Here's an examplecute
^and that was handsomehere's cute again
handsome
^cutehandsome
cute
>>4998490>olpc xo.jpgI remember way back when these things were first announced and I wanted to get one, because back then a portable computer was something I didn't have and $100 was a great price for it. But since then, and before this thing even came out, there was a flood of cheap netbooks, chromebooks, etc. While it was a great concept when it was announced, the industry as a whole made it pretty much obsolete before it even launched.I still kinda wouldn't mind having one anyway though. Their cheapness is nothing special, but I understand they're built to be rugged which makes them still kinda cool. Chromebooks and so on are cheap, but flimsy. So there might still be some niche for these.
>>4998566werent they intended to be used in thirdworld countries? i almost bought one from a friend of mine when I was big into linux.
>>5001525I raise you the Wii
1974 Commodore calculator.
>>5004315Fuck, that's some heavy nostalgia right there.
>>5004315beautiful design
The Legendary C64 - one of the oldest and most iconic PCs of all time.
>>5010298Interesting. Never heard of this one. Seems like it definitely predates the MSX/HitBit era. But it’s got those micro floppies. I’m guessing 82/83? Was it ever sold in the US?
OC
>>5011150
>>5011151
>>5010808>Was it ever sold in the US?Around October 1982.
>>4998490The maths grenade.
>>5013242wow that's nice. what OS is that?
DS.
NeXT.
>>5013339nta but i think that's solaris running an environment called SunView, a predecessor to CDE. What's also interesting is the Macintosh Application Environment, a fully featured 68k mac emulator released by Apple themselves to make it easier for developers to develop for the mac from a more serious workstation.
>>5004315final fantasy 8 is the one with the compression of time soundtrack. mesmerizingly beautiful piece
>>5014834
>>5027012impressive
>>4998490
>>5002699I wanted one of these so fucking bad back in the day.
>>5029760Overpriced gimmick.
>>5021614I would kill for a modern computer with a good keyboard
>>5036043>$800>i3-1315U
>>5036048M4 MacBook Pro.
so much sovl, makes you squirm in ecstatical joy.
Sex with Optiplex.Simple as.
>>5036291Apple's shitty cheap chicklet keyboards are what everyone else copied and the reason we can't have nice laptops anymore. the only "good" chiclet keyboard is the ThinkPads, and they're like a 4/10.Apple's keyboards are ass
Please
Come
Back
>>4998492>>4998495beauty
>>5002556wtf
>>5036754better picture
>>5033708True, but still.
>>5036328>>5036330>>5036331Greatest piece of hardware I ever had the privilege of owning.
>>5036822Unihertz makes specialty modern android phones with less common features, including physical keyboards. Specifically targeting Blackberry fans.
>>5036908It's over for them.
>>5036761i miss transparent tech
>>5036940That's also Unihertz, they just released what I would call a "normal sized phone" (except twice as thick for some reason). Remember back in like 2013-2017 when they made normal sized phones? Before they switched to making exclusively "Too big to be a useful phone, too small to be a useful tablet". Been waiting for that fad to die for years.Anyways, the Jelly max is transparent, and normal sized, with modern hardware/OS while still being (relatively) inexpensive.I didn't know about it until just now and if it wasn't that thick I'd be buying it instantly, but now I'm on the fence.Also I'm excluding Apple phones from the "normal size" discussion, because I've never felt comfortable enough with my sexuality to genuinely consider if I'd like sucking dick, and that's a prerequisite to owning Apple hardware.
>>4999823I fucking love this design, even though I don't like the console itself or the games it ran, for the most part. But it looks really cool.
>>5036908I had a Titan for a while. Good phone, but I eventually needed something faster.
>>5037098Ooh, never seen this before. Feels like it could have been an American MSX in an alternate reality
>>5039377I used to use a Dolch network analyzer that came in a very similar case
>>5039592Neither cute, nor handsome.
>>5039377
>>5039377Excellent table and chairs.
>>4998495Used these in the film aliens, always wanted one but like hens teeth.
>>4998495the anti-ADHD machineorange text on black backgroundonly basic apps
>>4998498bro I fucking love transparent plastic
>>4999823MASTER SYSTEM MENTIONED....
>>5013873
>>5042419>Atari-400-Comp.jpgWhile a 400 is certainly a step up from nothing, if you were well off and could afford it, the 800 was massively superior.Unfortunately, since the 400 had a larger install base, devs would typically design their stuff for that, and those programs would also work on the 800 but wouldn't take full advantage of its added features.Nonetheless, the 800's actual real keyboard is definitely a massive improvement over the membrane keyboard of the 400.
>>5042439The revised 800XL
>>5042453The STs were great because they had MIDI ports>>5042706mmm, brown...
>>5013802That's not a Teac. It's an Akai GX-4000D. Cool pic though
>>5012388>woe, sin be upon ye
>>5017427i miss this era of graphic design
>>5046293me too, anon, me too...
>>5026480
>>5036009Was this a powerful model in its era? What model is it?
Maid computer sexoooo aah
Why is it zoomies always post nostalgia breds?
>>5052787What are those?
>>5061719Fast breeder nuclear reactors.Jokes apart, they're GPD mini laptops.
>>5061732boy that's stupid. If you grasp the keyboard like a blackberry to type, your top heavy phone with tumble out of your hands.
>>5061728Thanks.
>>5064762AI-slop? srsly...
>>5066671https://liliputing.com/pocket-386-is-a-mini-laptop-for-retro-computing-with-support-for-dos-and-windows-95/
>>5066873i'm not saying it does not exist, bul some of the keys, and the logos on the right, are just botched upscaling
>>5070047MiniDiscs could have been so awesome, if Sony hadn't fucked it up with their greedy licensing policies.
>>5070203>>5070355These and this are the most aesthetic beige computers of all time, just wish the "Plus", "Power PC" etc. crap wasn't there, just the word "Macintosh" would be enough
>>5070355Throwback.
>>5070203>>5070355Don't forget the black one
>>5070360That would be extremely easy to photoshop out.
>>5072751I don't have photoshop, could you do it?
>>5070360What's annoying about it is there actually seems to be a version of this with "Macintosh" written below the Apple logo, I can only find low res pics of it though
>>5073064
>>5073070That looks a lot more aesthetic, vaporwave ready
>>5073076I would have made one more change...but eh, it's fine
>>5073078Do you mean how far the text is away from the Apple? That bothers me more than I thought it would have lol
>>5073114>Fixed
>>5073118Now that's perfect
>>5073120But wrong. The white space around the apple logo belongs to that logo as well.
>>5073076Literally appeared in a vaporwave mix
japanese DCR PC110 + mini dvr + fisheye
>>4998490Bought the BASIC cartridge, learned BASIC, got a "Computer Programming Assistant II" position at Hughes Aircraft Company, wrote code for engineering applications and parleyed it into an engineering position, retired at 55 as a "Senior Principal Engineer" with a $2.6M pension.Thanks Bally!
People still work in this...
Sony-Ericsson T610. The first good looking mobile phone.
>>5086468Its a shame Nintendo didn't keep their promises with that 64DD thing. If it had come out in the west instead of just in Japan, and if it had come out years earlier in the N64's life instead of at the tail end of it then it might have succeeded. This would have addressed a lot of the issues the N64 had with lack of storage space on the cartridges. While it isn't the same amount of storage as what a CD has, it still would have been a lot more than what the carts alone could do, so some stuff like FMV (though not as much) could have been done to some extent in the games. Maybe we'd have seen a lot more RPGs on the system instead of barely any. Maybe Nintendo wouldn't have lost the support of Square and others at this time. Who knows?This would have helped, but it came way too late and even then only in Japan. Nintendo promised much more than what they delivered.Oh yeah, and unlike CDs these disks were rewritable so that's another thing too. Would have had a lot of potential for user made content. We'll never know the full extent of what might have been.
>>5087455As much as it -could- have helped, I honestly don't think, as the 64DD was, it would have made a huge impact. Even with cart's limited space, the 4k of ram, etc. Where Nintendo really missed the ball was in supporting the 3rd party developers. Just like Sega's Saturn over-engineered where Sega did not help other devs in bringing the actual full potential (like getting actual transparency working) of the Saturn. Nintendo really needed to share in the more advanced SGI-stuff in the N64 (like micro-code) instead of keeping it for themselves and a select few devs. What the N64 needed was more devs that actually had somewhat of an understanding of how the silicon in the machine needed to be run so that the games could actually flow and fill in the many weak line-ups the N64 had, sometimes across it's entire life like the lack of RPGs in the system while the other two consoles (Even the Saturn!) were swimming in them, and thus give the competition a harder timeAs for the 64DD itself, I really feel it was too little of an add-on even if it had came out much earlier in the N64 life. Nintendo really needed to go all out and crazy on it and making it a truly worthy life-extending add-on, that's its to say, even more ram, actual 3D-boosting power on it or flat out turning the N64 into a SGI-Lite as if it was a INDY64 line of computers. Pic kind of related as, if the 64DD had actual SGI tech in it, even more RAM in the RAM expansion and the right stuff in the Dev-Cart, the N64 can reach surprising new levels of use.
>>5088168also I feel like they should call it something else like the "Nintendo 128" so it's not a wii/wii u kind of situation where parents think its just some minor accessory
a termostat...
>>5092819true luxury
>>5092956Yeah not kidding there. Still weird how the keyboard and the mouse were still kind of normal looking despite the cool custom boxes all around the SGI lines
>>5080869I used to make music on these!
>>5000350they were, and iirc they were made before before netbooks were more widespread, definitely before chromebooks were a thing. it first released in 2007, we were dirtpoor and i wanted one so bad lol
>>5002700>>5002699These things suck to use but extra-tiny devices with full keyboards look so good
>>5005618There's nothing stopping people from cheaply 3d printing cute shells for their electronics
>>5036027I wish they had a good netbook that wasn't overpriced chinesium
>>5060474I miss blackberry
>>5070355This was an awful machine for playing games
>>5009171What could you do with it?
>>5102656NTA but Gen X and grew up with them. it was just a very versatile, affordable computer that was everywhere-- schools, libraries, homes. It had the usual programs like word processing and spreadsheets, but also a lot of games. I remember learning BASIC on a C64 in fifth grade then playing Math Blaster. My mom got one for the house and I had Maniac Mansion, Star Wars (a port of the original arcade version), and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure. I believe it eventually got usurped by the Apple II, but for a while it was THE computer. In the US anyway..
comfy
>>5036822Without a doubt. The three-row keyboard with touch capacitance and soft keys on top was as good as it will ever get (way better than 9900 or Classic with more rows and toolbelt). I mourn mine every day. Stuck in a world where I have to have a smartphone but every smartphone totally sucks and is a pain to use. How inept was their leadership? Fucking Obama was a BB fanboy, they couldn't leverage that? They couldn't have paid the major apps tocreate BB versions?
Moar
>>5100739pretty sure there was even a 60 minutes segment about these little guys and how they would bolster connection in the third world
>>5116990interesting
Wut
>>4998490What exactly is the point of this thread?
