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'If you fire it up, there's a build of Civilization 1 on there': The PC that Sid Meier used to make the first Civilization has a whopping 16MB of memory and still works




gainst a wall in the lobby of the Firaxis office, there are two objects: An old leather desk chair, and an equally aged PC and CRT monitor in beautiful '90s beige. These obviously aren't just any old bits of retro junk. They're the kinds of relics game history archivists dream of, given how much has been lost over the years to bankruptcies, acquisitions, and carelessness...
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