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A Unique, High-Tech (Family) Computer


There’s a concept that many people have tried, with varying effects: the “educational computer”, a device that a parent can buy for their children to learn t...

I’m guessing white, yellow, and red triplets of RCA ports were just extremely cheap at the time of this computer’s manufacture, so why not use them? Since the keyboard is pretty decent, that’s probably actually the best usecase, but making games focused on typing is always a bit limiting. Still, I think it’s a pretty cool bit of computing history, especially important outside the wealthier countries whose markets I usually look at.

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