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Visual Basic Finally Supports Hardware
LegacySystems Post #3025 · source on Telegram

Visual Basic Finally Supports Hardware

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A real desk photo shows a black Lenovo ThinkPad laptop with a dark screen, cables attached, an external keyboard and mouse nearby, and bright windows behind it. The laptop is physically propped up on a thick yellow-and-green book whose visible upside-down title reads "Visual Basic 2008," with "Microsoft" visible on the spine and "Markt+Technik" branding on the cover. There is no overlaid text in the image itself. The joke is that an old Visual Basic reference book has found its most practical modern use as literal laptop support, turning legacy programming literature into ergonomic hardware.

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LegacySystems Languages TechHistory Hardware DeveloperExperience DX

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VisualBasic LegacyLanguages LegacyTech LegacyTools TechNostalgia TechHistory SoftwareHistory VisualPuns Hardware Workarounds DeveloperHumor Resourcefulness LiteralInterpretation LiteralismInTech

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Visual Basic may not run the stack anymore, but apparently it can still raise the platform.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Visual Basic may not run the stack anymore, but apparently it can still raise the platform.

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