- nokia's snake would say phone gaming existed long before the nintendo ds. mobile gaming existed long before nokia with palm and psion having a fair number of games. nintendo game and watch and gakken had mobile gaming in the 80s pretty sewn up.
- i do love the old keyboards more than modern ones. but one thing that would drive me bonkers is the arrow keys on that board. i'm too spoiled by the inverted t on modern keyboards.
of course i'm looking at the release of the zx spectrum clone and love it but do wonder if they had to duplicate was considered for a long time the worst keyboard in computer history. :-)
- bmonkey325 400 days agoAt least there are dedicated keys. Many other computers of the era made you do meta key combinations to get arrow keys.
- i also recommend micro men from 2009 as a drama recreation of the era.
- a form factor i hope catches on and sticks around. i'd love something like this for games but capable of running linux. just add a keyboard and you have a tiny display laptop. would be nice if someone made a standard dock so you can connect one to a decent keyboard and save carrying something to hold it at right angle.
- even into the 1990s i knew a few companies that kept typewriters around as they were better/easier for typing up addresses on envelopes.
- distraction free computing. your computer did 1 thing at a time. your attention was focused on that one single task to the exclusion of everything else. no interruptions, no distractions of emails, messages, web.
your computer was secure, it was connected to nothing but a few peripherals. now it's constantly connected to an insecure network that is looking for new and clever ways to find your identity to steal, your credit card information to sell and abuse.
- can be found here https://winworldpc.com/product/borland-pascal/7x
- fabulous machine but at 700 euros it's too pricey.
- i await the day when such a device has a single usb socket to power and connect it and contains not just an sd card reader but the hardware to emulate the computer itself and still fit on a keyring. plug it into a hub/dock with a keyboard mouse and display and the entire computer is ready to go. :-)
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so i had to explain that it was a gathering of every computer advert from every company with a tiny magazine scattered throughout it's pages. i showed her that that month it went index, 50 or so pages of adverts, news section, 50 pages of adverts, reviews, 50 pages of adverts. articles on minor platforms between blocks of adverts and then columns followed by some more adverts.
it was dead handy for finding obscure hardware and software in a time before the internet. and as the internet is filling with a.i. slop i hope someone finds a way to make a profitable curated list which is as useful as computer shopper was in it's heyday.