{"id":1032,"date":"2014-03-18T14:50:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T19:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2014-03-18T15:40:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T20:40:16","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-sega-ir-7000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1032\/retro-scan-of-the-week-sega-ir-7000","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Sega IR 7000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sega_ir7000_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sega_ir7000_small.jpg\" alt=\"Sega IR 7000 Haldheld Portable PDA Infrared Advertisement 1994\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;Whispering is for gutless weasels.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the early-mid 1990s, Sega experimented with a few electronics items that veered away from mainstream console gaming.  Case in point, the IR 7000 PDA, seen here  (and don&#8217;t forget the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sega_Pico\" target=\"_blank\">Sega Pico<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never owned an IR 7000, but I have to admit that I wanted one badly back in the day.  The thought of sending secret wireless messages to other kids in class (I was 13 at the time this came out) excited me.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Flux, Issue #2, 1994, p.7]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> In your opinion, what was Sega&#8217;s weirdest product?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Whispering is for gutless weasels.&#8221; In the early-mid 1990s, Sega experimented with a few electronics items that veered away from mainstream console gaming. Case in point, the IR 7000 PDA, seen here (and don&#8217;t forget the Sega Pico). I&#8217;ve never owned an IR 7000, but I have to admit that I wanted one badly back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,27,26,9,10],"tags":[166,150,765,764,761,763,762,755,60,198],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","category-computers","tag-166","tag-advertisement","tag-flux","tag-infrared","tag-ir-7000","tag-pda","tag-pico","tag-portable","tag-retro-scan","tag-sega"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}