The DataCruiser - A CyberDeck I made from a 1986 Sears Talking Computron toy

Apr 7, 2024 4:26 PM

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cyberpunk

retrogaming

cyberdeck

retro

A 'deck, you say..............?............W. Gibson approves.......

1 year ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Musta been from before the DataKrash, chooms. Ihara-Grubb translation, long-ranged hacking--those doombas back then didn't know how good they had it.

1 year ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

can it run Doom

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Oh yeah

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is cool

1 year ago | Likes 79 Dislikes 0

You're cool

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't know very much about computers but as an object d'art it's wonderful.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thank you so much! TBH, I don’t know much about it either, this is my very first build and there’s a lot to learn. The creative aesthetic part is what hooked me lol.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

cyberdecks are so cool!

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1 year ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

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Commodore SX64

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

That is sick!

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also have a C64C a VIC20 and a few PETs

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1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

@op why did you only give us external shots?

1 year ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Made a separate post for the innards.


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1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

got any good pictures?

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Not yet, it’s still a wip. I’m working on speakers, am/fm radio, and antennae tv stuff in it. I will post some better pics of the inside soon though

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I just wanna say, I love that NES themed mouse.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

8bitdo is the company. Great mouse!

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1 year ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

#1

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I love it! Very retro cool!

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thank you!

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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1 year ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1

Nice

1 year ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I had one of those mini keyboard/touchpads, I loved it until the buttons started double bouncing so every letter I typed was getting repeated.

1 year ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Luckily they're just about 10 USD on aliexpress

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I bought mine probably 10 years ago, I would have hoped someone else would have entered the market with a better version, or at least fixed the design of this one.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If you search for "mini 2.4 keyboard", many different models will pop up. Not sure if there's any significan difference between them, but I wouldn't use them for long periods of time anyways because I find them quite unconfortable to use. They are ok for some quick and dirty server administration. If you accept a larger keyboard, a cherry G84 ultraslim (type G84-4100LCMxx) works very well. (the xx depends on the keyvboard layout)

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The cherry is 28x13 cm

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Damn, I don’t have that issue yet, but I’m planning on building a retro mechanical keyboard into that area which will look so much better.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I haave the same pproblemm

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But Can It Run Crysis?

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

With 16kb of RAM, that bad boy can handle anything!

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It can run Mega Man pretty well

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Love that!

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thank you!

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

30 speed on the processor, amirite?

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Looks like an old TRS-80 Model 4.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sweet work. Now use it to phone home.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The keyboard kind of brings the whole thing down :/

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I know, I gotta learn how to make a custom mech keyboard fit in that small space. It’s on the to-do list!

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Could be a prop in a dystopian sci-fi show like Silo.

1 year ago | Likes 60 Dislikes 0

Can't wait for season 2 of that show!

1 year ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

or the current IRL timeline

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't understand what I'm looking at. You made a what?

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ok but does it run D°°M?

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It does indeed

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Benchmark passed, its perfect.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

gibson explained the cyberdeck more like a cross between a key-tar and a yu-gi-oh duel deck arm-thing

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As far as I understand, Cyberdeck is also a term used to describe a custom computer built with some amount of scavenged/repurposed parts and made with a distinct cyberpunk aesthetic.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Gibson didn't describe them much at all but this is what it looked like in the 1989 graphic novel.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

the deck as given to the kid was a board with a keyboard on it and slots to insert engram crystals

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Engram crystals? I admit it's been a while since I've read the Sprawl trilogy but I do not remember those.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

one of the deckers received an engramm, a stored memory construct to slot into his deck. i *think* it was a crystal (because scientists managed to encode a stupid amount of data in a quartz cube), but it could have been a storage chip or stick too.

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