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Comix-35 Home Computer

44 pointsby sawarunaalmost 5 years ago

5 comments

reaperduceralmost 5 years ago
Going a bit off topic here, but I love that it&#x27;s called a &quot;Home Computer.&quot;<p>Computers used to be a family thing. Back then it was a bit of a status symbol to have a &quot;computer room&quot; for the family &quot;home computer,&quot; and many a den or library or spare bedroom in middle America was converted to being The Computer Room. The ads on TV and in magazines showed families gathered around this new wonder machine, and even in my dysfunctional household that really happened. Family members who wouldn&#x27;t normally speak to one another would come together at the home computer.<p>Today, we have &quot;personal computers.&quot; A term which evokes a more &quot;me and mine&quot; vibe, rather than an &quot;ours&quot; ethos. We picked up the &quot;PC&quot; term from the business world, where it was an important distinction that each person could have a computer, rather than rely on the company&#x27;s shared resources. But that term should have stayed in the office.<p>There&#x27;s a reason that early video game machines, and even some computers, had four controllers — because people would come over to your house and you did things as a group with other human beings. That&#x27;s why everyone had candy dishes in the living room and guest towels in the bathroom — in case &quot;company&quot; came over.<p>Now, the state-of-the-art is being locked alone in the dark in a &quot;media room&quot; with goggles and headphones in your own cocoon, shutting out the real world, and the human beings in it.
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0xcde4c3dbalmost 5 years ago
Oddly enough, the CDP1802 CPU appears to still be an active product via Rochester Electronics, although the peripheral chips aren&#x27;t.
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jasciialmost 5 years ago
Ah, the venerable 1802, the stackless wonder! My first computer was an 1802 based project published in a dutch radio amateur magazine called the &quot;The Cosmicos&quot; mostly build using &quot;engineering samples&quot; I begged of of manufacturers. Good times!
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jhallenworldalmost 5 years ago
I&#x27;m impressed that he could find keycaps:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;product&#x2F;B083L6FVPN&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;product&#x2F;B083L6FVPN&#x2F;</a>
jandresealmost 5 years ago
Am I crazy or is there no enter key on that keyboard?
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