Memories of old machines found in bargain basement
Josh
Tuesday
8:53 am
Over the weekend, my wife and I set out to replace our once-trendy, but now child-worn and drooping couches. Our voyages took us to classy furniture stores and bargain huts filled with both the desperation of commission-based salespeople and the gaping void of self-help big boxes.
Smells like 1990.
One particular place had a bargain basement which was like a time portal into the early ’90s. All of the furniture decked out in pine and hunter green accents.
I knew that I’d really stumbled across a find when I ran across an old IBM PS/2 Series 30, its once-proud beige corpse pressed into sad final service as a fake piece of office furniture.
My wife was both amazed and aghast at my cooing over the tough little machine time forgot. I planted a little smooch on the poor old case (hey, we all mourn the dead in our own way), and the smell of acrid plastic instantly took me back to study hall in high school, with 52 minutes to kill and a SimCity floppy hidden away in my backpack.
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Reader Comments
Aww, that was touching.
It’s true what they say… Your first love never goes away.
I think we can all just be glad it wasn’t a Commodore 64 in that basement. Let’s just say a kiss might not have sufficed.
GeekBot does not approve of this coupling.
The Josh has been warned.
That is all.
I’m a little uncomfortable… I don’t think I want to imagine if it was a Commodore 64…