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I had this comic book, it was a special edition sold at Radio Shack when I was a kid. And yeah that pocket computer was just a big calculator that had a lot of keys.

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I had that computer, and it was much more than a calculator, unless you mean a modern programmable one. This one could be programmed in BASIC. It also had a receipt-sized printer you could get.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NQheo52J3BM

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Hey, I have one of those!

Oh it’s a real thing. The frame seemed older than the 80s

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Oh, “the late twentieth century” as someone said to me recently? It was eons ago.

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Or “the 1900s,” which is even more painful

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How to impress your cousin you mean

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I’m imagining Superman’s Krptonian family all arriving via their space pods to a family reunion where they, and the holograms of their parents, geek out over 80’s human tech.

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six ounces of big computing power…

I think this just broke my brain:-P.

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