Last night, I introduced my 12 year old niece to my IBM PC Portable. Her favorite part was the keyboard, and she wanted to know why BASIC needed line numbers in 10 digit increments. She also said that she felt strongly that I should make it run Undertale because of how retro it looks. She doesnt quite grok the limits of 512 kB of RAM, DOS 3.2, and an Intel 8086 processor... #retrocomputing

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