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"Don't be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign. That's probably why everyone else has been overlooking the idea. The first microcomputers were dismissed as toys. And the first planes, and the first cars. At this point, when someone comes to us with something that users like but that we could envision forum trolls dismissing as a toy, it makes us especially likely to invest."



but this is a toy...


So was the JoyBoard.

Do you know what the JoyBoard's designers went on to create, what they were trying to build all along?

The freaking Amiga.

Actually, that was a toy too. But it was a phenomenally cool toy that was vastly more powerful than a lot of people's work computers.


And look how that turned out...

Just sayin





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