I had one of these. It was truly terrible, extremely limited, clunky, dim, with awful battery life, but sort of better than nothing. Barely. The days before white LED backlights were a really painful time for portable electronics.
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cecilkorik@piefed.ca 4 hours ago
ech@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
I didn’t get a light until the gb color. It held into port well enough, but yeah, that thing chewed through batteries as well. I was so happy when I got an sp.
squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
I owned something like this, but it was a light combined with a magnifier
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taco@piefed.social 3 hours ago
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ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Kid needs a seatbelt, such a wild time the 80s-90s were.
Grimm@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Yes!! This is the one I had. I would get so upset if I miscalculated how long my family would be out and I didn’t bring it along.