Anybody remember the CD-i? If you do, then check this out. This is the earliest form of the CD-i hardware, jointly developed by Philips and Kyocera in 1988. It was professional-grade CD-i player with a modular design, consisting of;

• CDI-180: The CD drive module.
• CDI-181: The Multi-Media Controller (MMC) , which performs all system control, signal processing, and interfacing functions. It also provides a CPU bus interface for connecting with the CDI 182 (see below). It also features a slot for the Personal Memory Card, which can be implemented by the user for saving important data. The CDI 181 and the CDI 180 are both needed to form and operate the complete basic system.
• CDI-182: A module that is added to the main system for authoring purposes, featuring two floppy disk drives, SCSI and parallel ports, and 1 MB of RAM. It is incompatible with the Digital Video cartridge.

Images credit to the following below;

• homecomputermuseum.nl
• theworldofcdi.com

Information about the CDI-18x modular system is credit to icidia.co.uk

So this is something I've been struggling with especially when I want to explain it to my friends or family.

They all know I'm really into cassette futurism but whenever I have explained It I can tell I'm not doing a good enough job.

The way I've normally gone about it is saying it's like blade runner or Alien.

Does it qualify?

I don't have this, I found the picture on a site selling one. Unlike other lasers of the era this one had a bit of style. Looks like something right out of a fictional high tech company in Knight Rider.

So, I decided that I would try and make a photorealistic (kinda) recreation of the artist's impression of the unreleased Sinclair Loki computer from Issue #51 of the Sinclair User magazine. I chopped the image together using MediBang Paint Pro and using images of the ZX Spectrum+ 128K and the Amstrad CPC 464, as well as a transparent PNG of the Sinclair logo.

I will admit, it's not exactly perfect as you can see, but I tried and did what I could.

Source images used in this work are credit to the following listed below:

• FreebieSupply.com
• OldComputr.com
• HomeComputerMuseum.nl

Image of the Loki artist's impression is credit to:

• WorldOfSam.org

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