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First post, by ahendricks18

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A little computer from the late 80's. Almost like the ipad of the 80's. It looks like it has some panels missing for the add on ports for telephone, expansion i/o, cassette. Put in some batteries and it fired up saying "8 kb ram ok". Its a neat little thing, and the oldest computer I've ever used. It has the following features: Spell checker, calculator, telephone dir, appt. book, alarm clock, personal file, and typing tutor. Has what looks like a floppy drive ide connector in the back. Found it in a box of old stuff with an old sears super pong game too 😀

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Reply 1 of 7, by ahendricks18

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here's a pic: 246jnef.jpg
it probably is upside down but IDGAF.

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Reply 2 of 7, by ahendricks18

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Any ideas on what to do with it?

Main: AMD FX 6300 six core 3.5ghz (OC 4ghz)
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Linux: AMD Athlon 64 4000+, 1.5GB DDR, Nvidia Quadro FX1700 running Debian Jessie 8.4.0

Reply 3 of 7, by alexanrs

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I'd check what the "floppy-like connector" is, plug whatever external media it requires and try to find interesting software to run on it.

Reply 4 of 7, by ahendricks18

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Honestly IDK what to do with this thing. It's pretty cool but not lots of info nor things I could really use it for.

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16gb DDR3, Nvidia Geforce GT740 4gb Gfx card, running Win7 Ultimate x64
Linux: AMD Athlon 64 4000+, 1.5GB DDR, Nvidia Quadro FX1700 running Debian Jessie 8.4.0

Reply 6 of 7, by Davros

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I'd turn it up the right way

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Reply 7 of 7, by ahendricks18

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It was, it's just the picture.

Main: AMD FX 6300 six core 3.5ghz (OC 4ghz)
16gb DDR3, Nvidia Geforce GT740 4gb Gfx card, running Win7 Ultimate x64
Linux: AMD Athlon 64 4000+, 1.5GB DDR, Nvidia Quadro FX1700 running Debian Jessie 8.4.0