"Queen to Queen's Level 3"
            - Scotty, in "Whom Gods Destroy", the original series.

I'm sure everyone is crying in their De Beers.

NABU did not do NAPLPs, ever. That history is wrong. They delivered an MSX compatible computer that was not capable of displaying NAPLPs protocol.

You are correct about Venture Capital shutting off before NABU realized its potential. That and very greedy cable operators was its DOOM.

I really do hope you have fun, and seek out the other help and projects, like those at forums.nabu.ca

A great learning device, but if you can't get one, there is always the MAME emulator version.

...I am tickled pink that this story made it to the front page of Slashdot.

So while I'm here, go ahead and ask me almost anything.

I still haven't recovered everything. There are many NABU titles believed to be on a Cabserve DEMO system I have that will no longer boot or give me a directory. I was very fortunate to save a box of backups of source, including NABU PAC-MAN, Miner 2049er, Q*Bert, Alphablast and others that I'm trying to get some expert advice in old floppy and MFM hard drive extraction.

All my NABUs have different boot ROMs, and the community have been having fun disassembling them and actually updating them.

I didn't know the full story of the Barn and the ebay vendor until I saw this article. There were rumours, of course.

Wow, most companies have fared far worse in the last couple of years.

I'm sure that Amazon is as committed as Google is to the video game ecosystem.

Needing some exercise during isolation, I dusted off an XBOX classic, and fired up Dance Dance Revolution for my granddaughters, using old dance mats. For some reason, they keep on calling it Pup Pup Boogie.

Also, I haven't had to yell kids at to get off my lawn, lately.

I'm exasperated. Whom has not received the memo yet?

According to Statistica, there are almost 12,000 Wal-Marts worldwide: https://www.statista.com/stati...

17k handsets, is almost 1.5 per store. I don't know the distribution of them. That point is vague.

The interesting part is the fact that Wal-Mart is experimenting with VR, specifically Oculus. The amount is actually underwhelming, in a relative way.

Chromebooks are not much better than a day planner, and less functional than a cell phone.

You get email, browsing, google docs.

You want to do software development painfully? Try loading up crouton, eclipse and going full steam ahead with software development.

I can pull a coin from my pocket and flip it. I will give me a random state between heads and tails. The user experience is phenomenal, and the functionality useful. How can any football game start without one? Chromebook can't even compete!

This is Google's own version Apple's "What's a Computer?" ad. The marketing manager for Chrome is pleased you greenlit his astroturf.

I think I'll test my emergent AI on Google by pretending to be in the third world via VPN, then performing these tasks by randomly clicking yes / no / can't tell / looks like a potato.

It will probably earn more money than bothering to mine the ever more elusive bitcoin.

I'm stuck on signing up to see what it is. For some reason, they REQUIRE my birthdate, which made me lose interest. It seems like a Cambridge Analytics developer info gathering service. They may have a legitimate reason for requesting this info, but it wasn't stated anywhere readable. So they don't get my email or my developer attention.

When my wife and I bought Android phones, we put our two Nokia S60 phones, an E61i and an E66, to work. Both no longer are on cell phone networks, but their SIP capabilities are used to connect to my Asterisk server. As such, they make wonderful cordless phones, with a very long talk time compared to most consumer phones. I believe the iPhone can do the same thing.