sod this really thin laptops trend, I want like, two ethernet interfaces, 6 USB ports, RS232, a headphone jack, expresscard, smartcard, maybe something to read vhs tapes

@darcywitchgang
I agree with everything but the install gentoo, which IMO took the awesomeness from it and turned it into a joke.
@bhtooefr @troubleMoney

@rick_777 @darcywitchgang @troubleMoney IIRC it was mocking the whole 25th Anniversary ThinkPad survey process and the community's reactions to it

there was also this
@troubleMoney @rick_777 @darcywitchgang IIRC there's a stage of z/OS installation on modern IBM mainframes that involves punch cards

...and a lot of z/OS job control involves punch cards, too

of course, the punch cards and their reader don't actually exist, but everything was written around using punch cards in the 1960s, and everything is still based on that old stuff, so they have to emulate all of it
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