$12 MIT Computer Based On NES, Not Apple II

ericatcw writes "The $12 computer that a bunch of designers and grad students are talking up at an MIT conference this month as a potential, cheaper alternative to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) for Third World students is actually a knockoff of the original Nintendo Entertainment System gaming console released in the mid-1980s, reports Computerworld, and confirmed in a comment by the project's spokesman, Derek Lomas. According to Lomas' account and pictures, the Victor-70 is an 8-bit NES clone that accepts its cartridges and is wholly contained in the keyboard. It is also likely to be an unlicensed clone made in China, according to Lomas, though he notes that may not matter patent-wise in the US, due to the length of time that has passed."

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Re:Don't blow. Use rubbing alcohol.

[Kent Recal]

Totally offtopic but IMHO there are indeed good display cleaners and bad display cleaners.
The bad stuff is the clear, soapy spraycans that you get most of the time.

The *good* stuff is a white foam that looks like shaving foam (also comes in a spraycan).

I have no idea what (other?) chemicals they put in the foam but that stuff works a thousand times better for me - no smearing at all.