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        Sometimes I wish I’d had one and some books back in the day. How different life might have been. Eventually, a 68k was nice, but actual documentation was hard to come by where I grew up. Didn’t actually really learn to use assembly before 8051 classes much later.

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          9 months ago

          Yea, we’ve got it so easy today. These kids have no idea :-P

          But seriously, I’m sorry that sucks. I happened to be lucky enough with an uncle-in-law’s dad being an EE and just literally gave me a bunch of 6502 development stuff (by that time it was reasonably dated and he had retired). I also got lucky to live in a place where the libraries has tech and programming books that were pretty decent. Had those two things not been there, it would have been a very different story.

          I try to pay that forward any way I can by taking part in the local tech/invention/science fair thing. Hopefully to be there to show youngsters how wonderful and interesting tech can be.

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    9 months ago

    I like this guy. If you’re into retro computing, Ben Eater, who was mentioned in this video, has an awesome channel too: one of his video series involves making a computer from scratch on a breadboard using one of these bad boys (65c02, I think)

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      9 months ago

      8-bit guy is a politically-active gun-nut, and apparently also just a rather unpleasant creep. Take it for what you will.

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        For what it’s worth, he quit the worst of his gun-nuttery once he realized how insane every one else who was into that scene was, and when the school shootings really took off. He posted a mea culpa video the last time everything blew up explaining how he left those politically active groups.

        Not saying you have to like him or agree with his views but he did change his mind about a lot of things.

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        He doesn’t bring politics into his videos but he knows his shit and contributes enough to the retroscene with Active development.

        I appreciate that much of him at least