Club 8-bit one of the largest collections of Soviet-era computers is destroyed (opens in new tab)

(engadget.com)

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I own 1000s of old home computers (including quite a few of soviet era clones) and I have them distributed in 3 places in west EU and still am worried about them getting destroyed or damaged. But I would never have thought of war destroying them; water, fire and just assholes is my usual go to. The human suffering is obviously worse, but these kind of things are tragedies added on top. First signs of escalation of this war, I am packing up at least one of my storages and moving them out of the eu just in case, with my family by the way.

techdragon3y ago

If you want a place to send them that’s politically, and geologically stable. I can recommended Western Australia. The only thing you need to worry about will be protection from the pretty mild weather (not even likely to get that bad with most climate change predictions). But I’m a little biased with living here haha

tluyben23y ago

Funny you say so; we are playing with the thought of moving to east AU (Queensland) as my business partner opened up a company and is looking for specific skills to join him there. I guess the weather will be more of a problem there as it is more humid and hotter as I understood from him.

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metadat3y ago

Wow that sucks, blunt force Russians didn't bother to make a map of cool things it might be nice for their kids to be able to visit.

Just imagine if that happened to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

It's all nothing compared to the ongoing suffering and loss of human life in Ukraine right now.

sreevisakh3y ago

Seems it's in Mariupol. While this loss is regrettable, Mariupol is very likely a huge kill zone, judging by the footage from there. The fact is that most of us are desensitized to that scale of tragedy and suffering.

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metadat3y ago

Wow that sucks, blunt force Russians didn't bother to make a map of cool things it might be nice for their kids to be able to visit.

Just imagine if that happened to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

It's all nothing compared to the ongoing suffering and loss of human life in Ukraine right now.

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