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I like the string, but annoyed at it being described as "retrotech"?
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Johannes LDC Guerreiro 2 years ago retrotech eye candy!
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My appreciation of Madcow Cosmos' retrotech and always whimsical creations keeps growing and growing, but took a leap forward when I laid eyes on his newest: a baroque planetary - and orbiting - Lovecraft-ish system he's called Worlds of Industry.
Madcow Cosmos gets orbital Bettina Tizzy 2008
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If there were this few digital lines in the city, there was probably a retrotech transistor microphone planted somewhere in the booth he was sitting in, feeding data back to a mainframe at police headquarters.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
ry commented on the word retrotech
using old or vintage machinery, equipment, software, etc., either pragmatically or as a hobby. The "Computer Desktop Encyclopedia" at computerlanguage.com claims this is synonymous with retrocomputing and conflates (disputably, to my mind) these terms with steampunk.
Urbandictionary.com has:<blockquote><strong>Retrotech</strong> high tech aesthetic circa pre-1987. <em>I prefer to use Casio keyboards because they are so retrotech.</em> tags: retro, retro-tech, hi-fi, relic, kitsch</blockquote>cool word, but what I like most is the groovy, swell images in the flickr content below
January 19, 2013