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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts) Fri Apr 15, 2016, 04:35 AM Apr 2016

Kangaroo Mobile Desktop Review: Tiny Computer, Huge Potential

I bought one of these for 99 bucks, you can hook it up to an old tv that has an hdmi port, thougt I would let others know about them!

http://gizmodo.com/kangaroo-mobile-desktop-review-tiny-computer-huge-pot-1769707248

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Kangaroo Mobile Desktop Review: Tiny Computer, Huge Potential (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Apr 2016 OP

"old tv that has an hdmi " whistler162 Apr 2016 #1

that jumped out at me, too. I'm getting old. Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #2

Yup.... The computer world theme song whistler162 Apr 2016 #3

Coathanger wire with aluminum foil wings... Fumesucker Apr 2016 #4

I guess they're talking about 10 years old. mwooldri Apr 2016 #5

LOL me too :) Amimnoch Apr 2016 #6

whistler162

(11,155 posts)

1. "old tv that has an hdmi "

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Fri Apr 15, 2016, 05:33 AM

Apr 2016

times they have a changed!

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

2. that jumped out at me, too. I'm getting old.

Reply to whistler162 (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 15, 2016, 05:48 AM

Apr 2016

Pictured in my mind, an "old tv" is one that has knobs and a bent aluminum antenna.

whistler162

(11,155 posts)

3. Yup.... The computer world theme song

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 15, 2016, 06:34 AM

Apr 2016

is from All That Jazz -

Kangaroo or Raspberry Pi today's Timex-Sinclair's.

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)

4. Coathanger wire with aluminum foil wings...

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 15, 2016, 06:46 AM

Apr 2016

The vertical hold is touchy and the remote is your eight year old...

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)

5. I guess they're talking about 10 years old.

Reply to whistler162 (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 15, 2016, 07:12 AM

Apr 2016

But even "back then" HDMI was a luxury. My Sony projection TV (big screen, just the technology inside of it to put the picture on the screen - not a projector) has one. It has three sets of component video inputs (5 phono plug sockets for 1 input). Only one HDMI.

Seems like we may have come full circle. My first computer hooked up to the TV, though no HDMI in 1982. I just had to make sure the TV had a UHF tuner; a VHF tuner wouldn't work as the UK were shutting down the pre-WW2 405 line TV system. So cheap computer, "new" TV input technology required... nothing new.

Amimnoch

(4,558 posts)

6. LOL me too :)

Reply to whistler162 (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 15, 2016, 07:28 AM

Apr 2016

When I think old TV I think a wood framed black and white Zenith with rabbit ear antenna with aluminum foil on them.

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