Ziggy - The original Smartphone

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melanthius@reddit

I went to the same summer camp as Scott Bacula's daughter once and I got to meet him when he came to pick her up. I was a huge quantum leap fan, that was such an awesome coincidence

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Bindlestiff34@reddit

Did you tell him you loved him in Necessary Roughness?

I was a big QL fan and watched anything of his I could.

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jdsmith575@reddit

I was trying to explain Necessary Roughness to my wife last night and couldn’t think of a single thing he’s done that she has seen.

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Bindlestiff34@reddit

I take it she hasn’t seen Major League: Back to the Minors.

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jdsmith575@reddit

That one didn’t cross my mine. I’ll ask.

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Bindlestiff34@reddit

I HIGHLY doubt it. I barely saw it, it was on tv when I was a kid.

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thejunkmanadv@reddit

Then Dr Theopolis was the first wearable tech maybe?

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xthedudehimself@reddit

Did anyone ever used to make one of these out of Legos? I did

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Perniciousss@reddit

No but now I’m looking at my kid’s legos…

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Loved this show when I was a kid and recently started watching it again, old man style on network TV. It’s on the GET TV which is basically the Walker Texas Ranger station except at 3 and 4pt, they play QL. I could not find it streaming anywhere besides the reboot on Netflix.

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silver_tongued_devil@reddit

I have to admit, Tubi has so much nostalgia watches I get a weekly day of this and Murder She Wrote if I'm feeling crappy.

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

🙌

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

peacock, roku channel?

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mightysockelf@reddit

Pstream

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graveybrains@reddit

The reboot I had no idea existed until after it was cancelled was actually pretty good

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unkiestink@reddit

Ok cool, I’ll give it a shot. I haven’t watched it

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klsi832@reddit

That was the hand link. Ziggy was a big computer that was kind of like Google.

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Exquisitemouthfeels@reddit

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No_Perspective_4550@reddit

So Al was carrying the next Gen of Pixel.

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jrunner02@reddit

Google Project Ara if anyone remembers.

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klsi832@reddit

Weird his name looks like AI now.

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No_Perspective_4550@reddit

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You talking about this guy?

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klsi832@reddit

Al ways.

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No_Perspective_4550@reddit

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bascule@reddit

Ziggy was a sentient AI. In one episode Ziggy gets gender swapped into being female, and remarks to Sam, “Oh, what legs, if only you weren’t my FATHER!”

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nopester24@reddit

I can hear this picture

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kuchikopi81@reddit

QL my gateway drug into science fiction. Dean Stockwell and Scott Bakula are icons in my life. #ripdean

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The_Last_Mouse@reddit

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RoyalZeal@reddit

Goddamn I loved that show. I still remember Al being the one that leaped once while Sam was actually able to see home, and laughing as both of them went 'Ohhhhh boy' at the same time. Good times.

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handsomeape95@reddit

Not to be that guy, but...

JLP was rocking the iPad long before Al slapped Ziggy around.

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strange_stars@reddit

replicaprops makes a really cool reproduction of this but it costs like $650

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CmdrFortyTwo@reddit

I do slap my phone when it acts up and call it "Ziggy" at the same time.

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yyzda32@reddit

they brought back the OG handlink in the new series, complete with original sounds. I wish they extended it to season 3.

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bugwitch@reddit

Oh boy!

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Josephthebear@reddit (OP)

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p8nt_junkie@reddit

I’m a woman?!

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FluidPaper3278@reddit

yeah, it’s definitely one of those moments where you just know trouble’s brewing

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emergency_salad_fox@reddit

Original AI

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TubeScr3ameR@reddit

I had all the Ziggy sounds on my Pocket PC Phone for the various UI sounds. I loved being a young tech geek.

I haven't had Star Trek sounds on my work PC for a few years now. :(

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MzTalken@reddit

Adore the original. Didn’t hate the remake.

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doyoulikemyladysuit@reddit

I WISH we could get a smartphone that looked like that. Id be on it like a teenager with a dependence on ChatGPT. Or really any teenager these days, I guess.

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pawogub@reddit

Looks like something I would have bought at radio shack in 1990.

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polygonalopportunist@reddit

This would be a BOMB ass smartphone case

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daveprogrammer@reddit

IIRC, that prop was referred to as the "Gummy Bear," according to one of Allison Pregler's awesome Quantum Leap videos.

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BrattyTwilis@reddit

It made weird noises. That much I remember. I remember it making some kind of weird scream when he smacked it

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Cutthechitchata-hole@reddit

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this_knee@reddit

Yesssssss!

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VinylHighway@reddit

I dunno they never show the face

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klsi832@reddit

They do actually. And it was just blinking lights. Didn’t make sense that Al was reading from it.

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VinylHighway@reddit

good point

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rootsquasher@reddit

I assumed the handlink (“original smartphone”) that Al uses to communicate with Ziggy (computer) had a holographic user interface projected to Al that he could see in the imaging chamber, but to us (the viewer) and Sam the face of the handlink just appears as a translucent blocks.

Ziggy, the actual computer, exists at Project Quantum Leap in the New Mexico desert in 1999. In the episode “The Leap Back” the console for Ziggy is presented as a large glowing blue sphere with a sultry voice.

That’s enough nerding from me today.