Weird Computer Contest
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Weird Computer Contest
A contest to see the strangest computer being used to read mastodon/the fediverse. The prize is a cool drawing from me just for you.Rules:
1. Post a reply to show your device and why it is strange. Can mean hardware and software. A photo is better.
2. You can't go *too* much out of your way to use some goofy device that you don't ever really use.
3. Winner selected by general consensus.This is *not* just an excuse to see/post photos of strange computers.
@futurebird maybe not that strange, hardware/software-wise, but it is my only mobile computer device, so very not going out of my way at least: e-ink phone with physical keyboard.
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Weird Computer Contest
A contest to see the strangest computer being used to read mastodon/the fediverse. The prize is a cool drawing from me just for you.Rules:
1. Post a reply to show your device and why it is strange. Can mean hardware and software. A photo is better.
2. You can't go *too* much out of your way to use some goofy device that you don't ever really use.
3. Winner selected by general consensus.This is *not* just an excuse to see/post photos of strange computers.
@futurebird treo 650's built in IMAP email client can fetch mastodon posts over the cell network using mop3
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Weird Computer Contest
A contest to see the strangest computer being used to read mastodon/the fediverse. The prize is a cool drawing from me just for you.Rules:
1. Post a reply to show your device and why it is strange. Can mean hardware and software. A photo is better.
2. You can't go *too* much out of your way to use some goofy device that you don't ever really use.
3. Winner selected by general consensus.This is *not* just an excuse to see/post photos of strange computers.
@futurebird other than two ~2010 netbooks with Windows XP, the Switch with LineageOS 22 (Android 15)? not that weird anyways.
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Weird Computer Contest
A contest to see the strangest computer being used to read mastodon/the fediverse. The prize is a cool drawing from me just for you.Rules:
1. Post a reply to show your device and why it is strange. Can mean hardware and software. A photo is better.
2. You can't go *too* much out of your way to use some goofy device that you don't ever really use.
3. Winner selected by general consensus.This is *not* just an excuse to see/post photos of strange computers.
@futurebird Not sure if it's the weirdest, but currently replying to this using my VT-100 masto client :3
gonna reply to this with photos since terminals don't support photos
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@futurebird Not sure if it's the weirdest, but currently replying to this using my VT-100 masto client :3
gonna reply to this with photos since terminals don't support photos
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@futurebird I feel like @tschak and the #fujinet kids might have some weird classics
@CowboyWho @futurebird Different FujiNet systems running Mastodon, a thread...
Atari 8-bit, written in BASIC.
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@CowboyWho @futurebird Different FujiNet systems running Mastodon, a thread...
Atari 8-bit, written in BASIC.
@CowboyWho @futurebird Coleco Adam, with FujiNet.
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@CowboyWho @futurebird Coleco Adam, with FujiNet.
@CowboyWho @futurebird TRS-80 Color Computer with FujiNet.
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Weird Computer Contest
A contest to see the strangest computer being used to read mastodon/the fediverse. The prize is a cool drawing from me just for you.Rules:
1. Post a reply to show your device and why it is strange. Can mean hardware and software. A photo is better.
2. You can't go *too* much out of your way to use some goofy device that you don't ever really use.
3. Winner selected by general consensus.This is *not* just an excuse to see/post photos of strange computers.
@futurebird Here's my entry. I hope it fits the bill!
Edit: of course, I had to edit using a normal device to attache the actual picture.
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Weird Computer Contest
A contest to see the strangest computer being used to read mastodon/the fediverse. The prize is a cool drawing from me just for you.Rules:
1. Post a reply to show your device and why it is strange. Can mean hardware and software. A photo is better.
2. You can't go *too* much out of your way to use some goofy device that you don't ever really use.
3. Winner selected by general consensus.This is *not* just an excuse to see/post photos of strange computers.
@futurebird does not having a working camera qualify as strange? (Also, I don't have another camera to photo either of my computers with). (The only other strange things about my computers is that they are old; laptop is from 2012, the other from 2017, but budgeted for $300 at that time. )
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Weird Computer Contest
A contest to see the strangest computer being used to read mastodon/the fediverse. The prize is a cool drawing from me just for you.Rules:
1. Post a reply to show your device and why it is strange. Can mean hardware and software. A photo is better.
2. You can't go *too* much out of your way to use some goofy device that you don't ever really use.
3. Winner selected by general consensus.This is *not* just an excuse to see/post photos of strange computers.
@futurebird anyone wanna help me figure out connecting my old TRS-80 model 100 to the internet? and figure out an ActivityPub implementation that is written in basic and can run on… I think it’s got 16Kb of memory?
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Weird Computer Contest
A contest to see the strangest computer being used to read mastodon/the fediverse. The prize is a cool drawing from me just for you.Rules:
1. Post a reply to show your device and why it is strange. Can mean hardware and software. A photo is better.
2. You can't go *too* much out of your way to use some goofy device that you don't ever really use.
3. Winner selected by general consensus.This is *not* just an excuse to see/post photos of strange computers.
@futurebird this is probably the strangest computer I own, that I can use to read Mastodon.
It's double screen tft+eink book reader on Android 1.6. One can interact with it using tft touch-screen and there's also a button that syncs its content with the eink screen. In a book-reading app the tft display can be turned off, but that doesn't really help with the battery life anyway.
Not gonna lie, using http proxy for opening https-only websites is not very smart thing to do regularly, but the contest rules ask to show Mastodon being red, so I'm doing it.
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Weird Computer Contest
A contest to see the strangest computer being used to read mastodon/the fediverse. The prize is a cool drawing from me just for you.Rules:
1. Post a reply to show your device and why it is strange. Can mean hardware and software. A photo is better.
2. You can't go *too* much out of your way to use some goofy device that you don't ever really use.
3. Winner selected by general consensus.This is *not* just an excuse to see/post photos of strange computers.
@futurebird 55 inch touch screen like they use on news shows and stuff. The computer is a built in module, i5-2520, running Windows 7 professional. This was before the module interface became a standard but it's close. The employee price for the display without the computer was $75 (obsolete). They later regretted selling these because they needed parts donors. I stole the computer. My everyday for almost 10 years.
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Weird Computer Contest
A contest to see the strangest computer being used to read mastodon/the fediverse. The prize is a cool drawing from me just for you.Rules:
1. Post a reply to show your device and why it is strange. Can mean hardware and software. A photo is better.
2. You can't go *too* much out of your way to use some goofy device that you don't ever really use.
3. Winner selected by general consensus.This is *not* just an excuse to see/post photos of strange computers.
@futurebird welp time for the Hypercard fediverse client then ~Chara
