Retro thread? Just got this for $40. Trying to find some media

>>57591865
Where did you get it?
Fucking craigslist? Ebay?

it's so fucking kawaii holy shit

>>57591875
Kijiji, Canadian Craigslist.

>>57591865
Shit. I had a Plus too when I was a kid. Played a tonne of Risk and SimCity on it. Also remember printing off those long banners on a dot matrix printer.

>>57591865
Also,

> Hello computer!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=v9kTVZiJ3Uc

>>57591935
That's the very first thing my GF thought of when she saw it.

I completely forgot it was the one from that movie.

>>57591959
Just use the keyboard...

>>57591935
>cutting out the best parts

>>57592007
Sorry if it's a bad video. I'm on mobile right now and can't really watch the video at the moment. Just grabbed the first one off google without watching it.

Recently my CRT monitor started to emit some sparkling noises from the back. They vary in loudness and in how frequent they occur (are mostly quite quiet, but noticeable as one sits in front of it). It this something to be genuinely worried about? Is this a known symptom of some components dying?

>>57592125
Probably not good.

I've never had it happen on any CRT's i own, but it doesn't sound like a particularly good thing.

>>57592125
it's kinda ok if it is just when you turn it on but definitely not ok if it's going on all the time. Open it up and blow the dust out (dont actually touch anything inside unless you want to shoot across the room)

>>57592125

Sounds like high-voltage sparking at either the anode cap or the cathode neck at the back. (AKA the "touch-it-and-you're-dead" areas). I had this happen with an old CRT TV that was kept in a room with high moisture and large temperature fluctuations that go from freezing to hot. The thing completely refused to turn on after awhile.

>>57592146
It's just like the crackling/popping sounds which are heard when a CRT display is turned off. Just now quiet single pops happen sometimes as it is working.

>>57591865
that's pretty vaporwave

>>57592930
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU8HrO7XuiE

>>57591865

Great find.

I recommend getting a newer Mac that has Ethernet/USB/Firewire but still has a floppy so that you can transfer data from your local network or a newer drive to that Mac, then make 800K floppies for the Plus. Otherwise you're going to have to wait and spend $$ trying to build a collection of disks for it.

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>>57591865

I picked this up a few days ago. It's running Win98. Just gotta find a pcmcia ethernet card now.

>>57591865

Save yourself the time and get system disks here OP. http://rescuemyclassicmac.com/

They'll be modern so you won't have to worry about them being corrupted and other shit.

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>>57593141
That's what i've settled on. I've got two iMac G3's and a iMac G4. Going to see if i can get a floppy drive for one of them.

Found some 800k floppies on Ebay.

Going to post some of my other junk to keep thread going. Post what you guys have.

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>>57593308
>http://rescuemyclassicmac.com/
Holy shit that's exactly what i was looking for, thank you anon!

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>>57593320

Most of this crap i got free (the stack of towers). Think i'm going to start stripping them and giving away the empty towers locally if people want them, otherwise i'll be chucking them. I've got that stack, plus two closets full of mostly P4, Athlon and Core 2 Duo machines that are just taking up space.

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>>57593376

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>>57593609
Got a bunch of these CED's (Capacitance Electronic Disc) as well. They're in pretty rough quality, not even sure if they work because i still need to get a player. They're neat though and i wanted them. Lots of good movies.

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>>57592930
Not as vaporwave as this

>posted from my pentium II

>>57593825
Aesthetic.

>>57593891
>using a g3 as your main web browsing machine
The horror.

I can't even stand causal web browsing on mine. It's slow as shit even running classilla with javascript turned off.

I got an SE/30 for $50 on Ebay ages ago. It's recapped now and I use it for Quicktime and MIDI. I lost my most recent photo of it, though. God damn it.

>>57594033
Even my g4 iBook chokes on most browsing. 4chan lags a bit, but that is probably because I'm using 4chanx

>>57593320
>Going to see if i can get a floppy drive for one of them.

I don't think any of the USB floppies can write 800K. Could be wrong, but make sure before buying. I have restored numerous classic Macs but I started with a PB G3 with the floppy module. Since that can connect to my local network, it became the machine I used to write floppies for the rest.

>Found some 800k floppies on Ebay.

People debate this but back in the day I had no issue reformatting 1.4MB floppies as 800K. For restoring a classic Mac today I would look for 800K disks for stuff like the System and apps. But for just seeing if something runs you can certainly get away with 1.4MB.

Likewise, 720K PC floppies should reformat to 800K.

>>57594033

Classilla and TenFourFox don't seem all that usable until about the 1ghz G4 mark. My 2.5x2 G5 handles the web well enough.

I've bitched about this in other retro threads: WTF is wrong with the modern web that G3s and slower G4s can't handle it?

>>57594081
>>57594127

It's funny how that"simplicity shootout" commercial by Apple that has the iMac g3 pitted against a Pentium II HP Pavilion, says that the iMac is faster than the Pentium II. When in reality, web browsing on my Pent2 is a heck of a lot easier and faster than my iMac g3.

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

>>57594090
Yeah, the ones i found were actually 720k. Also heard about using 1.4MB floppies as 800k, but read that they normally fail pretty quick. I have a hard enough time finding them that i'd rather not trash them.

>>57594127
Browsing on my 700mhz G4 is a real challenge, and using any of my G3's is even worse. Even when i'm just trying to get software to download onto them from websites, a lot of times the sites just won't load properly on either Classilla or TenFourFox to even be able to download anything.

>>57594145

The G3 was faster then the PII. It was more sensitive to compiler optimizations. But it was faster.

I don't still have a PII system, though I do have a P3 system in storage. I'll have to drag it out and see how it compares to the G4 I have on web browsing. Maybe part of the problem lies in the back ports of the Mozilla code base.

>>57594149
>Also heard about using 1.4MB floppies as 800k, but read that they normally fail pretty quick.

I never actually experienced that back in the day, but as long as you can find 720K/800K floppies no point in risking it.

>>57593552
>The Final Frontier poster
>The worst trek movie of all time
good job!

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>>57594127
bloat.

And I don't mean that in the "le meme" sense

But actual, measurable, bloat.

>>57592125
What kind of CRT is it and what do you have it connected to?

>>57594183
That's surprising on the 700 MHz G4 because my TiBook 1ghz does pretty well with TenFourFox.

>>57594216
Yeah, i know...

It was $2 at a yard sale though, is a thick wood one that lights up that was from a rental store. And the art is nice. So meh.

>>57594301
The G4 was certainly a lot more capable, and downloading stuff was a lot less of a problem. There were some sites though where the scripts just didn't work right though. For the most part though it worked pretty well.

Youtube wasn't possible though, which was a shame. Would be a neat little kitchen computer.

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>>57593552
>flight simulator 98

Is that the one with the joke in the manual about the twin towers before 9/11 happened?

>>57594347
Think that was '95.

>>57594309
Thankfully its followed by the best trek movie of all time
>The Undiscovered Country

>>57594274
A Trinitron tube 17 inch monitor connected to a contemporary PC.

>>57593552
Were those black Dell CRT monitors any good?

>>57594596
Not that particular one. It's not awful, but it's no Trinitron, which is what i'll eventually replace it with.

>>57594322
try vlc or some other streaming player

>>57594766
Yeah, VLC works.

Also, i have previously always downloaded the youtube videos then watched them on VLC. Only after reading your post did i realize you could stream with it.

>>57594266
>mother-of-god.jpg

Day of the rope for web developers when?

>>57593494
Would you be willing to sell and ship the T2000?

>>57593513
Gross. Jealous of that tape player though.


Have a C128 coming in the mail. Asked for it for christmas lol. Already have a SD2IEC, so I should be good to go.

>>57593552
oh man, I've got a few of those games on that shelf, the star trek starfleet academy game plus it's expansion pack, flight sim 98. also got the star trek game generations (based on the film), no one lives forever 1 & 2, UT 99/2k4, and Quake 2/3. plus a few dos games

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Not sure if this is considered retro but here is an iBook G3 I picked up off eBay for $30 last year. Unfortunately I don't have the charger anymore and the battery is just shit.

>>57594798
i find it works best when you grab the googlevideo link from a youtube download site. not sure why though.

>>57594850
Not really, got it for free from a friend and plan to keep it.

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>>57591865

>>57594991
>CPE 1704 TKS

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>>57594900
Digits checked. Retro. And buy an adapter off fleaBay for $10. Shit you can probably get a battery for another $15.

>>57594991
>nice clock ahmed

>>57595957
>whydidntyoustopit.jpg

>>57593652
good luck finding a good player (and especially a good read head/needle)
saw this recently which might help (fixes and expectations)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LrPe0rwXOU

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>tfw finally found one for sale locally
>tfw it was already sold last week for $20

I just want to type on this thing so bad... I want to flash Linux on it and write Latex on it.

>>57591865
Nice anon, comfy as fuck.

>>57593825
A E S T H I C

>>57594212
We did that a lot, they hold up great for exchanging data, but they degrade faster.

>>57594127
Even 1 GHz is shit, my dual-chip Quicksilver couldn't even shitpost in the summer without literally melting its fucking L3 cache off of the CPU card

>>57597994
>my dual-chip Quicksilver couldn't even shitpost in the summer without literally melting its fucking L3 cache off of the CPU card
topkek

>>57594127
Dual G5 is actually a pretty capable machine still, I was amazed it could even play YouTube nicely.

>>57597994

Pics or it didn't melt!

>>57592125
Moisture damage, keeping it dry, over time it might settle down again and be usable, still slightly whining though.

>>57594858
That's a Datasette. Get one off eBay for $30 bucks.

>>57594183
All that shit on the modern web, 4chan is totally OK to browse on a 68k Macintosh.

>>57593513
I learnt algorithm on that shit

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>>57598933
It's browsable, JS disabled, no captchas also.

>>57599357
>glorious Trinitron CRT
What monitor is that?

>>57598359
Huh ok, but the only moisture it was possibly exposed to was drying laundry about two meters away. Should that be avoided?

>>57598359
Btw it's very usable, the picture is not affected by any means, it's just the quite pop/spark sounds which happen every now and then as it's working that are a bit worrying.

>>57599357
So, you can browse, but you can't post...

>>57599418
Apple M1212 14" Macintosh Color Display

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>>57599357
68k<3

>>57599357
>start menu
ew

>>57600097
I just find it more comfortable to launch and switch between applications with it.

It also has autohide.

>>57599552
>drying laundry in the living room
Are you an idiot?

>>57593308
Make sure to replace both backup batteries under the keyboard, They leaked in mine and destroyed the main baord

>>57600130
Some people don't live in mansions.

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>>57591865
what the fuck is this C64 level of arrow keys

>>57597869
The keyboard isn't great and linux support and performance are probably worse than the Jornadas

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>>57600269

>>57600296
Dayum

>>57599684
Are you able to post?

>>57592125
This is a known problem.

Issue:
It's 40 fucking years old and you need to move on

>>57594127
>we need to change the web back again so I can browse on my ironic piece of shit because javascript is too mainstream
go full hipster and buy an i7 for you to vnc into so you can pretend it's still relevant

>>57597939
>>57593825
M E M E L E T

remember guys, BBS and IRC circlejerks are still up, ready for you.

>>57600610
No captchas, I never tried 4chan pass tough.
Can't really imagine myself actually shitposting from them, it's just more a fun thing.

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>>57600672
Took you long enough to show up, did your fap marathon really take that long or did your parents force you to go to a trip with them?

>>57600726
Fuck you you patheti piece of shit, go fap to your shit while I actually enjoy women.
You hipster shits with muh made up nostalgia

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>>57600760
Wew lad, butthurt much?

>>57600145

Thanks for the advice. Will do.

>>57600726
kek

>>57596177
That's actually the exact video that i watched before purchasing them, that actually got me interested in them in the first place.

>>57600196
No idea, still an upgrade over the previous iteration though which had no numpad and i don't think any arrow keys at all.


Love Techmoan's stuff.

>>57600672
>It's 40 fucking years old and you need to move on
No it's not, it's only 18 years old. It's not a daily driver, it's connected to a retro PC of the same age which is fired up every now and the. Btw wtf are you even doing in a retro thread giving out "advice" such as this?

>>57593825
A E S T H E T I C

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>>57599582

I don't know about him, but I can post from my PowerPC g3 iMac running Mac OS 9

I had to update Classilla to the latest version becuase the of way google handles ssl with recapcha had changed.

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>>57602658
No Classilla for 68k

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Ah... All those memories...

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>>57602773
>where's the ram gone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKarYHGNdCQ

>>57602808
Topkek

>>57602658
Hm, i wasn't able to on my iMac, couldn't get past the captcha's.

>>57602933
Make sure you got javascript turned on

plus, in Classila, the capcha is different than usual. You click checkboxes next to images, then after you click submit, it gives you a long hash/string that you copy and paste into a box below.

>>57603020
Or you can just use v1 captcha

>>57603100
explain?

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>>57603104

68k netscape wont work with a pass because it doesnt support HTTPS.

Also, Classilla doesnt support pass it seems because despite being logged in i still have the captcha. I fucking hate this captcha.

>>57603138
I can't seem to open the settings panel or use quick reply on Classilla

But amazingly the google capcha actually werks

>>57603244
How? i couldnt even open the "Post a Reply" toggle here.

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>>57603270

idk it just werks

>>57603320
derp. I thought you got v1 captcha and shit.

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Changed my old trusty Dual G4 for a Dual G5.

>>57603346
I've seen you post in other threads.

I like your setup.

I'd love to do something kind of like that, but i just don't have the room.

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>>57603346
>mfw califag with no basement to turn into mancave

>>57603346
>tfw i cant get another desktop PPC mac because all the ones on ebay are way too expensive because of shipping and nobody in my town lists shit on craigslist.

>>57603384
Thanks. I just today changed the G4 for the G5, so that's different from the old picture.

I dedicated this room for all kinds of hardware. Big bonus when living in your own house.

>>57603430
Didn't plan on getting the G5 but it was only 40€ and local, just missing hard drives. Popped in two 160GB 7200RPM drives in RAID0 and boom!
Selling the old Dual G4, don't want to put it into cold storage when I don't have a use for it.

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>>57603346
Oh we're posting our retrostations now?

This one's hot off the presses.

>>57603507
>Oh we're posting our retrostations now?
Don't we always, Mr.TnxForWallpaper

>Windows 9x
>Mac OS 9
>screaming late 90's this hard

>>57603549
Don't forget that TV/radio thing at the top-right.

I want analog TV back. The fuzzy image and color bleed is infinitely better than random skipping and signal loss.

>>57603621
Make your own TV station!

>>57603507
Bonus points for using a period correct digital camera.

>>57603507
>png (509 KB, 640x480

you're on /g/, stop that.

>>57603707
Actually I just used the iSight in my aluminum iMac

>>57603861
That's awesome.

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>>57603549
If you think that was screaming 90's

You ain't seen nothin yet

>>57603433
Live in a 2 bedroom apartment with my girlfriend, hoping to get a house with a nice big basement in the next year or two.

Bedroom had two desktop set ups jammed into it, 5 monitors between them and the bed. Not a whole lot of room in there. Other room is my weight room, leaving no room for anything else except a bit of storage. Living room has the 32" Trinitron with an assortment of old consoles and a desk i recently added for playing old games and working on computer.

No room at all for anything else.

>>57604010
Fire up UT GOTY on the G3 too and play with yourself.

>>57603507
delet this

>>57600672
>waaaah moom people on the interwebs are doing stuff that I don't like

My parents had one of these in the corner of the basement closet, 4-5 years ago my mom decided to throw it away even though it was taking up relatively no space space.

>>57604278
A what?

>>57604318
A bad dragon, of course.

>>57604398
Why the fuck would you keep it in a corner?
I keep mine in my butt.

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I'm picking up a Sun Enterprise 250 tomorrow morning. I don't even know how I'm going to get such a behemoth in the car. Also, have a pic of my PowerMacs.

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>>57600196
Even his drinking glasses are retro memes.

>>57604466
>Sun Enterprise 250
Those aren't even that big, just fold down the back-row seats or stick it in the trunk. Drive carefully, don't take sharp turns, and don't brake or accelerate abruptly.

>>57604466
>I don't even know how I'm going to get such a behemoth in the car.
You won't have to, they have wheels as feet, just get on it and push with your feet.

>>57604466
What does one run on a Sun Enterprise?

>>57604504
Sadly, this one doesn't have the wheels.
>>57604526
Gentoo, of course.

>>57604546
>Gentoo, of course.
I'm srs

>>57604466
http://www.harborfreight.com/150-lb-capacity-foldable-hand-truck-61867.html

>>57604526
>>57604581
I have never worked with Sun stuff before, but I'm gonna guess Solaris?

>>57604620
>>57604466
http://www.ebay.com/itm/331962690359

>>57604581
>>57604631
I'll dick around with Solaris, yes. I'd love to use it as a server, but sadly it's too noisy and too much of a power hog.

>>57604656
There are a lot of computers I'd use as servers, but won't because of the same reasons.

>>57604640
>not http://www.ebay.com/itm/131654800806

>>57604526
Solaris all the way
>>57604656
Noise is half the fun, fuck it

>>57604717
>Noise is half the fun
Except when you live with your parents and have to sleep in the same room as your server.

>>57604704
Plebs

https://www.liebherr.com/en/bes/products/mobile-and-crawler-cranes/mobile-cranes/ltm-mobile-cranes/details/ltm1120091.html

>>57604750
Meh.

https://www.liebherr.com/en/bes/products/mobile-and-crawler-cranes/crawler-cranes/lr-crawler-cranes/details/lr13000.html

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>>57604790
He also needs something to transport it.

>>57604744
Me too, but they don't give a shit, but I do personally use a Fire V100 I keep enclosed in my desk most of the time. Sleeping with fans is doable but I'm always afraid it will overpower my alarms.

I'd put it to work for some kind of non-24/7 role desu, would probably make a novel supporting system for other retro hardware that you can just turn on and off when needed.

What CPU(s) does it have in it? A dual-400 might be able to run Solaris 10 and the latest OpenCSW packages with it, I could probably dig up a 10/09 image if you want. Otherwise 9 is a possibility for legacy packages, 8 has probably a few repositories still sitting around.

>>57604828
Why are you running servers in your bedroom? Unless you can't sleep in pure silence you shouldn't need a constant source of noise in your bedroom.

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>>57604819
>not the Belaz 75710

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>>57604171
ids habbening!

>>57604933
>playing with yourself
kinky desu

>>57604860
I can't really sleep in complete silence, no, I've always had a box fan or a TV going otherwise. Not really all that loud anyway, since it's contained inside of my desk and nearly inaudible when the compartment door is closed.

Other than that, my usual work areas are poorly insulated and not suitable for running hardware 24/7, and it makes it a little more painless to access it remotely from whatever daily driver project I have set up at the moment.

>>57604828
I have an Optiplex GX110 (Pentium 3) running as a server in my room, and it's already too noisy. I can't imagine a full-blown server. I don't know the specs, I only know it's a 400MHz (either single or dual), has a quad ethernet card and no framebuffer.

>>57600672
>we need to hire more pajeets so a web page with a 500 word article and two images takes 35MB of space with 19MB of fucking javascript

>>57603621
FIOS here. What's random skipping and signal loss?

>>57605224
Since it's a pedestal system it really won't be as terrible as you probably expect, but you might not find it comfortable at night if you don't like that thing.

Here's a decent resource for when you get your hands on it:
ftp://ftp.deu.edu.tr/pub/Solaris/
A lot of the stuff like Sun Studio are more useful if you're running Solaris 10, but you might want to try 8 on it first, there's a full OpenCSW archive with a lot of packages for 8 on here as well as a sunfreeware archive going all the way back to 2.5, though I've never tried the latter out

I believe these are installation images for Solaris 8 u6/u7 (they contain ISOs) that should run fine on it:
ftp://ftp.pl.vim.org/vol/rzm2/solaris-cd-pm/8/sparc/

No framebuffer isn't really as big a deal, you can just X forward to another system if you need, most Solaris applications that really benefit from having a good GPU are commercial CAD and the like that are all but impossible to get your hands on anyway unfortunately

>>57604526
The Enterprise of course.

>>57591865
If you find disk images for it, you can just dd them to floppy from linux. No need to buy special media from ebay for it.

Unless of course you don't have a floppy drive.

>>57605476
PCs are physically unable to work with Mac 800K disks, he needs a bridge box.

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>>57600296
blue background board asshole!

You still have that & run it? I want that so badly that it's kindof sad.

>>57605510
As someone who's actually made floppies for 68k macs USING a garbage-picked dell desktop, no. No you don't.

And the PC was nothing special, that's for sure. Cheap dell, cheap components, I ran linux on it.

>>57605510
Someone in a past retro thread said he read that you could write Mac floppies from a PC or USB floppy drive. But I've found no evidence of that.

I'm guessing what happened is that someone managed to write a 720K disk, stuck it in a Mac with a SuperDrive floppy, and thought it werked. Which it did because the SuperDrives could read PC disks. But that won't help with a Plus.

>>57605582
Probably works but only with low level rawwrite and only disk images.

>>57605567

Did you write 720K floppies or 800K floppies? I'm guessing 720K + SuperDrive on the Mac. The Plus and earlier, and some SE's, did not have SuperDrives and can't read 720K. SuperDrive could read 360/400/720/800/1.44 with PC or Mac file systems.

If I'm wrong, please post instructions. I would love to know how to get a standard PC floppy to write an 800K disk.

>>57605613
PC floppy disk controllers couldn't vary the disk speed which is how Apple fit 400/800K on their floppies. I don't see how you get around that.

You COULD create a 360/720K floppy with an HFS or MFS image using disk images. It's a combination that would have never existed back when these computers were new, but I bet Macs with SuperDrives will happily accept it.

>>57605567
There were a lot of 68k Macs you could do that for because they had SuperDrives that were also compatible with PC disks, but the Plus was not one of them. They're physically incompatible for reasons stated in >>57605694, you can definitely format PC disks as 800K Macintosh disks unreliably, but PCs cannot read and write them at all. No software changes that.

>>57605694
>>57605759
I have found guides how to write System disks on PC, I have to look into it again, it was a while ago.
It's a interesting topic.

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>>57605452
OTA =/= pay tv

>PowerMac G5

>Put a extra hard drive onto the free ATA port they said
>It will be fun they said

Fuck, that was some intense finger work in small spaces.

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>>57606019

>all this talk about superdrives
>mac plus with no internal floppy on eBay
>research t
>superdrive drive cant be used on a plus
Rip

>>57606072
SD2SCSI

>>57605694
>PC floppy disk controllers couldn't vary the disk speed which is how Apple fit 400/800K on their floppies. I don't see how you get around that.
by using a non-standard controller
you can read/write practically any kind of floppy, including 400k/800k variable speed ones with a plain drive using kyroflux (a hardware device that you attach a floppy drive to that reads/writes disk at a very low level, intended for archival purposes)

it might prove more feasable/useful to get that thing onto an ethernet network, then transfer stuff that way to be written onto floppies
looking around it seems there's a bunch of ways you can get those networked

>>57604870
Is Lukashenka second from the right?

>>57606170
-- you might also be able to transfer data over serial, which might be the cheapest method, but from what i've read, it will be slow as balls... at least you can use it to transfer necessary drivers/software to get an ethernet device up and running

>>57606170
>>57606289
he'd be better off just getting a shitty beige power mac that can just write them outright with minimal headache and some PhoneNET adapters

>>57606403

PowerBook G3. Built in Ethernet. Floppy module. PROFIT!

>>57606585
b-but 68k

>>57606403
you could use an intermediary machine, if you can pick something up cheap
not really the most convinient option, mind

>>57606585
Yeah, after looking on Ebay for stuff like this, it's all looking to be $150+ when shipping, floppies, etc is all taken into consideration.

Going to wait a couple of months and see if anything pops up locally, and keep checking Ebay for any deals that may happen. Otherwise i think i may look into this. Certainly the easiest solution.

http://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/

Until then though, going to probably see about buying an OS and one of the program packages from this site that one of the Anon's linked.

http://rescuemyclassicmac.com/buyadisk/buyadisk.html

>>57602773
memories of a gone past time...

>>57593320
They're going to find your dead body one day crushed by this wall of crap you degenerate hoarder.

>>57593376
Where do you live? Ill take those core 2 machines off your hands, i have some 771 mods I could slap on them lol

>>57606999
k

>>57607035
New Brunswick, Canada.

Keeping most of the components, just getting rid of the empty cases. Been trying to figure out a good way to keep things organized. Been thinking about using a large filing cabinet and having a bunch of hanging dividers that i could put a component or two in per separator.

>>57607035
>711 on iMac
absolute madman

>>57607280
Think he meant he wanted some of the Core 2 Duo PC machines i have because he wants to use some Xeon chips on them.

>>57607307
Good luck with 90W TDP.

>>57607280
Xeon mods for days mate! You can overclock the fuck out of an x5460 with the right mobo

>>57607452
Guarantee none of those crappy OEM motherboards are going to give much of any OC potential.

>>57606585
can later powerbook drives actually write 800K disks? I've never tried it

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Can anyone ID this?

Seller only writes: Thinkpad Windows 98 machine. According to him it works perfectly.

I might pick it up tomorrow for $10.

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>>57607744
That's a T-60. Used to fly them back at home on Tattooine.

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>>57607951

i bought a macintosh se superdrive a while ago and when it boots it gives me a floppy drive with a question mark, could it be a bad hdd?

>>57607622
If it's a floppy module for an expansion bay and not a USB floppy, yes.

>>57608098
If it even has a hard drive, the hard drive is either erased (no OS) or bad.

>>57607744
a 760-series thiccpad, really all you can tell from that shitty a picture, seems like it might have a decent display option though, I think the shitty 800x600 ones had noticeably thicker bezels than that

any of them are worth $10 though, the worst you'll end up with is a machine you can easily liquidate for $20-$30 on ebay

>>57607744
I think it's a Thinkpad 760

>>57608098
As this anon said

>>57608132
If it has an HDD the OS has been wiped. Otherwise you will need an OS boot disk.Or buy a harddrive with the OS already installed, heard people doing that before too.

>>57608216
>>57608224

Thanks. Although my tip was that it's an 560[something].

>>57608273
It's too thick, and the palm rest too short to be a 560.

>>57605647
I'm fairly certain they were 800k floppies. It was a finder disk for a Mac512k (before they had hard drives in them). I also the same setup for install disks for an SE/30. I'm positive that one used the 1.44MB floppies, so that one shouldn't be a challenge for anybody.

Using the box I made these floppies on for a logging server now. But, the floppy /dev/ shows up differently now in 16.04 than it did in older installs. It used to show up as one /dev/ for each supported format of the floppy drive, so /dev/fd0u800 /dev/fd0h1440 stuff like that. I think it still works with modern kernels, but you may have to set it all up first with setfdprm. Haven't tried.

Anyway, the issue is __probably__ usb floppy vs old fashioned floppy controller

>>57597869
mng someone wants 50€ for it(Psion 5mx) on a local craiglist

>>57608466
What did he mean by this?

>>57608498
nah just looking around on local craigslist what people want for the same things

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>>57608349
>>57608224
>>57608216

Other pics:

1/2

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>>57608533

2/2

>>57607744
i picked up what appears to be one of those a number of years ago
mine was a 770, XGA
pretty beefy machine for 1997, its 6GB hdd was dead, but it was a standard 44pin IDE hdd just in a caddy, easy to replace

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>>57608533
Yeah, not a 560. From what images I can find, 560s don't have that switch/latch/whatever on the corner.

>>57608273
the LCD status panel, brightness slider and blocky-yet-compact styling is a dead giveaway that it's a 760XX/765XX, but which model you can't really be sure of because they all looked pretty much identical

>>57608621
Interdasting. Thanks. I will post my findings tomorrow.

Let's hope it's not sold already. It was posted only today at my local cl equivalent but I can only call the seller in the morning as it is the middle of the night here.
>>57608633
Thank you.

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>>57607744
the model number should be here if you want to try to ask the seller
it certainly looks like a higher end 7XX series, which are pretty nice win9x machines

>>57591865
>literally paying good money for garbage

This is junk, it's completely useless and now it's taking up space.

You're a fucking idiot.

>>57608660
good luck senpai, anything you end up with will be alright, even a low end 76X was still a top-tier system in many ways

>>57608633
>>57608660
if it /came with/ windows 98, then it's a 770X or 770Z
according to wikipedia, windows 98 first shipped on the X, and the Z is the last of the 7XX's, the successors look very different

>>57608743
Ok.

>>57608743
thanks for that hot opinion, i'll be sure to place it on my desk along with the rest of my garbage

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>>57608743
literally how poor are you that you would get this butthurt over a few hours of an actual living wage in the first world

>>57608757
it didn't ship with 98, it's definitely not a 770 series

other than the 770 lacking a front drive bay like that one clearly has, they also lack a brightness slider on the display bezel, have prominent drive eject buttons on the front and have a generally more angular profile

>>57608899
Two hours worth of work for what will probably be many hours of entertainment.

Not to mention if I cared enough I could turn around and immediately sell it for a profit.

>>57608899
hmm, maybe mine isn't a 770
i haven't touched it in years
maybe i'm confusing features with an earlier 1994 thinkpad i had, which did have a right side brightness slider and front left floppy drive

There's somebody selling a Power Mac 2.7 G5 for $75CAD locally that i've been looking at. Is it worth picking up at all?

I've wanted one of the dual CPU G5's for a while now, and it's in mint condition.

>>57609519
You've wanted it for a while, one is available, at a price you can afford to pay without blinking. BUY IT. Don't wait and end up not getting it.

>>57609735
I messaged him. Hoping to get it tomorrow.

>>57609519
>>57609735
Not to mention the 2.7s were the absolute top-of-the-line, go ahead and save it before some modder hipster destroys it.

>>57604526
You should look into OpenSolaris.

>>57611940
OpenSolaris is dead and Illumos is forgotten barely-developed shit that doesn't do anything Solaris 10 already does better while making BSD look mainstream

t. OI user

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OH BOI

>>57613898
Is this the best logo ever? I think so.

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>tfw used to have a black sony/dell trinitron flatscreen monitor, 21"

threw it away for an LCD monitor, to save space, it still worked perfectly

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Pics don't make it justice, this thing is fucking huge

>>57614303
That's real sexy, anon
Show us more pls, nudes

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>>57615211
Sure. Here's the back

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Disks

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One of the power supplies

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Inside. Look at dem THICC fans.

>>57614303
>>57615492
>>57615519
>>57615541
thanks anon.
fapping material for weeks.

>>57615564
looks like it does not have any ram

>>57615564
>>57615644
see
>>57602808

>>57615644
Yeah, no ram... I hope I can get some for cheap, since it turns out it isn't nearly as noisy as I expected, and I might be able to use it as a home server

>>57609519
>>57610509
Yeah, but rework the water cooling before it breaks.

>>57594991
What is this thing called? When I Google the filename I just get horses

>>57615519
How much storage?

>>57614006
Nah, they just got lucky that 's' looks kinda like "un" (but exploited that coincidence very gracefully, truth be told). Remeber that SUN was an acronym for "Stanford University Network".

>>57604933
Those running beige boxes & monitors remind me of times back when computers were exciting and magical things opening gates to other realms. Nowhere the bland, generic, ubiquitous and uninteresting things they're right now. Who would have thought back then that technology would end up miserably like this.

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Don't have the pic but I got a gateway e-4200 with a pentium 3. Is it good or meme machine

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>>57614303
>>57615492
>>57615519
>>57615541
>hey that's pretty good

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>>57616652
Stop.

>>57613898
>>57614303
>>57615492
>>57615519
>>57615541
>>57615564
good shit, especially those drives

That thing would be pretty nice just as a terminal server

>>57616571
Four 9.1GB 10K drives. Two Fujitsus and two Seagates.
>>57616971
>>57617220
I'm uploading a video about it to youtube, if anyone's interested

>>57617438
>I'm uploading a video about it to youtube, if anyone's interested
Yes!

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>>57617827
https://youtu.be/hnUl_im3Vzw
Here, have it.
Also, pic of my cat on top of it for scale

>>57617890
>Also, pic of my cat on top of it for scale
but how bis is kot?

>>57617890
Yeah bro, I already was subbed to you.

>>57618039
About a quarter of the size of a Sun Enterprise 250 (^:
>>57618051
:3

>>57617890
Cute cat.
Cute box s/he standing on.

>>57615723
What are you going to run on and use your home server for?

>>57619021
Same things I'm using my current one for: NAS and torrenting. Maybe some dicking around with Solaris. Who knows, I might end up hosting a website too.

>>57619279
A Pi could do that and only take 1/100th of the power.

>>57617890
kek I've seen some of your videos while just browsing youtube

I'm almost thinking of logging into my old channel and uploading some /g/ related videos myself

>>57619779
>/g/ related
soo... maki and gpus?

>>57619728
It would be 1/100th as fun, too.

>>57619902
Pi's are pretty fun too tho

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>>57619811
Retrocomputing, vintage electronics, ThinkPads, terrorist watches, GNU/Linux, mechanical keyboards, general autism, furfagetry, memes, etc...

>>57619950
>Retrocomputing, vintage electronics, ThinkPads,
ok
>>57619950
>terrorist watches, GNU/Linux, mechanical keyboards, general autism, furfagetry, memes, etc...
noty

>>57619983
how about a channel about retrocomputing, vintage electronics, and ThinkPads, that follows this formula:

[(druaga1 - weed) + fur]^(memes)

>>57591865
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU8HrO7XuiE

>>57620102
> -weed
> +fur
your taste is shit

>>57620102
>fur
wut

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>>57620144
>>57620145

>>57620166
i bet you were just pretending to be retarded, weren't you?

>>57620102
>>57620144
>>57620145
fine no fur

anyway i don't even know how I would even incorperate that into a video

I'm just memeing

>>57591865
i really really want a 68k macs, too bad that i lived in southeast asia and those macs are nowhere to be found. i can buy it thru ebay but the shipping cost is thrice the price of the computer itself.... sigh
no, i already tried an emulator (basilisk), and it was dogshit that it literally crashed everytime

>>57620173
???

>>57620198

>>57620173 thinks that you're me

when I'm actually >>57620176

>>57620166 is not me

>>57620198
Sorry, i thought you were >>57620102

>>57620219
>>57620222
I'm >>57620145
just had a kek >>57620166 because hivemind

>>57619728
But Pis are pieces of shit with no software

>>57620780
They are just ARM SoC's. Just compile anything you want faggot.

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>>57620809
... and run by SJWs

>>57620900
Don't really care about any of that crap, I'm in it for the hardware not the community, same with any tech, even retro.

>>57619728
Who cares, fuck off with that boring, ugly piece of shit

>>57621117
Why so butthurt about the Pi or ARM SoCs? It does exactly what it's meant to.

>>57620194
They're generally nowhere to be found here either. Shipping isn't quite that much here, but you're still looking at about $100 to ship one here plus whatever crazy price they ask on ebay.

I've been looking for one for a while. We just missed one at a flea market once, some hipster faggot was walking away with it as we were walking in, probably to make a fish tank.

Got really lucky finding this one.

>>57621532
>probably to make a fish tank.
topkekkers

Yeah, sadly they are rare, most market for them was in NA.

>>57620194

Honestly, unless you want to run really old games that have to run on an original compact Mac (128K-Plus and SE), a Power Mac is just as good and there seems to be more of those. Apple's 68K emulator rocked and the transition to PowerPC was as seamless as a transition can be.

Regarding emulators: SheepShaver runs pretty well. It will crash with some stuff, but lots of software just works. vMac runs GATO which pretty much has to have a compact Mac, so its compatibility is pretty high up there.

Not shitting on 68K Macs, If you're building a collection having a few is a must. But if you just want one vintage Mac to dick around with then a Power Mac will do the job.

>>57602808
Can see from the thumbnail it's a druaga1 video

godbless you anon

>>57621892
If you want a Power Mac just get the latest G4 that runs OS 9.
Else a 68k Macintosh with a PPC card is great, you can run both, 68k and PPC programs natively.

As the thread lays on its death bed, going to post this which i thought was funny.

Great price if anyone's looking for a Tube TV.

http://www.kijiji.ca/v-tvs/moncton/tv-and-stand/1218065565?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true

>>57622269
Dude obviously has memory issues and thinks it's 2006.

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>>57619728
>using a Pi as a NAS
>ever

Look, I love minicomputers as much as any hipster faggot, but the Pi has atrocious I/O performance.

>SD card support tops out around 20MB/s reads
>ethernet is 100mbit fast ethernet
>shared with the USB 2.0 bus
>with 4 other USB ports

You wouldn't want that running your NAS.

Case in point: I tried using a Pi 2 to host a Zabbix (monitoring, I/O heavy) server and had a bad fucking time. The IOWait levels were ridiculous and the server was sluggish as shit. I uninstalled that crap after about an hour and now the Pi just acts as an SSH jumpbox and OpenVPN server, which is a far more appropriate use for it.

Meanwhile, Sun systems have fantastic I/O. A system like that anon's Sun Enterprise 250 comes with a built in SCSI-3 controller with 40MB/s channels. In addition to that, it has 64-bit PCI @ 66MHz, meaning it has 533MB/s bus bandwidth left over for you to fuck with. You could deck that thing out with extra SCSI controllers and drives. An excellent choice for a NAS or torrent box. It does suck power, though.

I'd go with a Sun Fire v120 if I was going to run an older Sun system 24/7. It's pretty low-power. I have a SPARC Enterprise T5240 (pic related), but hardly turn it on because it sucks down 650W when idle.

>>57622377
>hipster faggot
since when are they considered hipster shit? because hipsters do sleepers with them?

>>57622377
There are other Pi like computers with dedicated ethernet and SATA that still draw just a few amps.

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>>57622377
>windowmaker

>>57622377
Anon with the E250 here.
I was thinking on using a 64-bit PCI SATAII card, since those have been getting cheaper lately. As for the hard drives, the drive box in the front has extra rails for six more drives, and the backplane seems to have holes in those spaces, so it'd be pretty easy to mount SATA drives with the original spud trays.
Also, woould replacing the fans in the system be considered sacrilege? I'd wire up the new ones to the plug in the fan tray, so it would all look original. These huge fans just hum too much.

>>57622377
What the fuck do you do with it?

>>57621316
Because there's always one of you evangelist faggots in every single one of these threads acting like we've never heard of SBCs before and it's annoying as fuck, we're not posting about this shit because we want to "just get the job done" or maximize power efficiency or whatever the fuck, we're posting shit we find fun to work with.

Just shut the fuck up and go back to agonizing over whether you left the lights on in the other room while you were playing shitty AAA games with your 500 W graphics card.

>>57622918
>AAA games with your 500 W graphics card
why do you luddites hare modern hardware and games?

>>57622954
Because luddites are retards, just like you.

>>57623022
k

>>57622954
why are pitards so simple minded that they can't even read beyond "muh games"?

>>57623092
Not him, but what's wrong with games or the Pi now?
Stop being a shithead.

>>57623155
If you're going to complain about people having fun with inefficient equipment, you might as well complain about playing games on power-hungry hardware, too. That's all.

There's nothing even wrong with the Pi either (but it's still a terrible SBC compared to other offerings), just shut the fuck up about it and stop acting like we don't know it's more efficient (no shit), we don't give a fuck.