NES expansion thingy
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What is that thingy used for? Was there ever anything that was meant to be hooked up to it?
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The expansion port on the bottom?
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Seriously, no one is quite sure. There was a modem adaptor for the Famicom (Japanese NES), and my theory is that they were going to make a similar unit for the NES, but the TV computer market was dwindling in favor of the IBM compatibles, so they dropped it and kept the NES as a toy.
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Seriously, no one is quite sure. There was a modem adaptor for the Famicom (Japanese NES), and my theory is that they were going to make a similar unit for the NES, but the TV computer market was dwindling in favor of the IBM compatibles, so they dropped it and kept the NES as a toy.
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well the famicom acually had a modem like thing, it was used to check on stock, bank accounts and the latest news....it was OBVIOUSLY aimed at the 6 to 12 year old bracket
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i think this is the modem hes talking about:
http://assembler.roarvgm.com/MIA_games_ ... eplay.html
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i think this is the modem hes talking about:
http://assembler.roarvgm.com/MIA_games_ ... eplay.html
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umm... I've heard stock market, ordering pizza, and the "ABBA BROS" thing.
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Internet operations hugh? Crazy...NES Live..lol...Man, that'd totally have rocked! Imagin playin some old school action with somebody a bazillion miles away!
BTW, the internet has been around (or at least the idea) since the mid 1950's.
Here's a bit of a histroy lesson : At the time, the US military needed a communication sytem that couldn't be knocked out easily, since a nuclear war could so just that. Because, at the time, phone systems were all operated by people in large buildings. If one of those buildings were blown up, there'd be a major hack into communications, so the idea was come up with to a make peoples homes each a commications center. With this idea, there'd be no central place for info transfer that could be destroyed. So, in the event of nuclear war, it'd be near impossible to knock out communications...
BTW, the internet has been around (or at least the idea) since the mid 1950's.
Here's a bit of a histroy lesson : At the time, the US military needed a communication sytem that couldn't be knocked out easily, since a nuclear war could so just that. Because, at the time, phone systems were all operated by people in large buildings. If one of those buildings were blown up, there'd be a major hack into communications, so the idea was come up with to a make peoples homes each a commications center. With this idea, there'd be no central place for info transfer that could be destroyed. So, in the event of nuclear war, it'd be near impossible to knock out communications...
The answer to 1984 is 1776!
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JNES+KailleraMetallica Man X wrote:Internet operations hugh? Crazy...NES Live..lol...Man, that'd totally have rocked! Imagin playin some old school action with somebody a bazillion miles away!
Personally I'd say the internet started in the early 80's with the acceptance of TCP/IP, since that was the first time the public started having access, and it was that which grew into the internet we have today. The early days of ARPANET shouldn't really count (which didn't kick off until the late 60s anyway).BTW, the internet has been around (or at least the idea) since the mid 1950's.
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