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Ahh, nice. The Jupiter Ace is one of the great "someone really made that a product?" things, lost to history. It had a flimsy shell and bad keys from what I re
by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Ahh, nice.
The Jupiter Ace is one of the great "someone really made that a product?" things, lost to history. It had a flimsy shell and bad keys from what I remember reading, but it's amazing it became a product at all.
There's a lot more of this stuff going on again in the microcontroller world; perhaps partly out of reminiscence.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoDesigned by two of the people who designed the ZX81 and Spectrum. It was a nerd-fantasy product designed by two unusually clever people to scratch their own itch, with no thought to ecosystem, culture, media support, visual design, or product-market fit. And then it ran into production difficulties. They still managed to sell a few thousand, but it was never going to be a huge success. One of those unfortunate situations where high IQ - clearly available - didn't correlate with business sense.
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoRight. Really utter madness in so many ways but a thing of its time. I am reminiscing right now about two whole volumes of the Orbis collectible magazine, The Home Computer Course. I believe I have a complete set stashed away; it has amazing photos of the insides of all of these machines, including the Jupiter Ace.