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Stay in school.

(Reprint from a few years back.] Recently, there was an article about how you could be more efficient with older computers posted on a forum I visit. The young kids who use computers as phallic symbols disdained the article as being hog wash. I responded with the following comment: Basic laws of electricity and electronics are still the same. No one has improved on the basic digital one and zeros yet….. (+5v and 0v). Sometimes I wish I could take certain people back to the time of punch cards when monitors were not even invented yet. They might appreciate all technology a bit more. It is amazing how many people are doing retro projects in the hacking scene, so there has to be some value in even in legacy equipment. For that matter, Arduino units and the like are a big thing now. By the time you add all the whiz bang upgrades your are at the size of an old pc. Why not just save money and use an old pc mb to begin with. For sure, you are less likely to be sued for ...