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Topic	To whoever has one of those old Game Boy Bricks
WhiskeyDisk 07/24/18 2:03:47 AM #19:	Questionmarktarius posted... We're about to hit a physical limit, where electrons just start leaking out of integrated circuitry. Yeah, we're what 1, maybe 2 chipset nm scale revisions before quantum tunneling becomes an insurmountable issue with current tech? ParanoidObsessive posted... By the time I was 18, I'd already played Duck Hunt in its own appropriate era (ie, the mid-80s) on a projection TV, where the screen was very much flat (even if it required three huge projection lens in front of it to put the picture there). Terrible example there, because by the same logic you would have predicted the modern smartphone from 1930s movie projection... ParanoidObsessive posted... I'd also seen LCD technology evolve from its most simplistic form in shitty handheld games in the late 70s/early 80s, to becoming more and more refined until there were things like the GameBoy in the very late 80s, and the GameBoy Color was just over the horizon (though we already had the Virtual Boy). Hence why I said something like a Kindle Paperwhite was conceivable then, and yes there were the giant car phones and phones that were basically civilian versions of Vietnam era military radios, but to say mid 90s us could really see all this tech being combined into something the size of a Graham cracker with a 1080p HD pentile display and enough battery power to get through a day is some ludicrous hindsight when this whole discussion started with an original Gameboy that was the size of a patio brick powered by 4 AA batteries. Mid 90s we were still looking at devices we could disassemble and take a soldering iron to with identifiable components and such. You could litterally have built a Mac Classic from scratch with mail order components if you were dedicated enough. Stretching that to say the advances in battery, processor, and display tech were totally realistic in hindsight is like saying we should have the flying cars and self tying shoes that were in Back to the Future 2. I think you're wearing some Rose colored glasses to put it mildly PO. In 96 terms a modern smartphone was still in the realm of science fiction or magitech. I was very much a nerd then. Subscriptions to popsci, wired, popular mechanics and the like back when they were respectable publications and still something like a modern smartphone was going to be decades away. --- https://imgur.com/4fmtLFt http://s1.zetaboards.com/sba/ ~there's always free cheese in a mousetrap. <cite>WhiskeyDisk posted [p:905620854] in To whoever... [t:76832443]...</cite> <quote><cite>Questionmarktarius posted...</cite> <quote>We're about to hit a physical limit, where electrons just start leaking out of integrated circuitry.</quote> Yeah, we're what 1, maybe 2 chipset nm scale revisions before quantum tunneling becomes an insurmountable issue with current tech? <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>By the time I was 18, I'd already played Duck Hunt in its own appropriate era (ie, the mid-80s) on a projection TV, where the screen was very much flat (even if it required three huge projection lens in front of it to put the picture there).</quote> Terrible example there, because by the same logic you would have predicted the modern smartphone from 1930s movie projection... <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>I'd also seen LCD technology evolve from its most simplistic form in shitty handheld games in the late 70s/early 80s, to becoming more and more refined until there were things like the GameBoy in the very late 80s, and the GameBoy Color was just over the horizon (though we already had the Virtual Boy).</quote> Hence why I said something like a Kindle Paperwhite was conceivable then, and yes there were the giant car phones and phones that were basically civilian versions of Vietnam era military radios, but to say mid 90s us could really see all this tech being combined into something the size of a Graham cracker with a 1080p HD pentile display and enough battery power to get through a day is some ludicrous hindsight when this whole discussion started with an original Gameboy that was the size of a patio brick powered by 4 AA batteries. Mid 90s we were still looking at devices we could disassemble and take a soldering iron to with identifiable components and such. You could litterally have built a Mac Classic from scratch with mail order components if you were dedicated enough. Stretching that to say the advances in battery, processor, and display tech were totally realistic in hindsight is like saying we should have the flying cars and self tying shoes that were in Back to the Future 2. I think you're wearing some Rose colored glasses to put it mildly PO. In 96 terms a modern smartphone was still in the realm of science fiction or magitech. I was very much a nerd then. Subscriptions to popsci, wired, popular mechanics and the like back when they were respectable publications and still something like a modern smartphone was going to be decades away. --- https://imgur.com/4fmtLFt http://s1.zetaboards.com/sba/ ~there's always free cheese in a mousetrap.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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