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Trivia challenge regarding this ‘84 word processor: what were those 2 holes on top for?
Posted on 8/22/20 at 1:27 pm
Posted on 8/22/20 at 1:27 pm
Saw this on my twitter feed this morning. This was before my time so I had no clue, just interested to see how many people here answer it correctly.
I’ll post answer in a little bit
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Posted on 8/22/20 at 1:28 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
If you have to ask you can't afford it
Posted on 8/22/20 at 1:28 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Ventilation?
Posted on 8/22/20 at 1:28 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
nerd fleshlight
This post was edited on 8/22/20 at 1:29 pm
Posted on 8/22/20 at 1:29 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
That’s where your dungeons and dragons action figures went
Posted on 8/22/20 at 1:29 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
what were those 2 holes on top for?
Posted on 8/22/20 at 1:30 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
for the phone handset
Posted on 8/22/20 at 1:31 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
That's for adding some extra bits, if needed. 
Posted on 8/22/20 at 1:31 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Dual ashtrays for the 2 packs a day smokers
Posted on 8/22/20 at 1:32 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Beer can holders. You could drink on the job back in the day.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 1:35 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Fans to kühl dem guts.
Early computers were notoriously over-supplied with power to eliminate the potential of issues from low power.
Early computers were notoriously over-supplied with power to eliminate the potential of issues from low power.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 1:38 pm to soccerfüt
Incorrect. Not fans
One poster has answered somewhat close
One poster has answered somewhat close
This post was edited on 8/22/20 at 1:39 pm
Posted on 8/22/20 at 1:41 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I bet you could put a phone handset on it and use it like a primitive fax.
Or stick both hands down in there and bash everything cause it’s a slow POS.
Or stick both hands down in there and bash everything cause it’s a slow POS.
This post was edited on 8/22/20 at 1:45 pm
Posted on 8/22/20 at 1:44 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Word processors get lonely too.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 1:45 pm to TheHarahanian
Yep.
Here is answer
Here is answer
quote:
For those of you under 30 years old: The round holes on top of that word processing machine we're a primitive modem. You put the ends of a telephone handpiece into the holes and it exchanged information with a PC back home. Plain text only. At about a half-sentence per second.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 2:29 pm to HeadSlash
That’s what Matthew Broderick used in war games to hack into WOPR.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 2:32 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Precursor to the update cup holder that later came
Posted on 8/22/20 at 2:34 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Telephone receiver
Posted on 8/22/20 at 2:58 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
That's where you put the phone. It's the modem interface.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 3:01 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
That's where you put the phone so it could tell your boss if you had been typing about college football all day instead of doing your job.
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