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Apr 7, 2024 4:26 PM
astrozork
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stoicautomaton
rbudrick
I don't understand what I'm looking at. You made a what?
Slash0mega
cyberdecks are so cool!
NeverShaveYourDuck
I love it! Very retro cool!
astrozork
Thank you!
BillandTedsUnremarkableTripToCostCo
/gallery/rl08gyf
sirava
graehall
OrdinarilyBob
HandoB4Javert
30 speed on the processor, amirite?
AyatollahBahloni
Larktavia
I don't know very much about computers but as an object d'art it's wonderful.
astrozork
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.
thatwoodguy
/gallery/KKtiwYi
Commodore SX64
astrozork
That is sick!
thatwoodguy
Also have a C64C a VIC20 and a few PETs
inthepines
can it run Doom
astrozork
Oh yeah
ReelPoop
But Can It Run Crysis?
BillandTedsUnremarkableTripToCostCo
With 16kb of RAM, that bad boy can handle anything!
astrozork
It can run Mega Man pretty well
GryphonTattoo
Looks like an old TRS-80 Model 4.
FiftyShadesOfBroccoli
Could be a prop in a dystopian sci-fi show like Silo.
garfieldstwin
or the current IRL timeline
youreathing
Can't wait for season 2 of that show!
Xaky68
#1
MutteringMisanthrope
A 'deck, you say..............?............W. Gibson approves.......
iBoulderDash
I just wanna say, I love that NES themed mouse.
astrozork
8bitdo is the company. Great mouse!
RobJenkins
demuredemeanor
The keyboard kind of brings the whole thing down :/
astrozork
I know, I gotta learn how to make a custom mech keyboard fit in that small space. It’s on the to-do list!
LadyNetrex
Love that!
astrozork
Thank you!
ottercontrol
@op why did you only give us external shots?
astrozork
Made a separate post for the innards.
/gallery/O1D6OtH
ottercontrol
got any good pictures?
astrozork
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
Ronelyn
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.
napsmear
DmNerd
Nice
Clayman8
Ok but does it run D°°M?
astrozork
It does indeed
Clayman8
Benchmark passed, its perfect.
BurnieCinders
transhumanisticrecluse
gibson explained the cyberdeck more like a cross between a key-tar and a yu-gi-oh duel deck arm-thing
astrozork
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.
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
Gibson didn't describe them much at all but this is what it looked like in the 1989 graphic novel.
transhumanisticrecluse
the deck as given to the kid was a board with a keyboard on it and slots to insert engram crystals
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
Engram crystals? I admit it's been a while since I've read the Sprawl trilogy but I do not remember those.
transhumanisticrecluse
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.
OregonComputerGuy
This is cool
DonRanchero
You're cool
SherMattLockSmith
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.
astrozork
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.
AyrA
Luckily they're just about 10 USD on aliexpress
SherMattLockSmith
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.
AyrA
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)
AyrA
The cherry is 28x13 cm
BillandTedsUnremarkableTripToCostCo
I haave the same pproblemm