• Deconceptualist@leminal.space
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    21 days ago

    It’s been a looong time. But I think it drank those too? Engineers in those days maybe didn’t know how to optimize a full color screen with good brightness like that device sported.

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      21 days ago

      It’s not that they lasted longer, but that it was considerably less expensive to recharge them than to buy and throw out a new set of batteries for each session.

    • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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      21 days ago

      It drank everything. I had a screw on battery pack that attached to the back of it and I still remember it didn’t last very long.