![]() The add-on slot has the same physical appearance (pin-count, spacing) as PC card, but it is not compatible. The Cybiko Classic came in five colors: blue, purple (very common), neon green (or yellow, as some say), white (the last two are common but less so than blue and purple), and the ultra-rare black Cybiko, which, unlike the others, had a yellow keypad instead of white. It came with 512 KB ROM flash memory and 256 KB RAM. The CPU is a Hitachi H8S/2241 at 11.0592 MHz and it also has an Atmel AT90S2313 co-processor at 4 MHz to provide some support for RF communications. The not-so-obvious differences between the two are the internal memory changes and the location of the firmware. The obvious difference is that version 1 has a switch on the side version two uses the 'ESC' key for power management. There are two models of the Classic Cybiko. Several Cybikos can chat with each other in a wireless chatroom. Cybikos can communicate with each other up to a maximum range of 300 metres (0.19 miles). However, because of the unique radio messaging hardware there is still a hobbyist community using Cybiko. The company stopped manufacturing the units after two product versions and only a few years on the market. An MP3 player add-on was made for the unit as well as a SmartMedia card reader. Because of the text messaging system, it features a QWERTY Keyboard that was used with a stylus. It has over 430 "official" freeware games and applications. So I went back onto Yahoo Auctions, found an awesome 1989 Sony Trinitron 14 inch TV for about ten bucks and picked that up.The Cybiko was a Russian hand-held computer introduced in May 2000 by David Yang's company and designed for teens, featuring its own two-way radio text messaging system. I had been using my AV Famicom to play games up until now so I hadn`t noticed that it didn`t take RF until the Atari 2800 just wouldn`t work on it. When we moved we got rid of those and I bought a brand new flat screen. During all my years in Fukuoka collecting retro games both of the TVs in our house were old-school analogue ones so it never came up. It might seem weird, but the tape drive is not exactly extinct as a storage medium, and modern ones as of June 2018 can store up to 12 TB of data, or up to 30 TB if hardware compression is employed. This is probably old news to most people, but I hadn`t realized that new flat screen TVs don`t take RF input. In the 1990s the films Clear and Present Danger and Eraser featured StorageTek PowderHorn robotic tape 'silos'. When I got it in the mail a few days ago I was so psyched, but I was in for one big shock when I tried to plug it in. I think they are about as close as you can get to a holy grail of retro Japanese consoles (sadly this fact was reflected in the price I paid for it, but I think it was worth it). Until this one arrived in the mail in all of my years of combing retro game shops I had never seen one with my own eyes before. That, in turn, means that these consoles are extremely hard to find today. That meant it was a total failure in a commercial sense and they only sold a handful of them. They were a bit late to the game with it though, releasing it in 1983 just as the Famicom was about to hit. The Atari 2800 was Atari`s abortive attempt to export a version of the 2600 to Japan. That is correct, Atari 2800 and not Atari 2600. I made a pretty nice pic up on Yahoo Auctions last week: my very own Atari 2800!!!
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