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This is such a great idea. Plug it into a tv and you have a PC. Plug in an SSD with movies and you have a media center, no extra assembly required!
by zatertip 6y ago
This is such a great idea. Plug it into a tv and you have a PC. Plug in an SSD with movies and you have a media center, no extra assembly required!
- petre 6y agoYup, FFW 38 years into the future and the Commodore 64 is reborn, only with a ~22 times lower price.
- weinzierl 6y ago> [...] with a ~22 times lower price ...and roughly 1800 times the clock speed. One millions times the colors that the C64 display[1]. It even comes with User Port (in spirit)[2]. [1] Yes, the number of colors a home computer could display was a major selling point back then. My C64 only hat 16, my friends CPC had 32, including the rad "Bright White" which enabled stunning effects. Man, I envied that. [2] Exposed GPIO header is super awesome and quite similar to the C64 User Port. Even more awesome was the Commodore's Expansion Port which basically exposed its bus. It think something like this would not be practically possible with today's GHz clock speeds but still this was super awesome and allowed (and required) you to even dig deeper into the internal workings of your machine.
- petre 6y ago> Exposed GPIO header is super awesome Yes but it should have probably been a female connector to prevent accidental shorts between pins. One can plug a female connector into it to use as a cap or 3d print a cap anyway.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoYeah but then you'd have to put a father connector (?) in it to connect any existing things that use the whole connector. Better to stick with what is standard for the platform.
- willis936 6y agoI can’t see myself sticking a hat directly into this machine. I think a female header with included male-male GPIO cable would have been nice. It’s not standard but fits within physical layer conventions.
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