And I have to tell you, as a former publisher of hobbyist magazines,

A number of hobbyist systems are open to the public, including the Deathrow Cluster.

And I have to tell you, as a former publisher of hobbyist magazines, I find this strangely beautiful.

These radical ideas fueled its spread around the world and somewhat paradoxically its rise from a hobbyist experiment to the foundation of a large and thriving commercial ecosystem.

On early hobbyist computers, tricks like this were commonly used in the horizontal refresh interrupt to reprogram the scan line address to repeat each scan line 4 times for the video controller.

This shift allowed the satellite television DTH industry to change from being a largely hobbyist one where receivers were built in low numbers and complete systems were expensive (costing thousands of dollars) to a far more commercial one of mass production.