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How to impress the honey

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Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • JerkyChew@lemmy.one ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had this comic book, it was a special edition sold at Radio Shack when I was a kid. And yeah that pocket computer was just a big calculator that had a lot of keys.

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    • brianary@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I had that computer, and it was much more than a calculator, unless you mean a modern programmable one. This one could be programmed in BASIC. It also had a receipt-sized printer you could get.

      youtube.com/watch?v=NQheo52J3BM

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    • TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There was a book series called Micro Adventures that featured a kid named Orion who used a TRS-80. There were BASIC programs in the books that you could run if you had a TRS-80.

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      • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        These were my first exposure to programming! I did those on a DOS system.

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or rather it was a pocket compute-er. It’s very primitive compared to a modern computer but it’s still a computer.

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      • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The first computers took up entire rooms and they could only do about as much as a calculator. There was a point in time that having a computer do multiplication and long division for you saved you hours of time because the alternative was have 2 or 3 people do it by hand and then compare to check for mistakes.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Me too! Wow that takes me back. Wonder if it’s still floating around mom’s house.

      Just looked at eBay, seems there were a few.

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    • turtlepower@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you remember the Radio Shack comic? I think it was called “The Whiz Kids” or something like that. I had a few issues of that and felt like the coolest little nerd ever.

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  • TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Two aliens from a super advanced civilization.

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Compared to most Kryptonians they’re basically Tarzan.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I always think it’s funny when Superman actually learns Kryptonian science and then doesn’t share it with anyone.

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  • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How to impress your cousin you mean

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    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Both of those being the same thing is still legal most places.

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    • barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Krypton is more like Alabama than we could have guessed.

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      • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvvHPE8VjcA

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m imagining Superman’s Krptonian family all arriving via their space pods to a family reunion where they, and the holograms of their parents, geek out over 80’s human tech.

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  • awesomesauce309@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hey, I have one of those!

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    • perishthethought@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, “the late twentieth century” as someone said to me recently? It was eons ago.

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      • StellarExtract@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Or “the 1900s,” which is even more painful

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    • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But can it run Doom?

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    • Snowpix@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That keyboard looks painful to use…

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    • hate2bme@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What kind of GPU is in there?

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      • awesomesauce309@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The stamp in the top right is the entire removable motherboard. I put my cardputer on a shelf when it got here and I haven’t gotten around to it yet. M5 stack is pretty cool, and I wish I understood it more.

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  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok, ok lets get to the meat and potatos. BUT CAN IT RUN DOOM?

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It looks like none of the TRS-80s could run Doom. But they did have tons of games:

      colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Disks/Games/

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  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The capes have pockets?? Can’t say that’s a bad idea. Velcro closing pockets would be handy

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had one of these in grade nine! An uncle gifted me this calculator in my first year of high school. I was smart … but not smart enough to know how use one of these or to realize that it might be a thing to keep. I used it for a year and it promptly disappeared after that.

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  • Sabre363@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So they can write 8008135 in style

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    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      heh heh heh

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  • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They have pockets in their capes?

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    • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He uses it once … then crushes it with his hands into a small diamond that he drops into his belt later.

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    • buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, they’ve featured them in a number of comics. I don’t recall if it had ever been featured in any other media.

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  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The 8-Bit Guy has a nice video covering the functionality of a number of such devices. They’re fascinating bits of kit – they’re like calculators you can type BASIC programs into. One of them can even be hooked up to a pen plotter to make graphs on paper – it can even graph in 3D!

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not a TRS-80. What are they trying to pull?

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    • Morphit@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Looks like the first TRS-80 Pocket Computer: www.trs-80.org/pocket-computer-1/

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tandy slapped the TRS-80 label on a lot of things that had nothing to do with the original TRS-80 design. The Color Computer line was marketed under that brand, for instance, despite being a completely different, incompatible architecture.

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  • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    six ounces of big computing power…

    I think this just broke my brain:-P.

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    • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Most folks don’t know that all the Tandy’s computers utilized a liquid quantum substrate as their processors.

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    • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is that six ounces of computing power in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

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      • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        por que no los dos, wink 😉

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  • meanmedianmode@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait, isn’t that an HP12-C?

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