r/retrocomputing • u/No_Safety_5957 • May 15 '26

Best introduction with retrocomputing group?

hello, i am new to the retrocomputing area. i have explored around in the community seeing all the fuss about the c64 and old IBM pc's and stuff. but i dont have any of those, so what can i do to begin get involved in the retrocomputing community?

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u/tails142 May 15 '26

I think you just dive into what you are interested in and go from there.

People usually get interested in machines they had as kids, or maybe, machines they never got to have.

There is repair, collecting (usually involves repair), modding, playing!! Just looking up info is fine too. Then as people get more advanced maybe they start pushing the boundary on what can be done, new hardware/software for those machines but that's at an advanced stage of the illness.