Two aliens from a super advanced civilization.
How to impress the honey
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 7 months ago
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Compared to most Kryptonians they’re basically Tarzan.
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.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 7 months ago
How to impress your cousin you mean
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Both of those being the same thing is still legal most places.
barsquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Krypton is more like Alabama than we could have guessed.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 7 months ago
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.
awesomesauce309@midwest.social 7 months ago
perishthethought@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Oh, “the late twentieth century” as someone said to me recently? It was eons ago.
StellarExtract@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Or “the 1900s,” which is even more painful
Hubi@feddit.org 7 months ago
But can it run Doom?
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
That keyboard looks painful to use…
hate2bme@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What kind of GPU is in there?
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.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Ok, ok lets get to the meat and potatos. BUT CAN IT RUN DOOM?
tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
It looks like none of the TRS-80s could run Doom. But they did have tons of games:
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
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.
Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
So they can write 8008135 in style
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 months ago
heh heh heh
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
They have pockets in their capes?
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.
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.
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!
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 months ago
That’s not a TRS-80. What are they trying to pull?
Morphit@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Looks like the first TRS-80 Pocket Computer: www.trs-80.org/pocket-computer-1/
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.
OpenStars@discuss.online 7 months ago
six ounces of big computing power…
I think this just broke my brain:-P.
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.
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?
OpenStars@discuss.online 7 months ago
por que no los dos, wink 😉
meanmedianmode@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wait, isn’t that an HP12-C?
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.
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
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.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
These were my first exposure to programming! I did those on a DOS system.
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.
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.
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.
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.