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yo

its been a while
i got a pocketchip

now on to more weird and obscure electronics
[doublepost=1496153119,1496152574][/doublepost]weird 2007 *gaming thing classified as an umpc*,sure
http://www.wi-max.it/UMPC_t2.jpg
weird umpc
http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2007/01/04/495255/openangledwithlogofull.jpg
heres something i have never heard of it looks amazing...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...st-080508.jpg/250px-Pandora-latest-080508.jpg
and thats enough for todays daily obscure electronics hosted from darkmaximus9,bye
[doublepost=1496153180][/doublepost]omg its haunting me
https://tgsreviews.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/ag-umpc.jpg?w=455
 
@darkmaximus9 i hope you are joking about the pandora? since you've never posted outside of this thread before: the pandora was developed on these boards right here. so if you've never heard of it, maybe you should read more on this forum...
 
dude you are 13? that is awesome, how did you get into embedded devices at such a young age?
when I was your age I was struggling to get my hands on computers for tinkering. My first umpc of sorts was the gp2x, which I had to save up for quite a bit, eventhough I was 20 years old already.

edit: btw. congrats on getting a pocket chip. I have one as well, but it's collecting dust right now. kinda lost interest a bit and I don't like their forum community at all.
 
when I was your age I was struggling to get my hands on computers for tinkering.

Don't we all generally start by tinkering with stuff from the previous generation? If you think about it - it makes sense.

When gadgets & gizmos have concluded their service life, their value decreases to the point where it is cheap enough that kids can open them up without breaking the bank.

I was a teenager in the 80s. My items to disassemble and play with were old portable record players, black & white TVs and transistor radios. Cassette tape players were still 'current tech' and too expensive to experiment with before the late 80s. Computers were still so novel and expensive that though we were encouraged to 'program' (in Basic), the mysterious box of magical hardware was not allowed to be opened for inspection or alteration. Back then most teachers referred to the computer itself as, 'the hard drive', even though most of the student computers were equipped with dual full height 360K floppy drives (one for DOS, the other for programs & swapping in our saves disk). What finally made computer hardware accessible to me was the advent of the 286. People and companies started replacing 8086 machines which created a used marketplace where I was able to buy cheap used hardware to cobble together.

So - like you, he's playing with what is available from the previous generation - which at this point in time would include items like the Pandora. By this timeline kids born in the last 5 years will be disassembling and tinkering with Pyras. Man these kids have it easy. :D
 
yeah I wish I had those possibilities when I was a kid. still I am very interested in his story, most kids I know are maybe interested in tinkering with smartphones, but not with obscure linux devices. I had certainly never even heard about linux when I was 13, but I guess it is easier nowadays as there are raspberry pis, pocket chips and android devices around.
 
thanks
[doublepost=1496170570,1496170454][/doublepost]i dont own a pandora yet but ill see about getting a pyra when its out
 
Don't we all generally start by tinkering with stuff from the previous generation? If you think about it - it makes sense.
Not me. I would poke around inside anything I could get my hands on, including things around the house that were malfunctioning or that I thought no one would notice if I did things to it. Also my own stuff, but when I was in single digits I didn't have much of interest or any electronics. Eventually I made my way into walkmen, handheld games, a cd player, and so on. Sometimes I buy items, or accept donations, to poke around in, harvest parts, or "fix".

I guess I understand now why I wasn't really allowed to use the computer when we got an IBM compatible, and when I was allowed to mess with it I had to be observed. (For all you kids out there, it was for a totally different reason than why it is suggested to watch kids with computers or internet capable devices now. Stupid kids.) Still, I learned more than the adults, and would hit up the places where I could spend time with computers, and only got in trouble a few times. I eventually tried to teach some of the adults. Stupid adults.
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I had certainly never even heard about linux when I was 13
Neither had Grench.
 
good morning and heres youre daily weird umpc
new thing mini laptop looks like an s8 with a keyboard

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overkill
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looks like it came from a spy movie asus r2e?
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I had certainly never even heard about linux when I was 13

Neither had Grench.

Exactly. When I was about that age I visited a university computer room. The engineers there were quite proud of having gotten their first integrated terminal. It had a built in keyboard & monochrome green screen CRT. I/we were not allowed to touch it. Big room, raised floor - they even took one of the floor panels out to show off the raised floor - and row after row of round reel 9 track tape drives.

The terminal was right next to a big machine who's sole purpose was to read punch cards. Behind that was a gigantic green bar printer - not a dot matrix, but instead a spinning ball that smacked through an inked strip to impact the paper leaving a character.

We each got to take home a, then obsolete, used punch card.
 
yes that is all very interesting and I suppose most of us are from an older generation. actually that is why I asked @darkmaximus9 for his story on how he got interested in these thing. And while he has not answered that question yet (well he doesn't have to but it would be nice), I have gotten a huge response from @Grench and @rygD phrased like I was trying to make some sort of point, or trying to argue something. I was not, I was merely interested in the personal views and experiences of someone remarkebly younger than me.

so thanks for the answers, but please stop...
 
Sorry didn't see your question so i will talk about it now. I remember since I was born I would play with my brother his ds gbc gba and also flash games. Later I got an ipad for a birthday and after about a year my brother teache'd me about emulators after that I got appoasioned about retro videogame's I found out about Pandora around that time so I got appoasioned abut games. By seeing pandora i found out about Linux. This was my abreviated story there's much more too say but I think i will Write a book someday about it. I will make sure to leave the name of the book in the future if these boards will still be up and running!
[doublepost=1496255124,1496254843][/doublepost]Now I'm learning to become a programmer like my brother he's now 21 so he had the same age as me when he learned about these things (I know better about ga me history tough) n ow I'm entering the world of 70s to 90's music I think I've finished meme's I'm want to become a skater also.
 
I was... yeah, I guess I was 14 when I first heard of Linux. Highschool presentation. The presenter didn't do a very good job because I came away thinking it was *just* a DOS/Windows replacement for people that didn't want to pay for DOS/Windows3.1. I think Win95 was coming out soon which had me more excited than whatever lame presentation my fellow student had given.
Once again, past self, clue-by-four.
 
yes that is all very interesting and I suppose most of us are from an older generation. actually that is why I asked @darkmaximus9 for his story on how he got interested in these thing. And while he has not answered that question yet (well he doesn't have to but it would be nice), I have gotten a huge response from @Grench and @rygD phrased like I was trying to make some sort of point, or trying to argue something. I was not, I was merely interested in the personal views and experiences of someone remarkebly younger than me.

so thanks for the answers, but please stop...
It was not my intention to make you feel that way. I was in some way agreeing with you (Grench definitely was), while also explaining that for me, and some others that didn't have ready access to computers, things were a little different. (Had I been born a decade earlier I probably would have been a mechanic or something like that.) I think you and I probably had similar experiences, I was just les reserved and tore apart everything I could to figure out how it worked, and to "make it better", which sometimes resulted in the thing no longer working or having all its parts. ;)

I wish I had grown up with the resources and technology that are available today, however I think I would not appreciate things as I do. Those even a couple years younger than me had it totally different due to more thorough and competent exposure, and while I had to seek out computers (although while I was in elementary school Apple IIs were present, they were very underutilized, and I was lucky to have a part of a class when I was around 7 that included a couple trips to a computer lab with early Macs), younger people had to actually dig to find things that aren't the (still!?) current mainstream. That requires more perseverance since the market exploded and computers and derivative devices became consumer products. OSs are a different story, still, and Linux was still quite young when I was 13, although I was aware of it around that time (blame the WWW) and I was lucky to be exposed to it very briefly a couple years later due to a programming class I tried to take. Due to that and my first professional use of computers I became one of those early dorks that loved *nix. Back then such things seemed a bit more common for those that used computers in the workplace. Now, since nearly everyone uses computers, you are more likely to come across Windows, and most people won't be able to tell when they are using something else. So I have huge respect for those that find obscure software and hardware and learn about it on their own.

I really wasn't serious when I made disparaging comments about "kids". I did the same thing to adults. I was not serious about either.

Maybe I didn't irritate anyone this time, and fixed what I did in my last post. Or maybe I will make it worse if I post this. Fuck it.


@Grench, one of the schools I went to used old punch cards for sending notes from the office or something odd like that. Years later I wish I had held onto a piece of that part of computer history that I totally didn't understand when I was younger.
 
@Grench, one of the schools I went to used old punch cards for sending notes from the office or something odd like that. Years later I wish I had held onto a piece of that part of computer history that I totally didn't understand when I was younger.

Before there were computers there were filing clerks. At large companies there were rooms full of strange looking file cabinets holding drawers full of 3" wide by 2" tall pieces of sheet metal that were each embossed with the name and address of a customer. Those were not usually sorted and stored alphabetically but rather by carrier route. When a new customer was created, their plate would be created and inserted into this. When a mailing would go out, they would insert long stacks of the plates into a specialized printing press and each plate would get pulled, inked, stamp the address onto the envelope, get rinsed, dried and placed into the output bin to then be re-filed.

Why is this relevant? If you consider the creation, storage and process flow it is the basis for much of today's computing. Consider the plate filing room as if it were a database. Consider the drawers of plates as storage when their sitting still and as memory when they are in motion. Consider the people moving plates around to be data pipelines. The manager would be the programmer. But what about the CPU? There isn't one as that would be a 'centralized processing unit'. Instead it is a 'distributed processing system' - which is where computers are moving towards with specialized processors doing specific tasks.

Two generations ago a room full of metal plates being physically manipulated was a state of the art database. Two generations from now, what we're doing now, will feel just as antiquated and slow.
 
@darkmaximus9 Hey, welcome to young GNU/Linux club where whoever near our age we talk to has got no time for open-free software development or Windows' privacy issues.
 
hello and heres your daily weird umpcs,today its a special on double screen umpcs.
looks like its acer and thats the only thing i know about it.

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this is an msi concept looks pretty cool id say

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this is the most known one out of them its the toshiba libretto w100
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and thats enough for today bye.
 
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@darkmaximus9 thanks man, very interesting read. I wish you all the best and a bright future.

@rygD no feelings were hurt, don't worry. I just found it kind of absurd, that everyone eagerly chimed in to tell their story once again in an elaborate way, while they actually weren't asked. And it also made darkmaximus miss the actual question. Also the phrasing annoyed me a bit, but that might be me being a sensitive bitch.
 
I am definitely a sensitive bitch sometimes, so no worries. Also, many people like talking about themselves if they can find an excuse to...hell, I even did in this post! ;)
 
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