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Reminds me of when Iraq supposedly imported thousands of PS2s to make a supercomputer.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/12/20/iraq-scores-hordes-of-ps2s-at-us-gamers-expense
Maybe this is why it was so easy to get a PS2 in iraq. That's crazy, 20 years later and mystery solved for me.