/oct/ - retro, vintage, old computer thread

>>55827714
Bamping for old computer boxes

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>speccy thread

>>55827858
What's the actual speed of this thing? 24bits/s?

>>55828365
You really like those machines, don't you?

>>55828365
Loved line printers. even the slowest could do 400 lines per minute, and can your laser do 4-part stationery?
IBM used to come out with a new way of printing every year.
Chain printers (1403), train printers (3211), belt printers (3288), laser printers (3800), wheel printers, stud printers, inkjet printers. You name it.
I once wasted several boxes of fan-fold stationery by printing out the entirety of the comp.sys.apple2 news group on our "Tree Eater" 3800 printer in the Data Centre.
Luckily it went unnoticed, even when I did it twice.

Bamp, where are all the awesome shitboxes?

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>>55827714

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My wife in our den

>>55829781
>NSA bird
kek

>>55829808
Heh. I re-named that pic especially for this thread

>>55829781
Time to upgrade dude.

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>>55827714
>PC and Amiga
careful there you are playing with fire

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>>55830195
>x86 boxes have no soul

>>55830195
Seen that one.
As I already have said.
Idiot. Any machine has a soul if you put one in it.

He's the kind of person that makes Amiga folk look bad.

>>55829781
I'd fuck her on the spot

>>55830330
I wonder if she fooled around with the other engineers

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>>55830219

Say that to my face motherfucker.

>>55830411
How's the 4chan telnet program going?
Also, never noticed before, are you running GEM in that picture?

>>55830446

Its going well, I'm going to try and finish it off this weekend.
And yeah, I've got GEM installed.

>>55830467
Awesome! Will it be a gift for us all?

>>55830478

I'll stick it up on my VPS as soon as its stable.
May post the source on bitbucket too.

>>55830484
That's great, good luck!
Can't wait to try it!

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Had to sell it all :(

>>55830615
Oh god why? I could never sell something like that, that's beautiful!

How much did you get for that lot?

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Fuck yea

Radeon 9800 Pro 128M

>>55830627
I was unemployed for longer than I thought I would be, had only really planned for 3 months but it ended up being 5 months; so just needed the money for rent and food.

sgi i got like $120, quadra i parted out, got like $30 for mobo and $30 for psu, but it had an ultra rare 80mhz 601 card w 4 72 pin ram slots, only got a measily $180 for one of rarest and fastest quadra upgrades ever

>>55830637
I just farted.
I have a box on top of a wardrobe full of mostly AGP video cards, all inside antistatic bags and working, around 30 of them, kek.

>>55830655
Aw shit, that sucks, especially if you have to sell something rare for cheap because you have no other choice.

>>55830627
the iifx i got like $90, the Mac II and IIx I barely made anything on, maybe like $10 profit each after shipping. I got about $100 for the //e, I got like $150 for the Sun Ultra 2, the oscilloscope I got like $20 for

pictured there was not even half my collection, I had lots of other stuff, mostly Apple but also SGI and Sun. Also tons of rare NuBus cards

>>55830691
That's cool.

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>>55830672
I upgraded the fuck outta this. running debian and openbox, the dual 300MHz CPUs browsed the web fine as long as i wasnt visiting bloated web pages. had 2GB RAM, a 9GB SCSI drive, and a 15MB framebuffer card

>>55830720
It's beautiful anon!

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>>55830709

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>>55830734
yea one of my favorite computers Ive ever owned.

heres the inside

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>>55830734
BTW, Im in USA, and some dude in Russia bought it off me

>>55830821
Holy shit.

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>>55830788
This Green SGI got pretty demolished in shipping. I didnt pack it well enough. The guy was pissed, but once I explained I had to sell everything I loved in order to eat he sorta just dropped it. I offered to send him all sorts of random old computer stuff but he just wanted that SGI

ooh found some more pics... still looking for that 80mhz powerpro 601 though

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HERES THE BOX!

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>>55829690
Underratedpost
>>55830615
Phwar!
>>55830877
BLIMEY!

Wanted Sun Microsystems and SIlicon Graphics.
Not dissapointed.

Here is my BS:
>>55830984
See anything you want info I'll get a proper picture and tell you about it.

The amstrad I got as a amstrad bundle for £20 to test a 6128 base.

>>55831004
I had one of the newer Dells like you have pictured

FYI caps on the mainboard started bulging and the machine would constantly power off randomly

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About 6 hours before it's recycled. Kinda a damn shame, but it's not worth it to me to buy it... already bought a bunch of 5.25 floppies and the like.

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>>55831246
Box pic.

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>>55830637
>friends all have shitty FX5200's
>they bought them because 4200Ti was a great gaming card

>I got this
>Playing CS:S maxed without a hitch
>They all struggling, have to use shitty looking DX8 mode

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Haven't decided to strip the paint and use bare metal, or repaint yet.

Also need to figure out removing these stain spots on the caps, without taking off the pad-printed front legends.