Japanese. In 1988 it would have seemed pretty neat.

Why?

Let's try to remember how old Joe is and how oblivious Kamala is. No one in American government is paying serious attention to China.

I'm older, so it's just weird. If I was young or had young kids, all of this would be really disturbing.

And yes, Hunter's perfidy is precisely the sort of treasonous collusion of which Trump was often accused but was too dim to execute.

"Japanese. In 1988 it would have seemed pretty neat."

Those were the days, weren't they? I wonder what operating system they used. DOS, maybe?

I didn't buy my first new computer until 1991 -- a Packard-Bell 80386, with an astonishing 2 megabytes of RAM and a giant 128 megabyte hard drive. I learned a lot; how to install a sound card (which PCs didn't usually come with), how to install a joystick port (which PCs usually didn't come with, either), or how to make boot disks to work around DOS high memory nightmares. Good times.

Good times. ~ Old RPM Daddy at January 25, 2021 7:31 AM

My first was an IBM PS/2 in 1991. I got through grad school with that monstrosity. I don't remember how much RAM or what processor it had, but I do remember installing memory, ports, drivers, and practically becoming a computer technician to keep in running and upgrade it.

Some food for thought:

https://mobile.twitter.com/moldbugman/status/1353170170781425674

The power of Ma'am:

https://twitter.com/GPrime85/status/1353717466539683846

I LOVE the aesthetic design of the laptops from the late 1980s/early 1990s.

Everything about them at the time felt very sci-fi and the monochrome LCD screens they came with fills me with joy.

Horrible people:

https://twitter.com/poeticgoddess5/status/1352516864187002881

You may need to be on Facebook to see this. It's a 45-second video debunking white privilege.

If you can't see it, it's a video of a very attractive, somewhat darker than olive-skinned woman in box braids.

In a very serious tone, she says, "Let's debunk this whole white privilege thing."

She gets progressively more giddy as she points out, that there's no white entertainment category on Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime, but there is a black entertainment category.

There's no white-owned restaurant listing on Uber Eats, but there is a black one.

Whites are not hired to fill diversity quotas. There's no system affirmative action that places white students into colleges and universities that they would otherwise be unqualified to attend. White people cannot go rioting, looting and burning down businesses while being cheered on by the political left.

And by this time, she's in a bubbleheaded delirium as she warns white people that if they dare say a word, they'll be labelled a racist.

Then dialing it back several notches, she concludes with, "If you want to know who's in power in your country, think about who you cannot criticize."

T/S 1000, 1982; RS Model 100, 1984

There's an Office Depot in a nearby neighborhood with a huge, old, staged photo, over the furniture sales area, of a work desk in front a of a beach somewhere. The depicted chair is a design that would shortly be dominated by the Herman Miller Aeron. The beach through the window looks like Hawaii. And the computer on the desk is a P/S 2.

The youths from the nearby college are unimpressed, certainly... The screen is a CRT, FFS. But the design of machines like that (and the one seen above from Amy) will always strike me as perfectly contemporary.

I asked the kid at the register to save it for me when they remodeled. He stared at me.

Hi, Raddy!

Swamp undrained
by Timothy P. Carney, Senior Columnist
January 20, 2021 01:07 PM

Donald Trump barely tried to pretend he was draining the swamp for four years, and now, he’s admitted it was all a farce.

The one step Trump supposedly took to slow the revolving door, an executive order to ban lobbying by senior administration officials for five years, he just scrapped on the way out the door.

...

The Zenith laptops in the Bush-41 years had those blue LCD's— The pictures in magazines always made them look like the most alluring electronic devices on the planet.

A couples years later a girlfriend let me borrow one for a weekend. It was miserable to use.

Just a redoux of the 1986 IBM PC Convertible:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_Convertible

Most all the keyboards were better back then.