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Oh hey, it's LGR. Love his videos.
Retro computing is such a big niche, which sounds oxymoronic, but somehow it feels true. People willing to pour so much money and dedication to, essentially, living in the past while also preserving it. I dig it, and I wish I had the cash to get into this hobby, because I grew up on 90's tech and have so many fond memories of the time.
In the meantime, I live vicariously through people like Clint and 8-Bit Guy and so on. And the occasional opening of DOSBox.
People willing to pour so much money and dedication to, essentially, living in the past while also preserving it.
totally! it's also impressive as a hardware nerd how durably the card looks like it's constructed; a 6-layer PCB when they could probably get away with 4, and tantalum electrolytic capacitors almost everywhere to (presumably) reduce capacitor microphonics from ceramic capacitors, keep solid tantalum capacitors from dramatically failing short, and still minimizing the number of electrolytic capacitors you'll have to replace in a decade or two.
I'm a software person, so I only know some of the words you've said, but it sounds like the gist is "the hardware design goes above and beyond", which is good to hear. Haha.
