Take an Atari Portfolio, make it thinner and have the screen fill the upper shell of the clamshell and you're on the right track. And the cpu can be low power in terms of horsepower as well as electricity usage. A few years old non-premium smartphone arm cpu will do. Pocket Chip production revived and this time put in a clamshell will do. Give me a command shell, more than a thumb keyboard, and network access. That's all I ask of it.
I still want a pocket clamshell computer. Low power cpu, it could be a black and white screen (heck, a pixelly lcd screen as long as I get at least 80x25 readable characters), storage to more than just an sd card (but emmc+sd slot is acceptable), wifi, and a swappable battery. Also, physical ethernet port, none of this use a usb adapter nonsense. If I'm somewhere I can plug in, let me plug in with no more than a cable.
For April Fools I will be continuing my long running prank of pretending to be a mature responsible adult. I'm not sure how no one has called me on it yet anytime in the last twenty-five years.
Tossing this question out into the aether: Anyone remember a book from the 80s that was a how-to guide to writing your own database programs in BASIC? I know or local library had it but they have tossed all their books that dealt with basic.
If you watched the movie Kick Ass, the name and logo of the comic shop was borrowed (with permission) from a former Arizona comic shop that I occasionally visited prior to its demise.
"If you want something as upbeat as Moby Dick or Threads, this may be the Godzilla film you want to see." James Nicoll (of the English Language quote fame) on Godzilla: Planet of Monsters. https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/dragons-live-forever
Men's fashion needs more cute. Needs more variety in general, but expanding the cute would help with that. (But anyone trying to bring fake pockets over to men's fashion should be sent back to fashion preschool - and/our have all their pockets taken away)
Interesting trivia. When Acorn Computers was getting ready to design the first ARM cpu they prototyped the machine language with an emulator written in basic on a BBC Micro.
An #apocalypse idea that just came to me... The world reaches 9,999,999,999 people only when the next one is born the population counter rolls over and suddenly the population drops to 1. Turns out that's the answer to the Fermi Paradox, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox