Curse

Bristlebane · Apr 25, 2012, 12:10 AM // 00:10

Guys, I stumbled across this tech review from back in 1985, and I promise you're in for a lot of lols, rofls and what not.

http://www.engadget.com/2005/08/22/engadget-1985/

For example:

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NTT's "Shoulder Phone" lets you step out of the car

... NTT is making things a little easier with the "Shoulder Phone," which includes a transmitter that communicates with your car phone (you do have a car phone, right?), letting you set up base in a corner cafe around the corner from your parked car, and wow (or annoy, depending on your perspective) the other diners as you chat casually on your phone.

Quote:

The first CD-ROM: Grolier Encyclopedia available on compact-disc

... The first compact-disc read-only-memory (CD-ROM) disc to hit the market is the Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia ... The only downside of these new disks seems to be that they're not recordable. Imagine that: storing over 500 MB of space on a single disk. We're not quite sure how we'd actually fill all that space, but we'd still take it over a box of floppies in a heartbeat.

The Only Warrior · Apr 26, 2012, 11:05 PM // 23:05

lmfao!

Quote:

Windows 1.0!

...We don't really know how they think they can take on the Macintosh user interface, though, so don't be surprised if the little Arizona startup that could, well, can't.

Quote:

Nintendo's Famicom comes to the US as NES

...but this hot 8-bit piece of machinery might just compete against the Amiga and Commodore... if it's lucky.

if only he knew.....