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Massive (Belated) Congratulations to Stephen Kitt!

Thanks Matt! It’s been a pleasure contributing to this site.
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Do we Draw a Line at Books?

We already have books with 30 questions; many of them are questions about something read in a book, but there are a few book identification questions in addition to the new one which prompted your que …
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Clubs/meetups: in scope?

I'd say it's off-topic. On the one hand, such meetups are of interest to retro enthusiasts (so as you say, it's not totally unrelated). On the other hand though, answers to this question would have …
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BASIC tags: Dialect or Machine?

The linked question is about measuring time on Atari 8-bit computers, using Atari BASIC. The question contains a number of screenshots of different dialects of BASIC, but they are just benchmarks from …
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Is Intel Itanium on-topic here?

If we follow the criteria given in What constitutes "retro"? (which aren’t necessarily definitive of course), Merced would qualify as retro, but Itanium 2 and later wouldn’t. Kittson (no relation) cam …
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Are questions about Windows 2000 on-topic for this site?

I’d argue that Windows 2000 questions are prima facie on-topic. Quoting Robert Cartaino’s “foundational” answer to What constitutes "retro"?, Retrocomputing is the use of older computer hardware and …
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Unpinning accepted answers

(This discussion is only relevant for the main site; I think that the meta site should pin accepted answers, but that would be a separate discussion. …
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