Finding Her Voice
Fully charged and exercising the new programming, Siri tries to strike up a conversation with Elmo. Could Lucas’ designs actually work?
The web page bonus images are, by design, blasts from the past. With that in mind, today’s bonus image is kind of a double dose of that. First, it is from an image from one of the older Pesky Gremlins comics (which I could have done a much better job). Second it is one of the first “home computers”. Does anyone recognize it?
9 thoughts on “Pesky Gremlins Comic 655 – Finding Her Voice”
Binky
Siri has been lobotomized!
An old IBM. computer Is it the IBM Jr. with the chicklet keyboard?
H Stacy
With Lucas’ hacks, Siri is currently an unknown.
Yes! that is the not so illustrious IBM PC Jr. I tried to draw the Chiclet keyboard too, but you can’t really see it.
Binky
I think you can easily see it’s a non-standard keyboard. It was so strange that IBM made such a thing when they basically created the standard keyboard layout.
David Hurley
You gotta watch those updates!
H Stacy
Its usually the Microsoft updates that bite me, but I have had a few odd things show up in Apple updates, too.
RG2Cents
Hehehe! Yeah, those updates can be bizarre! Haha!
Don’t remember the name, but it does look like my first ‘puter.
H Stacy
It is amazing how much trust people place in those updates.
Those older computers all seem to have that same bland beige non-color back then. Kind of hard to distinguish one from another.
Dana Atnip
I always keep automatic updates to off; I like to feel like I have a little bit of control!
That looks a lot like the computer we had as a kid, but I honestly have no idea what kind it was!
H Stacy
I keep auto-updates off, too. But that is due to many bad experiences with updates from you-know-who that blow up my PC.
I never had an IBM PC Jr. I just remember them as being rather odd coming from the very serious IBM.