This is the only flight sim I've flown...the ASCII blizzard on crashing was terrifying 
(Sinclair ZX81)
(Sinclair ZX81)
That's the one with the every-key-has-five-functions keyboard, right?Sinclair ZX81
That's the one with the every-key-has-five-functions keyboard, right?
And you had to assemble it yourself. Talk about learning by doingThat's right...and like pressing damp cardboardStill...a computer in your home in '81 for £49
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And you had to assemble it yourself. Talk about learning by doing
Forgot to put heatsink on cpu?2nd one caught fire!![]()
That's the one with the every-key-has-five-functions keyboard, right?![]()
Did somebody mention the Sinclair ZX81?
Wow! That add-on packs in a lot for the money....
...and no more holding your breath loading programs from cassette tape![]()
Still better than from vinyl I guess...That was a major appeal of the interface - previously I'd loaded in programs using an Android phone with a very good audio gain and revisiting the nostalgia of the 80s and 90s where I had no choice but to wait for stuff to load in from tape made me despair at what I'd had to suffice with back then. 😂
"Launched" as in all 100 units worldwide were snapped up by scalpers. I remember reading a rumor that said that NVidia's 30x0 series most expensive part was the reference cooler, and that to recoup expenses but hype up the launch was to make as few FE cards as possible, eat the loss on the MSRP of the stock cards, then force the board partners to sell cards with cheaper coolers for $100 above the founders edition cards.Right now is not the greatest time. Lol. GeForce RTX 3000 series recently just launched and so did the Radeon 6000 series. Lower end cards like the GeForce 1660, 2060 aren't too hard to find right now but 3070s and up are trickier. Not as bad as peak cryptomining though.
For what its worth a $700 budget on a PC can still knock the Mac Mini out with regards to graphics. The M1 GPU is a lot better than the Intel crap in the 2018 Mini but its still behind most dedicated GPUs. Of course if you spend more it'll perform better and on the upside upgrades are easy and doable saving money down the road.
I recently switched from a 2018 Mini to a custom built PC. Both were about $1200 CAD. PC knocks it out of the park in everything but number of USB C ports. And in the future I can add more RAM, a better GPU, etc.