1. Do you play games other than flight sims(Especially RPGs)?
2. Do you collect old hardware?
3. Do you have a server in your house?
4. Have ever built a computer at home?
5. Have you grown up with a C64/Amiga and look back with nostalgia at the 8bit days?
6. Do you own a Pocket Computer from the 80s?
7. Do you even know what I'm talking about?
1. No.
2. A few cubic meters of old staff. I still can build an XT on my knee in a matter of minutes. I never waste any old working hardware. Working in Academy of Science I often have our good old Soviet scientists coming and begging for a replacement for their 386 that came with some kind of HP gadget that can't work with modern PCs. People call me "Computer necrophil"
3. No server in my apartment. I am against having a 'puter at home, and have one only to watch DivX movies on a 29" TV.
4. At home - no more then 5-10 PCs back in the times when I was unemployed and HAD to do it at home.
5. The first computer I played on was my friend's Spectrum-48. The first computer I worked on was a DVK-1, IIRC it was a Soviet PDP-9 clone. I still have a diploma of a ES-EVM (Soviet IBM-360 clone) operator. Perforated cards were cool.
6. MK-54 at my Father's house. Programmed directly in machine codes. Played different "games" on it, like "Moon landing", and the whole "Moon-Earth" space travel from "Tekhnika-molodezhi" ("Technics for the youth") magazine back in 1985-87. Probably still have most of the programms in a 1024 command EPROM cartridge for it. The "pocket PC" you posted here was called MK-85 here, and it was exteremely expensive, maybe 350 rubles, and almost impossible to get. In my college years one of the guys in my group had one, and we calculated semester works for all the group on it.
7. Oh yes. Unfortunately.
