases. Atari vcs inspired case running an emulator so that old games from many eras could have another life.
https://blog.rfox.eu/en/Hardware/Cyberdecks.html
https://www.msx.org/wiki/Sakhr_AX-370
https://www.msx.org/wiki/Sanyo_WAVY_PHC-70FD