What's the weirdest piece of computer equipment that you've

this layout makes sense

>>737482447
I have no idea what's going on.

>>737482711
clicky clacky typy with your left hook, fappity fappity with your right jab

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>>737482711
It's a one-handed keyboard. For amputees.
This one makes LESS sense but it's supposedly more efficient.

>>737482447
Probably the original IBM PGA video "card" I found in perfect condition. PGA was a pre-VGA concept by IBM in like 1983(?) to do 256 colors. It was basically an entire other PC on a triple-board ISA card that had its own onboard 80186 processor. It was still an analog output signal though, unlike VGA, so it had its own proprietary monitor (that was in the same classic IBM PC styling as all the original IBM monitors). I had the monitor as well, but UPS decided to break it for me in shipping.
I bought the card before the vintage computing craze hit, for like $40, and then sold it a few years later for $500. Sold the badges off the busted monitor as well.

>>737483340
An usb ventilator
/thread

My dad still has his atari 800 in working condition

>>737482447
I had a Mac when I was a kid.

>>737482447
I also owned the original Intel 386 upgrade solution for the 286 IBM PC-AT, called the "InBoard 386" that had an entire 386 processor and board in ISA card format, with a ribbon cable that ran to the host system's 286 socket. It would ONLY work in the actual PC-AT (and very close clones) and not in any general 286 though, because the ribbon cable was flexible clear plastic with copper trace paths on it (opposed to a shielded ribbon cable), so the host system's 286 socket had to line up perfectly with the 386 card since the plastic ribbon couldn't really be flexed or moved to a different position.
Again, paid like nothing for it before the PC collecting craze, then sold it for like $300.

>>737482447
A Gateway computer. Painted like a fucking cow and running AOL dialup.

I owned a Tyan mainboard that actually worked.

Ti-83 calculator. Used to play games in class.

I have one of those $9 computers right now. Sadly, I missed out on most of the weird vintage shit.

>>737482961
i like this one does anyone know where to get it

>>737482447
I bought a 1500$ "gaming" HP laptop. It came with windows vista and the entire bottom half was a detachable battery. The bottom got too hot to play on your lap...

Kyocera KR2 Mobile Router

>>737482447
The InBoard and the PGA card were my two best. At one time I had an original Kalok MFM hard drive for PC that was a massive full-height 5.25" unit. Like all Kaloks it died 20 years before I acquired it. I had a Z-80 processor upgrade for the original 8088 PC mainboard that included a patch lead with a cpring loaded clip terminal on it that you literally had to clip onto one leg of the original processor socket (versus soldering it directly).
OH! And I had one of those GAY ASS fucking "computer chairs" from the very late 80s/early 90s when the whole "back ergonomics for PC users" was a huge fad market, and this thing..it had two cushions: one that your ass sat on, and one that your shins rested against, and no back at all. It was fucking torture and I gave up on it after like a week, turned it around and sat on top of it like a tard until I bought a regular chair.

>>737483979
>you need this for math class
>you need this
>never use it
Fuck Texas Instruments. When I was in engineering school our class was planning a trip to one of their silicone wafer factories. They have a policy that nobody born outside the U.S. is allowed inside their facilities. Jingoistic Cold War bullshit.

>>737484373
Same, but with a $3000 Dell and it came with XP. And leather wrist rests. It took me five years to pay my mom back for it. Lasted a decade though.

SEGA IR 7000 Communicator

>>737484342
maltron dot com
It costs 494 usd.

>>737484603
>silicone
>silicone
>silicone
Chip wafers aren't made out of gasket rubber, pahjeet.

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>>737484954
Somebody imagined a future where this was the norm.

>>737484291

HOLY FUCK I had this as a kid. One day I left it outside and it rained and i brought it back into my room then at like 3am the fuckin thing started going off on its own. Freaked me the fuck out. That voice it had was creepy af.

>>737485155
Holy shit, I've never seen that before. And I've seen/had some obscure peripherals from that era (like my keyboard with the built in mechanical trackball in place of the arrow keys).

>>737484291

https://youtu.be/iN1lq90JMh8

>>737485155
whats the point of two wheels, could you scroll down on two separate windows or something

>>737484291
What freaks me out about that the most is that the bottom/base has the same shape and profile as the original TI-99/4A "home computer." This thing in anon's pic has a better keyboard, though...

When I began playing Ultima Online it came with a mouse that was shaped like Larry Probst's dick. It was even warm and fleshy. Pretty weird now that I think back on it...

I once had a mousepad meant for really early optical mice. it was metal and had a grid pattern on it.

>>737486723
I remember those. The mice used red laser light. I think they had a DPI of like, 6?

>be 14
>not many computers in my country
>get a book on how to build computer
>realize I can't get microprocessor, copper wire, etc.
>my country is poor
> get creative
>start making pipes out of bamboo
>eventually have 8 pipes connecting to a stream by my house
>pipes fill with water and empty out, as they empty they fill the next pipe
>when they tip they deposit coconuts
>I've created an 8 bit calculator that returns sums of binary numbers as coconuts
>tie family hog to stick and have it run in a circle depending on where coconuts fall in its pen.
>pig eats coconuts, leaves shells in pattern mirroring binary numbers
>I have created hard drive

>>737487598
>I have created hard drive
Probably more reliable with each read/write than a Quantum "Fireball" hard drive. 10/10.

>>737487598
>control hog movement with system of ropes and whips
>I have created operating system

>>737488051
>I have created operating system
Probably more stable over time than 98/ME. 10/10.

>>737485155
>>737485769
>roll middle finger down single wheel mouse
>lift finger, place back at top of wheel to continue scrolling down
As opposed to, with this:
>scroll to bottom of wheel w middle finger
>THEN scroll to bottom of 2nd wheel w ring finger, in one continuous motion
more efficient if you have the coordination for it; but still not really all that necessary.

>>737484953
>literal retard

>>737488929
>doesn't understand that silicone and silicon are two entirely different things
>still pahjeet

tfw when weird vintage shit was the computers of my youth

>>737488051
If you had a retard do your bidding based on signals from the pig sty would that have been machine learning?

>>737487598
Somebody screen shot this please.

>>737484546
>Z-80
>upgrade

I lost

>>737489230
>doesn't understand that silicone and silicon are two entirely different things
That irritatates the shit out of me.

>>737489829
I kid you not, fellow anon. The name of the product was literally "Lightning."

>>737488671
>roll middle finger down single wheel mouse
Oh fuck...have I been doing it wrong this whole time?! I use my index finger for left click and for the wheel and I use my middle finger for right click.

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>>737484291

>>737490518
Perfect AI doesn't exis...

>>737490305
No, I actually DO remember this product, anon.
Its existence doesn't make it "right".

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Was interesting for 2 seconds.

>>737490930
What was that?

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>>737482447

>>737490747
"Press Q now"

>>737483692
Weird.

I had a dream about my cousin's 800 a few years ago. Shit was broken. I called Atari for tech support and they denied they ever made such a thing. Woke up and remembered that the Atari corporation hadn't existed in decades....

>>737490996
Called a cuecat. Basically a QR code scanner you can only use on a PC circa 2000.

When the fuck is Microsoft going to get into the ecig business is what I want to kno this Fuckin apple one is burning my fuckin lips off

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>>737491343
Forgot pic

>>737491406
what flavor is it?

>>737491238
I remember newspapers had codes near articles so you could scan and go online for more info or some shit

>>737491467
Apple

>>737491467
Cock

>>737482447
I knew a guy with a drive that read UMDs. Not so much odd, but it made the worst fucking screeching noise.

Oh, that same friend had a card installed on an old computer that functioned as a radio tuner. Like, actually in the sound card thing on the mobo.

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>>737491467
>what flavor is it?
"My dick."

>>737490930
I never actually got mine to work. bad drivers or defective hw, I have no idea. Shit went out with the weekly garbage.

>>737490996
>CueCat
>bar code scanner
>given away for free

To this day, I don't know what they were trying to accomplish.

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>>737491509
FUUUUUCCCCKKKKING HELL good shit

>>737491845
>mfw I hear morons, to this day
>refer to usb flash as
>"zip drives"

5.25" bay mounted cigarette lighter
USB record player
MIDI equipment
5.25 and 3.5 floppy drive
Tv tuner card
Raspberry Pi
Laptop with rotating screen and digitizer pen


>I have spent so much money on now useless electronics garbage, it makes me sick

>>737492145
I know this pain

>>737492193
That cig lighter should hold its value for years to come

>>737482447
I still own my first computer..an Apple IIe. Was great for games at the time.

>>737486031
Oh those were the days...b4 Trammel existed.

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>>737482447

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>>737484546
>>737489829

An old family friend has one of these in her closet, and keeps asking me to take it home and fix it for her so she she can sell it on eBay.

She thinks it's worth a lot of money, but also insists its just an electronic word processor.

*sigh*
>actually a kaypro z80 clone

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My aunt did transcription work back in the 90's. Doctors and lawyers would send her tapes of their notes and she'd type them up.

She had a keyboard like this. You flick your finger up, down, left, right, or press down. She was so goddamn fast with it, it was spooky. She'd have me and my cousins, like 5 of us, have a conversation and she'd type it up perfectly. And, when she was doing her actual work, she'd play the tapes at like double speed so she could get more done.

>>737483864
I remember those

>>737493071
>weird shit thread
>actually posts something weird that's not just old

Homemade wifi cantenna... altoids and Welch's grape juice flavored

>>737493402
Fuck you, I posted my faggoty computing chair, god damn...

>>737492476
Without timestamps, these threads are pointless.

>>737491845
Zip drives are my favorite older computer medium

>>737483902
Me too!

>>737493744
Shit, we must've had the whole two that slipped through QC.....

>>737493695
I have the original 5mb SyQuest.

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>>737493629
You posted a description that's meaningless for someone who never encountered one or doesn't recall them. A picture would be nice.

>>737491228
Atari is releasing a new console

>>737483864

I have a bunch of old aol trial discs in storage right next to my blockbuster card

>>737490930
There was a mod to make it a useful (no special codes) scanner. I did it with mine.

>>737493911
No kidding? so do I. shit's great

>>737493843
I know. That was such a great machine, too.

>>737494114
FUCK!
I tried! YOU search Google images for "weird 90s computer chair."
>mfw anon is a woman because anon cannot be pleased

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FOUND IT.

An entire PDP-11/03 system in a half-height rack. It actually worked well enough to load up RSX-11 but the power draw just wasn't worth it.

>>737482602
I've seen this layout on machine tool consoles.

>>737494439
>implying Atari still exists as anything beyond a collection of trademarks and intellectual property held by a software publisher

>>737494897
ffffuuuu I forgot about these... lol, I had one too bro

>>737494897
Ok.
That is genuinely weird.

>I actually am a girl btw

>>737493071
...Jesus, being able to use this kind of thing at that level is significantly more of a complex talent than, say, a classical pianist requires.

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>>737482447

>>737494897
Oh, the kneeling chairs, I remember those.

>>737495022
>implying that a toy company is a software publisher
Personally, I wish someone would reissue the Amiga ECS chips in a process about ten nodes smaller. Or, better yet, the Curtis analog synth chips.

>>737495099
>>737495139
It was so terrible. The entire gimmick was supposedly "better back posture at the computer" but it actually killed your back after half an hour. Oh, and it was Pier 1 quality so the whole thing swayed side to side.

>>737495434
Looking back, wonder how the sex was on that thing...

>>737493071
I bet your aunt gave outrageously great fucking handjobs

>>737495627
All fingers, no strokes

>>737493071
That's really neat

>>737495165
I don't believe that's accurate.

>>737495291
You must be thinking of Hasbro?

Sorry Hasbro sold off the "Atari" brand years ago. The company that owns it now is the former Infogrames. And the ONLY thing Infogrames does or ever did is buy and sell licensing rights to software.

>>737495717
Agreed... both require all fingers in multiple uses, only one requires musical expression as well

>>737495738
>eaten by IP wankers
That's hilarious, so far as it's not sad. Thanks anon, I'm apparently way out of the vintage loop. All I ever done on Atari was music players and a few lame demos.
Too bad. All those 2600 roms should be absolutely free by now fwtw.

>>737495717
>>737495832
>musical expression
First off, the vast majority of classical pianists are only reading or reinterpreting pieces written by other composers. Second, if a writer used this instead of a transcriptionist....

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I had an SGI Onyx in my apartment for a while. It sounded like a jet and heated the place like a furnace.

>>737495832
pianists only ever flick the keys down though, that thing you have to memorize 5 different directional actions for each finger

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>>737496319
Samefag here. I currently have a Sun Rack 900-38 in my home office. I gutted it and put a file cabinet inside it.

>>737496371
Keyboard doesn't matter what pressure you strike key with, also foot pedals.

>a keyboard that uses all caps when you type angry

>>737482961
I remeber this one It really helped when i lost my leg in a car accident

>>737496097
A friend of mine did court reporting in the early 2000s. They were just using normal QWERTY keyboards with WordPerfect macros to expand shorthand like 't ' into 'the ' and so on.

>>737496097
>tries to imagine a Forth programmer's keyboard

>>737496319
Scott, is that you?

>>737496097
>Implying performance isn't expression

It's not the SAME kind of expression, obviously. I have zero fine motor skills, but I can still read and write (crappy) music. Composers are worthless without a means to bring their creations to life. As useless as a musician without any tunes.

>>737491238

Nope. It didn't do QR codes, only 1D bar codes.

>>737494897
Do these actually help your posture and shit? Just looked up how you're supposed to sit on them and laughed because every picture looked retarded.

>>737490358
No, that's how normal people do it. Anon is just a super autist.

>>737496844
Hilarious. I think they did, had a couple of friends that swore by them but no personal experience.

>>737494897
nigga when I was 12 I played NFS at my gramps on this one

>>737496821
Didn't say it did.

>>737490358
You are doing it right anon. This guy is just a faggot.

>>737496546
Also transcriptionists have to keep what..... 30 seconds at most of the information in short term memory? A pianist has to commit a long sequence of notes to heart. Having the sheet music handy helps to keep it anchored, but most of that shit is ingrained in long term memory after many, many rehearsals and practices.

It's a different skill entirely.

>>737496371
Dude, once you have the directions down due to muscle memory you're set - you're just typing words then without even thinking.

Also, 8 fingers at 5 directions is 40 moves. There's 88 keys on a piano.

go fuck yourself - you're retarded.

>>737488929
Try alternating you silicone lube with silicon lube.
You'll get the idea

>>737496371
>>737497296

AND it's blending all 88 keys in a rhythmic way that creates music - nothing at all like rote memorization that types words.

Sorry to keep belabouring this, but the more I think about it the more astounded I get at how fucking dumb you are.

>>737497296
Lets not forget chords

>>737494685
>mfw anon is a fucking nigger that could have just posted the pic but chose to argue like a degenerate

>>737497474
>>737497468
>>737497296
>>737497239
>>737496781
>Ganging up to defend pianists, music fags unite

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>>737482447
Is that for amputees?

>>737497730
>These keyboards are designed to enable people with special needs to enter computer data more easily and quickly. The special shape and letter layout have been very carefully planned, taking into account the limited number of keys that can be accessed quickly and comfortably.
>considers the fapping possibilities

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>>737498146
For ppl like this?

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>>737499153
no, for ppl like this

I had every single games console from the ZX spectrum 16k, to the PS1 (Rich family) over 300 items in every colour and edition. A faulty boiler installation burned the roof out destroying everything. Insurance paid out pence on the dollar, tried to sue but the heating company collapsed. Many feels.

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>this thread

>>737500176
>wearing a Japanese schoolgirl outfit
>alone

You.

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>>737500359

>>737500359
are you telling me you're not alone?
>backtoreddit

>>737500359
you're literally on an anime website lol

I have a Compaq Portable (luggable PC with built-in 7" CRT) either downstairs or at mom's house.

My ex found an old "laptop" in the junk pile where they worked and brought it home. It was an 8088 or 8086, 3.5" floppy. Don't remember if it had a hard drive. It had an expansion slot that was big enough for about a 2/3 length ISA card. The ISA socket was on a flexible circuit board; you took off the card slot cover, pulled the socket out, plugged the card into it, put the assembly in, and secured it with the screw on the card bracket.

>>737500176
i hope something bad happens to you

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I wish I could find it. I'm sure it's in a box around this house somewhere.

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>>737500521
that's not nice

>>737485769
I think I once saw some 3d editor in 90s/early 2000s that could use the third wheel to control for pitch/yaw/roll with combination of the mouse motion.

>>737485769
Horizontal scrolling mb

>>737482447
I used to own a 5.25 inch hard disk drive, an old ass all in 1 mac pic that was all in one, black and white display, a zip disc drive, with zip discs, a tape drive, currently have tapes that go into that type of tape drive, the actual floppy disc drive that's bigger than 5.25 inch discs. And many other types of wierd and obscure pc/electronic hardware.

>>737501112
Nothing much weird, just old.

>>737500536
video idea:
> go to computer store
> pick out USB flash drive
> find old salesman (>40)
> ask him for the thing that punches a notch in it to double the capacity

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>>737482961
>space for right hand only
>my right thumb never even touches my keyboard

>>737501928
The one in the OP is an ergonomic keyboard for amputees the one you quoted is an ergonomic keyboard for two handed people.