ITT post retro-cool pics of old computers / data centres / whatever

>>60629283

because it was the golden age of the all-american nerd

intellect, skill, creativity and problem solving were prized traits that made the digital revolution possible..

gone are these days, given way to an army of instagramming codegurlz, web-framework hipsters who don't understand the difference between javascript and the web framework du-jour, and poojeets working for 10 dollars an hour writing garbage code for middle-managers who couldn't possibly understand or give a shit anyway

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this guy looks like a real piece of shit tbhfam

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>>60629675

i miss those days - my dad was a bigwig at Control Data, and I grew up in the late 60s/early 70s around all those comfy mainframes and COBOL.

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fuck i love those comfy beiges and pastels

what ever happened to c o l o u r a e s t h e t i c s

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>>60629376

>ywn give sweetcheeks a congratulatory pat on the butt for getting all the punchcards organized on time and knock off early to meet the guys at eric's garage to listen to rush, do coke help set up his new space invaders machine

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>comfy retro-computing: the show

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>>60629814

the opening theme is now playing in your head

>>60629887
>>60629828
>>60629814


Is this any good?

>>60629935

first season is great

second season is worse but still pretty cool

haven't watched third season

>>60629956

>Get Netflix for this
>It's not avalible in my country netflix

Great I guess I'm not paying after the free month.

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>>60630526

>>60630588
things deteriorated with the pc
things became scruffy
bill gates, with his black heart & his physical stench had replaced civilisation

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>>60630662
at least it was still excitingly diverse
in that respect, commodity hardware was the biggest mistake of them all

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>>60629803

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>>60629725
>my dad was a bigwig at Control Data
Nice. My grandather worked at Control Data :3

>>60629956
>>60629935
I stopped watching in the gay part.
Fucking jews they want us all gay for some reason.

>>60629935
No it's really corny, Silicon Valley is a far better tech related show imo.

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Best cray is obligatory

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>>60629283

Still trying to find a large enough scanner to get this digitised for you guys.

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>>60629725
>tfw father and son shitposting together on /g/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvLlfXZMBXg

>>60629376
>but wymyn cant into tech

APOLOGIZE

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I'm making myself a bit of a retrostation. Any feedback? Sorry for the picture quality.

>>60629283
Because the people were groomed and looked presentable.

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>>60634554
1985/10
I came

>>60629283
>why are old data centres so fucking / c o m f y /
Although it functioned as a customer data center (time rented out to customers) the main purpose of the DCS was to publicise computers in general and IBM's in particular.
The large machine on the left is a 1419 MICR check sorter/reader. Definitely a workhorse.

Why is there no retrocomputing thread? I nearly bought an Osborne 1 yesterday but it didn't boot when I tested it.
>tfw no T3200SX

>>60629935

Second season was how Mutiny was the equivalent of Facebook and Amazon in 1984 with real time chatrooms and electronic commerce. Ending claim they invented internet but Berners-Lee stole the idea.

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>>60634563
Okay

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>>60629283
https://books.google.es/books?id=eC4EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA30&dq=what%20did%20cb%20simulator%20look%20like&pg=PA30#v=onepage&q&f=true

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Was in Japan the past 2 weeks and found this cool retro game shop called Beep! in akihabara

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>>60635031

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>>60635046
Sorry for the file sizes

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>>60635057

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>>60635071

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https://www.computerhope.com/history/1987.htm

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>>60635031
>see price tag
>$98,000 yen
>"that must be like $20 in burgerdollars"
>convert to usd
>almost $900

>>60635119
>Hypercard introduced by Apple
Shit. All my nostalgia.

>>60635187
Theyre pretty rare and highly desirable

http://www.ebay.com/itm/192200108969

>>60634554
invest in some shit with black bezels and at least a fuckin 5.25''->3.5'' mount goddamn nigger that thing looks like an abortion

>>60635057
>Sorry for the file sizes

vintage threads are pretty much the only case when huge photos are absolutely encouraged on /g/.

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40 years old and still sending back data

>>60633825
Man, can't wait to hang one on my own wall.

>>60634900
>I nearly bought an Osborne 1 yesterday but it didn't boot when I tested it.
Explain? You need a boot floppy.
What did come up on the screen?

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For some reason, this shit feels comfy and unnerving at the same time. Like Boards of Canada albums.

>>60629803
>yfw today you get sent to HR for telling Stacey to send documents in pdf rather than docx format
>you go home and muck around tpb for an album because you're not a private tracker fag and you listen to shit that isn't on /mu/'s archive
>drink shitty beer and shitpost on /g/

Holy shit. Why in the world all the old stuff form 90s and early 00s nobody (except me) wants is os fucking ridiculously priced. Socket 423 mobo - 40 USD, good Asus 440bx - 50 USD, SCSI adapters - 30 USD. What the fuck is going on?

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>>60639538
>69

>>60639977
Hipsters.
Also JewBay I guess?

Actually shits pretty cheap if you bother looking and waiting.

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>>60639461
more rare cykas for the collection

>>60639977
seem pretty run of the mill to me except $50 for a BX board fuck that
if you're going to go through the annoyance of listing something on ebay and then shipping it you might as well make it worth your while

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>>60640052
Ugh, is so ugly it's awesome.

>>60640076
>shit is so ugly it's awesome
fixed

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>>60640076
you can shit on centrally planned economies all you want but they were pretty good at autistic design

>>60640352
That's the opposite of autistic design

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Technically not a computer, but aesthetic as fuck tech. It's a Nagra SN reel-to-reel audio recorder, developed for spies during the cold war. Small enough to fit in a coat pocket.

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>>60640483
guess it depends on what 'autism' truly means to you deep down in your soul

>>60634192
What do i have to do to get one of those. I just want to stare at it forever.

>>60640627
God that crt is adoreable

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>>60640993
thats a plasma screen.

>>60635187
can i get trip2.gif?

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https://youtu.be/lqUg--BOJlA

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>>60641067
Sorry, "God that screen is adoreable"

All better now.

>>60641153
>Alien movies
>All CRTs
>Prequel movies
>All flatscreens

>>60634985
wizards get a pass

>>60631048
More gay whites = less whites breeding

>>60629309

jebus fucking christ.... dont tell me that rack was a realy working prototype for a gigabyte logical array.... please.... noooooooo

>>60630566
I've been stood in the office in the top right corner irl, it's pretty neat. all the vintage gear is in there as a museum of sorts and the data centre is just modern racks now

>>60641675
That's neat

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>>60641153

>>60639495

close

>get on a pilot program for UBI
>go home and find there is a hi-def 24bit master tape rip tag on r*tracker you never discovered called MB
>get some roxettte in 24/192
>take some cheap prescribed opiates
>listen to it on you audiophile hex amped digital crossover driven system you built for 20k when you had money
>relax

the future is good man.... let it be

>>60641446
Just means they realized what the superior tech was sometime during the timeline.

are you fucking stupid?

>>60639155
Jack shit. Entire machine did nothing, got no lights and no beeps.

>>60642001
Socks with clogs. Temporal anomaly averted.

>>60641967
No floppy light and no beep? No sounds?
Blown fuse on the PSU probably.

>>60641984
>>60642001
>tfw you accidentally post your cropped fap picture instead of the whole thing

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So Bobby, you like gladiator movies?

>>60629283
Here's the comfiest life I could possibly imagine:
> be born in 1935
> finish college in 1957, with a degree in math or physics
> go to work for IBM in 1957
> learn installation and maintenance of mainframes
> work on lots of customer sites, troubleshooting
> meanwhile, take some of the very first computer science courses
> by 1961, join the IBM mainframe engineering team
> work mainframes for the next 15 years
> in your late 30s, you start to see the very dawn of microcomputers
> play around with the earliest kits
> love microcomputers, want to work with them
> at age 41, interview at a new company named "microsoft"
> get hired as employee number 53
> work there for the next 15 years
> hold onto your stock, because you know it will be valuable one day
> retire at age 56 to spend all day tinkering around with computers

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Some shit from my trip to cern, it's not really computer hardware but synchrotrons are pretty dope

>>60642555
>trip to cern
Fucking awesome dude

>>60641955
Who?

>>60633404

These aesthetics are actually starting to look good after all these years. They might make a comeback in the near future.

>>60634192

That's amazing. What kind of screen technology is that? Basic CRT? It looks like lasers.

>>60642702

Vector display, doesn't use a raster scanline, it just traces shapes with the electron beam.

>>60635016

That's cool

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>>60642272
Great movie.

>>60642702
>>60642706
More importantly, it's a persistent phosphor display, which is why the "newly added" parts of the graphics light up extra bright. After the electron gun has traced something, the phosphor retains the imagine indefinitely, until explicitly erased (which is the bright whole-screen flash between sequences).

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>He can't use his supercomputer as a bench

>>60642865
Bitch please, I sit on mine all the time

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>>60642589
yeah that was in the antimatter factory where they make things like anti-protons and anti-hydrogen

Why does nobody have any vintage machines?

>>60644437
I don't have room yet

>>60640691
get you shekels ready, original price was 5k in 1974.

>>60637062
>after 12 months the average company tells you that your Phone ist out of date and you have to buy a new one
>meanwhile this toaster has left the solar system and ist still talking to US
commercialism ruined everything

>>60644437
what vintage? 90's vintage? 80's vintage? 2006 vintage? vintage needs a year with it, stop using it wrong

>>60644437
But I do, I just don't feel like reposting the same shit everybody has seen in these threads a thousand times already.

>>60644596
It's also the difference between a toaster that costs $100,000,000 and a phone that casts almost a millionth of that.

>>60644437
Our normie parents would throw them away before we're old enough to tell them to fuck off and to care.

>>60644754
Not very thread related... but ok

>>60644754
that's how I imagine female sysadmins are

>>60644754
Did anyone else notice the tambourine?

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The hard disk you've been waiting for.

>>60635187
General reminder that on average, ¥1 = $0.01

A Yen is a Penny, so whenever converting into dollars, just knock off the last two digits.

>>60644695
voyager is less powerful than a 90's flipphone, computer wise. the really expansive part was R&D, manufacturing, the scientific payload and the nuclear battery. also, don't underestimate running this mission - it was only planned for a few years, everything after saturn wasn't planned when voyager was launched.

>>60645401
The point being that obviously X is going to be built better than Y when Y costs less than even a trivial spare part for X. You can complain about consumerism all you want, but it's also the reason why you can buy a smartphone without investing your life savings.

>>60645401
>>60645512
Conversely, if it were possible to produce a smartphone that was built well enough to last for 40 years and with lifetime warranty for a *mere* $50,000, would you buy it, Anon?

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>>60645136
>tfw not poor
it's a good feel

>>60645584
I got a 53 year old TV that still works and only cost $850 in 1964 ($7,000 today)

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>>60634554
RGB added.
https://youtu.be/P0UJVgnu4l4

>>60646104
Color needs to blend as it changes. The way it is now hurts the eyes.

>>60646146
That was just disco mode. I'm leaving it in static mode most of the time. It does have a progressive color change mode, too.

>>60644437
because we've already jerked off to our collections in like 20 other threads and in this one we just want to see actually nice pictures of shit in its prime and not some shitty phone picture of 30 of them sharing an IKEA desk

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BEST THREAD IN AGES! Well done OP!

>>60641768
Prey?

>>60647735
The guy on the right looks like he is about to go Office Space on that printer.

>>60647980
PC LOAD LETTER

>>60629487
All of that stuff came after IBM. During the dot-com boom of the 90s, kids would become millionaires overnight. This trend is still continuing with faggots like Zuck becoming billionaires for making a website.

>>60633825
/g/ozer stuur is ff heel gauw door plz

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I wish someone made replicas of these Cray Research supercomputer couches.

>>60647922
Alien Isolation.

>>60642547
My grandfather did something similar, except in the nuclear world:

>be born in 1932
>graduate high school in 1949
>go into the Navy for 1 year
>literally weeks after you get home from the Navy, Korean war starts
>graduate college in '55
>go work for Westinghouse
>design reactors during the nuclear age
>buy a farmhouse and have 2.5 children
>1960s roll around
>land assignment on the NERVA rocket team
>design nuclear powered rocket engines
>go back and work in engineering dept until the late 80's
>do CAD drafting/engineering until '95
>retire to your farmhouse in the Pennsylvania countryside with your wife, dog, and 3 cats
>spend the days in your wood workshop and 2 acre garden

I miss him :(

>>60648253
Complete with the pump noise?

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>>60645002
I have a bad message for you anon

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>>60629487
... so what you are trying to tell me is that the same capitalism that brought the digital revolution also brought its demise?

>>60649405
Markets mature, you can only try so many new and different things before a path of least resistance and a generally
optimal solution is found, then the technology in question becomes just another appliance.

It's easy to lament the death of "comfy" technology when you weren't the one who had to pay for it or actually use it.

>>60634178
lol, yeah, i know i am a grandpa compared to most of you young whippersnappers, but you will never know the feels of typing on a beautiful green screen mainframe terminal, or the excitement of your first 300 baud modem, or the joy of checking out BBS boards all over the world pre-internet. i still remember when my dad paid $600 in the late 70s for SIXTEEN K of memory. we had a TRS 80 model one home computer that came stock with 4k RAM. he upgraded to 16k RAM. $600......yikes!

>>60642896
DEC PDP series 4 lyfe, nigga

>>60645026
the first commercially available HD was 5 meg and it was $5 grand....

>>60640596
The 5100 was one of the two failed personal computer projects that IBM tried in the'70s. They were the reason that the PC team were only given 12 months to bring their product to life. And so they were the reason for all the bad choices made in the IBM PC's design. The under-powered and over-complicated CPU, the abysmal Operating System, the weird architecture.

>>60641446
2001 had all CRTs. Lots and lots of them.
A larger screen with windowing would have been much more efficient and usable.

>>60649984
And?

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>>60649984
no it was more like $3,200 a month leased in an age when $50,000 was considered the entry level

>>60647735
The 1800 was process control. The Westgate Bridge in Melbourne had one controlling the tolling and keeping an eye on wind loading etc.
A lot were running the sugar mills in Queensland.

>>60649971
Word famm

>>60649405
Wasn't that what Marx predicted?

>>60649864
>It's easy to lament the death of "comfy" technology when you weren't the one who had to pay for it or actually use it.

This, so much this.
While the walls of tape drives and mainframe components are undeniably cool to look at, they were definitely not "cool" to pay for.
A full mainframe setup would run you around $4 million in 1970, which is over $25M in today's money.

When the microcomputer matured in the late 80s and early 90s, and computer networking matured, the traditional mainframe/terminal paradigm died, and microcomputers largely replaced mainframes/minicomputers making the client/server model we know today. This was driven by money, where instead of shelling out 6 figures for a minicomputer, or 7 figures for a mainframe, each user could be outfitted with a PC and connected together in a network.

>>60650284
Marx couldn't predict his own fucking lunch.

>>60650198
>controlling the tolling and keeping an eye on wind loading etc

So what exactly did it do? Ensure that there weren't too many cars on the bridge?

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>>60650198
pretty neat
not really sure what this one was doing, I think it was a laboratory instrument controller

>>60650324
>instead of shelling out huge amounts of money we found a way for other people to pay for it in the personal computer

Wait, so are you trying to tell me that capitalism socialize the cost to privatize the profits?

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>>60650711
that's a really simplistic and disingenuous way of looking at it but sure if it helps you feel better about your mindlessly cynical, nostalgia-tainted and generally uninformed worldview

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>>60650765
But its what actually happened anon. Also, with the IoT they backtracked on the personal computer and now they want to build mainframes again and sell out 7 and 8 figures so they can harvest the data of everyone and sell it.

Isnt this the case?

I'm old enough to have used some of the equipment pictured ITT. Good times, but they won't be back.

>>60650868
>they wont be back
>what is the "cloud"
But they have.

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>>60650850
sure, but you only presented that part of it in a manipulative, disingenuous way in order to further your gay political agenda nobody ITT gives a shit about

only a fool who knows fuck all about mainframes but jerking off to pictures of them would act as if the microcomputer revolution was a bad thing resulting from some kind of evil corporate conspiracy, that model died for a reason, because for the end user it was a sub-par experience in almost every way and it cost far more for the "privilege"

not really sure what your internet of shit tangent has to do with the death of the personal computer, people have been predicting the rise of the diskless workstation for decades now and failing to bring it into reality every time, with internal storage only continuing to get bigger and cheaper there's really very little to point to it succeeding this time around either

>>60650711
> we found a way for other people to pay for it in the personal computer
That's wrong. You don't pay for the PC that sits on your desk at work. Switching to PCs and servers saved them money.

>>60650850
I'm not even sure what you're on about, or who "they" are.
>with the IoT they backtracked on the personal computer
Not sure how netflix integrated into your TV makes PCs obsolete.
>they want to build mainframes again and sell out 7 and 8 figures so they can harvest the data of everyone and sell it
I'm sure IBM would love to build mainframes, as they were a serious cash cow. They have nothing to do with harvesting data, however.

>>60650919
The cloud is nothing like a mainframe.

>>60651020
>I'm sure IBM loves to build mainframes, as they are a serious cash cow.
Still. It makes more sense to put as many dollars as you can into the big machine at the middle of your network and have dumb terminals on the desks.
Terminals /thin clients don't get malware. They seldom get stolen. They are easy to maintain. If one breaks you just pop in a new one. No local storage so no whining from the user.
It's also easier to audit your software compliance because the only software is on the mainframe. The only copies of your files are on your mainframe and its backup. Improved data security.
The way it is and always should be.

>>60631253
This yours anon? Where's the trackpoint?

>>60629935
It's a good, comfy show.

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>>60639538
>tfw the person who owns that computer probably paid a fifth of what I did for the same intellimouse

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Listening to IBM 1401, A User's Manual by Jóhann Jóhannsson. The music fits this theme.

>>60642589
>>60642555
If you're ever in Illinois Fermilab is also pretty dope.

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removable hard drives

>>60634981
>Ending claim they invented internet but Berners-Lee stole the idea.
what? ending is about lee inventing the internet and they struggling to grasp the concept of how it could be profitable

>>60631216
>Dx4
I had the sx2 :(

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>>60653187
Reminds me of that episode of cosmos where they were showing the mainframes collecting data from one of the voyager space probes

All the photos were stored on diskpacks like those

>>60653325
I've never even seen an SX2 system, I want one for my collection.

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>>60651014
Not him, but originally, IBM was hired by Germany to count Jews. It's just come back full circle. Just like any other inanimate object, the computer isn't evil; however, the wielder/creators can be evil. I'm not saying we should make laws to ban companies from collecting data on people, but one should practice a certain level of primitivism. We're quickly going to a post-sacred world where humans aren't needed.

>>60653394
It was a Packard Bell. 486 sx-2 50 with like 4 megs of ram. Hope that helps you find it. I got it in 94.

>>60653424
none of what I said was in regards to data collection though, just the notion that personal computers marginalized the mainframe because of some evil conspiracy and not simply because they were a better option that was cheaper on top of everything else

don't really care either way anyway, I just like shitting on insufferable wrong generation twats who just bitch about the "good old days" and the bogeymen who allegedly did away with them even though most of them were either in diapers at the time or never even used (or wanted to use) the hardware in question when it was in its prime, sort of like RISC-jerkers who never bought a new SPARC or Alpha box in their life yet they won't shut the fuck up about muh normies and jewtel kikes for stealing away things they never gave a shit about when they could do something about it

>>60646104
I just watched the video kek

>>60649355
Don't worry dude, I noticed it after I was done fapping

>>60651014
>>60653518
I have no fucking idea what this guy is on about... maybe you should go to the /vr/ retro thread? They accept autists.

ayo druaga1 is back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJrSjchMWeo

>>60655050
>druaga1 butchering a IIGS
oh well

>>60633825
Do that pls

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Look ma, I OC'd a 386!

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>>60657677

>>60657677

I had 486DSX20 overclocked to 25mhz by oscillator replacement.

>>60631048
>>60641637

Do you think we can still save Milo?

His views are so red-pilled but why is he gay. It doesn't make sense

>>60633825
I want that shit on my wall pls anon do your best, we are counting on you!

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How do you like these brand new babies?

>>60641637
(this)

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>>60631048
>>60641637
>>60658271
>>60658708
you guys are really deep in the closet

>>60658667
External Amiga floppy drives?

>>60659036
Indeed.

>>60659122
Sweet, I dig the nice matte black

>>60659197
These people made a batch but now all are sold out: http://sakura-it.pl/floppy.php

>>60659292
Oh yeah, I have seen their page before

>>60658748
you don't like homophobes?
I guess you're just a closet homophobe ;)

>>60635031
>>60635046
>>60635057
>you will never visit Akiba in the 80s when it was a tech oasis and didn't have anime pouring out of every orifice

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>>60640352
there were some visionaries

>>60642896
I can just hear the entirely synth soundtrack that would accompany this in a movie

>>60659468
really makes ya think

>>60653377
You should watch Connections (the James Burke TV series) if you're into that. It was made in the late 70's, so just in time for gratuitous mainframe-era porn (including a particularly memorable hardcore scene in the end).

>>60629814
>>60629828
>>60629887
I was sad when the girl turned out to be a girl instead of an effeminate dude.

>>60639450
Modern computers are more psychologically ergonomic. They look more like natural things and are more human-scaled. These things were giant featureless boxes that drew attention to the fact that you had no idea what was going on in them except that it was beyond your comprehension. It's the difference between a log cabin kitted out with smart appliances vs a giant office building/arcology.

>>60629283
Retro colors, retro fashion, old data room aesthetic, Soviet computers, outstanding thread, 10/10, thanks /g/.

>>60639495
>>yfw today you get sent to HR for telling Stacey to send documents in pdf rather than docx format

What, why? Are you telling me that woman was offended by PDF?

>>60642811
>>60642896

>DEC PDP
Pure unadulterated aesthetics.

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What's the best browser for MS-DOS / Windows 3.11?

>>60663019
Arachne

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I N T E R A C T I V E

H Y P E R M E D I A

>>60654736
>I'm retarded
sorry to hear that

>>60663019
internet exploder or whatever the latest version of Opera that runs on 3.x is

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>>60653518

>>60667314
fuck yeah I'm angry I hate those cringy faggots and their shitposts

shitbox threads are serious business

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>>60668343
>VT100
>Model Meme

>>60668638
The Model M is no meme.

>>60629283
It's a shame that's some hotel these days. I think. Is it?

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>>60639450
If you want a film that might tickle that sort of feeling, look into "The Stone Tape" by Nigel Kneale.
Basically "hauntology: the horror film"

>>60652178
>you will never dramatically slot in floppy media

>>60629283
Holy shit that's a comfy photo.

>>60642896
I've always wondered, what do the switches do on a computer like that?
I'm going to infer it's to do something with memory addresses, but beyond that I've got nothing.

>>60670419
The main set of switches are used for accessing a specific memory address and for entering data.

The switches to the right are for what you want the computer to do with the main switches. Like using "load adrs" to load an address specified by the main switches and "dep" to deposit the main switches to the current memory location.

You would look up opcodes and enter your program one byte at a time by flipping the switches and hitting deposit.

Helpful / corny vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV-7J5y1TQc

>>60651020
>I'm sure IBM would love to build mainframes, as they were a serious cash cow. They have nothing to do with harvesting data, however.

IBM still does build mainframes. A z system can probably be found in the majority of Bank of Americas across the US.
And they most certainly harvest data, my dear friend. They've been the leaders of data mining for decades. Not only that, but customer targeting and business metric forecasting are two problems that they've been focused on as of late.

>>60670592
That seems exceeding tedious, especially for Enterprise gear. Did they not use punched cards or something?

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>>60670857
It was pretty much only used for diagnostics and bootstrapping. People primarily used paper tape and magnetic storage.

>>60666017
>I shitpost and ruin threads with my autistic posts
>then I try to play it off smug
k

>>60668638
Those are pictures form the movie set

>>60633825
are you in us ?
east or west ?
I could help you

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>>60670391
Why not?

>>60671729
I suppose mostly because there wouldn't be many chances to have it be relevant

The deck like hardware design in computing is the coolest thing

>>60671768
>I suppose mostly because there wouldn't be many chances to have it be relevant
I guess, if you love things like FloppyEmu/SD2IEC and Gotek.

>>60670391
>slot in floppy media
Erectile dysfunction is no joke

>>60671839
everything's on my hard drive these days bb

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>>60634554
you need this for your floppy (find a beige or white one)

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>>60671933
or a little ingenuity

>>60640492
Even has a cute little analog dB level meter.

>>60671729
Ngh! I wat to insert my floppy into this 3.5 inch slit.

>>60629283
>why are old data centres so fucking / c o m f y /
Control Data (CDC) won a consent decree judgement under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act against IBM for alleged monopoly practices.
The result was that IBM had to hand over the majority of its data centres to CDC.
Within 5 years IBM dominated the data centre business again.

>>60650370
If the wind went up it dropped the speed limit. There were warning lights and speed signs.
I had an empty moving van change lanes in front of me on the bridge. Wind just picked it up.

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Does this count?

>>60672241
What a dumb question!

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>>60672248
And what about this shit i found once?

>>60650324
>each user could be outfitted with a PC and connected together in a network.
I had to quote on a network for a hardware chain.
We found almost every site has its own custom copy of the master product database. Somebody wanted a half-pallet of cement they'd make up a product number and punch it into the local copy instead of using the approved original copy at HQ. Trouble was they'd sometimes use a product number that another branch had used for something else. Or two or more branches would have the same item (half a pallet of cement bags) under different product numbers. The auditors weren't happy.
Then there were the software licences.
Not to mention branch managers who didn't like the new reporting system and had both systems running in parallel.
There is somethig to be said for centralizing functions.

>>60672272
interesting monitor but..
>P4 sticker

>>60660590
>These things were giant featureless boxes that drew attention to the fact that you had no idea what was going on in them
Actually, many of them were pretty much empty. The size was for marketing purposes.
We used to tell the customers that the empty frames were the engineer's fridge.

>>60633825
Nice in 't Nederlands.
>>60671693
That's a Dutch manual so not in the USA probably.

>>60668329
43XX series?

>>60672318
>monitor

not sure if trolling or serious

>>60670833
>A z system can probably be found in the majority of Bank of Americas across the US.
And a cluster in HQ. Big banks buy IBM's mainframes in 6-packs, plus another set for the backup site.

>>60672380
What else is a microfilm reader? It displays a media, it's a monitor.

https://youtu.be/55z_0BYb5is

>>60672241
An interpreting 029 card punch.
Watch the programmers duplicate their binary decks in it and completely bugger the printing mechanism, which is a nightmare to repair.
I assume the lack of a warning notice means there were no programmers on that site.
BTW... whoever's using it has no idea what they're doing.

>>60672413
We had newer portable military computers, but they had Geforce 980's in them for simulation training.

>>60644754
Promotions!

>>60644754
>>60672484
Would this increase or decrease productivity in the IT department?

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In case you guys are interested, here's a huge collection of old systems documentation, everything from the early IBMs to home micros and UNIX workstations of the 90s: http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ .

>>60672509
Oh yeah, I was there recently looking for some AIX stuff. It's a nice collection.

>>60633825
Lay it out on a table and then take many photos of it with a good digital camera. Then use photo-stitching software to join the images together to create on high quality image. Then use photoshop to clean up any errors.

>>60644754
>3am
>everyone else is out of the building except shelly, and me
>server needs mandatory replacement so we need to go into the server room
>the server room is literally 140 degrees F
>me and shelly pop open our shirts because we're the only ones in the building and we don't wanna get heat stroke
>get done installing the server and routing the necessary cables
>it's running fucking BSD (all the other servers run redhat)
>call up the wingnut that brought in the shitbox and ask him what the fuck he thinks he's doing
>end up working to 6 in the morning piecing together a bsd-redhat bridge
>quit the next week
>call

>>60672586
This

>>60650198
Tiny bit of trivia about Citylink.
The number plate image and e-TAG recognition run on a whole lot of Sun hardware and Solaris.
The whole thing is real-time too, impressive for the mid/late 1990s.

>>60672606
Kek, nice porn story

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>>60633825
A test print I made, biggest I can do right now.
Based on the image you posted.

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>>60672194

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NEW THREAD

>>60675596
>>60675596
>>60675596

>>60671693
>>60672365

North East England.