• @ikidd
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    31 day ago

    I built one of these with my dad. I think he still has it around somewhere.

    Cool little computer but the software was limited.

  • @reddig33
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    2 days ago

    That damned Mylar keyboard. Easy to clean, horrible to use. Atari 400 has the same problem.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yep. Tried one at a family friend’s house with a RAM expansion pack hanging off the back that kept disconnecting because it was such a wobbly connection, and heavier than the computer itself. Then there was the fact it was only black & white. Seemed a really unreliable PITA, so I was iffy about getting one.

      Then Captain Kirk advertised the VIC-20, and I was sold.

  • @Dadifer
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    72 days ago

    Oh shit, that’s cool. Did any of you guys do this?

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      Yup! I remember it so well. I even remember seeing this ad in a magazine and begging my dad to order it… I was 10 years old, and built it with him.

      I also remember going to a home computer sale event in my hometown. No shops were selling computer stuff in that town yet. Men with beards and long hair laughing that I was buying 1k Chess to play on my new computer.

      The location for that sale was turned into public toilets.

    • @ApollosArrowOP
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      62 days ago

      This was sadly before my time. One of the people in the original post did have one though.