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abandonware empires
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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Not just science, factory equipment that needs ancient computers to function too. If you've ever wondered why some old PC parts are surprisingly expensive on eBay…
Out of curiosity, I ran through some sample quizzes of the A+ exam a while back. Managed to pass, but I had to dig out a lot of my old knowledge about IDE master/slave setups and COM port settings and the like. That may be partially due to A+ being a silly, meaningless cert, but it's pretty clear there is a need for that crap still.