The Place to Be!

The Little Engine That...well, almost could.

Take a look at the Mattel Aquarius, my first computer.  I had a ton of fun on this underpowered, limited little guy and learned quite a bit about BASIC from it.  It had an awesome rubber chiclet style keyboard that today could cause carpal tunnel (or Karl Tunnel, as my friend would say) just by looking at it.  The only other computer I’ve used with a worse keyboard is the Timex Sinclair (another link)…oh yeah, and the Odyssey 2.  Still, even with its shortcomings the Aquarius did a good job of bringing me in to the digital age and letting me pretend to be Mathew Broderick.

Peep out this video of a guy unboxing the complete Aquarius suite of goodness.

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