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Uplink (2001)

Missing warmer days

A portable television, in a very 'space age' case: the top is ivory but the sides and frontispiece are cherry red. Twin antenna sprout from the back, a silver tilted carry handle sprouts from the top, and a huge silver grille allows both airflow and speaker. There are a bare minimum of controls on the top of the device itself: an on/off push toggle, a silver tuning dial, a rotary display behind a glass window for current station, and recessed plastic wheels for h-hold, v-hold, brightness, and volume.

The Sharp TRP801 (1960)

The Sims (2001)

Isn't this how everyone spends their free time?

a litttle flug bobblehead on a car dashboard. i think i used gm_freeway for the back of this, i really like that map lol.

Roses🌹

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Working on a sick comm

Four pinball machines lined up and ready for players.

Inspired...

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVibrant

The Sharp Rateca Puter. Up top, left to right: a collapsable TV/radio antenna, brightness and contrast dials, a giant speaker, a smaller speaker, and input for the tapedeck, with the play counters that were more common on the day. Face, left to right: A 4.5 inch CRT (behind a plastic guard), VHF/UHF and radio dials, channel and band selectors (TV/COMP, FM, Shortwave, and Middlewave), the "RATECA PUTER' logo on the battery gauge, AFC switch, mode selector, tape deck controls, audio controls for balance, bass, treble, and volume, and a mollyguard to prevent dials and switches from being mashed (the mollyguard being a signature of Sharp's boomboxes of the time). Face, low: the collapsable carrying handle that doubles as a stand; computer power button; slide-out chiclet keyboard based on Sharp calculators of the day, with number pad; an LED clock, clock controls, alarm controls. Right side: mic jacks, earphone jacks in two different sizes, beat cut switch, fan exhaust, DC and AC power plugs, and a printer port (!). Help I'm trapped in an alt text factory

The Sharp Rateca Puter (1979)

Police car sponsored by NASA

FrontPage Editor

Virus: The Game (1997)

A grey clamshell handtop. Up top, the 640x200 monochrome screen has applications: Appointments, Phonebook, Note Taker, Memo, Database, Pocket Quicken, Lotus 123, HP Calc, cc:Mail, Filer, Setup, DOS, World TIme, System Macros, Data Comm, and Laplink remote, plus a memory tracker (346K Free/448K Total) and legend for the function keys. Down below, a micro-QWERTY keyboard with numb pad appears, with a second row of function keys to switch tasks between the isntalled apps and cursor keys above the numbpad. Image © Tamie49.

The Hewlett-Packard 200LX Palmtop PC (1994)

In October 2022, the Windows Twitter account posted a *terrifying* Halloween-themed recreation of Windows XP’s (2001) famous default wallpaper, Bliss. 🪦 This was one of a few occasions when Microsoft has recreated the famous photograph, originally taken by Charles O’Rear. 🖼️

Worldmap

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spooky season 🎃
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Lifecycle

Inktober Day 22 - Camp

A three-component computer setup, all in the matte red that made Sharp's comptuers distrinct. Top left, a remote, with volume, chancel changers, keypad, trackpad, mouse buttons, and function buttons; there's a battery hatch at the bottom. Top right, a slimline vertical tower with a round base, labeled 'INTERNET AQUOS'; there are media control buttons, a power button, a vertical DVD hatch, and a power light. Bottom, a slimline PC keybaord; the full set of usual IBM keys is present, but the case is scrunched to fit the arrow keys between the tenkey and the keyboard, and the usual navigation keys are presented in a slim strip, in order to fit in one last column of multimedia keys and a two-button trackpad on the right hand side.

There's something about the red ones.

A white PC, taking design cues from the classic Macintosh; the CRT and main computer are in the same body, with the "Tulip" logo prominent; the computer has a floppy, a 4x CD drive, and detached keyboard and mouse. The mousepad features the Tulip mascots, an unshaven guy with a big nose and a mouse with a not quite as big nose, waving at the user.

Tulip Universa (1995) (Source.)

Duke Nukem 3D (1996)

Winamp Skin: Blue line

Amazing

Art is beautiful, gameplay looks very smooth!

Minecraft, it's such a versatile game with so many modded game modes and servers. Can be casual or hardcore, you can focus on building or surviving or exploring. Don't like how it looks? Install one of the thousands of various visual mods. A great introduction to the interactiveness of video games!

Nokia 9000 Communicator (1996)

Oh wow, didn't notice that! Wonder if that's what influenced Nintendo with their controller designs. The Gamecube controller is one of my favorites (besides the c stick lol)