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  1. Posted

    IIRC it was in 1978.  The Model I kiosk was in front of the store.  The folks had come to town for shopping and I always headed to Radio Shack for parts, new gadgets... as well as to use my handy dandy "Radio Shack Battery Card(s)". 😄  I stood in front of that thing for a couple of hours the first time.  My Dad eventually came and got me as he knew exactly where I would be.  When he saw what I was playing with, he let my tardiness slide that time.  Years later I would get a Model III... which I bought in Canada for a very specific reason.

  15. Posted

    "Back in the day" there we all kinds of advertisements in print media and on TV for the TI-99/4A.  Micropendium, Home Computer Magazine, Computer Shopper, you name it, it seemed like there was always an advertisement for something 'cool' during the 81-83 time frame.  Now some of those catalogs were well done, others looked like a Xerox nightmare, of course the TV advertisements always looked polished.  These days, there are a lot of guys making YouTube videos, many of them for the TI.  Now these days nearly everyone has a camera and a word processor on their PC, so they and can make stuff much better than some companies/individuals were putting in magazines back then.

     

    Now, with the above in mind, why not a 'modern day' advertisement thread?  You really don't have to have anything for sale, but it would be neat if people picked out one of their favorite items and made a print style or TV type advertisement for their 'product'.  It can be anything really, old new, hell even Zero Zap!  I think this might be fun and kick up the nostalgia meter a notch or two.  Anyone want to have a little fun with this?

  17. Posted

    5 minutes ago, arcadeshopper said:

    That may be true but new in the box mitsumi keyboards never used are already bad with no use

    Sent from my LM-V600 using Tapatalk
     

     

    Yeah, but they are at least 37 years old.  I dunno about you, but I know I have less than that ahead of me.

  18. Posted

    16 minutes ago, arcadeshopper said:

    There's also the fact that if you make a membrane keyboard replacement membrane it's just going to go bad sooner or later leaving you in the same boat that you're in now

    Sent from my LM-V600 using Tapatalk
     

     

    This may be true, but considering how long they took to self destruct the first time, many of us here will already be dead when that happens.

  23. Posted

    I wonder though, is it really 'green' to keep an old computer running daily online tasks?  How much power does it use as opposed to a new computer?  How much longer does it take to display a page on a memory restricted system?  Is the extra required "on time" figured into the power usage calculations?  Depending on the task required, an older computer might actually be more of a power hog, especially if it's got an older CRT attached.

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  24. Posted

    1 hour ago, blackbox said:

    The net is getting to be like that with sites for no reason at all refusing to serve you content!!

     

    Yeah, there are places now that will not even let you connect if you are using a VPN.  That's fine by me, because places that want to deny me privacy are places I'd rather not go. 

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  25. Posted

    38 minutes ago, atrax27407 said:

    ... "the latest and greatest" but not the most functional system.

     

    Agreed!  Over the past few years the latest has been the greatest giving us many more capabilities... and I've loved second of it.  In this one instance though, I'm going to lock my software for it in place.

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