Dude you help me recover a core memory. My family did missionary things to Indian reservation such as build new a school,community center that was a really big facility because my dad was into construction. So we stayed over in a basement in this house one trip out to South Dakota, and in the basement a kid showed off something like fisher price computer, or on a fisher price furniture. What stood out about that computer from my memories is that it had a child focus like GUI, and that kid was bragging that he could send emails to his friends/family. I don't remember the kid itself, I forgot what he looked like but I remember him showing off the computer. Also I recall seeing a garbage disposal device for the sink for the first time in my life in that same house. I think this is it device because i recall watching that Imax movie about the burning Iraq oil wells on their giant projection TV, and that movie came out around 2001.
I had one of those mail stations when I was a kid. Once the Dial Up was dead I used it as a sort of PDA where I wrote some of my stuff there. Then they got stuck there because there was no LPTE printer available at home. And the device was thrown away or given away. Can’t remember, I wish I had this knowledge back then….
**AWESOME sunlight readable display **Can't use outside because it relies on a phone line **Forgot to put the storage in **Stuck to using OUR ISP or else!!! **Silicon Valley must have made it
I wonder if one can pull the LCD out of this and play videos on it. There's a video where someone did that and it looks pretty cool. Sort of like the videonow.
I also got one of these around 2004, and I absolutely hated it. The keyboard was awful, iirc the parallel port only ran at 9600baud max, and it felt cheap to type on. Totally not worth the $5.
I would remove that screen and put a slightly larger touchscreen in there and remove the motherboard and put a raspberry pie or tiny pc in there and use it as a raspberry pi computer or as a keyboard for a regular computer that also has a touchscreen menu with the top but I’m not sure if the keyboard is nice to type on so that might not be a good idea. But using it as a raspberry pi laptop would probably be the best bet as long as you get a screen that’s at least twice as high. This is a cool video though thanks!
A better solution would have been buying an old PC and putting Tandy Deskmate for DOS on it. It would have been easier to use, more functional, and cheaper. It's what my "parents" used. The Laser PC6 (as talked about by the 8Bit Guy) had more functionality for a third of the price.
Dude you help me recover a core memory. My family did missionary things to Indian reservation such as build new a school,community center that was a really big facility because my dad was into construction. So we stayed over in a basement in this house one trip out to South Dakota, and in the basement a kid showed off something like fisher price computer, or on a fisher price furniture. What stood out about that computer from my memories is that it had a child focus like GUI, and that kid was bragging that he could send emails to his friends/family.
I don't remember the kid itself, I forgot what he looked like but I remember him showing off the computer. Also I recall seeing a garbage disposal device for the sink for the first time in my life in that same house.
I think this is it device because i recall watching that Imax movie about the burning Iraq oil wells on their giant projection TV, and that movie came out around 2001.
Thanks for the great video. That white one looks nice.
Interesting. I no longer have any hardware with parallel printer ports, but will remember this video in case that changes. Merry Christmas 🎁🎄
Merry Christmas to you too!
I had one of those mail stations when I was a kid. Once the Dial Up was dead I used it as a sort of PDA where I wrote some of my stuff there.
Then they got stuck there because there was no LPTE printer available at home.
And the device was thrown away or given away. Can’t remember, I wish I had this knowledge back then….
**AWESOME sunlight readable display
**Can't use outside because it relies on a phone line
**Forgot to put the storage in
**Stuck to using OUR ISP or else!!!
**Silicon Valley must have made it
Looks like a great thing to gut and use an ESP32 or Pico to make a compact WriterDeck.
ah i could never gut this thing. It's too interesting to me as a historical footnote.
Can't even load the CD Drive properly
This was a great video. More obsolete hardware videos please.
I wonder if one can pull the LCD out of this and play videos on it. There's a video where someone did that and it looks pretty cool. Sort of like the videonow.
I also got one of these around 2004, and I absolutely hated it. The keyboard was awful, iirc the parallel port only ran at 9600baud max, and it felt cheap to type on. Totally not worth the $5.
I'm always learning more stuff. Thanks for the video
Glad it helped.
I would remove that screen and put a slightly larger touchscreen in there and remove the motherboard and put a raspberry pie or tiny pc in there and use it as a raspberry pi computer or as a keyboard for a regular computer that also has a touchscreen menu with the top but I’m not sure if the keyboard is nice to type on so that might not be a good idea. But using it as a raspberry pi laptop would probably be the best bet as long as you get a screen that’s at least twice as high. This is a cool video though thanks!
La petite vidéo au début est extraordinaire. 😅
A better solution would have been buying an old PC and putting Tandy Deskmate for DOS on it. It would have been easier to use, more functional, and cheaper. It's what my "parents" used.
The Laser PC6 (as talked about by the 8Bit Guy) had more functionality for a third of the price.
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