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So SV always had a community of very wealthy nerds who could afford a used PDP-10 and its insane running and maintenance costs.
But... the community was always very small.
And today, the number of people with that kind of money and a similar nostalgic attachment to increasingly remote history is even smaller.
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So SV always had a community of very wealthy nerds who could afford a used PDP-10 and its insane running and maintenance costs.
But... the community was always very small.
And today, the number of people with that kind of money and a similar nostalgic attachment to increasingly remote history is even smaller.