Production has been outsourced to China in a bid to keep costs of the bare-bones machine in check.

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Silly games, a bare-boned word processor that helped me become a fledgling writer, and a machine to play around on and tinker with that helped shape a part of who I was as a person by shaping what I enjoyed to spend my time doing.

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If you don't have a spare machine lying around to serve duty as a file server, you can either get a cheapo bare bones PC to fill the role, or invest in an external storage solution.

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