Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear!

Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bubble-economy Japan led the way for an insane amount of features, aesthetics, and innovation for personal electronics. Most of it was dead-sexy stuff.

  One of my favorite examples, the Sony MSX HitBit F1XB:

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  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is this a computer in a keyboard ? magnificient arrow keys

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    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is this a computer in a keyboard ? Staggering beauty.

      Indeed! That’s how it was done in the 80’s.

      The trend was built around keeping the cost down. That and a screen (TV) could cost as much as the whole unit and you probably already had one of those. Nowadays we don’t think twice about our laptops coming with a screen, but if I could somehow keep the screen but replace the rest, I’d welcome the price cut that comes with it.

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  • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know capitalism is evil and all that jazz, but the Japanese consumer electronics boom was so sick

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everything is a rectangle now 😭

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