[Off-Topic] Tech nostalgia

[fabien]

An electronic fad from the early 80's, portable LCD games

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║               -=RESCUE=-           ▄      ║
║                                  GAME A   ║
║ ///////////                        ▄      ║
║  ////////   \o/                  GAME B   ║
║  //////      |                            ║
║  ////       / \                           ║
║  ///                                      ║
║ //                                        ║
║/                                          ║
║                \____/                     ║
║     O                              O      ║
║   <LEFT                          RIGHT>   ║
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I drew as best I could

[bbbhltz]

@fabien the Tiger Electronics LCD games? You can till play them online here I think https://archive.org/details/handheldhistory

[cds60601]

Here's one.

[Hallvor]

I drew as best I could

Well done! Goodness, I almost forgot about those.

I had a game called "parachute" in the same series, and one where you would rescue people jumping from a burning building.

[wizard10000]

My first computer -



My second computer -

[pbear]

Does a circular slide rule count? That's the one I remember most fondly. Got me through high school physics in the mid-70s, at a time when we regular people couldn't afford electronic calculators.

If it needs a plug, my first PC was the original Compaq luggable. In 1984, $2500 with sharp bargaining. No hard drive, but had two double-sided, double-density floppy drives (woo-hoo); fully-loaded, 256K on the motherboard. Three expansion slots; used one to take RAM to 640K (the most DOS was ever able to use); another for a modem. A year later, used the third to add a hard drive (hurray!), a whopping 10 MB (vs a floppy which held 360K). Twelve years later, when finally sent the machine to the Great Recycling Bin in the Sky, still hadn't filled the hard drive. Just couldn't justify investing in yet another repair on what was by then a backup-backup computer.

Funny thing is, that era's word processing software (my main reason for getting a PC) was in many ways better than what we have now. Not as many features, of course, but better for writing. Oh, and cost $500 in 1984.