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   pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 11:25:51 JST pistolero

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   @fluffy @judgedread Oh, yeah, I mean, I used their shit in the 80s. This Model 100 that cannot be killed, Tandy contracted with NEC for it, it was sold (with slight modifications) locally as the PC-8201. NES still works great, but very few Ataris from the same time are still operable.
   
   US manufacturers had been shoveling horseshit into the market at the time. GE relegated itself to knockoff status for a couple of decades. Their response to the Japanese market dominance in the 80s was to shit on Japan instead of fixing their products.
   
   You crack open a machine from the 80s or 90s and you'll see chips made in the US, Germany, Japan. Crack open a current-year machine, though, and if there's a chip that wasn't made in China, it was probably made in Vietnam or Taiwan. The government, for whatever reason, is still actively discouraging chipfab from happening here, although they do pay lipservice to it occasionally by giving kickbacks to Intel (which has an incestuous relationship with the government that is as strong and as dirty as Google/Microsoft/Oracle).
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