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My dream computers tend to be handheld personal organizers with secret backdoors to the internet or hidden hacking features. They usually have strange monochrom

My dream computers tend to be handheld personal organizers with secret backdoors to the internet or hidden hacking features. They usually have strange monochrome displays. I love these dreams and wake up with with an intense sense of loss. My android phone is a million times more capable but doesn't spark the childlike hunger I feel for my mystical dream handhelds.

andrepd 4y ago
There's something about constrained computing environments isn't there?
karmakaze 4y ago
I do feel for those sensibilities. It's like steampunk trying to realize the character in the waking world--but not quite with the full suspension of disbelief. I got psyched by a dream once, I woke from a dream pleased to realize that the crystal structure from the dream was still here with me. I remember saying (while looking up at the structure), "That's nice usually when you wake up from a dream you don't get to keep things". Then I woke up.
shakna 4y ago
Some of the most silly fun I've had is with KnightOS [0], on a tiny TI-83+. A calculator, monochrome screen, but with a full C compiler on board, but available memory measured in kilobytes. [0] https://knightos.org/ https://knightos.org/
anthk 4y ago
A PocketChip like device with an Alpine/OpenWRT like OS with a QWERTY keyboard and a clamshell design. But cheap, no more than $100, unlike the OpenPandora.
- bitwize 4y ago
  So like a Ben NanoNote, then?
  - anthk 4y ago
    Mmhh, no. I had a zipit z2, and it was close. Something with a better and slightly bigger keyboard, with the size of a Nintendo DS. Enough to SSH confortabilty and run stuff well under CWM.
BirAdam 4y ago
Clockwork Pi stuff may interest you. I have their DevTerm with an R01 SoM. It's fun and reminds me of older stuff.
- csdvrx 4y ago
  https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/devterm-kit-r01 https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/devterm-kit-r01
rzzzt 4y ago
Zero Terminal v3 from N.O.D.E.: https://n-o-d-e.net/zeroterminal3.html https://n-o-d-e.net/zeroterminal3.html

andrepd 4y ago

There's something about constrained computing environments isn't there?

karmakaze 4y ago

I do feel for those sensibilities. It's like steampunk trying to realize the character in the waking world--but not quite with the full suspension of disbelief. I got psyched by a dream once, I woke from a dream pleased to realize that the crystal structure from the dream was still here with me. I remember saying (while looking up at the structure), "That's nice usually when you wake up from a dream you don't get to keep things". Then I woke up.

shakna 4y ago

Some of the most silly fun I've had is with KnightOS [0], on a tiny TI-83+. A calculator, monochrome screen, but with a full C compiler on board, but available memory measured in kilobytes. [0] https://knightos.org/ https://knightos.org/

anthk 4y ago

A PocketChip like device with an Alpine/OpenWRT like OS with a QWERTY keyboard and a clamshell design. But cheap, no more than $100, unlike the OpenPandora.

bitwize 4y ago
So like a Ben NanoNote, then?
- anthk 4y ago
  Mmhh, no. I had a zipit z2, and it was close. Something with a better and slightly bigger keyboard, with the size of a Nintendo DS. Enough to SSH confortabilty and run stuff well under CWM.

BirAdam 4y ago

Clockwork Pi stuff may interest you. I have their DevTerm with an R01 SoM. It's fun and reminds me of older stuff.

csdvrx 4y ago
https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/devterm-kit-r01 https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/devterm-kit-r01

rzzzt 4y ago

Zero Terminal v3 from N.O.D.E.: https://n-o-d-e.net/zeroterminal3.html https://n-o-d-e.net/zeroterminal3.html