old shit thread post and blog about old technology ITT

>>55870820
bumpueno

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>>55871225
kek

>>55871393
Probably not serious but if you are go back to blogging in /bst/, /flt/, /spg/, or, /fuckyouimnotlistingallthegenerals/

>>55871393
its our shared blog you dickwart

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>>55871482
>speccy thread

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webm of loading /g/ on my Apple //c

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>>55871546
That's really cool anon, I would love a Amiga, what's the green monochrome one?

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>>55872286
Thanks

Also it's a Blue Chip PC, a rebranded Hyundai PC-XT clone.
I have upgraded mine a little.

>>55872280
That's freaking net!

>>55872280
>dat screen update speed
I'd die

>>55872333
neat*

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>>55872339
I purposely set it to 1200 baud to get that authentic WarGames look.

Is there anything I can do with an old hp desktop with a celeron and 512 of ram?

>>55871546
that picture gives me a warm fuzzy retro feel, mostly because of how its set up and the competition pro joystick

>>55872433
>anything
Yes, everything you could do with it 10 years ago.

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>>55872433
>Celeron

>>55872432
Ahaha, awesome

>>55872465
Slightly less than that, considering the websites you'd visit 10 years ago are now mostly unusable without enough Javascript to overwhelm that machine. Facebook is too demanding now for old Facebook machines.

>>55872465
>>55872480
I want to use for something... Plus help

>>55872507
>>55872524
It could still play all the games that it played back then and run all the same programs, maybe even a little more.

>>55872524
Do you use Linux? If not it would be a good machine for learning about Linux at first.

>>55872534
>>55872567
I was thinking about getting an old core2duo and see if it works. Also some ram. And install xubuntu or something.
Though apparently the motherboard doesn't support core2duos...the maximum would be a pentium 4...

>>55872641
A good P4 will do fine with xubuntu.

>>55872432
Pics of Apple II?

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>>55871520
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>>55871546
>>55871794

Kind of useless video without sound...

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>>55872854
Here you go

>>55873158
Oh, I have seen your pics before!

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>>55873158
Current battlestation

>>55873179
>Furfag
Nice

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>>55873179
Old battlestation

>>55873202
Yeah, I remember that one

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>>55873202
Really, really old battlestation

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>>55873212
how about this one?

>>55873188
murr

>>55873240
Haven't seen that one, you already had the Apple and iMac I see.

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>>55873179
Sauce on iMac wallpaper pls

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bumping with my austism station

>>55873314
Anything new? I don't have any of your old pictures saved.
Build the table even larger with old shitboxes to stack ever more awesome shitboxes on it!

>>55873314
What's the thing on top of the Macintosh on the left, under the joystick. It looks like a mini stretched out TRS-80 or PET...

>>55873350
It looks like one of those talking computron toy computers from the 80s

>>55873400
Probably that's what it is

>>55873314
Is that Compaq Portable III a 286 or 386?

>>55873492
>>55873501
The III's only where 286

>>55872651
Thx

>>55873511
I knew that but they look cosmetically identical

>>55873530
Actually I think that's a 386 then, because 286 had less keys on the top row, this one looks to have more (except one missing).

>>55872524
Step one is to find a pentium to stick in the socket.

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>>55873335
im planning to get some actual desks so I can have more than 2-3 things set up at once. The compaq lugable ontop of the kaypro is new, along with some meh stuff including and OLD ASS alienware build under the beige box on the right

>>55873400
>>55873350
yeah its a talking computron from the 80's

>>55873492
286 with windows 95. Previous owner installed a soundblaster and ethernet card, also a few serial cards.


Anyone else collect stupid ass old pc games?

>>55873720
>Anyone else collect stupid ass old pc games?
I do >>55873202
I got a few big box games from a local flea market.

But honestly, I just use ISOs because it's easier.

>>55873818
I found every game in my pic at goodwill/value village(savers), unfortunately theres never any at the flea markets I go to. I never see big box games anymore, 8 years ago there were tons

>>55873720
>im planning to get some actual desks so I can have more than 2-3 things set up at once.
That's more like a museum soon then a personal collection.

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>>55872952
that video is worse than Doom, fuck even calculators run it
>if it has a CPU someone has ported Bad Apple on it

>>55873818
>>55873866
I only have a bunch of big box PC games, mostly all from the 90's.

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Osborne 1, the first real computer I ever touched. It had CP/M 2.2 loaded from floppy disk, Wordstar, Supercalc, and best of all, MBASIC (Microsoft BASIC for 8080/Z80 based computers). Got to play some text adventures on it too (typed in from various magazine listings).

>>55873880
I just want to have them on desks because its more comfortable that way, I'd like them to be all set up with mouse/keyboard already attatched and ready to boot up whenever. Some of them I don't use enough because its inconvenient to set up.

Also there are 2 powermacs underneath those CRTs

>>55872280
Turn off your auto focus fucker.

>>55874344
That's epic anon

>>55874364
Yeah, I understand, it's a shame to just bulk store them in a pile and never use.

>>55873720
>286 with windows 95.
Bullshit. Windows 95 required at least a 386.

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>>55872507
Just use gopher instead desu senpai. The web is a total disaster now.

>>55874445
Check out this faggot.
W95 uses no 386/486 instructions.

>>55874445
>>55874478
You could even run 95 on a 8088 which has expanded instruction set like the V20.

>>55874491
Wait, it was 3.11 in protected mode that could run on a 8088 with expanded instructions, nvm that post.

>>55874491
Is there enough addressable memory?

>>55874569
See
>>55874548

>>55874478
Pretty sure it does, it's not a kludge like 3.x was.

God awful on anything older than a 486 regardless.

>>55874617
Indeed, it would probably be a snail going up a hill.

>>55874393
I realized I should of done that after I finalized the video.

Also, that video was stitched together because my digital camera is ancient and I can't find a memory stick larger than 32mb.

>>55874668
Holy shit, I don't know what's more astonishing, the fact that you did that video with a digital camera with 32mb memory card or the Apple ][ itself!

>>55874668
>should of
I don't see how people make this mistake.

Nice computer though.

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computers will never be this exciting and exclusive.

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>>55874840
>running GNU/Ass on g-d's chosen BSD platform
please tell me you considered necking yourself at least twice

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>>55874715
I can only shoot about a minute of VGA-tier video on a 32 mb card. The reason I still use it is because I have a set of lenses with it and it's tripod mountable.

1st recording: from boot to end of ls -la
2nd recording: all of lynx loading

>>55874850
I wasn't going to re-shoot it all over, anyway it sorta masked where I had to edit the individual videos together.

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>>55874883
I though that was amd64

>>55874914
He was talking about your use of "should of" instead of "should have" or "should've".

>>55874960
kek

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beige is fucking ugly eww kill it with fire !

Got mine to barely run Firefox without shitting the bed
its running hot as hell too.
took me two fucking hours to download 3 dos games because this shit box can't handle firefox well at all fuck flash and ads.

Need something that wont fuck over my system help me lads so far chrome and IE will not run right
this photo is a bit old i have installed a pci sound card because on board sound keeps failing.

anything else i can add to this thing?

>>55875131
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8

>>55875131
GTFO.

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>>55875146
>>55875159
fine its off, now help me out.
i need a browser for downloading dos programs.

OP said old just didn't say how old so there.
besides p4 era stuff is old enough IMO.

>>55872280
>8/8
Thats my birthday, anon :3

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The library at my university has a ton of really old computer books. That floor is always my comfy spot to relax. Nobody is ever around, and it's always very quiet. When I get done studying and want to take a break, I can go and read everything from 1950s "wonders of the electronic brain" books, to more useful programming books from the 70s and 80s. Just me and row after row of dusty books. I taught myself a lot about Apple II video graphics, how core memory works, C, Unix, etc...

Also, here's an cool video about Timesharing from 1963. It's interesting how the guy in the film is talking about connecting two computers together as an experiment. He's talking about networking before it was even a thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07PhW5sCEk

>>55873179
Now let's see the pic of ur S.O.

>>55875237
Start by replacing the Celeron with a Pentium 4.

>>55875239
happy prelated birthday
>>55875266
I don't want to stray from the path of wizardry

>>55875256
It's still amazing that only 10 years after that video Xerox came already out with a fully networking machine with a GUI and mouse.

>>55875266
>S.O.
What?

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>>55875317
>imblying

>>55875333
I think he means "significant other".
It's an esoteric tumblr-esque way of saying gf.

>>55875393
>"significant other"
I guessed that but why would you bring that up in a retro tech thread? I see no connection...

>>55875399
he wants to see if he's a beta faggot or not

>>55875399
It doesn't

>>55875393
>imblying
Oh yeah, I know about that, but that was a terminal connected to a monstrosity in another room, but still an amazing feat.
But the Alto was already something that fit in a small room and you could link several together and had an actually easy to use user environment for the time.

>>55875428
>>55875393
If anyones interested for more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

>>55875411
by being attached at the hip to some dumb cunt, right bruh?

>>55875440
if you wanna put it that way, sure
doesn't mean he can't be an alpha faggot though

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>>55873982
I didn't know that the bad apple thing was so fucking widespread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0h8BUUboP0

>>55875411
That's rather stupid, many years ago, my last relationship, that lasted for 4 years until I ended it because I was going to the army and didn't want anyone to suffer.
Now except a few casual hookups once in awhile I'm not even interested in a relationship, probably for a long time to come. So that's quite a useless question to ask for someones status.

>>55875487
I know right, everything runs it
I had the 8088 Domination version too

>>55874883
>g-d's
Jew detected!

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>>55875278
>Start by replacing the Celeron with a Pentium 4.

I can't find one atm
but I'll look out for one
anything else (nothing silly please)

the vidya card will come later btw i live outside the U.S.A
anything usefull i can do with 1 of the PCI -32bit lanes i got at the moment i can only think about USB 4 port sound card and i have soundcard in there but i have room for one more PCI card.

thoughts?

>>55872302
Jesus christ, anon.
I used to sell those.
And Victor's.
Sssshhhhhnow child
Don't tell the others

>>55874344
I got one of those in my parents basement unless for some reason its in mine.
My grandmother Loved them so much, she bought a decent number for her IT company back in the day.
They are cool shit.

>>55875533
Yeah, USB probably, what sound card do you have? Something like and Audigy 2 would be epic.
But the Pentium 4 upgrade will give you the most boost, does the motherboard support HT?

Get an AGP HD4670 or 6800 Ultra aslo if you want the best of the best and a cheap SSD, like 32GB.

Also if you can find 2x2GB DDR2 sticks, if the motherboard supports it, all that should cost you like 50 bucks.

>>55875537
Maybe mine is one of those you sold!

>>55873615
>Alexander
>Rome

>>55875597
What, the artists says Rome.

>>55875510

It even runs on a piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PHtDx6ryRo

>>55875617
Crazy, uh?

>>55875617
Will there ever be a place for the broken in the light?

>>55875487
nice

never had a 8088 my self but it looks nice.
would type on /10

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>>55875584
>Yeah, USB probably, what sound card do you have? Something like and Audigy 2 would be epic.
But the Pentium 4 upgrade will give you the most boost, does the motherboard support HT?

Get an AGP HD4670 or 6800 Ultra aslo if you want the best of the best and a cheap SSD, like 32GB.

Also if you can find 2x2GB DDR2 sticks, if the motherboard supports it, all that should cost you like 50 bucks.

good idea yeah i'll try that. not sure if a ssd is supported in xp though.

the sound card is a 32bit 5.1 surround sound soundblaster clone from chink land its suppose too mimic a 32bit soundblaster awe so its IRQ and dma and address bus are the same.

>>55875494
Hello Mr. Stallman, how's the beard?

>>55875913
RMS was never in the army, was he?

>>55875921
IDK but the phrasing and delivery sounded very much like that e-mail where he responds to someone's fanfiction

>>55875977
Topkek, I notice it too

>>55870820

what resolution is that?

π*10cm^2 ?

>>55876076
It's probably vector, so ∞

>>55876076
It's vector graphics.

>>55876076
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMguik41FjY

Awesome to see a nice thread on this board again

>>55872952
>>55873982
>>55875487
but why?

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>>55873179
Even doh... Wow

>>55874344
>supercalc not visicalc

I hope you slit your wrists in the bathtub tonight.

>>55876835
kek

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>>55876835
> By 1982 VisiCalc's price had risen from $100 to $250.[17] Several competitors appeared in the market, notably SuperCalc[14] and Multiplan,[18] each of which added more features and corrected deficiencies in VisiCalc, but could not overcome its market dominance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visicalc#cite_ref-barry19811005_14-1

> all these Visicalc shills still pushing that defective garbage in 2016.
Really makes you think!

>>55877182
lmao

I'll just leave this here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/jpkiwigeek

>>55877394
Why?

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I just got a brand new in box GE Superadio II. It's a really good portable AM DXing set with great sound. They're getting rare and a brand new never used one is probably worth quite a bit more than the $40 I paid for it.

I am easily pulling in stations from 1500+ miles away and more tonight. It's nice.

The thing is from before the days of SMC so it can be modded, I might put a slightly more selective filter in there.

>>55877701
Very nice, I have a bunch of old radios and amps too! They really are something.

>>55877761
>Very nice, I have a bunch of old radios and amps too!
Neat, what radios? I'm also a radio ham, this is one of my favorite interests.

>They really are something.
This particular radio is quite sought after, it's getting into meme status because there are newer radios which sound just as good and are about as good on AM but the mod-ability and discrete component construction make it fun for the experimenter.

I'll probably go through it after a while and recap the entire thing (caps are all at least 30 years old) and maybe upgrade a couple filters while I'm in there. There is also a popular mod to expand the AM range to include the expanded band up to 1750 KHz, but it will throw the scale out of whack. Note there's a central log scale to fall back upon.

>>55877897
No ham radios but lots of receivers and boomboxes.
I will post latter if I can, right now my iron is hot and I'm fixing a old LCD monitor.

Yeah, I used to mod radios too, listen to airplane channels, etc.

>>55878258
>I'm fixing a old LCD monitor
Nifty, I got ahold of an old pre-HDTV LCD 22" TV / monitor which I need because the only other VGA in the house is the big screen TV.

Older gear is mighty confy.

>>55878314
Awesome. This one is a old cash register LCD, 9 inch and colour, great for the Raspberry Pi.

>>55871794
Is that UNIX? What desktop manager?

>>55877796
I actually remember that! It's still up, right?

>>55878632

No, its Amiga Workbench

>>55878433
Is there anywhere you can still buy those Symbolics machines?

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Punch me a card!

>>55878949
Yes, in 1983. Just around the corner of '89 and between '84 and '82.

>>55878929
I must be blind, thanks

>>55879053
I like how the term "data rot" literary defines paper storage medium.

>"Paper media, such as punched cards and punched tape, may also experience literal rotting."

>>55870820
why would anyone post trash?

>>55875487
That's fucking cool!

Quick question for my Pentium I build - do early 90s DOS games typically have any compatibility issues when running on more powerful late-90s graphics cards such as a TNT2?

>>55880071
Early 90's? Nope, you're fine.

>>55879193
but paper survives a lot longer than optical media.
it curls, and can rot if you don't take care of the environment, but simple tools have simple solutions.

>>55870820
Does anyone know how hard it would be to get a RAM disk with compression functioning for swap on an 286 machine in DOS or any OS for that matter? Mine has 640 KB of RAM and to my knowledge can't be upgraded further and I'm wondering if I can't squeeze a bit more out of it so that it could be usable for shitposting (I've heard claims of squeezing an extra 25% more usable RAM out of other devices but don't know how well that would translate).

>>55880071
vr get the fuck out

also I googled your question and the general consensus is that TNT2 is almost too weak and geforece 2 will give you more range of playability in the more popular "windows 98" PC era (Pentium III)

I come from the future
CERN has become the only world power and I need to prevent their take over with and IBN 5100 to decode their proprietary language

>>55880071
they work but damn the speed is nuts. run acient art of war and you don't even get chance to fight off the attackers.

>>55874548
>>55874491
>>55874478
costanza.jpg

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-APPLE-II-Plus-computer-/172287002113?hash=item281d1b0601:g:gJAAAOSw-YVXmhRm

This has "Property of Chigh (?) University of Washington" stamped on it. At first I thought it said "Property of Washington Dept. of Corrections" which would be much more cool.

>>55874548
No it can't. 8086 class PCs have no extended memory ergo they cannot run Windows 3.1.

>>55881904
>parallel port card
>not serial port
>no disk controller
I wonder what the fuck they were using this thing for.

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>>55879053
Perfect media for storing your HD encryption key. When the fucko squad comes knocking, you just roll up a cigarette and turn off your PC.

>>55881904
how do I into Apple II? whats the best model to get?

>>55878828
http://toastytech.com/evil/

>>55882055
Probably a //e would let you run most (80 or more %) of Apple II software. The IIc isn't expandable and sometimes incompatible with II/II+ era software.

I wouldn't recommend a II/II+. They have more ICs (over 100), more failure points, and worse reliability. This includes using unreliable 4116 DRAMs. They can't run newer stuff without (sometimes) extensive mods. There's also less of them around so you'll pay more.

Ignore the $2000 or whatever prices for original model IIs, they're collector's items and you wouldn't want to beat them up by playing games.

Some old stuff might not be compatible with the //e and IIc because they use newer CMOS 6502s that don't have undocumented opcodes. Also some application software designed for the II+ isn't compatible with the IIe because of the way 80 column text mode works. Different 80 column cards worked slightly differently while on the IIe, there's only one method of implementing 80 column text.

>>55882662
How much Apple II software actually needs undocumented opcodes anyway? I can only think of about 10 or so games and they're all obscure ones. Other than that, it seems like only copy protections use them and those have all been cracked now.

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>>55873982
>>55875487

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>>55881918
>8088 with expanded instructions
Yeah man, try something like the V20 before you talk.

>>55883365
Epic

>>55881437
That's more a problem with older games, nobody used CPU cycles for timing anymore in the 90's.

>>55881309
>IBN
Sorry bro, you must be from some alternative universe because we don't have IBN, only IBM.

>>55882014
>I wonder what the fuck they were using this thing for.
Maybe for something that used a parallel port?

>>55884053
Not extended instructions, extended memory, you moron.

>>55884503
Don't see how that's a problem, it's not like there aren't ways for extended memory on 8088's. Also, you can run it without it, nobody is saying it's usable.

>>55884685
>Don't see how that's a problem, it's not like there aren't ways for extended memory on 8088's
No there isn't. The chip has a 20-bit address bus so it's limited to 1MB max.
>Also, you can run it without it, nobody is saying it's usable
No you can't. Windows 3.1 won't run on an 8086 at all; Windows 3.0 was the last version that could and even there it's pretty useless.

>>55884163
Most Apple II software doesn't support parallel printers though.

>>55874617
The OS kernel of Windows 95 is 32-bit so yes there's 386 instructions in there, a lot of them.

>>55884763
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_memory
Also, we ain't talking about real mode, but protected mode, vanilla 8088 can't run anything, not even 3.0 in protected mode.

>>55885055
Right, but you need a 286 for that shit. An 8086 doesn't support XMS nor do the motherboards have the infrastructure for it.

>>55885192
>"The earlier 8086/8088 processors can make use of more than 1 MB of RAM, if one employs special hardware to make selectable parts of it appear at addresses below 1 MB."
There are cards that can let the 8088 map up to 32MB of RAM as Extended memory.

>>55885222
That's expanded, not extended memory. It doesn't work the same way and Windows 3.1 can't use EMS anyway. Also it's not really using 32MB since the CPU can only see 64k of it at once.

>>55885222
Sorry, wrong, it was actually 64MB.

>>55885055
An 8086 will run Windows 3.0 in real mode but it's useless because too slow and barely any memory.

Extended memory requires you to go through a complicated setup procedure to use. You have to set up a bunch of junk like address descriptors, interrupt descriptors, privilege levels, etc. There's also special CPU instructions used for setting up protected mode. An 8086 CPU doesn't support any of that junk, nor an NEC V20.

>>55871794
>Games

>>/v/

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THE original internet server from 1991 @ CERN

>>55885297
Windows 3.0 does actually support 4MB of EMS so if you had an EMS board, you could use it. Windows 3.1 however can't use EMS at all.

>>55885545
>Internet is the same as WWW

>>55885611
nobody uses the term www or world wide web anymore, even just "the web" seems to be going away
and no, there's probably relatively few people who even know that the www and the internet are different things

>>55885452
>Autist

>>>/v/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb8DVSmHoIw

Dudedudedude. Hit Ctrl+Reset. You didn't need to remove the entire disk controller.

>>55886395
What are you talking about?

>>55885675
that's not the point
CERN didn't invent the Internet (and really they didn't invent HTML or HTTP either, as a group)
also this is /g/, where people *do* know the difference and will always yell at you about it

>>55886636
Yeah, because it's full of autists who will pick on words

>>55886608
>powers on Apple II
>it just sits there and doesn't do anything
>hmmm better take out the disk controller
>ok cool it's in BASIC now

Man, that's normal behavior. If there's no bootable floppy, the thing will just sit there until you hit Ctrl+Reset which drops it into BASIC.

>>55876835
They didn't have Visicalc for the Osborne. It was on the Apple II, IBM PC, Commodore PET, TRS-80, Atari 800, and some HP box I forget the name of.

>>55887039
My dad was once given a store demo of the Atari port of Visicalc.

>>55882189
If you don't have a disk drive, you can stream software through the cassette port. This should work for most single load games (eg. Atarisoft titles) that don't use the disk except for initial loading. Of course you can't play Lode Runner, Ultima, or any other multiload stuff.

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>>55886703
YES YOU IDIOT, DO I HAVE TO SPELL IT OUT?
ALSO FUCK YOU THEY'RE NOT THE SAME THING, YOU SOUND LIKE JUST AS MUCH OF AN IDIOT AS YOU ARE WHEN YOU GO "DUH FIRST INNERNETS SERVER WAZ IN 92 IN SWIZTERLIN"

>>55881228
Cool. I don't honestly know exactly what accelerator is in the PC I'm receiving, but if it isn't very good I'm going to look at upgrading it.

>>55880254
For more advanced late-90/early-2000s games, I'll probably pick up a cheap Pentium 4 or Athlon computer and whatever the best graphics card I can find that still has drivers for Win98

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An old Nixie tube benchtop meter had picked up at my local swap shop for five bucks and it still works perfectly

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>>55887818
Beautifully constructed circuitry

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>>55887844
The tubes

>>55887818
>>55887844
>hand-drawn circuits and Nixie tubes

This is art.

Also >>55881309 may need to borrow it for a minute.

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Here's an old computer I found in my neighbour's backyard.
Can anyone tell me what kind of pc is this? It doesn't look familiar at all.

>>55878949
You can emulate, look for a torrent of symbolics genera and then look up tutorial linux genera emulator and you're set.

>>55881437
I can't remember the name but there is a TSR I used that would eat up cycles and slow your newer pc down real good specifically for older DOS games.

I bet that's enough of a clue for you to find more by searching.

>>55882055
>>55882189
I would recommend a IIgs for maximum compatibility with everything cool. It has a lot of neat software of its own and can run like 99.9999% of the old stuff without issue.

You can get the whole setup, including monitor and a couple drives, etc, for a hundred bucks or less.

It also has a practical advantage over other IIs because of the ADB keyboard and mouse interface, it really sucks typing on a keyboard that's a couple inches off the desk. IIgs keyboard is also one of the nicest ever IMHO, the size is perfect, it has a proper latching caps lock and the control key is in the right spot, etc.

>>55889175
it looks like some kind of Eastern European ZX Spectrum clone.

>>55889488
>It has a lot of neat software of its own
90% of the IIgs's software library is kiddie eduware. It actually has a very poor software selection.
>and can run like 99.9999% of the old stuff without issue
Well, not 99%. Stuff that uses oddball features or relies on hardware quirks of a particular Apple II model won't work. Not common but once in a while it happens.

>>55889538
>90% of the IIgs's software library is kiddie eduware.
More like 25%.

>Well, not 99%. Stuff that uses oddball features or relies on hardware quirks of a particular Apple II model won't work. Not common but once in a while it happens.

It's very very rare and the software afflicted is generally terrible anyway.

The faster CPU alone is worth it for anything but games.

>>55887523
You don't even need a graphics card for early 90's games.

>>55890100
True, but I also want to run stuff like DOOM, Quake, System Shock, etc.

I never set foot in Mauthausen !

>>55889488
>IIgs keyboard is also one of the nicest ever IMHO
It is really nice, I still rank it second behind the first-generation ADB Macintosh keyboards though, particularly the standard one. Something about it just feels nicer to me.

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>>55887818
>>55887844
>tfw I almost picked up a big-ass rackmounted NLS nixie voltmeter (potato related) at a live auction for $2 last week

Fuck me, I just didn't know what the hell I'd do with it, or if it even worked. I really regret it now.

At least I got a whole bunch of good textbooks, manuals, equipment schematics and neat little personal documents and letters out of the estate for next to nothing, maybe I can build my own.

>>55891037
>first-generation ADB Macintosh keyboards
Are you talking about the Apple Extended Keyboard and Apple Extended Keyboard II?

They're really nice, I have a few that I use sometimes, mainly for Dwarf Fortress.

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>>55891183
feels like an excuse to post this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxVbRz6udmI

I want the shit out of a switch-programmable system like this now that I actually kind of know how to work one, there's just something so cool about being able to see a computer actually computing shit, rather than just watching a loading bar.

>>55891305
You want a COSMAC ELF.

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>>55891447
That's pretty cool.

I've been looking at the possibility of building a PDP-8 compatible SBC lately and somehow making my own case/switch array for it. It was fun as fuck playing with a simulator.

>>55891517
You just gave me an idea - 5.25" or 3.5" single-board computers, mounted internally in a standard PC case, with some method of switching I/O between them, and all of them networked internally.

You could have Z80, 6510, 8086/88, maybe even 486 compatibles all in one shared case, with the ATX motherboard being something more modern.

>>55889175
can you hold the camera still and focus on the computer rather than the tablecloth?
otherwise, zx clone

>>55875131
beige housings and green circuit boards are the colors of the machines of men.

>>55871536
>>55871794
That's really interesting, I never used one myself

>>55884212
Someone make japan great again.

>>55892461
Got the same vibes from that PCB, even seems about that size. Could keep them in an externally accessible full-height enclosure that takes up two 5.25'' bays and includes a backplane that has things like networking and other communications interfaces.

>>55891305
I built an Altair 8800 replica awhile back. It's above the Dell monitor and to the right of the Windows 3.1 box in >>55873202

It's very fun to watch the blinkenlights and toggle in machine code.

You can get a kit here:
http://www.brielcomputers.com/wordpress/?cat=18

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>>55894137
I remember looking at those when they came out, they looked pretty cool.

Kind of more into old minis though, I wish all of the PDP series replicas out there didn't look so toyish where they're just a sawn off front panel like pic related. I'd really like to make something based on the SBC-8 I posted that looks like an official product, like a development workstation or final iteration product.

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>>55894201
On a side note, I wonder how difficult it would be to fit a programmer's console to one of these... if you can even find one in the first place, who the fuck did DEC think was buying PDP-8s during PC prime time?

>>55871174
Based

>>55878632
AmigaOS, its just running an UNIX compatibility layer, the desktop is Amiga Workbench.

>>55892988
I know right? It was quite an advanced OS for its time.

>>55894125
I think having them stacked in an old PC case that has front panels for 5.25" and 3.5" drives would look cooler, if you have blinkenlights on the front of each slot-computer. Displaying which ones are powered up, hard drive activity, disk capacity, CPU clock speed... maybe even a few buttons for powering on, hard restarts, and turbo.

I wonder if cooling would be an issue in a computer case with that many computers inside?

>>55892461
>>55894125
>>55894730

Why? Why not just use a FPGA with different cores and switch between them.

>>55894741
Because that's nowhere near as cool.

>>55894782
More like autism.

>>55874861
what about quantum and super computers? CRAY computers have always been exciting and exclusive

how to obtain retro pc stuff in UK for cheap?

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>>55871546
>E S TH E T I C
>S
>T
>H
>T
>I
>C

>>55895435
Local thrift stores, local online ads, ebay.co.uk?

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>>55889495
>>55892474
Here's a better picture of it.
It's called a "CIP" computer but I can't find it anywhere on the net.

>>55874883
>g_d

Sir, I need you to come with me please.

>>55895548
Romanian Sinclair ZX-Spectrum clone, Electronica CIP-03

>>55894816
>razor headphones
kek, probably never used a real one back in the day
he even has a paper with command on top of the machine, topkek

>>55895691
Nice,thanks anon

>>55870820
Technology is one of the few things that make me happy. Thanks everyone who posted here.

>>55895948
You're welcome.
How far have you gotten with it, have you gotten it to run?

>>55895956
Same here, these threads are the biggest reason I stick around in /g/.

>>55895969
Nope. I haven't found its cables yet.

>>55871536
>>55871794
there's something really sexy about the UI

>>55895991
Care to share a pic of it's back? Ports, etc?

>>55873179
furfag into the gas chamber you go

>>55896002
I agree, it's minimalistic.

>>55896037
>hurrr I'm a faggot who hates everybody, I can hate as much I want, I'm anonymous! shitpost shitpost shitpost shitpost !

This is getting really old.

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Old IBM 380xd. I've had this for a long time now and it still works I use it for my vinyl plotter because the new applications are too damn expensive but it literally takes 20 minutes to start

>>55896046
I really like the fonts too

>>55896078
Eh, there's one selling the exact same one on a local ad, might buy it, depends on how much it costs.

>>55895435
carboot sales you lazy sod

>>55896078
what does the plotter need exactly? there's newer machines with parallel/serial, and even pcmcia
if it's that the driver/software only works on win9x, you can run win9x on better hardware, or you could try a VM
if you want to stick to that, reinstalling windows fresh, adding more ram, and replacing the hdd with a CF>IDE adapter (aka, an SSD) might help speed it up

>>55896282
The serial port key adapter is tied to the software and the software won't work on anything newer than 98 and there's no sense in building a machine to run Windows 98 since I have this I'm pretty sure there's ways I can make adapters to make it work but I really don't use it enough to worry about it

>>55894741
Because muh original hardware

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>>55896282
Also the reason is the good battery is dead

>>55896718
Just replace the cell or buy a pre-wrapped one for a few bucks on eBay.

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Took me a while, but I finally figured out what the shitty old Toshiba I used to own was: a 3480CT

That thing got me through high school during the late 2000s/early 2010s, damn.

>>55875617
Fucker got me

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>>55896718
you should crack open the battery and check what type of cells it uses, it's very common for laptop batteries to simply be a bunch of 18650 cells wired together
you could easily replace the cells with new and even potentially higher-capacity cells

>>55896839
how could you use this as a daily driver?

>>55897447
Not that guy but I was using a Pentium III ThinkPad as a daily driver as late as early 2015. The right software and a little patience can go a long way.

>>55897667
Holy smokes, you really must like SM.

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>>55897726
I had to look up what that meant.

It really wasn't that bad. The main reason I got a new machine wasn't even due to slowness, but because Ubuntu 10.04 finally stopped getting updates and newer versions of Xubuntu didn't work right. Seemed like there were some serious graphics driver issues that probably would've affected any distro and were never going to be solved because the GPU was just too old to be cared about, so I figured there wasn't really anything I could do to keep using the old machine at that point.

>>55897793
Still amazing, could you even play youtube?

>>55898292
Not on the website itself, but anything up to 480p worked fine with livestreamer or youtube-dl to play in another media player.

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>you will never be the control console operator of a room-filling mainframe

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>>55898843
>tfw this looks like my room

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>>55899458
Why does she follow the hobo? does she think she's now marked as her property?

Man... Rabbit Batman Cotton-Eyed Joe? Right...
Well fuck milk

Nvm

>>55889909
>90% of the IIgs's software library is kiddie eduware.
>More like 25%
Did they even sell the IIgs to anywhere except schools? I've never seen one outside of a school.

>>55899727
I had one back in the day

>>55899501
>kek he does not know how getting women works

This was a nice thread, thanks

>>55895894
Dude most of us here are under 30, not much opportunity to have used 8-bit machines without getting hand-me-downs from tech-obsessed older relatives.

>>55873240
>shoes indoors
REEEEEE

>>55895894
If you were enough of a pleb to buy a piece of shit like that "back in the day" there's no reason you wouldn't be enough of a pleb to buy Razer products now.

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>>55870820

>>55901187
What? Razer is like fucking overpriced shit, while the C64c was budget machine, you don't make any sense.

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>>55901242

>>55901285
the implication was that you were a pleb either way, the C64 was trash unless you were a gamertard

>>55901320
C64 was a home computer on the cheap, not only for games.
In the early 80's the consumer market didn't even have better in many places.

>>55901242
I had one of those


The camera recreated the colours more accurately than any smartphone today does. Motorola was fucking awesome, man.

>>55901360
doesn't make it any less garbage

and the 64C wasn't even early '80s, it was the bottom of the barrel for the late '80s when a nice XT clone wouldn't totally break your wallet

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Call me, maybe...

>>55901413
Kind of makes you think then why you would buy a C64c in the late 80's if you draw the Razer gaymer analogy and not something like an Amiga.

>>55901670
>I just met you and this is number, but here's my maybe, so call me crazy.

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>>55901714
I am phone.

>>55901670
>NoSvc
Aww, I hoped you could call to 1996 with it.

>>55901784
>hardcore porn

>>55901691
>>55901413
C64Cs are a lot more reliable than the breadbox.

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>>55901906

>>55901953
I have been thinking that for the past few days already, sounds logical

>>55901962
>a strange game
>the only winning move is not to play

>>55902002

new thread

>>55889413
Hey wait a second - does it mean that I can get NWorld by Nichimen Graphics to run? Where can I find cg software for lisp machines?