We don't have a retro thread. Let's see those

>>57437909
Serious Question:

Do you guys actually use these things for anything, or do you just like having them setup as a type of decoration? Nothing wrong with it being a decoration, but I always see people posting images of it being in use and I have a hard time believing anyone actually uses these things for anything more than a few minutes as a novelty.

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https://youtu.be/IztxeoHhoyM

Aesthetic as fuck

>>57437923
Look closer to that image. You'll see it gets used.

>>57437909
Is the XT worth getting?

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>>57437923
every thread

>>57437909
>5150.jpg
That's an 5170

>>57438355
That's an AT, but yes, it's great fun.

>>57437948
Fuggin mint quadra mate. Keep it outta the sun!

>>57437909
>Let's see those retro computers.
then post your p0rn

Could you possibly piggyback a 8284A, bend up all the output pins, connect a separate crystal oscillator and bend up the CPU CLK pin and feed the CLK from the piggybacked 8284A directly to the CPU?
Giving the CPU it's own frequency and leaving other components at stock.

So /g/, when are you making your own computer from off-the-shelf components?

Raspberry Pi builds don't count.

More something like these old bad boys.
>>57438861

>>57439279
I'm more into restoring old shit then doing something from scratch.

>>57439395
What sort of stuff you restored?

I have some not-so-old laptops I intend restoring at some point.
And parts of really old shit I got via some businesses, like some dock for a Sony laptop, floppy drives and such.
Not sure what I will do with those though. Probably just put them on Ebay or something. I have no use for them.

Actually, I always forget I have this, but a really old external CD drive on top of a PC.
I have stuff sat on top of and the side of it, so much so that I forget it even exists unless I am over that side of the room.
Thing is about 75% length of a standard PC case today.
I was considering gutting the insides and putting a small computer inside of it, then anchoring a USB disc drive to the front panels ejection system somehow.
Never got around to it. Not even sure if the thing still works either. Come to think of it, I don't even think I have used the damn thing once. Where the fuck did I even get this thing from?

>>57439477
>What sort of stuff you restored?

Anything that needed it.
Today with ordering parts online and schematics being widely available just a google search away, it's just the trouble of turning on the soldering iron.

>I have some not-so-old laptops I intend restoring at some point.
Have fun!

>Actually, I always forget I have this, but a really old external CD drive on top of a PC.
Pics? Sounds interesting, especially a unit this size.

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>>57437909
Anon, I always enjoy seeing your computer. 11/10

>>57439506
I won't be able to get a pic of it now.
But I will later.

Shit looks awful, that awful creamy light orange crap.
I think it might have been one of the first lines of USB external hardware.

What would be really cool is fitting a screen on to to the disc tray, and stuffing a small computer inside.
Eject to open screen and turn it on.
Yeaah boy.

>>57439575
>filename
>wrong model
obviously not hes

>>57437923
They are not used for anything, besides jerking off, and pretending to "fit in" with other 20 year olds online who have fallen for the age meme. It's the definition of meming, they don't know what it is, don't know what to do with it, and it will never find a use, but it's highly important they drop a few grand to repeat what someone else did and get the same psuedo-collection.

This is exactly the same as /vr/'s earthbound club in which they drop $500+ for a cart, don't have a snes, don't want one, have never played the game, never will, and then form this internet cool kids club on why they're the most superior earthbound fans. This isn't about technology or "preference" but really the manifestation of them failing in their own time, so the next step is to go find some other time and pretend to inhabit that.

>>57439899
guess you're too dumb to install dos from floppies, huh

winimage is so hard to use

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>>57439899
> I just never quite got my head around autoexec.bat, and that makes me angry.

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>>57439899
>drop a few grand
U fooking wot m9? This shit is not worth anywhere near that much unless it is exceptionally rare (scarcity pushes prices up, be it watches or comic books) and if you are the sort of fucklord who will pay $500 for a waterlogged microbee, then you deserve everything you have coming.

>>57439899

That AT cost me 80 quid, they are selling for over 500 now, it was a solid investment.

>>57439899
Hello Justin, still no life?

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>>57437923
I still play Civilization II on my Power Mac. I probably COULD just pirate the Windows version, but something about the CD is so comfy.

>>57437948
I love this Quadra

>>57439899
>A few grand

Yeah, that's what my computer cost... in 1995. Nowadays only something like an IBM 5100 would cost that kind of money, and it might just be worth it, unless you bought it for the obvious El Psy Congroo meme, in which case you are still an idiot.

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>>57437909
Where's the dick/Nokia N9?
3/10

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>>57437923
This used to run my RTTY setup October when a coil in the mains transformer went short, killed off the PSU and half the board logic. Until it died, it had seen 17 years of continual use. I have repaired the PSU but the board will take some time.

>>57439899
I once paid $30 for a system I personally tested as working, pretty much everything else was scrounged from dumpsters or acquaintances.
Thanks for bait senpai.

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>>57440409

Here, OP be stealing my photos again.

>>57441141
noice

>>57439899
I have spend ~1000€ on some of my systems, are you jelly I can afford to support my hobbies and enjoy them?

>>57440288
More pics of Mac?

>>57439230
Anybody?

>>57439230
You'd be better off asking >>>/diy/ohm/

>>57443331
People here tend to know more about old computer hardware.

>>57437909
bumping for interests

>mfw the seller finally shipped the replacement keyboard for my iBook A FULL MONTH AFTER THEY SAID THEY WOULD. This isnt some dude flipping shit from his extra room, but an actual refurb/reseller/outlet.

Also, I'm still procrastinating on RAM for my TiBook and tower, and SSDS for my TiBook and iBook (and maybe my G40), and 3 120GB HDDS for my Gigabit tower (would get bigger ones but they arent supported). Maybe next month once my lease is renewed so i dont buy all that shit and then end up tossing the computers because im living in a van.

>>57445170
Topkek, that fucking sucks.

Also, pics?

>>57445234
Woo, nice anon.
Is it resistive?

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>>57445212
Closest thing i have to a pic of all my shit together. I need to fuck with my router again so my wifi works with my TiBook again or i would be posting from it right now. Never unplug shit once it works or It'll never work again when you plug it in it seems.

>>57445286
>>57445286
>>57445286
>Never unplug shit once it works or It'll never work again when you plug it in it seems.
kek

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>>57445262
Most tactile.

>>57445234
>>57445353
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzZOiW7hBSk

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>>57445385
Thank you for the free advertising. Here, have the full-res thumbnail as your reward.

>>57445397
Have a sub, you furry faggot.

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>>57445425
Every ad-enabled view of yours is worth 0,55 cents to me. Thank you.

>>57445451
That's great, I love videos of that kind.

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>>57445475
Watch consume watch consume watch consume click adverts buy consume watch

I used to have a collection /g/ would lose its shit over. About 80 computers including some really crazy stuff like a DEC Rainbow, Mac Portable, Australian Commodore 64 clone, Sinclair QL, etc.

Sold them all when I realized I was become a slave to my possessions.

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>>57438861
Just finished installing a Sound Blaster 16 into this badboy, works like a threat!
Sorry, forgot to take pictures before putting the case on.

FM synthesis, MPU and OPL3 all work.

>>57445589
I don't mind it consuming me, they are my hobby since I can remember.

Got some pics? Sounds interesting

Considering trying to convince my dad to let me have my grandma's Macintosh Plus. How much of a bitch is it to make Syatem 7 discs off a modern mac/Linux OS?

>>57445669
Installing System 6 or System 7.0.1 onto an older Mac is only possible using floppy disks, and the first step to installing System 7.5 is usually “boot from a floppy”. These floppies are distilled into disk images you can download from the Web. When written to a floppy, these images create exact copies of the master disks.

Due to physical differences between Mac and PC floppy drives, 800K double density Mac floppies can only be written by other vintage Macs. This means that boot disks for a Mac 128K, 512K, 512Ke, Plus, pre-FDHD SE, or un-upgraded Mac II cannot be made on a Mac OS X, Linux, or Windows machine. (All other vintage Macs have a 1.4 MB SuperDrive or FDHD [Floppy Disk, High Density] floppy drive, which is compatible with modern computers.)

>>57445669
>>57445700
There might be some programs that can write Macintosh floppy images on PC, google, but I don't think they are bootable. Haven't tried it though.

>>57445530
Is this guy actually you furry?

>>57441141
Kinda personal question, how old are you?
You really keep your machines setups time correct.

>>57446104

21.

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>>57439987
>it was a solid investment.

Welp, this scene is dead. People are starting to consider these machines an "investment". This signals the end of fun.

It was fun while it lasted, boys.

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>>57445603
Glad to hear you got it working.
I have to take proper pics of my XT. In the meanwhile, have a capture of something I recorded earlier today with my VHS-C camera.

>>57446145

I'm never selling it, its just good to know that its not depreciating in value.

>>57446212
Thanks!

That's fucking awesome, it's like straight from the 80's

>>57446124
Do you have brain damage?
That's fucking awesome. Didn't guess that level of tidiness from someone whose 21.

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>>57437909

>>57446300
Get that Deskpro away from me, the pain of BIOS setup floppies.

>>57437909
Retro is borderline degeneracy.

Just use an emulator for fuck sakes.

If you want a tinker system, use a [SINGLE BOARD COMPUTER]

But old systems are just not worth it unless you have an honest to goodness museum, or are some sort of educator.

>>57446145
yes, you're completely different from anyone shouting eternal september, "fun" here means "pretending to be better than everyone else".

thanks to you hipsters psuedo inflating the market, I can go into thrift stores with a smartphone (RAGE) and look up everything to see the "value" of it. sometimes there's a $3 game or VHS that was almost thrown away that is worth $50 now because hipsters say so. before they go you can rip images of them and play them properly on an emulator. One of my favorite items is the gamecube. For some reason one of my local thrift stores has one every time, it usually goes for $20 and I put it on ebay and slap on RETRO VINTAGE COOL PROFESSIONALLY RESTORED, yes the kids who had them at the time have started forming their gay nostalgia around them yet won't download dolphin even though it's one of the best emulators ever, because "muh feel" meme. Also the BLACK LABEL versions of the same game go for $30 more than their "pleb best seller yellow sticker" counterpart, because reasons.

since I buy the gamecube every time, the people at that store know me as "the gamecube kid", they think I collect gamecubes or something. I swear I'm going to take a trip and hit major cities with a rented truck and turn this into a business.

>>57446367
Emulators are a no-go for retroshits because they have to visually show how superior they are to everyone else. The psuedo reasons are the same ones you see on /vr/ as they spend $300+ on N64 flashcarts to play OOT, "muh feel", "muh hardware", "muh shitty controller". This is all just to have a made up excuse to not use an emulator because this isn't about the game or technology, it's about pretending to be superior to everyone. Notice how they have to have a camera lying around always, to take the same picture over and over again. /vr/ turds also are known to take pictures of their flashcart, and always bring it up, and play the most common pointless games. Same shit different board.

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>>57446075
There are clues.

>>57440288
>IBM keyboard for a Mac
>Not an AEK II

>>57446907
Finally posting on /g/ again?

>>57446752
lol you're such a ridiculous faggot

kill yourself

>>57446914
>Not an AEK II
You ever typed on one of those things? It's mushier than your fat ass.

>>57446752
>Emulators are a no-go for retroshits because they have to visually show how superior they are to everyone else.
Pretty much. These faggits obsess about their old hardware. They don't even care about gaming - a lot of which is frankly shit on old systems. They just want to be hipsters who have something that other people don't have. Newsflash retro-faggits: you don't have a life.

>>57446943
The ones with ALPS switches? I think not.

>>57446974
>I think not.
Without exception, every apple keyboard has been shit

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>>57445234
hehe siemens

>>57439987
With the ATI card?

>>57446752
>>57446943
Topkek, I love faggots like these guys, the irony is so hot it burns

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hello there.

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It took 4 months of searching but I finally have a shitbox to myself.

>tfw playing hundreds of late DOS/early Windows games I missed out on, that can't be DOSboxed, and all piss easy to pirate/found at thrift stores for a dollar each

I haven't touched anything modern in a week and a half now.

>>57447666
I'll bite, irony how?

If you aren't aware - you buy an N64 flashcart to play expensively rare games like CBFD, or obscure japanese games that you can't get at any price and also won't work on emulator due to how they were made. Dropping cash on an N64 flashcart and then playing ocarina of time and taking pics of the flashcart is the most hipster made up secret club shit you can do.

point is, you look at this and say, what a bunch of fags, but it's just a shade away from spending hundreds on a collection of inherited nostalgia (isn't even yours) garbage which you just take pictures of and don't do anything with.

>>57447813
>that can't be DOSboxed
nigger what
can't you run dos in virtualbox if all else fails?

>>57447813
>>57447847
Anything won't run in dosbox if you don't want it to because you don't even try to validate the hardware purchase. Watch this:

List the games that you wanted to play!

>he won't

>>57447847

Virtualbox's support for DOS and legacy versions of Windows is complete and utter shit.

DOSBox and QEMU are really your only options.

>>57447813
wear better clothes

>>57448382
why?

Being a hipster is hard work.

>>57448464
shitposting also

>>57447813
Neat, glide quake?

All those butthurt jellyfags in this thread, my face hurts from the keks.

>>57448948
it's just all 'murican lefties and liberals who are letting off some steam

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>>57438878
68-pin to 50-pin SCSI adapter arrived today!

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>>57449046
Wub wub wub
17GB at 15K RPM and 8MB cache

>>57447753
dat screen

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>>57449429
^_^ if you want I can share .psd

>>57449472
Thanks, I should make it the BIOS splash screen.

>>57439971
it could be if you are buying them from ebay. old tech can be found from dumpsters for free

>>57449731
>old tech can be found from dumpsters for free
Maybe 10 years ago, sadly now everybody is trying to make a buck on JewBay.

I don't live in the US, mostly get shit for a few bucks off local sites.

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>>57449751
you just need to know places)

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Manuals have arrived.

>>57449791
Oh yes, that kind of "old tech" .
That's widely available in bins here too.

>>57449876
I love those IBM manuals!

>>57437909
Source for chair?

>>57450081
The 80's

>>57450081

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/chairs-stools-benches/office-chairs/patrik-swivel-chair-ullevi-dark-grey-art-00068165/

>>57445451
how is it possible for them to pay so much for 1 view?

>>57450115
Thanks anon, didn't know wool chairs were even a thing.

>>57450346
It's not per view, it's per ad impression. Each view is worth much less.

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>>57449928
it's not the only tech I found, but often I too late, and hobos crash anything into pieces to take cooper(

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Hey retro /g/

I have been working off and on with an SE/30 for the better part of a year now. It now has an Farallon Ethernet PDS card and 128MB of RAM. I am happy with it for now but in the future, I definitely will look into a DayStar accelerator and maybe a 32-bit clean ROM for a IIx or whatever.

Question is, does anyone have the floppy disk images for a 7.6 installation? I have found .iso but I do not have a SCSI cd drive. Is there a way to network install it? I am at a loss at this step in the process.

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>>57449935

Got a guide to BASIC on the way too.

>>57452284
Hello bifibro

>>57452540
Very nice! Pictures?
The only sad thing about the SE/30 is that it's quite limited in upgrades.
A DayStar CPU socketed accelerator is your only option if you want to keep the Ethernet PDS card.

>Question is
Get 7.5 and update to 7.6 once installed.

https://winworldpc.com/product/mac-os-7/75
Here are 3.5" floppy images too.

Also, if you say you don't have a clean 32-bit ROM yet, then you can only go as high as 7.5.5

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>>57452773
Hey bro, long time no see. How are you?

>>57452753
I'd even buy them and I don't have an original IBM

>>57452853
I'm great, new parts for my toys.


>>57445603
>>57449046
>>57449050

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>>57437923
Yes

>>57437909
My pc is barely 2 years old, but here's my monitor and speakers

>>57447813
>>57448382
get your stockings out.

>>57452917
kek, this isn't a /bst/ thread

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>>57452872
Nice. I have a new toy too... And way to many open projects...

>>57453070
I saw that in the other thread, sweet dude.

>buy an IBM 5494
>plan to use as a sleeper
>have no idea how
I think I may have overstepped my station.

>>57453126
>plan to use as a sleeper
wrong thread

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Is old A/V equipment allowed in this thread?

>>57453149
It's basically a retro hardware pr0n thread, so yes.
Real chunky beast, I actually used to use a Panasonic camera slightly newer than this one back in the day.

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>>57453109
Now i'm waiting for the matching phone.

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>>57453164
oldschool audio is acceptable?

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>>57453179
Why not?

>>57453173
Neat!
When will we see you dialing up something with it?

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>>57453164
It still works, too. I have two batteries (the original and a third-party one) and both still hold ~1h charge each.
I recorded this with it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGCnwYlhBRg

>>57452879
>tfw superior contrast
>tfw near zero display lag

>>57453262
Holy shit, give this man a like.
This hit the feels hard.

>>57453179

I like the cock hole best

>>57453245
good question. I'm thinking about setting up a private bbs...

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>>57453307
yeah, it's looks awesome in the night.

>>57453262
Actually, the electronics repair store that appears at 7:22 is where my XT (>>57446212
) lived most of its life. I don't know how it ended up in a thrift store ~20Km away from that place. I found out it came from there because it had a custom accounting program with the name and the address of the store. Quite a story, if you ask me.

>>57453307
stahp, you're giving me a kardon

>>57453396
Quite a story indeed, I love looking into the history of those old machines.

>>57453447

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

>>57453496
topkek

>>57453496
>COBOL
>PASCAL

truly the dark-ages

>>57453496
5:53 - 5:57
I want that mans job

>>57446300
What model Presario is that? Looks just like one my aunt had back in the day.

>>57453337
Good luck! Sounds like a fun little project.

>>57452844
can't I update to 7.6 with MODE32?

>>57455073
No, you can just use 7.5.5 with Mode32.

>>57455073
MODE32 is an extension that patches the ROM turning startup.
System 7.6 will shit itself way before it get's to loading extensions.

>>57445397
Is that really you? Nice channel.

>>57439899
>collecting is bad!

What do you care if someone drops a few grand on a vintage computer collection?

FYI: I walked out of a recycling center once with 3 vintage Macs for $40. One of them was a DP G5 tower.

The most money I've spent so far is about $100 for a TiBook and upgrades (RAM, new HD, new SuperDrive, NOS bottom piece since it was the one piece that was fucked up).

I am definitely planning on dropping a few grand on a vintage setup someday soon: NeXT Cube. Just waiting for the right one.

>>57458030
I wish my recycling centre sold stuff. iirc it's illegal in the UK for whatever reason.

>>57445725

Apple 400K / 800K disks required variable speed drive mechanisms. "Modern" 1.44MB floppy drives can't do this.

>>57445669

You'll really need another vintage Mac to create the floppies you'll need. A PowerBook with both a CD-ROM drive module and a floppy drive module will let you do this and give you a more powerful Mac to play with as well.

Beware that some PowerBooks used custom RAM cards so you'll never be able to upgrade them today. Later models used standard RAM.

I would personally recommend one of the later G3 PowerBooks with a floppy module. With built in Ethernet you can skip the step of making a CD on your modern machine.

Finally: if the Plus only has 1MB or 2.5MB of RAM you'll want System 6. If 4MB I think you can get away with System 7...might be slow though.

>>57458064
Just take a box of chocolates or some hard liquor as a "gift" (read bribe) to the workers there, then ask nicely if they will notice if something suddenly goes *poof!*, they probably won't mind.

>>57437909

Beautiful.
Makes me want my old DEC Rainbow back with dual boot DOS and CP/M.

>>57458182
What happened with it?

>>57458212
Sleeper build gone wrong.

>>57453173
I wonder how many people even know how to dial with it anymore.

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Back when I first built Choppers Mod. Dual p3 1ghz 1gb RAM

>>57459132
What's the point?

>>57459087
fucking metal dude

>>57459172
Get out of this thread now.
What's the purpose of you wasting our oxygen?

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Not a computer, but I found this last year while emptying my great uncle's house

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>>57459266

>>57459132
whats that and how did someone get winxp on it?

>>57459172
modding

>>57460315
one dude from russia did this, it was old soviet damaged device(osciloscope or something like freqency response meter), and screen from POS terminal, he united them together.

>>57459399
Kek, I had one of these too.

>>57458073
>Apple 400K / 800K disks required variable speed drive mechanisms. "Modern" 1.44MB floppy drives can't do this.
yet some people say that they have successfully written mac floppies on PC with rawwrite or winimage

>>57462654

I could certainly be wrong. Would love to know if I am. I'll Google a bit and see if I can successfully write an 800K floppy from a PC floppy drive.

>>57463199
Awesome.

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sorry for shitty pics, left side, brand new, less than few hours on it, right side, used. have original box, etc.

>>57453173
>>57453245
>>57453337
>>57453955
He can't dial shit because companies don't support pulse dialing anymore.

>>57453149
>vhs-c
Get on my level, I have three full-size VHS camcorders from the 80s. Sadly none of them can still record on their own, but with a clunky A/V box one of them can output composite video and capture it to my PC.

>>57464463
No. It's still working fine.

>>57464463
>he doesn't know how dial-up works

>>57467127
I thought you had to manually dial the number with those old acoustic coupler modems.

>>57468045
Yes. You have to dial the number with the phone and these old phones use pulse dial. But it still works. Even if the German Telekom shuts it down, I can still use it on my private telephone system to dial into a bbs sitting in my rack.

>tfw i cant find a cheap broken mac 128k/512k/plus/classic
so i can be a hipster fag and mod an x220 into it for a hackintosh.

>>57468221
Sweet idea. I'm still looking for a dead Amstrad PPC512/640 to put a mini-ITX board in it.

>>57468221
shells pop up from time to time
but why the hell would you waste it on a shitpad rather than a sub-ITX board desu, unless you were going for making it into some kind of dock which would be pretty nice

>>57468753
Because I can very easily hackintosh an X220 for triple/quad boot. A dock would be really nice, but i already have a few laptops so this would really just be a lightweight desktop for keks and /bst/ memes.

>>57464463
Yes they do.

>>57468221
>>57468645
>>57468753
>>57468849
>>>/r/hipster/

>>57464463
I can still pick up my digital handset, and dial numbers by doing nothing but mashing on the hook button in correct sequence. The standard is depreciated, but until we go full VOIP on local exchanges it will work, simply by design.

Being an ausfag, This will likely not change in my lifetime. Fuck you Telstra.

>>57469102
>mfw i was going to argue but then i realized that I'm using the word hipster ironically.

>>57469156
>I'm just being ironical! I-I'm not a hipster

>>57469148
Where I live we have both on the same line, you can use VOIP if you have a landline modem or connect directly to the landline, then both digital and pulse dialing will work, they won't remove pulse dialing, it's a legacy feature.

>>57469218
How the fuck could i be a hipster. I wear walmart clothes and drink folgers.

>>57463727
>I collect old hardware to just box it up and make pictures to fap to

>>57469102
I'm not a hipster, I'm just old...

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> people stopping what they are doing and engaging with this thread, just to shit on things they don't like.
> not autistic

>>57469320
>I'm old
>I want my sleeper build to look like a old computer
said no old person ever

>>57469321
what is mascarals? I don't get it

>>57469346
It's called nostalgia anon, but I'm sure a joyless cunt like you has no concept of that.

>>57449472
Can I please have psd?

>>57469371
They are nostalgic for the old computers, not that their current computer looks like one.
Sleepers are the definition of "muh hipster".

>>57469394
No, would you like to have PMS instead?

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>>57469346
I want a nice extendable portable PC and I love the look and feel of my old PPC.

>>57458030
>I am definitely planning on dropping a few grand on a vintage setup someday soon: NeXT Cube. Just waiting for the right one.
never seen a working one if flesh, I did however find one a decade ago nexto a thrift store like store dumpster, just the cube itself, I ran up to it only to find out it's just the case, when I asked them about it they told me it was for sale for months but nobody was interested so they just gutted it for recycling, there where lots of interesting computers of the time, all destroyed

it was just a store not well known with only old ladies and dropout teens working there, no wonder

>>57446145
At least you know you're not wasting money.

>>57452228
Just watched a bunch of your videos and subbed, very interesting content. Keep up the good work!

>>57463727
Real nice!
More pics? Pics of them working?

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My Logitech Mouseman was misplaced at the time

>>57472195
What year is this?

>>57469394
it's here https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_8uDcKhs1YUNDc1YnByU3hZZTg/view?usp=sharing

>>57472726
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ0xBCwkg3E

>>57472818
sure as hell that ain't the 90's son

>>57472915
What do I know

I just saw the monitor

>>57472944
Sir, that monitor is from the mid 2000's

>>57472803
Thanks

>>57470912
You make me a very happy dog.

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How about 16 color Amada?

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>>57472195

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>>57476323
How about 16 bit AMD?

>>57477463
>8088
>16-bit
also it was intels, amd just ripped it off like always

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>>57445631

Whoops, missed your response. I don't have pics of the collection but I have a few pics I took as I was selling it off.

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>>57478299

I guess I lost the rest of the pics. Had a Kaypro II, a DEC Alpha, a bunch more vintage Apples/Macs, all kinds of stuff.

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i just got this old ibm

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Is there any DOS encryption software lightweight enough to be suitable for palmtop use? GPG will devour my ramdisk and SRAM cards are expensive. Don't really care if it's strong, just enough that I can use it as a password vault and not shit myself if it gets lost.

>>57477519
>ripped it off
it's just a licensed second source chip, this was the case for almost every microprocessor back then

the 8088 also wasn't 8-bit, only externally to allow it to operate with cheaper supporting components

>>57478150
>>57478173
Some pretty good shit in this stash, hope it went to a good home.
I've always wanted some '80s DEC desktop gear, particularly a PDP-8 compatible.

I have the chance to buy a 1.25GHz PowerMac G4 MDD for €47. I don't know if it's a DP or not. Should I?

>>57481272
Yes. ppc desktops are comfy if a bit loud.
t. dual 450 fag

>>57481339
I already have a dual 500 GbE G4, how much of a performance gain should I expect? Assuming the worst-case scenario of it being a single 1.25.

>>57481436
My mid 2005 iBook runs circles around the dual 400, a real desktop processor or will be even more noticeable. Also, the MDD and FW800 apparently only came with the 1.25 in a dual config. Just max out the RAM.

>>57481515
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/specs/powermac_g4_1.25_mdd.html
Looks like the last version came with a single 1.25.

>>57481550
http://apple-history.com/g4_mirror
http://apple-history.com/g4_800

Huh. Apple-History only shows dual 1.25s

>>57478669
WHAT YEAR IS THIS?
why do you faggots still use these autismo devices in 2016

>>57452228
Wait, does youtube-dl count too? There's a switch to enable downloading ads as well as the video, and I'd be fine doing that. Fuck enabling all the goddamn javascript necessary to get Youtube working when you block almost everything in uMatrix.

>>57481550
There are dual 1.25's
I have one

>>57452879
Woah

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I've started covering old vintage tech on my YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/flRwHTvlPHw

I'm Britbong based, what are the must have old computers? I was eyeing some old Amstrad and Spectrums since BBC Micros are so expensive. I'll cover them on video.

>>57482482
>screencaps 4chan posts in videos

This is now a youtube channel advertisement thread.

>>57482482
> what are the must have old computers?
You clearly have no idea or existing interest in them if you have to ask such a rudimentary question. You're covering them for clicks because "mah retro" is unfortunately the flavour of the month, and all you'll be doing is removing gear from the hands of those who know and love it, while providing yet another half baked bullshit review video in the sea of piss that is jewtube.

Fuck off, leave the reviews to people who already know their shit inside out, and shill your channel elsewhere faggot.

>>57482511
This. Obviously if he's advertising his own channel. He's not into it, he's just doing it because it's the hot thing.

>>57482482
thanks
disliked all your videos

>>57482511
Fucking this. Enjoy your dislikes.

check the sound system video, dudes a dumbass kek

>>57482511
>>57482516
>>57482528
>>57482532
My post was badly worded, I do have interest, I'm mostly an antique guy and mostly collect things beside computers but I'm starting to read on it now. I used to have an Amiga back in the day (I'm 27). I just don't know a lot about the UK computer scene yet. Sorry to ask so bluntly, I'll do more research on my own.

My vintage videos have zero monetisation, I do it out of interest. Feel free to dislike my stuff, it's your right. I'll keep lurking.

>>57482547
>I'll keep lurking.
Please do. You'll learn more here than most places.

>>57482547
nice response anon, you seem like a decent guy. Amstrad is a good place to start, they're very cheap. Watch out for dead cassette players though, very common and hard to fix.

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>>57482406
>>57481515
Just bought it. Will post more pics when I get home

>>57482482
I used to have a ZX Spectrum 128k +2 when I was a kid, loved that machine.

>>57482722
Awesome anon! Please do!

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>>57483055
FUCK YEAH IT IS A DUAL
Also came with maxed out ram, awesome.

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>>57483140
Just threw in a sata controller card and my Leopard drive. Man, this thing flies!

>>57483140
>>57483249
Fucking sweet dude.
Go for Leopard, better multi core support.

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>>57482547
Solid recovery anon. Amstrad, Amiga and Commodore, this is the holy trinity. Please try to contextualise them within their era instead of just going "muh asthetics"

>>57483249
>>57483140
But can it run Crysis?

In other news, has anyone got any intel on these things? I assume its an AT/XT memory expansion board but I can find nothing specific, and I'm hoping (like hercules and other 286 era cards) that its one of those "jumpers/switches do the same thing no matter who built the card" kind of deals. I have a machine or two I can drop it in but I don't want to risk damaging either. Halp?

>>57483667
Check TH99

and yes, it's a rambank

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>>57483874
>TH99
I fucking love you anon. Where has this site been all my life.

minuszerodegrees is my regular go to, which actually lists this card as well (now that I know what it is) If you know about it, meh, if you don't, I hope it one day helps you out as much as you just helped me out.

http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/
http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/manuals.htm

>>57483953
Glad I could help.

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Heloo. Has someone here saved the webms from that Anon who made the Firefox and Chrome comparisons?

>>57484645
irrelevant much?

I have a Spectravideo SVI 328 and no idea how it works
its supposed to be MSX compatible? didnt even turn the thing on just in case i break something...

also have a PPC 512 "portable" computer but thats even older (monochrome green LCD)
i can imagine my dad having to carry the 50 kilograms it probably weights lmao lol

>>57482482
>>57482501
>>57445451
wasn't going to post but thread hit circlejerk singularity so here's my idea for a "subtle" retro hate video.

>60 seconds of silence
>"OH, IT'S ON"
>shittiest video quality imaginable as guy is huffing running to basement
>"Gotta make it quick or else the battery will die. you see, I have a vintage 80s recorder and nobody has made the battery for it for 15 years. You see, back then blah blah blah"
>CLICK
>"Well guys the camera's battery died so I had to move the charger down here. It's plugged in now"
>in back of room is papers nailed to wall that say "You have been denied applying for (local university)"
>other paper is titled "that time I made everyone at the BBS circlejerk laugh" and has illegible text
>just pans over to old piece of shit and just stares at it
>waits for 120 seconds just showing it off
>"Yeah it doesn't turn off anymore"
>500 seconds of silence pass
>"We need to ban 99% of users, websites, et al from the internet, because I don't understand it... muh text"
>starts eating ramen noodles
>"normies normies normies normies"
>500 seconds of silence
>"I'M BETTER THAN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!"
>30 seconds of silence
>video ends

>>57484865
Top fucking kek.
Please tell me there are videos like that and link some!

>>57478669
is that 16 bit? because no.

>>57484885
>is that 16 bit?
It's a fucking V20, what do you think?

Yeah, there is, but just Google, I can't be bothered to look right now.

>>57483667
that keyboard looks so gay.

>>57484907
>i'm so funny

>>57484897
ok maybe if you stripped openssl down you might get better performance with something like aes

>>57484881
nah I meant, if that guy tried to impress and be with all the retro circlejerklets, but they won't let him join their sekrit club, he could just change gears and do that.

not as outright as this one I just made up but there's a couple of channels that come close, best one was this bald 40 year old guy saying that the only proper solution to playing dos games was to drop $600+ on 3 (three) different 90s laptops because they were each shitty in their own way, then giving some "I'm better than you" explanation on why dosbox is "just bad" at the end because it's too good.

another fun example was this N64 shit who found some "hack" 20+ years later with a gameshark that enabled, wait for it, gasp, ANTI ALIASING... or something close to it, and he had to blow up the recording to show the OMGDIFFERENCE. in 2004 I was getting 4x aa through opengl on project 64. Bringing this up because he was my age and sounded really desperate in the video. It's sad to watch.

Anyway I'm off to the thrift stores with a smartphone to get "good finds". wish me luck

>>57484927
Dudes talking about simple encryption, do you think people didn't encrypt documents way back?

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>>57453149
I actually have a fairly oldish camera.
From the 90s though. Let me up a picture of it.
It's all kinds of fucked up though.
Things started breaking, more things broke. I can't even find the lens for the viewfinder any more. I sat it somewhere. Somewhere is a far away galaxy.
No idea where I sat the tapes for it. Time was not nice to this camera.
Shame. I loved using it. I remember making a lego and play-dough stop-motion mini film when I was like, 13-15. Fuck knows where my Lego is, actually.

Found some other stuff while searching.
Camera with good resolution not one of them.
>no smartphone
Waste of resources.
I'll rather build one myself, which I will be soon.
With decent camera to boot! So have some Eyetoy pictures. Only the best quality here.

Found some old Sony i.Link port replicator. No idea where the fuck I even found this thing.
Some external floppy drive and disc drive for said dock, wait no, disc drive is a PC card.
Also an old cassette player. We portable tunes now son.
And a Palm fold-out keyboard. Sans the PDA that is.
Found another PDA though, Psion Series 3a. Delicious Britfag tech. RIP Psion.

Also a box of floppy discs, and weirdly huge lens. Must be off a magnifier.
Have a balloon too. Happy Birthday Timmy!

>>57484938
simple encryption is not encryption anymore.

>>57484932
kek, there's no "sekrit club", it's 4chan, people get made fun off
get over it, idiots exist

good luck!

>>57484950
Yet it's perfectly fine unless someone is actually out to steal he's device just to get passwords off it
even if he loses it and someone find it who actually knows, bothers to get the files off it to try to crack it, they will just have a key but no door

>>57484944
I have the same JVC camera!
Used it in the early 2000's for home videos.

>>57437909
It would be awesome to completely build a computer like this with your own operating system. Then you could set it up to your home for doing things like turning the lights on and off, changing the aircon temperature, activating turrets, unlocking armory doors, changing Mr. Handy's personality mode, etc.

>>57485014
Except you could just hook up an Arduino to a network, connects a bunch of lights and shit from your home to it and telnet into to switch them or make a script and interface for it.

>>57484970
lol then bf 64 ecb 8^)

>>57485034
It would probably even be better off with a proprietary software with it's own algorithm then just using well known algorithms everybody would try first.

>>57484950
Unless you have pissed a government off, simple encryption is fine for your little shitty PDA from the ancient days.

Pretty sure he won't be storing top secret intelligence that could doom the Americas or Europe.

>>57484985
It was a nice camera.
Sad that it fell to bits so hard.

First the view-finders lens cracked a little, then it got loose. Tried to glue it back in place.
Eventually snaps off entirely.

Then the video players lid starts getting shaky.
Eventually it came loose, so had to use some extra sticky blu-tac to keep it shut (I literally mixed blu-tac and old chewing gum I cleaned, makes for a really good stick but still be opened)

Then that little bit at the front came loose.
I think I remember the documentation saying there was some sensor in a more expensive version of the camera.

>>57485014
Would be possible to do.
Older computers are far easier to make with circuitry and some DIY compared to recent ones.
Sure, it won't be as fast as a CPU from a company, but it will work.
I remember some guy managed to make his own computer with off-the-shelf shit and managed to run XP on it.
I remember finding his site through some web-rings. Had a generic back-bone for the IO, then loads of little slots to plug boards in to with the actual heavy-work processors on them.
Wish I could find it again.

Rolling your own OS would be better for you because you know your exact needs. Just test the fuck out of anything in relation to file IO to be sure you don't create corruption bugs!

>>57484944
>>57484985
Also used it as a webcam back then when webcams had actually shitter quality than that camera, straight from composite out to a TV receiver card.

>>57485078
>Sad that it fell to bits so hard.
Mines still in top shape tho, probably because it has been shitting in the came cupboard for the past 15 years.

>>57485080
I did that as well.

In fact, I remember finding out a really cool glitch with a SCART splitter.
It had 3 SCART sockets and 3 buttons to pick whatever one you wanted to show on your TV.
I very quickly, accidentally, figured out you could click 2+ buttons at once.
This duplicated the signal.
I combined it with a SCART extension that let you define the direction data moved in.

Playing around with wires, I eventually managed to get the camera video output, and a Satellite TVs audio output, to the same TV.
So I could record say, a music channel, and camera video. My god the fun we had with that and MTV.
Also, pointing the camera back on to the TV screen would create those shitty old TV special effects with the infinity spirals and so on.
Look mum, I'm a TV man!
I still have the video cassettes in a wardrobe behind me. Wonder if they would still work. I would totally up them to Youtube and embarrass myself. Weird little prick.

I used to record videos of me playing games with music over it. (I recorded music on to a video cassette, then played it back with only the audio stream)
Whenever the music ended, I used to pause the game, rewind the tape, then play again and unpause, to simulate looping music.
Fucking hell I was a weird kid looking back.

Most useful use-case of this was taking a single game consoles signal and sending it to 2 separate TVs.
This made gaming nights so much fun because we could use a piece of cardboard on the top and bottom of P2 and P1s screens, respectively.
Split-screen was never as much fun as when I figured that out.
Goldeneye, Timesplitters, Quake, so much fun with that.

>>57485164
>Also, pointing the camera back on to the TV screen would create those shitty old TV special effects with the infinity spirals and so on.
That was something back then.

>>57485192
True. I remember using a laser pen and lights in behind the camera to add extra spirals and noise to the signal.

I remember freaking the shit out of my cousin by pointing the laser down the camera and it appearing on screen.
He thought it would blind him because it would make the laser bigger.

>>57484932
>>57484865
Tbh it seems like the real autist is you, I can barely read this much concentrated shitposting.

At the thrift store.
MOTHER
FUCKING
JACKPOT
will post when I'm home
Faggots

>>57485393
Unless it's a NeXTstation, Cube or Amiga 4000 I will be disappointed.

>>57485393
>inb4 made up story how I found some rare shit for cheap and how I'm gonna resell it to luddites

bumping for interests

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>>57439279
Right now, been writing up all the crap for it in my chicken scratch during classes instead of taking notes.

Working on a development environment for it right now - I've had to put the full 128 character ASCII table into it 3 times now - please, just kill me now.

>>57446309
At least they're reliable.

>>57486535
Sure, you happen to fuck up the hard drive and suddenly you can't even change BIOS settings without a floppy.

>>57477519
>like always
How's that new Itanium doing?

>>57486554
Never had to use the BIOS settings on a deskpro before - The ones I have are only Pentium / Pentium III based.

>>57485393
So? Where is it?
Do you live in Australia and went to a US thrift store? How long does it take you to get home, faggot.

>>57484950
Sure, if we were talking about secure network communications or high-value and explicitly targeted information.

But we're talking about a shitty DOS palmtop that you can't even effectively transfer files from without a non-standard serial cable and ancient bench box running the proper, ancient software, I'd bet the RAM disk would wipe itself before Tyrone even sourced the cable, let alone paid out the ass for and set up the supporting hardware to do it.

I really just need a simple proprietary cipher to turn one or two text files into garbage, I think I'll just google around a little more, I just figured I'd ask here first in case there was some kind of widely preferred tool for it.

>>57439899
>a few grand
even my collection of ~140 systems has probably only cost me around $500 over the last decade

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>>57485078
>I remember some guy managed to make his own computer with off-the-shelf shit and managed to run XP on it.
Shit I barely believe that, something powerful enough to run XP would be laden with surface-mounted components and bulk-order-only shit

But that design sounds cool, blog about it if you ever find it again

>>57487097
Post pics. Now.

>>57487118
wrong thread faggot

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>>57487097
>>57487144
Not OP, but I've got a bit of a collection of my own.

1/5

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>>57487216
2/5

>>57487216
>>57487232
that's not a collection, that's a pile
wai you do dis to them?

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>>57487232
3/5
Dammit they didn't show up as sideways in Windows Explorer

>>57487261
Because I'm too cheap to buy a shelf and the only value they hold is purely sentimental at this point

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>>57487283
4/5

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>>57487296
5/5
All the laptops I don't use often enough to be left with the rest of the computers. Optical drives also there.

>>57487283
noice, all 4 actually boxed C64's?

>>57487381
Yep!
Only two have the commodore video cable, though, and one's RF box is dead. That same one is also missing the "1" key on it's keyboard.

No styrofoam for 3/4, but they all work.
Two boxed Apple ][e clones as well, the LASER 128 / 128EX from VTech.

>>57487401
Neat dude

>>57487477
Thanks!

>>57487144
not at home right now, maybe when I get back I'll open up the new shed

>>57487559
I'll be keeping my eyes open.

>>57487296
What are those? Apple II clones?

>>57487629
Yep! They're out of their boxes right now since I was using the top one as a serial terminal earlier.

They're LASER 128 (top) and LASER 128EX (bottom) from VTech in about 1987 or so.

Apple ][e clones that outperform the ][c in most cases, they've even got their own graphics modes that outperform that of the Apple ][GS and Macintosh!

The EX has a bad internal speaker and a broken composite output, which is why I've got the TV box next to it.

If you look at >>57487283 on the far right, you can see the boxes, and >>57487232 next to the fan you can see the green phosphor monitor!

>>57487673
Really fucking cool, I bet they are rare as fuck?
Been wanting an Apple II for ages but even a clone would be awesome.

>>57487701
I don't think they're terribly rare, especially since they not only outperformed the Apple ][s of the time, but were also cheaper, and were some 98% compatible with Apple ][ software since all of the important things which dictated compatibility could be easily changed, I presume they sold a shitload of them.

Plus, I bought them from a family friend with a fuckload of diskettes (In the hundreds, possibly thousands even! I haven't counted them yet.), three of the four Commodore 64s I have, and the monitor

...For $20.

>>57487761
Great deal!

>>57487788
You're telling me!

If super powers are a real thing, finding the best prices for something (or bringing characters back to the porn scene by accident) has gotta be the only thing I'm good at.

I guess I'm okay at BASIC / Batch scripting (Don't say it) too, but that doesn't really make much of a difference anymore.

>>57487590
shit hopefully someone makes a new thread before this one dies then

otherwise I'll post in the next one

New thread for your delight!

NEW THREAD
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>>57487883
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>>57487761
>they not only outperformed the Apple ][s of the time,
But most of them wouldn't run ProDOS and so no AppleWorks.

>>57489283
Mine runs ProDOS - just had to adjust disk speed via the little potentiometer on the bottom.