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this is a space for Cassette Futurism -- retro images, media, design and technology from the 70s and 80s

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Source of the image: elle mundy: "this is the future they stole from us" - Mastodon

Some info, pictures and screenshots: Sony HB-201 - MSX Wiki

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

So was x86. The strength was that it (accidentally) became the standard, which is what MSX was trying to do. If it had caught on outside of Japan, we'd probably still be running derivatives of that architecture.