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RetroBytes • November 22, 2025

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Welcome to RetroBytes We will be repairing old systems, looking at retro networking tech, making terrible jokes, reviewing old systems, and whatever retro goodness appeals to me sufficiently to make a video. If you watch any of the videos please feel free to like and subscribe, as it will encourage me to make more. We now have a website on which news about the channel is now posted https://retrobytes.net You can also tweet us as @bytesretro

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