Sol-20, handwired 6502 with 256 bytes of ram, Micro Chroma 6800 kit, IMSAI, Apple II original and an H-89 kit. I had many different S-100 boards. Then the IBM 5150. After that were the myriad IBM clones.

Those old Nintendo games used a weird CGA monitor with inverted RGB, later models included a video inverter addon board. They were not NTSC or composite. They also had an unusual defect where a boost strap capacitor would fail and cause the video to hook to the right at the top of the screen, for Donkey Kong and Jr that would be the right side of the screen since they were a vertically oriented game. I noticed in a supposed MAME video that the guy made that was obviously recorded with a camcorder pointed at the screen had this hook. Seriously doubt it was MAME. It is pretty sick how cancel culture tried to erase this guy based off lies and manufactured 'proof'. How do I know this? I repaired video game logic boards to component level since before microprocessors were used such as Pong. I also contributed to early versions of MAME back when it only had a few games and was still compiled with DJGPP and extracted protected ROMs for Sega Turbo

I have been working on an online GPS tracking system for about 4 years now. The tracker we use the most is from Enfora. For about $130.00 dollars you can get their newest model with built in antennas and a 3 axis G sensor. It has a latching output to control a disable relay, a couple extra I/O (digital in, digital out and analog in). It supports different types of geofence and an overspeed. You should be able to find a service that supports this tracker for 10 to 25 dollar a month or you could roll your own if so inclined. Typical data usage is about 1 meg a month. I would shamelessly plug my service but I only operate in Brasil in partnership with risk management and insurance companies.

Visicalc was the first killer app as well. I remember people coming into the store and asking for Visicalc computers not knowing it was a program that ran on an Apple II.

When I look at the prices of the items I think to myself, WOW how much cheaper can this crap get?!? My first CPU was an 8080 and I paid over $300, my first LCD was $3300 and my first read only caddy 1x cd drive was $400. I paid $1000 for 48k of ram for my Apple II. I am old :-/

I'm an American that is moving to Brazil for the opportunities. The are in desperate need of skill people. While most of the country is still very much blighted there are many bright spots, but the brightest spot to me is the people. I have been all over the world and have never met a people that are as friendly and welcoming as a Basilero. Before I first went there all i heard was how it was such a dump with much violent crime. In the 2 Years that i have been there I have seen a huge amount of renovation and no violent crime and I live in Novo Mundo, Sao Paulo. The biggest problem I had was speaking the language as not very many people speak english. From what I have seen there I think this Foxconn deal was premature, their infrastructure just cannot handle a Tech company that large. Maybe in 5 more years.