I still remember submitting that suggestion years ago. I basically just went looking up various pocket computers and found the Pasopia Mini had an identical layout. Good to see the more complete story of the HHC-4.
The next step for computer hardware is mixed-reality glasses like Meta's Orion right?
And maybe subtle haptics like rings and wristbands?
Or what else is there that would be a progression?
I also wonder if we might eventually see easier plug-and-play computing expansion. Such as home servers with AI and/or graphics accelerators ports that plug in without removing the case and somehow have integrated liquid cooling. Maybe the connector and board for each accelerator has a standardized heat exchange fluid channel built in or something.
>The next step for computer hardware is mixed-reality glasses like Meta's Orion right?
>Or what else is there that would be a progression?
Forget glasses, what I want is contact lenses that do AR (augmented reality). Basically, I want to see a moving map diagram as I walk or cycle, connected to my phone running a navigation app, so I can know where to go, especially in a dense urban environment. And I don't want to wear some ugly, annoying, clunky glasses to get this. But until they can figure out how to miniaturize stuff that much, I guess I'll settle for some good-looking sunglasses with this functionality.
Another thing that'd be nice in the future is implants. Instead of wearing a fitness band on my wrist, I want an implant (with open-source code!) that monitors my health: heart rate, blood pressure, sleep log, blood sugar, etc., connecting to my phone and providing this data to my doctor (and me too of course) on demand.
>Such as home servers with AI and/or graphics accelerators ports that plug in without removing the case and somehow have integrated liquid cooling.
I just built a home server. Why on earth do you want liquid cooling? If you're just doing backups, media serving, home automation, etc., you won't be generating much heat. And you should be able to stick the server in a closet somewhere. Liquid cooling would make sense if you're doing some heavy compute, but why would you do that on a home server instead of a real workstation? If the answer is to have an AI assistant at home, I'd rather go without, thanks.
>Maybe the connector and board for each accelerator has a standardized heat exchange fluid channel built in or something.
Honestly, this would make a lot of sense for datacenters, and I wonder if they haven't already come up with some kind of standard for this, though considering how bad the computing industry has been at making standards it wouldn't surprise me if they haven't. From what little I've seen of datacenters, it seems they're perfectly happy to have tons of noisy little fans and air-sourced A/C instead of using liquid cooling to move the heat out of the building more efficiently. I guess it's similar to how they still seem to stubbornly use 120VAC power for everything instead of adopting a higher-voltage power supply to reduce losses.
I can see why Commodore didn't release it, if Radio Shack was covering so many other models (of which I have several).
I still remember submitting that suggestion years ago. I basically just went looking up various pocket computers and found the Pasopia Mini had an identical layout. Good to see the more complete story of the HHC-4.
TFA made me realize that in "TOSLINK" the "TO" comes from Tokyo.
> Toshiba is a contraction of Tōkyō Shibaura Denki
And TOSLINK is "TOShiba LINK".
Mind blown.
The next step for computer hardware is mixed-reality glasses like Meta's Orion right?
And maybe subtle haptics like rings and wristbands?
Or what else is there that would be a progression?
I also wonder if we might eventually see easier plug-and-play computing expansion. Such as home servers with AI and/or graphics accelerators ports that plug in without removing the case and somehow have integrated liquid cooling. Maybe the connector and board for each accelerator has a standardized heat exchange fluid channel built in or something.
>The next step for computer hardware is mixed-reality glasses like Meta's Orion right? >Or what else is there that would be a progression?
Forget glasses, what I want is contact lenses that do AR (augmented reality). Basically, I want to see a moving map diagram as I walk or cycle, connected to my phone running a navigation app, so I can know where to go, especially in a dense urban environment. And I don't want to wear some ugly, annoying, clunky glasses to get this. But until they can figure out how to miniaturize stuff that much, I guess I'll settle for some good-looking sunglasses with this functionality.
Another thing that'd be nice in the future is implants. Instead of wearing a fitness band on my wrist, I want an implant (with open-source code!) that monitors my health: heart rate, blood pressure, sleep log, blood sugar, etc., connecting to my phone and providing this data to my doctor (and me too of course) on demand.
>Such as home servers with AI and/or graphics accelerators ports that plug in without removing the case and somehow have integrated liquid cooling.
I just built a home server. Why on earth do you want liquid cooling? If you're just doing backups, media serving, home automation, etc., you won't be generating much heat. And you should be able to stick the server in a closet somewhere. Liquid cooling would make sense if you're doing some heavy compute, but why would you do that on a home server instead of a real workstation? If the answer is to have an AI assistant at home, I'd rather go without, thanks.
>Maybe the connector and board for each accelerator has a standardized heat exchange fluid channel built in or something.
Honestly, this would make a lot of sense for datacenters, and I wonder if they haven't already come up with some kind of standard for this, though considering how bad the computing industry has been at making standards it wouldn't surprise me if they haven't. From what little I've seen of datacenters, it seems they're perfectly happy to have tons of noisy little fans and air-sourced A/C instead of using liquid cooling to move the heat out of the building more efficiently. I guess it's similar to how they still seem to stubbornly use 120VAC power for everything instead of adopting a higher-voltage power supply to reduce losses.