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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)

"What's this machine do?"

"It is a dedicated word processor."

[–] Fontasia 9 points 5 days ago

I know you are not joking because it was only a week ago really good tech journalism site The Register did a walk through on making a dedicated Word 5.0 bootable USB

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/26/dos_distraction_free_writing/

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

"Ah sweet that's some sick retro tech!"

"Haha yea...retro..."

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 4 points 5 days ago

Now I understand what they use all those ThinkPads for