more info the things you can create with FPGAs Retrogaming is one thing — emulating an arcade machine or an Amiga to play your favorite games — but retrocomputing is something else entirely. Retrocomputing involves using actual hardware — tape drives, floppy disks, and computers powered by 1MHz processors — to poke your way around antiquated operating systems and once-bleeding-edge software packages like VisiCalc or Deluxe Paint.
Ahhh the good old days where something crawling under one of your keys would stop that key from working, so you would pull the whole thing apart and un-solder the key, twist the metal tabs and pray you could get it all back together again with the spring working... IF you remember to put the spring back in that is