COMFY TECHNOLOGY PICTURES

what has "comfortable" to do with old hardware and nostalgia?

>>54928248
It's a Reddit maymay

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>>54928237
Goddamnit I loved the shit out of caddy drives.

>>54928273

ayy you would love my tektronix tds 360

I think they used the same proprietary CRT technology

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>>54928237

>>54928273
>>54928295
It's a slow motion monocrome vector CRT dipshit

>>54928273
CRT <3 they can't make it more comfy

>>54928342

I always loved how "spacy" japanese tech looked.

especially those computers that looked like HiFi stereos

>>54928335

Yeah they obviously use the same CRT in the tds360

>>54928377
>radiation is comfy

Here, how about this PA-RISC marketing video from the 90s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLTh4uVJduI

>>54928440
Did they aim at the "computers a raycis" people with that?

Is this the vaporwave thread?

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

>>54928395
Better get used to it, because you're getting blasted with visible light 24/7.
Shit's scary, right?

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>>54928382
Fun fact: The USS Excelsior from Star Trek was designed to mimic 1980s Japanese electronics styling, a testament to just how "space-y" and futuristic Japanese tech looked.

>>54928342
uhnf that keyboard

>>54928237
I want a desk like that

>>54928830
Nice AESTHETIC lighting.

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>>54928237
Stop triggering my ocd.

>>54928762
Star Trek tech is just comfy in general

>>54929336
>self-diagnosing yourself with OCD
Kill yourself

>>54929375
Just move the goddamn rubber foot ok?
It's not funny.

>>54929392
Lone Gunmen

Living the dream

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>>54928237

>>54929491
I can't help but think how painful sitting on that must be.

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>>54929539

It's good for your back.

>>54929491
>posts uncomfy tech pic

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>>54929572

>>54928273
>that burn-in

>>54929572
>tfw you lay sometimes like that on your chair

>>54930554
That is an asian boy, you faggot. Hey but if you like that I don't care.

>>54930538
>you will never be a cute maid

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my setup

>>54931856
clean your floor

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>>54928237

>>54928237
>SPARC Classic
Wew lad

>>54934745
Can someone ID this tower?

Looking to build a 90s sleeper computer and this case is big and perfect.

>>54929572
This is my standard pose when I beat off in my chair.

>>54934758

It's mine. Supermicro.

>>54934838

If it's really yours can you ID most of the models of the stuff on that case?

Shit looks so cash and I want it.

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>>54928237
more of the set

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>>54934875
same photographer
>tfw no VAX lunchbox

>>54934849

Indeed I can. From top to bottom, Plextor CDR, Samsung DVD, SB Audigy and some no name temp sensor. Ran dual 500Mhz Xeons on a Supermicro board.

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>>54934889
HP 9000/712 cluster

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>>54934902
VR station

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>>54934915
Pyramid supermini (I think)

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>>54934939
comfy as fuck sun-3 setup

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>>54934945
The fuck is this?

>>54934961
by how it looks a room hidden in the floor? don't see any pc in it though nor a good way to cover it after you're inside

>>54934758
Might have been an aopen case.

>>54934945
>>54934961
A pit.

For getting underneath a car.

>>54934961
A prison, specially designed to lure otaku, weebs and NEETS.

>>54934893
>tfw just got a dual xeon box the other week
Still the shit until you get it on the web with JavaScript.

>>54929530
I just googled "earth by night" and noticed a shit ton of lights off the coast of Argentina where there's no land. The lights, looking similar to a city, are from fishing boats attracting plankton to the surface where fisherman can inevitably catch squid. Sorry that poster peaked my interest and just in case any one of you guys are on Jeopardy, you now know, the lights north of the Falkland Islands are fisherman boats for short finned squid.

>>54935447
that's some cool trivia, cheers

>>54934913
For what purpose?

>>54935447
This is the second genuinely fascinating thing I've learned on 4chan in as many days. Shit isn't natural. Thanks, though.

>>54935447
Cool

>>54936696
What's the first?

>>54935447
same story for the lights in east asian waters too?

>>54934945
I want to live in there...

>>54936748
The first is that wanting to suck a trap dick is gay. But yours is way better

>>54929572
I laughed at this way harder than I probably should have.

>>54934958

post more of these pls

>>54929628
>FM TOWNS
That thing was godly back in the day. I still mourn the day Windows killed the Japanese PC industry.

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>>54937172
coming right up family

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>>54937718
CAD lunchbox

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>>54937745
Cray Y-MP

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>>54937760
X-MP* tired as fuck
some AlphaStations or DECstations, can't remember which

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>>54937779
transputer devbox

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>>54937792
transputer card

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>>54937803
can't remember what the fuck this thing was specifically, IIRC a giant high-speed modem for time-sharing systems

>>54934349
k mom

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>>54937826
IBM S/370 (with token UNIVAC)

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>>54937837
sun-3

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>>54937851
mainframe control room
or just a cramped lab

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>>54937870
late-model PERQs

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>>54937879
some tektronix shitbox
didn't even realize they made workstations before I found this

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>>54937888
some kind of transputer shill station based around microchannel boxes? the only thing I recognize is the cozy RS/6000 minifridge in the very back

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IBM 3290 plasma display terminal
what an eye rapist that must have been

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>>54937927
another S/370 (3081)
probably what that space heater was hanging off of

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>>54937945
another sun-2/sun-3 shillstation

>>54929572
literally me at work

>>54937927

I'm old enough that I've seen these in person as kiddo and of all places in commie yugo bank during late 80's.

how did any of these people manage to go online and swear at each other? get a modern computer, jackass

>>54929491
>10k Pudge Player.jpg

I always thought the best part about this image is the fact that the guy is right handed.

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>>54934745
That's a sexy workspace.

>>54928237
What was with the lighting in the 90s for stuff like this? I love it

>>54938073
>implying
the captcha is literally the only thing that stops you from shitposting on a terminal

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>>54938187

Miami Vice influence I shit you not.

>>54938172
Except for the part where that monitor's position is fucking horrible for your neck.

>>54938510
Never watched it, but sounds about right.
Wish my whole life looked like this.

>>54934745
>This PC was once state of the art
>it was a great moment when the person plugged this in and powered it on for the first time
>IT brought its owner countless hours of enjoyment
>It is now decaying in a landfill somewhere and will never be turned on or have a current flow through its circuts

>>54937779
Doesn't it look like he has quite a bulge going on? Maybe he really likes computers.

>>54938832
This computer is in use right now.
>>/r9k/

>>54930740
>>54930538
Just start HRT and a goo diet and you will in a few years.

I mean the dude in the picture did it, so can you.

>>54934915
but bur VR is a new thing!

>>54937779
Digital is DEC

>>54929491
>logging in

>>54931856
keyboard?

>>54938832
This history reminds me when rms talked about the empty case of the PDP-10 that he saw

>>54941456
Yes

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>>54928237
Haven't seen these in a LONG ass time
Anyways, WINDOWS WHISTLER TIME MOTHERFUCKERS

>THAT THEME
>THAT DESKTOP
>THAT START MENU
WHO COULD PASS UP THIS?

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>>54942567
fuck wrong image

>>54942534
That looks like absolute ass.
Please get that shit out of this thread.

>>54937792
I learned Occam at university on what was essentially a transputer emulator.

Was good fun.

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>>54942597
>If I think it's ass then it's immediately ass!

>>54942609
Just look at that horrible clash of themes. It's like Classic and Luna had a bastard child.
Classic in the taskbar and mostly everywhere except Luna in the Start menu and window borders.

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THOSE SWEET, SWEET WINDOW BORDERS

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OoOoOoH!!!!

>>54934745
Tell me what that is please I beg you.

>>54928273
I really wanna set up a DOS VM just for the looks and because I don't really do much when I'm typing that needs a more modern OS. I really wish I could somehow simulate vector graphics too, that looks fucking awesome.

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Do you slow cook? Fucking comfy as fuck.

>>54941456
autism 10keyless

>>54934838
can supermicro ever not be based?

>>54931856
Improve your cable management

>>54943271
>literally the best way to make soup
motherfucker you know I slow cook

>>54929766
What's in the box?

>>54937914
>Oh shit. The department wants a publicity photo. Better start all the graphics demos we have..

>>54943420
They do amazing baked potatoes too and the meat just pulls apart, veg and gravy all in one pot.

>>54940640
The dude in the picture is Asian. They start off half-feminine as it is usually.

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>>54928762
Yeah, but when we have beam-me-up technology and no real need for the spaceship to enter/exit orbits, they'll start looking more like Borg ships than sleek, aerodynamic normie ships.

>>54934719
This is comfy as fuck.

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>>54943709
making a cube is costly - just add/remove compartments as needed
also with gravity plating you don't need to keep the same orientation of all decks
so it would be like a bunch of connected boxes - like an overgrown crystal
and with transporters/holodeck you don't actually need corridors or any special rooms like a bridge, lounge, medical bay - all in holodeck

>>54944045
>Relying on transporters for basic movement between rooms

Yeah, because that stupid thing was really consistently reliable on the show, with no way to jam it or anything, right?

Can you imagine the clusterfuck if it got shut down or jammed or broke or whatever and everyone was trapped in their bunks, or no one could make it to the med bay?

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>>54940684
DECstations were their MIPS-based workstations

>>54943467
>but we don't have enough!
>graph. everything.

does anyone have any pictures of new builds/hardware in old school cases? I think that stuff looks awesome desu

>>54935593
Comfy traveling

>>54943435
his profit for the past 5 minutes

>>54944499
>Yeah, because that stupid thing was really consistently reliable on the show, with no way to jam it or anything, right?
with holodeck tech why would they need to leave their living quarters?
>Can you imagine the clusterfuck if it got shut down or jammed or broke or whatever and everyone was trapped in their bunks, or no one could make it to the med bay?
Jefferies tubes DUH!

>>54944724
MOAR

Make a thread on a pink board tho

>>54945420
>MOAR
Just go to /s/ or /gif/ or /hc/ for fuck's sake.

>>54945458
not everyone is a cis male
check your privilege!

>>54929543
The fuck is this...and why do I want it?

>>54944724
Sauce

>>54934913
my dick gets harder the longer I look at this

>>54943435
http://www.grizzly.com/products/1-HP-Dust-Collector/G8027?utm_campaign=zPage

>>54943435
Your steam money

>>54929491
>average slavic battlestation

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Does this count?

>>54947346
>black optical drive in a light-colored case
not ok

>>54937927
What on earth is that IBM monitor?

>>54943241

Not for DOS, but xterm has tektronics emulation.

I've never used it, but it does the vector graphics and whatnot. Set your colors, start X with just a full screen xterm without a window manager, and have fun with it.

>>54929491

Looks like my setup back in the 90s, when I lived on ramen and spent all my money on computer parts.

>>54935593

Whenever you hear someone talk about mobile computing, think of this.

>>54928248
The lighting and smooth white look of the computers gives a comfy feel. Inserting a disc caddy is pleasurable.

>>54928342
This is a bit cluttered to be comfy, and the monitor is tilted to too high.

>>54928395
Why do you go around to every single post mentioned CRTs and then reply with "enjoy your radiation" or the equivalent shitpost.

CRTs do not emit any amount of harmful radiation. Sitting next to a fireplace is worse for your health.

>>54942534

Heh, I remember when that shit was coming out.

The Air Force was talking about putting their entire force-wide network in one domain tree. No idea if they actually did or not - I got out in '02.

>>54929491
I bet that guy looks back fondly on those times.

>>54948180
>literally says what it is in the post

>>54929766
Is he sitting on one of those giant rubber balls?

>>54928248
>looks and feels more like technology
>comfy noise from drives and peripherals

>>54948180

It's probably a terminal, not just a monitor.

I wasn't an IBM guy though, so no idea.

>>54934745
>dat tower

Don't know about that monitor placement tho.

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>>54948180
>>54949097
It's a 3270 (compatible) terminal, or more, four of them sharing a single big-ass plasma display.

>>54934893
What's inside of it now? Please tell me it is a set of modern dual xeons.

>>54949110

Big towers used to be all the rage, back in the 90s and early 2000s. All my machines until the current one were at least two feet tall.

I've still got an old 166MHz Alpha in the closet in a case that's about three feet tall.

>>54934875
what sort of work might he have been doing?

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>>54949142
>alpha
please blog
is it a whitebox system based on one of those AlphaPC boards?

>>54934958
That mousepad is the kind they use for really early optical mouses.

>>54949181
talk about ra.... owait, thats an old motherboard, carry on.

>>54949181

Man, I haven't seen the motherboard in that machine in fifteen years or more, and it wasn't originally mine (a friend of mine left it with me and never got around to getting it back).

It's not a Multia, I know that. It's a developer board. And yes, it's a whitebox - all he got with the system was the motherboard and processor.

I wonder if that old full-height 4GB SCSI drive in it will still spin up?

>>54929392
its the little tech shop of horror!

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>>54949161
Suns were mostly used for application development, CAD and as instrument/machine controllers, a little 2D photo/media work here and there too.

they seemed really popular in the semiconductor industry especially for both design and machine control applications, I actually think that was one of Sun's big niches during the 68k era

>>54949246
that's neat as fuck, you should give it a try
as long as you kept it safe I don't know why the drive wouldn't spin up, though Seagate SCSI drives from that era have really shit reliability at least in my experience

>>54937851
>ywn go over reports with 80s tech qts

>>54937870
A lot of the technology in this photo is still sought after today.

The keyboards because they're nice. The CRTs because they are CGA (240p) and good for playing old games. And the ones which are vector displays are even more valuable.

>>54929458

Just get your head out of your ass.

>>54949290

It's one of DEC's RZ series drives, don't remember which one.

Funny story - the guy that bought that left it at my house, since I had a network and a couple other friends who kept computers over here. He used my Matrox 2MB video card (the best card in the house) because it was compatible with Alpha hardware, and he had the largest monitor, but there were no video drivers in NT so he had 640x480 at 16 colors.

So as soon as he'd go home, I'd format the thing and put Linux on it. My desktop was faster, and he had the better video setup (under Linux), so I'd run programs on my machine and display them on his.

Then he'd come back the next day, sigh, and reinstall NT.

Also, if we floodpinged the thing when it had NT on it, it would just stop; not even the clock would update until we stopped the flood ping.

Sometimes I wonder why he never stabbed me.

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>hotwheels computer
>sun solaris 10
>room filled with treasures in boxes

>>54938073
>how did any of these people manage to go online and swear at each other?

For the computers that had the capability they send shitposts to each other through any or all of

-the local network
-early email
-dialing up a BBS
-simply leaving a text file labeled open me that has "hey fuck you phil" inside

A lot of these computers could have eventually connected to the early internet and reached newsgroups, and it was on from there on out.

>>54949181
Is that RAM or an embedded system?

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BlueSteel theme for Enlightenment
so goddamn comfy

>>54949135
What a beautiful display.

No possible way to find them online and even then no way to connect it with anything other than ancient proprietary IBM mainframe I/O, but god does it look great.

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>>54949360
those are all 3270s and clones, no CGA or PC keyboards there, and no way you're hooking one up to a PC unless you have a nice 3174 and a telnet server

however they are sought after nonetheless, those terminals were all but decimated by the '90s and '00s

and fuck /mkg/ hipsters desu, all they want to do is destroy more of a really poorly preserved part of computing history in the name of showing off, plus old keyboards clash so hard with modern aesthetics it triggers me to no end

>>54949408
>It's one of DEC's RZ series drives, don't remember which one.
did they still make their own drives by that time? it seems they preferred to use Seagate disks in their Alpha desktops


>Then he'd come back the next day, sigh, and reinstall NT.
god why, I couldn't imagine NT for Alpha as anything other than total suffering, was there ever anything in the way of native applications for it? my understanding was that even the NT port itself was laden with emulated 386 code

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Does anyone have comfy photos of modern workstations? Things made in the last 15 years or so.

>>54949129
oooh

>>54949528

I ran that back in the day. E was the shit up until the whole "stacked desktop" thing.

>>54949562

No idea, really. It's labeled as a DEC drive and the spec sheets I used for it back in the way came of Digital's ftp site, and I don't remember anything about Seagate, but that was almost two decades ago.

re:NT Yeah, he ran most of his stuff through FX32. It didn't do much, really. He mostly just browsed the web on it with IE.

I don't think he knew what he was getting into with that machine. It was way more functional as a Linux box than an NT machine, but he wasn't willing to learn Linux. That's probably why he never bothered getting it back from me.

>>54949584

Nice. I considered getting a 4-CPU board from them once, since I had the money and knew I wasn't going to be able to upgrade for a few years. Went with a single-socked Xeon board instead (but with an 8-core Haswell). I can't complain, I'm typing on it now.

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>>54949527
big ass 72-pin DRAM SIMMs

>>54949557
can't imagine they sold a ton of them, you'll probably see them turn up in surplus auctions and the like occasionally though, if you go the 3174 route in >>54949562 you can hang them off of regular PCs using telnet over ethernet, even get a real mainframe OS going with hercules/sim390

>>54949584
feels like modern workstations are really poorly neglected when it comes to nice marketing photos, since nobody really cares about them anymore now that they're just cheap commodity gaymer PCs with certified drivers

I think it's easier to find cozy photos of old hardware because old workstations (really computers in general) were something special and different from run-of-the-mill systems and often the focus of the photos rather than just what was being done on them

>>54949720
well, easiest way to tell if you really wanted to is to pull it out and look for a Seagate model designation like "ST3XXXXXX" or whatever they used, you used to see a lot of Seagate disks with other logos and model numbers on them, HP one of the biggest perpetrators, they even made Seagate drives themselves

>It didn't do much, really. He mostly just browsed the web on it with IE.
that's one hell of a pre-facebook machine, sounds like it definitely would have been a pretty sweet as Linux RISC box though, Alpha seemed to have great support from the beginning

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>>54949789
>I will never heat my garage with an SUV-sized FPU

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>>54949827

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>>54949875

>>54949789

For general usage the Alpha wasn't that great. My Cyrix 166 box outperformed it for most of the stuff I did (just going by feel - I didn't benchmark anything), which is why I mostly used it as an X terminal.

The Alpha was supposed to have amazing floating point performance, which was only topped by PA-RISC. At the time though, I was mostly interested in network-related stuff, so the Alpha didn't really offer much other than novelty. I had way more fun playing with SPARCs.

>>54949720
>>>54949528
>I ran that back in the day. E was the shit up until the whole "stacked desktop" thing.
I hung out in #E on IRC back in the day, got OP status on the channel and talked with mandrake, rasterman and the rest of the original devs and other regulars. Good times.

What's a "stacked desktop"? Guess that came around later?

>>54943435
Copies of halflife 3

>>54949922

DR14, I think?

Basically, instead of desktops laid out in a grid or line, they were "stacked" on top of each other. There were bars at the top and bottom and you'd drag a desktop up from the bottom or down from the top to change desktops.

It was ugly as fuck compared to DR13 and was clunky to use. I ended up going back to FVWM, and stayed there until I switched to KDE a couple years ago. I haven't tried DR17, but I'll admit the screenshots look neat.

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>>54949892
there's something about laboratory/industrial setups that are just comfy as fuck

>>54949913
yeah I don't doubt it, remember though that the 166 MHz Alpha was a pretty damn old chip by the time the 6x86-166 was a new part, IIRC it's the low/low-mid range part of the first run in '92-'93, and the Alpha, like other RISC designs was never quite a clock-for-clock performer, especially in comparison to Cyrix, the king of clock-for-clock performance (in the x86 space)

>I had way more fun playing with SPARCs.
same (though I'm a newshit who never played around with any of this stuff when it was relevant), SPARC boxes also have way better software/hardware/hobbyist support too

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>>54950062

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>>54940688

>>54950112

Back in '99 I got assigned to the Network Control Center at an Air Force base in Okinawa. The maintenance room was full of SPARCStation 20s that the F15 pilots used to use to program their autopilot.

I spent a lot of time in there setting up networks and learning Solaris. Fun times.

We got an HP-UX based server in, but for political reasons it was put on the back burner and never used. They wouldn't let me play with it.

>>54929336
it appears to have wandered onto tumblr
oh no

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>>54950095
Weird. I have DR17 on my work computer, among other DE's. It's decent to use.

I just googled E13 and I remember compiling it back in the day. I found this screenshot that has an #E window open too, so extra nostalgia.

>>54935052
.. I wanted to go in it.

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>>54949789
HP should do a set of photos of their workstations in "real" environments that echo the past generations.

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>>54950273

Here's a screenshot I found on the 'net. See that bar and the little buttons up toward the top? You could drag that bar down to get to the desktop beneath it, or use the arrows to navigate the desktops.

To move windows between desktops, you dragged a desktop halfway down and moved the window from one to the other.

I didn't care for it. I preferred (and still prefer) a grid layout with edge resistance. FVWM is the only WM I know of that gets it completely right these days - KDE gets close, but has focus issues with maximized windows.

>>54950437
oh shit, I remember that being around. I don't know how I dealt with it or just stayed with DR13 if that came around after.

I just use awesome at work and don't have to worry about edges.

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>>54937964
dat printer

>>54950663

Awesome is one of those tiling, keyboard navigation desktops, isn't it? I've never used one.

I've never used hotkeys for my WMs, other than a few simple ones. I'm a mouse guy for window management.

Plus I use emacs, and it wants all the modifier keys it can get. First thing I do when setting up a new desktop is disabling all the hotkeys.

>>54946054
Meh, just his new CPU cooler. Built-in dust filter!

>>54928914
has no number row, into the trash it goes

>>54937745
Is that Jim Carey's dad?

>>54950164
that sounds pretty dank
always wanted to fuck with HP-UX, PA-RISC gear is so hard to come by now though

maybe some day I'll buy a C8000

>>54950328
totally, their Z series hardware would be worthy of it

>>54938832
This bothers me a lot. So, so many machines are out there still in good operating condition and still useful for any number of tasks but they'll never see another day of use in their lives unless they're one the lucky few to fall into the hands of an enthusiast.

As a programmer by profession, I hold lazy programmers as the ones primarily responsible. Development practices almost everywhere are a perpetual slope of justification of gross overuse of resources. There's absolutely zero reason why opening google docs, which is no more capable than Word '98, to eat up more RAM and CPU time than entire operating systems and intense games used to. It's absurd.

I keep hoping that a sort of "green computing revolution" will take root and give all these poor old machines work again as unlikely as that happening may be.

>>54951886
A "green computing revolution" would recycle all the old machines and replace them with cellphones and ARM SBCs, because power consumption. Which is kind of what's already happening, except for the recycling being done by children in Bangladesh.

>>54951967
>power consumption
this wouldn't be a issue if we had fuckloads of nuclear

>>54952007
but nuclear isn't green
it's blue

>>54952014
>"""""green""""" power production
wind requires fuckloads of land
solar is inefficient as fuck for grid power
hydroelectric has little more capacity since all the rivers are dammed

>>54952056
Solar is getting exponentially cheaper, showing that Moore's Law possibly has corollaries for all semiconductor technologies, and if Tesla causes the lithium battery market to expand similarly then solar could provide the bulk of replacement capacity over fossil fuels.

It really does seem like a lot of extra trouble to go through just because some hippies can't tell the difference between a bomb and a power plant.

>>54952092
a decent solar installation is still a $10-20k investment

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>>54950721
yes, awesome is a tiling window manager but it's not completely keyboard-driven. You get to use a mouse plenty though.

I only use the awesome keys to grow/shrink windows, like I'll often have an IDE on the left and a terminal on the right, and size the windows once and be done. I use a combo to launch commands quickly to. I also rarely need to close windows enough that I forget the combination to close windows when I need, so I end up having to call xkill and I feel foolish.

The hotkeys all involve the Mod key, which is the Win Key but it's trivial to change it to anything else.


I was just so fucking sick and tired of trying to resize windows all day, move them around, etc... that it is really liberating to not worry about it any more.

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>>54928237

>>54952176
At retail. Wholesale panels are cheap as fuck, but the cost of a home installation today is mostly driven by labor, financing, and mounting hardware.

Utility-scale installation allows the minimization of those costs.

>>54952216
Love this pic, it's been my background for years.

>>54937859

... so guys... would you? ... I would

>>54937964
Why do you refer to them as shillstations?

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>ywn have an apartment in 1990s Osaka, Japan
>ywn play eroge late at night on your NEC PC-98 in said sweaty apartment
>ywn blow your load then lay in the dark with a fan blowing across your nearly naked body with burning eyes from staring at the CRT too long before drifting off into fitful sleep

>>54949079
You mean a yoga ball?

Yes

>/g/ doesn't even know what a yoga ball is

>>54952636
They are not only for Yoga.

>>54952549
just shots that have a real "for publicity only" vibe to them

>>54952523
only if I can stick my dick in the ollivetti behind her first

>>54949467
>Montreal Canadiens Jersey
>treasures
might as well burn the whole house down

>>54952649
Well colour me suprised.

I thought you could get in serious legal trouble for using a yoga ball for non-yoga exercise or use.

Maybe it's a local thing

>>54952881
>I thought you could get in serious legal trouble for using a yoga ball for non-yoga exercise or use.
wut

>>54952914
>/g/ is THIS DENSE
glad as fuck I left

>>54952926
uh, did i miss a joke?

>>54953001
Some districts have set up laws prohibiting the use of Yoga Balls for non-yoga activities, due to a spate of accidents by office women who like to sit on them, but they've slid out from under them. The women filed lawsuits against their employers and won.

>>54953030
that's fucking hilarious

>>54953030
yet another thing banned by women because they can't handle them
i am not surprised at all

>>54949827
>FPS164
>can't even play Doom

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>>54938187
it's aesthetic

>>54928395
Why would you be using an unshielded CRT?

>>54952813
Yeah, I suppose in reality there were be all kinds of personal items, coffee cups, papers, etc scattered around the desks.

How lucky would one consider themselves to be to use some of the systems in this thread?

Were Sun workstations considered the standard issue, or was it a fancy machine people sought to be allowed to use?

>>54953518
definitely, not to mention the room layout and the screen imagery are pretty good giveaways too, don't think that guy needs 5 instances of the same image up at once

>>54953588
wasn't very old during the heyday of desktop UNIX, so most of my knowledge is from reading after the fact, but..

Sun systems were very common as far as non-PC hardware went, they were practically the face of UNIX on the desktop, and their server offerings were the backbone of the dotcom boom, but on the whole they weren't very common outside of big businesses that could afford them, the hardware was very expensive and the operating systems more specialized, the platform didn't really have the vast array of home and small business-friendly software that PCs had, so you pretty much only saw them in academia or large enterprises where they were often used for more specific, technical jobs like various flavors of CAD, software development, "scientific computing", typesetting, industrial control, and the like.

though there still were plenty of hobbyists able to get their hands on one for home use thanks to how quickly hardware deprecated back then, man I wish I was old enough around the early 2000s when people were tossing loaded multi-processor pizzaboxes like it was nothing

>>54929628
That keyboard is better than sex.

>>54949325
>qts
>dat nose
more like jewts amirite

>>54954725
>implying you've tried either

i_love_this_thread_so_much.jpg

>>54952860
may be habs colors but that's not a habs jersey. theres writing around whatever logo and it's not centered on the bars. probably some local jr team.

>>54949528
>>54950273
>>54950437
>tfw your minimalist i3 setup will never reach the level of nostalgic comfort as enlightenment

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>>54950273
god damn there's something about retro rice that really just pleases the disgust

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comfy enough for ya?

> sgi itanic

>>54947346

Nice man.

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more comfy sgi

>>54928395
There is no greater feeling than being warmed by Atom's embrace.

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>>54949584

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tezro

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>>54955088
if only they weren't just badge-engineered Intel reference designs

an Itanic based on some ultra-proprietary SGI architecture like the VW540/320 and their O2 UMA model would be neat as fuck

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>>54955171
speaking of the VW, here's some really shit clippings from marketing brochures

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>>54955180

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>>54955191

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dat case design

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>>54955149
>not the GM special order models with custom paint jobs

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>>54955212

Yuri Gagarin statue

>>54955191
>>54955203
doesn't get any more early 2000's than this

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> infinite reality

greatest product name ever

>>54937745
Is it just me or is his mouse the wrong way around?

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>>54955258
nothing says cozy like the R4K golden age

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>>54955326
though they didn't have shit on the R8K
>tfw I want to unironically shell out for a POWER Indigo2

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>>54955351

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>>54955375

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>>54955426
>>54955440

I really like HP design.

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>>54955488
HP really knew how to design a product that meant as much business on the outside as it did on the inside, their modern x86 gear doesn't do as fantastic a job at capturing that but they're still great nonetheless.

Dug up another Tezro shot trying to find my cache of HP shit.

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>>54955519
Also, obligatory Itanic abominations.

>>54955533

MIPS SGI is best SGI

>>54952584
Sounds fun. Typical Saturday night.

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>>54955533
Watching SGI circle the drain slowly and painfully is excruciating, but at least it's pretty.

>>54955548
Totally. SGI's attempted Itanic transition was easily the most awful architecture switch one could ever witness.

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>>54955581
Back to Tezros

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I went looking for some more modern photos. Look at the difference in posture.

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>>54955612

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Dell Precision T3600

There are a bunch of these on sale on ebay right now and they have LGA 2011 motherboards in them.

>>54955620

Nice Sony, goes well with SGI

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You will never own a PDP-11

why live

>>54955617
the future sucks huh

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IBM T221

A monitor from 2001-2005 with a resolution of 3840×2400

>>54955764

Nice, even that Cisco phone in background is very nice piece of industrial design.

>>54929392
Dream place man

>calling technology "comfy"
i was just starting to think that people weren't that autistic but nevermind

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posting a few I've come across

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Description says this is the control panel for a Varian Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer.

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Not sure what these are. Looks like maybe Gateway 2000 Pentium III machines with a custom outer casing.

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People used to complain so much about the idea of working in a cubicle, but today most young people would consider it a luxury dream job.

>>54956306
Yes fuck open work spaces, you can't fucking concentrate because you HEAR EVERY SINGLE FUCKING THING.

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>>54956404
that printer looks the same as one i used to have

>>54929628
And with an athlon3000 retrofit:
http://www.crazydiypc.jp/product_model_fm.html

>>54956748
pointless desecration of a rare PC

>>54934745
>69°C

>>54956208
>Sensors indicate watermelon

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>>54929907
Holy shit do I miss WoW but I don't have time for that shit anymore, plus I don't want to be like that guy from NHK.