It was a long, long — deep breath — long time ago.

[etchedpixels@mastodon.social]

@sjvn Ah yes.. have an actual Gandalf

[paco@infosec.exchange]

@sjvn Don't you mean... 2600 years ago?

[pavel@social.kernel.org]

@etchedpixels @sjvn Nice toy, what is that? Some kind of serial terminal?

[darkuncle@infosec.exchange]

@paco @sjvn

[pauliehedron@infosec.exchange]

@sjvn I got you!

[silvermoon82@wandering.shop]

@pauliehedron @sjvn
Oh, right in the nostalgia! I’d had a PC already, but this was my first 8bit micro. My first real programming was porting BASIC listings for other micros to work on it.

[thalia@discuss.systems]

@sjvn I have a couple of those, but haven't needed them yet.

[etchedpixels@mastodon.social]

@pavel @sjvn Pretty much. Most of them also had modem type stuff integrated so it was a box you could stick somewhere and send 2 byte codes or similar to a remote station and get replies. Hence the sticker of codes on this one.

[mlanger@mastodon.world]

@sjvn @jcdvore I was there, too. The game was Pong.

[passwordsarehard4@mastodon.social]

@sjvn ahh, back when the spirit of man was tested with the ears of a rabbit.

[redlinejohn@mastodon.social]

@sjvn I remember them. Seems I always used a Butter knife for a screwdriver when landing the cables onto the tv.

[sterophonick@wetdry.world]

@sjvn i look at these things with incredibly murderous intent

[mxchara@cyberpunk.lol]

@sjvn I miss those days! technology felt more genuinely democratic back then.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@sjvn

Did someone say they had Pong?

[claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social]

@sjvn @crazyeddie Those also connect to TV.
#RabbitearAntenna

[mrfotzker@mastodon.social]

@sjvn ...for USSR's TV set's was 100% needed