@NanoRaptor gib

@NanoRaptor LOVE

@NanoRaptor In European markets, the B button is labelled Return and is double-height

@NanoRaptor Would buy!

@NanoRaptor I love it. And I hate it at the same time. :blobpats:

@NanoRaptor Reminds me of the HP iPod. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod%2BHP

@NanoRaptor But does it run Arch?

@NanoRaptor Would buy. <3

@NanoRaptor They removed the music from Tetris on that version because it was seen as too fun.

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Never heard of this. Is this fake history :)

@NanoRaptor OMG such a case with one of these Anbernic, Miyoo, Retroid emu retro handhelds 😻

@NanoRaptor oh lords I would not want to control tetris with one of those red nubs

… wouldn’t hurt to use the rubbery texture, though.

@NanoRaptor Delightfully blursed!

@NanoRaptor awww fucking lovely
missing the ThinkLight

@NanoRaptor the trackpoint lel

@NanoRaptor @root42 😍

@NanoRaptor Weird that they released that one model with the butterfly button controls despite keeping the same number of buttons.

@NanoRaptor I NEED TO HAVE THAT!

@NanoRaptor i wish this was a thing.

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social omg I love the nipple as dpad 🥺

@NanoRaptor The trackpoint..... so.... cursed.... Ahhhhh!!!! 🤣

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Ooof. Gaming by #TrackPoint. That would be *challenging*.

LB: i want one

@NanoRaptor The TrackPoint is just perfect. Using that to control a game though, ugh.

@NanoRaptor @NanoRaptor I can understand Dana refusing to be rich. Money has its problems.

What I can’t accept is not being able to buy the amazing things they design :)

@NanoRaptor Needs less happy

@NanoRaptor the nubbin would be between the A and B buttons

@NanoRaptor I'd buy that :blobCat_eyes:​

@NanoRaptor why is this so sexy?

@NanoRaptor this looks so good, damn

@NanoRaptor 😆 Perfect. I presume the little hood contains a feeble LED which is ostensibly to light the controls, but isn’t nearly bright enough to do any good?

@NanoRaptor oh god, the horror of trying to play gameboy games with a thinkpad nubbin

@NanoRaptor Very clever!

@NanoRaptor what’s not mentioned is that everything is hot swap including cpu and memory. The software is written in cobol.

@NanoRaptor want

@NanoRaptor I don't need this, don't make me want this.

@NanoRaptor i still need to make this a reality one day. I think I started making a 3D model last time I saw it…

@NanoRaptor dude that’s so sick! I still play this version of Tetris (too much) on my Game Boy Color [sic], but it might be a little difficult to control with the nipple. Unless IBM fixed it so you can actually press down and across at the same time.

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You could probably get the buttons as spare parts for a real thinkpad, but I'm not sure about the case. Anyone know how hard it would be to make?

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@NanoRaptor I need one!

@NanoRaptor FTFY @jdoss

@NanoRaptor the problem with the gameboy is nintendo doesn't outwardly hate you

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Y'all joke about it, but it was the primary platform for a suite of auditing tools for (e.g.) a bank random-sampling the contents of individual bank teller drawers and logbooks in places where the automation hadn't made it yet (e.g. branches in the hinterlands.)

The Game Boy was ideal because it was self-contained, pocketable, and could be used one-handed. Data got stored in the cartridge and a special reader would transfer it to the auditor's laptop at end-of-day.

@NanoRaptor ??? cool

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Could go great with this

@NanoRaptor I prefer the SP model that folds out a butterfly keyboard.

@NanoRaptor what a lovely cursed item!

@caseyliss pertinent to your interests

https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/111244176519913170

@NanoRaptor I'd get one with the trackpoint option.

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YOU'RE here! I just realized I used to follow your account on the birdsite in 2020.

@NanoRaptor in

@NanoRaptor I want one

@NanoRaptor Aren’t you the person who posts fake retro tech?

@NanoRaptor Wait, the screen is cloth?

@NanoRaptor One question: where do I send my money?

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@NanoRaptor As a former employee of Big Blue who used one of these pre-Lenovo buyout, this activates something in me. Mostly, the notion that I will never be able to play a game because I will never, ever use the TrackPoint.

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social you've heard about the TwinkPad and the ThinkBoy what about the TwinkBoy?

@NanoRaptor take my money

@NanoRaptor man, I can't believe that IBM finally created a boy who thinks

@NanoRaptor And there's one particular obscure model that runs AIX.

@NanoRaptor Well that's fucking cute. Does it have the original tetris music?

@NanoRaptor that undoubtedly must already be the ThinkBoy color!

@NanoRaptor As a former employee of Big Blue, I SO need one of these. Please tell me that are print files and instructions for swapping the guts of a Gameboy into it

@NanoRaptor this needs to be a real thing!!!

@NanoRaptor Hope it comes with a thinklight.

@NanoRaptor 9/10, only loss of marks is for the nipple not being nipply enough 😁

@NanoRaptor That D-Pad looks awful to use

Still want one lmao

@NanoRaptor the saturation of that screen is perfect.

@gourd speaking of handhelds, run Tetris and Linux!

@NanoRaptor I was really surprised they didn't use a rubberized nib instead of a D-Pad

@NanoRaptor I mean as a gaming device I'd give the name "play" instead of "think" (yes playing games still require a lot of thinking).

But then it'd be IBM PlayBoy 🤔

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@NanoRaptor BMO :otter_peek:​

@NanoRaptor It's the little hood that does it for me 🥹🥹🥹. You have to add the little hood on the alt text!

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Interesting, seeing the colored display I wonder if it was before or after IBM collaboration with Sony on the Dualpoint controller

@NanoRaptor I'd never trade Nintendo's D-Pad for a ThinkPoint. 🤣

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Cc @Evv1L