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How to impress the honey (mander.xyz)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Two aliens from a super advanced civilization.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Compared to most Kryptonians they're basically Tarzan.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Right? "BuT tHeYre nOt ReAdy"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

cue the global existential threat of the week

[–] [email protected] 22 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Hey, I have one of those!

Oh it’s a real thing. The frame seemed older than the 80s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Or "the 1900s," which is even more painful

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

But can it run Doom?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That keyboard looks painful to use...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What kind of GPU is in there?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It was actually a joke but is it an actual usable computer? What can it do?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I think it’s mostly for prototyping your own programs, which I haven’t tried yet. It comes with a wifi ssid snooper, and a like greeting card voice recorder/replayer. It’s credit card size, half inch thick. The back half is a removable battery expansion. The stamp has a usb c for data/charging. There’s WiFi, infrared blaster, sd card slot, expansion ports for other sensors. It’s nifty for sure, maybe someday I’ll find a use for it too.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

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

https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Disks/Games/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So they can write 8008135 in style

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

heh heh heh

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

They have pockets in their capes?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

In the comics they are always stealing things from the news stand and stashing it there. It's Superman's 2nd greatest weakness.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Pocket_Computer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Man that looks like an HP12-C.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

six ounces of big computing power...

I think this just broke my brain:-P.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

por que no los dos, wink 😉

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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