{"id":1027833,"date":"2026-08-11T07:38:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027833"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:07:49","slug":"as-ai-grips-world-the-thrill-of-collecting-vintage-computers-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/as-ai-grips-world-the-thrill-of-collecting-vintage-computers-is-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"As AI grips world, the thrill of collecting vintage computers is growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Software engineer Josh Dersch loves old computers. He spends countless hours tinkering in his garage, trying to coax decades-old machines back to life. He estimates he owns more than 200 vintage computers and devices in his Seattle home. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always been fascinating to me to see the origins of things,&#8221; Dersch said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a fun challenge to debug and repair. You can understand the entire system from top to bottom.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software engineer Josh Dersch loves old computers. He spends countless hours tinkering in his garage, trying to coax decades-old machines back to life. He estimates he owns more than 200 vintage computers and devices in his Seattle home. &#8220;It&#8217;s always been fascinating to me to see the origins of things,&#8221; Dersch said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a fun challenge to debug and repair. You can understand the entire system from top to bottom.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027860,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027833\/revisions\/1027860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}