I got an en-masse collection of shovelware from a chinese torrent, the amount of garbage you can find on these torrents is astounding, it's worth a download... i suppose if you like waiting several hours for them to download considering the seedbox always goes down :p
another thing i found in the torrents is a picture of a chinese apple 2 clone the CEC-E, internally in the BIOS "CHANG AN CEC-E", the CEC-E means China Educational Computer E, i think it looks very nice for an apple 2 clone... although it reminds me of an MSX computer :))
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@re9177 That pointing device 🤩

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@m0xee was very common for computers like this back in the day, here's MSXTurboR computer Panasonic FS-A1GT. This was i believe the last officially produced MSX computer before it got discontinued in 1993.

@re9177 Yes, but on CEC-E it's in its own block on a flat, slightly submerged surface, exactly where you expect touchpad to be on modern kb/touchpad combos. It's amazing how it doesn't look like something from the past at all, more like a modern re-imagination of it.

@m0xee Either it's a homage to the design that these computers used at the time or it's a concidence that it's at the same spot where the giant arrow cluster would be.

@re9177 You're right, could as well be an homage. Either way, nothing's wrong with that, it's the best spot for a pointing devices anyway 😄

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