2020-03-04 at 2:43 AM UTC
Wariat
Marine/Preteen Biologist
anyone know if these things would still be usedul today fo anything? like wordproxessing on the go in your local coffee shop or something as you bust one out?
2020-03-04 at 2:48 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
you could hook a standard arduino/esp board up to a display and have more processing power nowadays
2020-03-04 at 2:51 AM UTC
Wariat
Marine/Preteen Biologist
but it wouldnt be portable and you wouldnt look like a badass hipster at starbucks busting on of these retro vitnage laptops out would ya? and thst is the whole point the hipster aspect of them.
2020-03-04 at 2:55 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
The TRS-100 would be difficult to do anything productive with even if it didn't have such a small LCD (yes LCD, not TFT that gets called LCD nowadays) screen, and the osborne is like 15kg without much more in terms of capability
2020-03-04 at 3:04 AM UTC
Wariat
Marine/Preteen Biologist
like I said. word processing and 14.4k online access?
2020-03-04 at 3:04 AM UTC
Wariat
Marine/Preteen Biologist
woulndt they still be useful for journalists?
2020-03-04 at 3:07 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
I'm going to build a circuit that gives me an electric shock every time I try to respond to one of your threads seriously
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2020-03-04 at 3:13 AM UTC
Wariat
Marine/Preteen Biologist
but you havent answered my wuestion about why they wouldnt be useful for journalists doing interviews and note twking on the go or word processing have you?
2020-03-04 at 3:21 AM UTC
Wariat
Marine/Preteen Biologist
speaking of which what about the original mac powerbook? would it be useful today? also they should make a windows 10 version stripped down to make it compatible with compaq tc1100 and other legcay systems and tablets that were ahead of their time.
