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I had one of these! You had to load the terminal software from the included cassette tape, pick up the telephone, dial the digits (literally, we didn't have TouchTone), wait for the Bell 103 handshake tones, then quickly unplug the handset and plug the cable into the modem. Set the handset aside so you don't accidentally hang up.

Then enjoy BBSing on the 22x23 display! Good times.

Makes sense this event is in LA- this this is designed to be a mobile media creation device. Most users don't care about most of the features that are highlighted in the press release, but someone creating any sort of visual media would.

And if you don't have rockets, you use SpaceX, like GlobalStar does.

"Welcome to the 42nd anniversary of Michael Jordan's first NBA game, brought to you by Kalshi!"

The modern WDC 65C02 is also way faster (up to 14MHz in the right conditions) than other 6502s of the era (usually 1-2MHz).

Those smaller / cheaper EVs might not be street legal in the US due to safety regulations: they need to allow occupants to survive a crash vs the massive monster trucks on American roads.

The BeBox was so cool. I'm surprised no gaming-oriented PC builder has replicated the CPU activity LEDs. The GeekPort was also fun- in my dorm someone on my floor had a BeBox and used the GeekPort to control a robot arm. At least that came back in the form of the Raspberry Pi GPIO connector.

I knew what this was before clicking on the link, but for a lot of people, it may be a 1053.

Welp, looks like it's time to re-rip / re-tag my CD collection at higher quality. Gives me a good reason to dust off some stuff (physically and virtually) that I haven't listened to in a while.

I had a fair amount of shares of TDFX back in the day, rode it all the way to their bankruptcy. NVDA bought the scraps and left retail shareholders like me with nothing. In a different reality, if 3dfx could have survived to the AI-era...

Should have been titled "Is Parallel Programming What Can You Hard, And, If So, Do About It?"