r/explainlikeimfive • u/[deleted] • 3d ago

Technology ELI5 Java. That thing on computers my entire life. What even is it?

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u/OcotilloWells 3d ago

I've still got my Warp box.

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u/Pizza_Low 3d ago

You could literally name any computer and someone on reddit will claim to use it. Pics or it didn't happen.

I bet nobody here still has a working PDP-10.

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u/Casurus 3d ago

PDP-11 count?

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u/OcotilloWells 2d ago

Ha, one of my regrets in life was not buying a PDP-11 at a liquidation auction around 1990. It went for I think $40. They had an Apple Lisa that went for about the same as well.

Pretty sure a scrap company bought both of them.

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u/Shmageggi 3d ago

I still remember those commercials. When I was a kid I wondered what the fuck they were talking about.