Commodore is back baby!

Commodre wants to blow your mind with new stuff that looks old, and is really pretty cool. I thought the all in one XPS/Apple I-series desktops were smart. This takes it in a whole other (awesomer) direction!

looks old:

is new:

Retro computers? Really? How long until it's hip to have bag phones in the car, rotary-dials on home phones, and a pager?

Javelin wrote: Retro computers? Really? How long until it's hip to have bag phones in the car, rotary-dials on home phones, and a pager?

uhhhh

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/287

I'm with it. I actually had one of the original versions of said Commodore, and I loved that thing. 5.25" floppies FTW! It'd take me 3 disk swaps to play Pole Position.

if it makes you happier, they have a sleeker, more professional looking model.

Idea is the same though...any monitor with VGA or HDMI inputs can become your new workstation. Personally, Im smitten, and this will be in my next letter to santa,

tuna55 wrote:

Javelin wrote: Retro computers? Really? How long until it's hip to have bag phones in the car, rotary-dials on home phones, and a pager?

uhhhh http://www.sparkfun.com/products/287

I hate to admit it, but that's actually kind of cool. I'd LMAO if I saw someone actually use it in public.

Javelin wrote:

tuna55 wrote:

Javelin wrote: Retro computers? Really? How long until it's hip to have bag phones in the car, rotary-dials on home phones, and a pager?

uhhhh http://www.sparkfun.com/products/287

I hate to admit it, but that's actually kind of cool. I'd LMAO if I saw someone actually use it in public.

I've wanted one for a while. No screens, no buttons, days and days of battery life...

Javelin wrote:

tuna55 wrote:

Javelin wrote: Retro computers? Really? How long until it's hip to have bag phones in the car, rotary-dials on home phones, and a pager?

uhhhh http://www.sparkfun.com/products/287

I hate to admit it, but that's actually kind of cool. I'd LMAO if I saw someone actually use it in public.

From the link: "Dimensions: About the size of a rotary phone..."

Well, duh...

$299.95 for that phone? I can go over to my Dad's house and use his princess phone or red wall phone.

One of those rotary cell phones would be great sitting on the console of a big 60's sedan.

They are doing that legit now?

I remember a friend bought some cobbled together one off eBay 6-7 years ago. Drunk dialing was never so much fun.

Not quite the same, but a retro keyboard for us Mac folks... http://www.matias.ca/tactilepro2/

:D

having had every commodore from the vic20 to the Amiga 500.. I am VERY interested

Cool!

I have a Compaq 'laptop' from 1984 I've been tempted to do something similar with.

Anyone see the article on a new USB thumbdrive size PC? You plug a USB keyboard into it, a HDMI cable to a monitor and you have a Linux computer. Had a slot for a SD card. Still in development, but the target price? $25. I'd get one of those. That would be cool.

Dr. Hess wrote: Anyone see the article on a new USB thumbdrive size PC? You plug a USB keyboard into it, a HDMI cable to a monitor and you have a Linux computer. Had a slot for a SD card. Still in development, but the target price? $25. I'd get one of those. That would be cool.

Link? That sounds pretty awesome! Think of the opportunities, too. Public "workstations" that are just monitors and keyboards, plug in your drive and go.

http://boingboing.net/2011/05/06/thumbdrive-sized-pc.html

internetautomart wrote: http://boingboing.net/2011/05/06/thumbdrive-sized-pc.html

At $25 per, there are loads of cool things that could be built using this...

Wicked cool!

I so wish I could find one of these for my old Benz:

what car is that from? I miss Autoshifters like that

And to think that I threw away my old Motorola bag phone because I didn't think it would ever be useful again.

mndsm wrote: 5.25" floppies FTW!

That's (not) what she said!

Also, the thumbdrive-sized PCs are very cool, and I now want a chunky car-phone for my former-yuppie-mobile Saab.

Javelin wrote:

internetautomart wrote: http://boingboing.net/2011/05/06/thumbdrive-sized-pc.html

At $25 per, there are *loads* of cool things that could be built using this... Wicked cool!

Ever since I used the cool dashboard interface on TunerStudio, I've had a wild hair to install a PC in my racecar when I go MS on it, and just have that as my realtime dash display.

mad_machine wrote: what car is that from? I miss Autoshifters like that

It has an "Overdrive" setting!