• FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    I raise

    edit, actually, it might have been on the back…it’s been forever since I touched one

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          10 months ago

          I always see those videos where people give kids a walkman or a rotary phone and ask them to figure out what it is or how it works. I’m imagining some medieval merchant handing me an abacus and laughing because I can’t figure it out.

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            10 months ago

            It’s little endian, so the beads on the far right are used to outnumber the big endian beads at the top on the woke left. After several computations, the middle section is just gone

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      10 months ago

      Its on the side. You can kind of see it in your picture. I have a C64 within arms reach.

      Bonus points if you had a mouse to use with GEOS: