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>>57735185
Do I have to censor those?

>>57735201
Wew lad

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Got this PowerMac 7600/120 from craigslist for $20 bucks.
Not even interested in the PowerMac itself, just got it for the keyboard, mouse and monitor and some parts like the floppy drive and VRAM for my Quadra.

>>57735288
Lucky, that's a great machine!
IIRC it has composite and S-video in.

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>>57735349
Yeah, s-video and composite both.

>>57735030
Amber master race

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What do I do with all those drives?!

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>>57735438
You cherish them like old memories of a gone past time.

>>57735444
>this is the box I keep my old memories in
Kek

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Now i need a NUC. Also there are adapters for the original keyboard and mouse, so i might go full autist and use those.

>>57735391
>Amber master race
>he can't afford a green phosphor monitor

>>57735485
Meh.

Sleeper builds are not really retro. New hardware is boring.

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>>57735030
HP terminal from '91

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>>57735507
ISA slot power filter.
For "muh audiophile" quality sound. :^)

>>57735555
Kek

>>57735552
Fucking cool, love terminals

>>57735507
I might be getting a regular mac plus soonish too. I dont know if it still works, but probably not because its been sitting in a shed for a few decades.

I just like the look of these computers.

>>57735574
That's cool

>I dont know if it still works, but probably not because its been sitting in a shed for a few decades.
Are you the guy who was talking about the Mac in the shed with a corroded insides?

>>57735552
Is the screen dirty or does it have white and bright white text or just B/W?

>>57735030
>>57735391
My father had a similar 286 Toshiba with the same amber plasma screen. I remember there was no battery and it was loud as fuck for a "portable" computer.

Amber on black text was really good for reading comfort though.

>>57735643
I can relate to that, I got a similar model for xmas once, when I was a kid, it was a quite old machine for that time already, mid 90's.
I didn't care, I could play DOS games on it.

>>57735607
Actually, it's not that bright at all. It's just B/W with no shades in between. We installed a terminal web browser but the baud rate we set was so high, it would render pictures in plain binary. It took 4+ minutes to render Google.

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sheeeiiiit

>>57735710
Kek, nice

>>57735719
>3615 ULLA

>>57735737
Ulla, la

>>57735552
Tell me that's a mechanical keyboard?
>>57735555
Checked.

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>>57735030
>Post those old computers!

/RETRO/PORTING IN!

>>57735771
Holy balls, what a museum

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>>57735779
Thanks, care for a tour?

>>57735783
I'd love to just mess around with them

>>57735771
What do you do with them all?

>>57735796
They are my hobby. I love old hardware and messing with it.

>>57735807
What is that? Does it rip cartridges?
Genuinely interested!

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>>57735825
THIS is a real arcade!

>>57735838
Kek, those russians

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>>57735835
no but this is.

>>57735771
care to share that old macintosh background picture?

>>57735766
Looks like rubber domes to me.

>>57735288
>not interested in the computer
Sad

>>57736069
Sorry, I already have a PowerMac and 68k Mac, I need parts from it more then the machine, it was cheap and if I didn't buy it, it would have gone into the trash anyways, what I don't need I'll of course give away.

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>>57735816
nice

>>57735807
>>57735820
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Backup_Z64

>>57735835
http://www.wickedretarded.com/~crapmame/

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>>57736262
What do you play with that? Steel Battalion?

>>57736300
>>57736262
There's even more
http://www.wickedretarded.com/~crapmame/18.html

>>57735030
Source on the wallpaper?

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>>57736411
How about a google reverse image search?

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>>57735030
This one is pretty outdated

>>57736439
It just came up with laptop images... thanks anyway

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>>57735030

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>>57736411
I tried to quickly and accurately reproduce the image from the laptop.

Here.

>>57736597
Get a MDA monitor and a Hercules, CGA or EGA card and put Win95 on it, works with Win3.1 driver.

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>>57736598
appears to be a monochrome display, so the wallpaper would really look more like this

>>57736761
But muh amber

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>>57736806
that's just what the display produces, but ok

>>57736837
Noice

>>57735201
Blue board you bastard!

>>57737007
MODS MODS MODS!

>>57736597
is that the same laptop?

>>57737028
That's just generic Win95
I think the laptop uses EGA

You people really need to post 4chan page on all these old shits

>>57735838
>>57735854
>>57735873
>>57735890
moar sad soviet arcades pls

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>>57737028

>>57737152
http://www.15kop.ru/en/

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>>57737152
>>57737171

>>57737151
wut

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>>57737171
m'good sir

>>57737156
Nice shop

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>>57737171
Russians just crack me up.

>>57737246
thanks
cutting out those two deskop icons was difficult, as there's not enough information to tell which pixels were from the wallpaper or from the icon

>>57737260
>magistral
>morkoi boi
>soda water machine
>goruki
wait what

>>57737260

When I was growing up there was a crate at the local bowling alley that I used to play all the time. Underrated classic.

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This is still used in Greece.

>>57737310
But can it run Crysis?

>>57737293
i'll kick your ass at soda water machine any day, comrade

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>>57737293

>>57737260
We had some equivalent of the Autorally-M in the driving classes (aprox. 10 years ago). You had to do a lap before you were allowed in real vehicle.

>>57737334
Truly the pinnacle of car simulation

>>57737310
>>57737318
They do the tax accounting on those. It runs the economic crysis at 240fps

>>57737343
>It runs the economic crysis at 240fps
More like -240fps, it's going backwards actually

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>>57737320
Stone Age computing

>>57736761
needs to delineate at a darker tone. note the dithering on her skirt in the OP

>>57736806
apply an amber post filter.

>>57737436
>needs to delineate at a darker tone. note the dithering on her skirt in the OP
i did darken it to get it a bit closer, but it's more than likely he used different software to dither his image, so i won't get the exact result

>>57735914
Thanks
I have to set it as a background picture now.

>>57735939
>muh 80s aesthetic
>such cool

>>57737227
What part don't you understand?

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now you're talking !

>>57737965
Still don't know what to do with them?

>>57735552
What do you need 2436 packages for? Especially on a machine like this?

>>57738320
Nice bait faggot

I once saw a CRT PC monitor which seemed to have a second tiny screen built into it's bottom, does anyone know what that could have been?

>>57737965
are you form balkan perhaps?

>>57738388
Sounds impossible. Was it sticking out? Are you sure it wasn't part of the projection like picture in picture?

>>57738489
I'm sure that it was a second tube, it reminded me of those tiny b/w TVs.
It the small tube also was brighter than the main screen when it was turned off, so it probably was b/w only.

>>57738396

Melania Trumps homeland

>>57738284
pretty much need to get proper tables for them for starters to start mucking with them

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>>57738489
Here's what it looked like
The smaller screen might have sticked out a bit, not sure any more

>>57738591
What I mean by "sticking out" is wether it seemed like not part of the bigger tube. So it's not. Strange contraption. Maybe it was some kind of broadcast monitor to see waveform for example?

>>57738639
I've no clue. i don't think i ever saw it powered on, it might have been an ancient EGA monitor

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Now sure how much this qualifies as retro.
Left to right
>380ED from 1998
>R30 from 2001
>G40 from 2003

Someone replaced the hdd in the R30 with a 3.8gb one and installed windows 2k without ethernet drivers so its rrally just a showpiece
The 380ED however i use for DESI-III dos based CAD, its comfy
And the G40 is for light gaming, the P4 in it handles OSRS and CS:S well

>>57735771
Jesus, Lain, slow down there.

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>>57738794
>Jesus, Lain, slow down there.
k

>>57738553
serbiafag here. I figured you were from 'round here because of the wall in the pic.

also i like your 5 1/2 inch floppy if you know what I mean.

Kek, some janitor muted me for shitposting when I only have contributed, don't even think there are any shitposts in this thread. I haven't even posted outside this thread for a few hours.

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>>57735771
/retro/porting in, too!

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>>57738942
Same here, only short them though.
Probably some butthurt faggot like justin with janitor powers.

>>57738957
Hey dude! What's new?

Someone asked for our wallpaper! >>57735855

>>57738958
term*

>>57738958
>>57738958
Sad fucks...

>>57735771
It's a shrine dude, respect.

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>>57739031
Thanks, appreciated.

>>57739046
That yellowed beige looks painful.

>>57739046
Would you like some computer equipment with your yellowed plastic?

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>>57739088
>>57739096
No worries, I'm a wizard.

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>>57738981
Not much, I've been just trying to get through this semester of college. (CompE)

I do have some interesting news tho. I saw a couple of 486s (and possibly AT and XT-class systems) in the basement of an engineering building on campus.

I have yet to find the person in charge of that storage room...

>>57735855
furaffinity.net/view/14214040/

>>57739130
>I have yet to find the person in charge of that storage room...
No worries, just get a sledgehammer, no door will stop you.

>>57739130
>that pics
Aperture Science fail much?

>>57739109
That's quite an improvement.
>>57739130
Take one of them and see if anyone notices. Keep doing this until you have them all.

>>57735914
>deleted
wat

>>57735201
>>57735185
>>57735170
certain arrangements of 1s and 0s need to be censored

>>57739236
>posting garbage outside /b/
Some kids are just buttblasted

Here's the link >>57739130

>>57739248
Apparently not just 1s and 0s, even arrangements of text characters.

>>57739351
Ah, kids today will never know the joy of CLI.

>>57739351
CD
CD
CD
CD HACK

>>57739430
>C:\>CD
>C:\
>C:\>CD
>C:\
>C:\>CD
>C:\
>C:\>CD HACK
>C:\HACK>

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r8 my aesthetics

>>57739689
Lain/10

>>57739689
Did you hack the Gibson?

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>>57739723
>>57739756
I hacked the gibson with the power of the wired

>>57739799
Kek

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bump

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Got this byoot for freeee

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>>57740257

>>57740257
How do those keys feel? Are they domes or scissors? I miss when companies weren't obsessed with making notebooks paper thin

>>57740257
Nice!
I want something similar to put NeXTstep or OS/2 on it!

>>57740286
Keys feel okay, definitely a bit spongy and soft so probably domes. It has a detachable trackball mouse though

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>>57740311
The screen is black and white monochrome so it's pretty limited due to the massive ghosting and lack of color. Gonna keep 3.1 on mine.

And if anyone is curious of specs it has a 486sx, 4mb ram, and 200mb hdd

bumo

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Hey fellow anons, nice to see a retro thread again.
https://youtu.be/a23945btJYw

>>57741082
>I watched that movie so many times as a kid, the VHS tape wore out
Thanks for making me feel old.

>>57735719
Is that one of those French pre-internet network machines that connected to this whole separate network?

>>57735201
Now I have a boner which made me lose my job.

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>>57742433
Looks like a Minitel, yes. I'd personally love to have one, but shipping a CRT from France to Spain is quite expensive. Also, reposting my E250.

>>57742250
Fuck you. This made me cry.

>>57742516
Minitel... I need to remember that, it's a pretty unknown part of history that I only have vague knowledge of. Sweden almost had something like that, because youth figured out that if multiple people called the same unused telephone number during the analogue times then they could speak with people for free. There was up to hundreds of people calling the same phone number, must have been crazy... Only interrupted once in a while by a "this phone number is not in use" recording. Once thousands of people decided to meet up from several of these phone numbers at once and it freaked out the police because they did not know what was going on.

After that they blocked it and made it a paid service. They also talked about doing something like France with the Minitel, but then Internet came.

>>57735771
>>57738981
Say, do you have a youtube channel?

t. wallpaper guy

>>57743986
No.
I did think of making some retro content, but I though there's quite a lot of good content already, but maybe I will in the future, never know.

>>57735288
Should put it to use as an appleshare bridge box or something

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make unix great again

>>57744195
My PowerMac G4 and iBook G4 are already used for that.

>>57744256
That would imply that it's not great right now, which is false.

>>57744260
They don't have the older DIN serial port though, PhoneNET is too convenient sometimes.

>>57744327
My Quadra has AAUI with RJ45 adapter, so I don't need serial to share files.

>>57744375
Yeah, I mean for non-networked systems, used it a lot on my Plus and 1x0 PowerBooks in particular.

I'm just saying, might be something you can use the leftovers for if it's still mostly functional.

>>57735906
>if_/g/_have_designed_an_iPod.jpg

>>57744521
I get you, but then I could just use my Quadra for that, but I'm not interested in getting any older Macs anyways, do want a Apple II though.

Its gonna be still in working order, just without a floppy drive and less VRAM, I'll just find someone who's interested in the machine and give them it. Not gonna trash it, of course.

>>57737285
>the highway
>sea battle
>sweet bubbly CO2 enhanced pop sugar syrup water dispencer
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorodki
t. russian
Also, you can sneakily bring your own soviet kopecks and play these arcades without paying a damn sheckel.

this is my favorite thread, i love you guys for posting awesome oldputers. i'll eventually get around to posting some of mine. right now i've got an original iMac G3, an old Toshiba Satellite running Windows 95 originally (now on 98), a Commodore 64, Commodore 128, an Amiga 2000, and an original IBM PC clone.

>>57744727
That's great! Can't wait to see!
Also I fully agree with you!

>>57736447
I thought it was computer from 60's

>>57740392
Where do you guys buy?

>>57744932
BestBuy

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>>57742322
I completely wore out my tape too

there is a grid 1520 for sale
>http://www.ebay.com/itm/GRiD-Gridcase-1520-Laptop-Computer-286-in-working-condition-/302145214854?hash=item4659421986

>>57745330
Does it come with a turrent?

>>57739689
Id hate to have your electricity bill.

I bet your heat aint even on.

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>>57735030
>mfw I had that exact pc and it was "lost" by the movers.

>>57746110
Kek

>>57735201
That's pretty good

>>57746110
Actually it's much worse,

I recorded that during the summer

...in florida

The AC was really working overtime to cool that room full of hot computers during the hottest month of the year.

>>57746110
Just get a DP G5 and give it something to do.

Mine is repairing/copying an old firewire drive from an estate sale. I turned off the heater and opened the window. Pretty soon I'm going to roast marshmallows.

Maybe someone watching this thread can give me a hand.

I recently got an old ThinkPad 570 with a dock for free. It's Pentium II 233MHz, 192MB RAM model with an 18GB HDD and both a DVD-ROM and floppy drive in the dock. At some point, the previous owner installed Windows XP on it and it runs super slow. I'm trying to install Windows 98 via an ISO burned to a DVD. The 570 can see the DVD and launch it from Explorer where I get the splash screen with stuff like "discover Windows 98!" but no option to start an install. I tried changing the boot order to use the DVD drive first, and it spins up on boot, but then it just boots into Windows XP.

What do? Should I format the HDD in the laptop first so that there's no OS there at all?

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I'm home now from traveling, hopefully I have enough time before my next trip to play around with some stuff. It's also time to take a new photo.

>>57747079
First thing to try is just a regular CD-R.

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>saved a couple more shitboxes from the landfill last week
>expected boring middle of the road office fleet boxes
>got a decently specced 486DX/25 with ~late 1990 date codes and the most destitute 486SLC box I've ever seen that was probably the cheapest shit you could buy in 1994
>but it had a fucking DECtalk PC card
I've spent the last week making Stephen Hawking talk dirty to me instead of doing constructive things, pls help

seems these things are really poorly documented too, or maybe I just don't know how to use google

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I have some comfy machines.

>>57747079
Don't force it, take the easy way out. You will need a 3.5" disk with the Windows 98 Boot disk which will load the CD drive for you, or use freedos to boot. Either your media is no good or it simply won't boot from CD.

>>57746378
God damn... Why don't you make get you a shed out back and insulate the shit out of it like you're making a cold vault, and then mount a AC unit in it and keep your electronics there.

>>57747079
is it the bootable version of the windows 98 cd?
early 98 discs are not bootable, as many machines from that era did not support cd boot (it came with a boot floppy with dos and mscdex)

>>57735552
we had exactly the same one running in my old work, or still running i dont know

they did run some old ass tape backup on it

>>57747079
protip: before installing, copy the WIN98 folder from the cd onto the hdd, then run setup from there
since you have the hdd space to spare (~250M extra) it will save you time later on

win9x doesn't copy a lot of optional stuff over when installing to save space, when you go to install certain things like drivers, you often get prompted to insert the cd so it can fetch more files
if you install win9x from a folder on the hdd though, the data is always there, and you won't ever be prompted for the cd

>>57735201

> not posting 80 column smut

>>57737260
turnip pull game is best game

>>57738320
He is just using ssh to access another machine of his from this terminal.

>>57738320
I think that's default, man. Mint has a bunch of shit on it.

>>57747800
Yes, there's most likely a boot floppy needed. Most 98 discs weren't bootable on their own and required a floppy (that's also where fdisk was run from, once the 98 installation starts partitions must be present iirc).

>estate sale
>black macbook with a broken screen but otherwise good
>power mac 7500/100 with a MAXpowr 200 MHz 604e upgrade
>power mac 9600/350
>two SCSI drives
>two firewire drives
>keyboards, mice, cables, old sw floppies, books

Can't believe I stumbled on this. All for $50. Seems like one SCSI drive in the 9600 is really struggling but otherwise everything is working well.

>>57748949
That's great, have you set them up already? Pics?

>>57738957
I wanna build that room on the back of an RV/Van.

>>57748949
Get a SCSI to IDE adapter, then get an IDE to Compact Flash adapter and have more data than you'll ever need.

>>57749656
Why?
Just get a 50-to-68pin SCSI adapter and a 80GB 15000RPM drive with huge cache. Will even beat the CF is performance.

>>57749656
>Get a SCSI to IDE adapter
you know the prices?

>>57747906
What is that thing doing exactly? And how old is it? 50s?

>>57735906
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8W8gmyLFrw

>>57742675
Similar story in germany.

Germoney could have something similar to minitel, but the postal service (in charge of telecommunications then) botched it and made it all a hyperproprietary, super expensive mess.

>>57735201
>censoring technology

If we have to do this, then we should start censoring everything Apple.

>>57749474
If there's still a retro thread tomorrow evening I'll post some pics. Right now I don't have any where to permanently set them up. I'll have to figure out what I'm selling and what I'm keeping out of my whole collection.

>>57749656
I should have clarified that the drives I listed were all external. The 7500 has a 4gb internal drive (seems fine) and the 9600 has three internal drives, one is 30gb. 9600 also has working Zip drive and I found one Zip disk in a box, working. Haven't touched those since...96?

Also found a 1gb bare SCSI in a box.

By the end of the night all of the drives seemed fine, passed Disk First Aid, and behaved well while I explored. I'm hoping the two that were slow/clicky at first just needed to warm up for a minute after all these years.

Also found the old 601 processor card to the 7500 in a box. It wasn't protected and clearly got tossed around so I won't risk trying it out and blowing the motherboard, nor selling it to someone and blowing their stuff. I'm going to pop the CPU and keep it.

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Still works, boots faster than my octo core Mac Pro that has 31,000 times the RAM and and SSD...guess you'll never beat out the speed of soldered on ROMs.

>>57749712
I might just do that with the 9600 and redistribute its disks across other machines.

Kind of want to max the RAM on the 9600 as well since I read it can take 1.5gb. Though I wonder if OS 9 can even see that?

>>57750217
ROMs and a tiny OS. A lot of web pages link in more bytes of JavaScript then it took for System 6, ROM and Finder+System.

Pajeet literally needs more space to animate a menu and display an ad then the Macintosh team needed for an entire fucking OS.

>>57750227
It can. The MDD G4 can take 2.0GB and was the last machine to boot OS 9. That being said, OS 9 can't address over 1.5GB, and individual applications have a 1GB ceiling.

>>57750198
Just do a eye chcek on the card and che k if there are any chorts with a multimeter.

I'd try it out even without testing it, pretty impossible for it to blow out anything else then itself, it would be way worse just trashing it, no matter how bad it looks.

>>57750217
It's platform specific assembly on a ROM with a direct bus to the CPU and RAM, there's nothing faster then that.

>>57750187
>censoring everything Apple.
Posting garbage outside /b/ is against the rules anyways.

>>57750333
>pretty impossible for it to blow out anything else then itself

You sure? I would HATE to lose the motherboard because I got curious and tried it out.

>it would be way worse just trashing it, no matter how bad it looks.

I would be keeping the 601 because it looks cool. I would hate to trash something that could keep another 7500 alive. But CPU upgrade cards were so common for the series that anyone who has a dead CPU can pick up a faster one off eBay.

>>57750404
Sounds like we should go back to that.

>>57750249
lol but bandwidth and hardware is cheap just buy a new computer and upgrade your internet package poorfag

>>57750478
Yeah sadly ASM just isn't a thing anymore unless you are coding for things like Z80, etc. would be real interesting to see a modern implementation with flashable EEPROM with DMA and direct CPU bus though, I'd love to see how it stacked up to things like PCIE SSD's.

>>57750478
>lol but bandwidth and hardware is cheap just buy a new computer and upgrade your internet package poorfag

I have FIOS and my main rig doesn't have a problem with anything on the web. But it's pathetic when a modern iPhone or iPad or an older computer stutters because Rajeesh can't be bothered to write efficient code.

>Sounds like we should go back to that.

Then we have to have efficient code. Not 5MB worth of frameworks for the web equivalent of hello world.

>>57750628
>Then we have to have efficient code
Fuck that, developers are way to lazy, why waste time being efficient when we have shitloads of resources to waste?

You really think any developer would do overtime for the same pay or any company would pay more for "efficient code" when normies won't give a fuck anyways and nobody is going to judge them? As long as they don't loose anything with shit code, they won't care, money talks. :^)

>>57750611
There'd be no money to be made
>buy raspberry pi for £30
>it's 10x as fast as the thing you spend many times as much on

>>57750611

The ROMs in the SE aren't fast. They're on a 16-bit 8 MHz bus. PCIE SSDs are like the Enterprise-E at maximum warp versus the SE ROMs which are Mercury program rockets.

But the size of the OS, relative to the bandwidth available, is far superior. It would take 1/64 second to transmit the core OS over the SE main bus. It would take several seconds to do the same with OS X off a PCIE SSD.

Yes OS X does a hell of a lot more. But efficient code is a lost art.

>>57750684
>You really think any developer would do overtime for the same pay or any company would pay more for "efficient code" when normies won't give a fuck anyways and nobody is going to judge them?

Well, that's the problem with the industry right now. But your statement "we should go back" contradicts your statement "fuck that waste resources." You can't have your cake and eat it to.

>>57750731
>But your statement "we should go back" contradicts your statement "fuck that waste resources."
It doesn't, we just don't need as powerful machines for browsing facebook or using Word as we do right now.
Great hardware would still be used for gaming and encoding, etc.

The whole point of this argument is to have the cake and eat it.

>>57750693
A lot of RISC OS is is written in assembly, so some things are lightning fast. Like it boots to a fully usable desktop is something like 2 seconds, but will take a million years to start FireFox.

>>57750708
>The ROMs in the SE aren't fast. They're on a 16-bit 8 MHz bus.
But they are only 512KB, the bus speed is even faster than 512KB/s. More than enough.

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Has anyone seen this before? It's pretty cool.

It's a very large scale dis-integrated microprocessor.

http://www.megaprocessor.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z71h9XZbAWY

>>57751938
That's neat

>>57751938
Thank God for ICs.

>>57749712
Those old Macs use SCSI 1, newer 68pin drives are SCSI 2, it won't work
a CF or SD card would be way better, like SD2SCSI

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>>57752252
Do you think I would have said it if it didn't work?
I don't even know if there are any SCSI drives that aren't backwards compatible. Do you work for SD2SCSI or something?
SD2SCSI is good for those old 68000 Macintoshes that have a drive controller that's slow anyways, because the SD2SCSI is only 2.5MB/s itself. While a new SCSI drive like that maxes easily out my machines 6MB/s controller.

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>>57752321

>>57747782
Real comfy! More?

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picked up a little while back

>>57752982
ow shit, a weeb calculator

>>57752982
What is it even?

>>57736411
It's Rose from Homestuck

My roommate loves retro, he's got a Sharp X1, Sharp X68k, FM Towns, and a few others.

I can ask him to post if there's interest.

>>57753339
is he socially awkward, watches anime and loves instant noodles too?

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>>57753024
>>57753271

this thing is pretty strange

from what I can deduct, it is just a word processor, but with a whole bunch of bells and whistles. It has from what I can see, a built in printer, RS232 port, and a built in 3.5 floppy drive. It also has quite a few unknown to me (most likely propriety) ports and some kind of expansion system via "F-ROM" cards ?? Can't find too much about it other than this page (http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/word/0013.html) , a couple of old adverts and some vaporwave esc gifs

Pretty cool find, got it a goodwill for $4

>>57753405
>propriety
*proprietary*
I need to be punched

>>57753405
Very cool.

>>57753339
Thanks, but better not, weebs tend to ruin retro threads.
It's the cancer that ruins /vr/ too.

No offense to weebs, anime site and all, etc, but they just fanboy their Japanese systems and shit on others.

>>57753490
you know, I would believe this, but I have literally never seen it myself (cancerous fanboying / shitting that is) and I frequent VR and literally any 'retro' thread I can find

I think it is pretty interesting how deep and strange some of these Japan release only consoles and home PCs compared to what we have over here, but I have never seen or made the comparison in a negative way

w/e >>57753339 you should post that stuff, I wanna see

POP

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Only Amiga makes it possible!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWeO5IkCssk

>people will just throw these beauties away
Why even go to yard sales?

>>57753717
>Western games suck
>Yuroppoors and their shitty computers
>SNES is way better
>Amiga/Atari/Macintosh? All suck (insert Japanese computer here) is way better
Typical /vr/ shit

>>57739351
Pretty arousing, in all honesty.

>>57747800
Make sure virus protection is disabled in bios. Win95/98 won't install if it's enabled

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Score.

>>57735719
>>57742433
Yep, it was widely used in Administrations in the 80's and 90's.
It's still working today for some old ass ATM and POS.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS3DazMR3QY

Friendly reminder this is technology board for currently used technology.
For outdated technology and other neo-luddite equipment please visit
>>>/vr/

Thank you!

>>57757708
Kek, MFM drive?

>>57758051
Thread is almost at its bump limit, you where late faggot.

What are some good late 90s laptops /retro/ recommends?

I'm looking for something for DOS gaming and possibly to try installing a Linux distro for the lulz.

>>57758100
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2v7k-wAm2E

Good luck and have fun!

>>57758121
Thanks, I'll check it out.

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>>57758100
Still works like a charm.

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>>57758051

>>57740285
why is that screen looking so beautiful?

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>>57758121
kek I love the ibookguy

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>>57758121

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>>57758058
Nah, way too new for those, just a seagate ATA drive in a bay adapter.

Was hoping for a SCSI drive, and they pulled the original 240MB disk out too, damn.

>>57758121
>>57758154
I often joke about making a troll video but it's already been made and it's this one.

>"you need three whole separate laptops"
>knows about dosbox and chooses not to use it
>"there's just something about" - translates to "muh feel".
what something about? say what it is missing. why can't you be specific? could it be that there's nothing?

>balding 40 year old loser
>fat as fatass 40 year old turd friend to keep each other dumb and blind to anything new
>circlejerking table set up

these are the types of people I'd choose to make a troll hate video about this meme phenomenon. another anon said it best

>Are old PCs becoming the millennial version of boomers having to keep around an old car?
Yes.

>>57758333
I miss the times.

>>57758356
Kek, jelly ass loser.
You're late, mommy made you do chores?

>>57735783
YES

>>57758356
Well, he has a loving wife and daughter and has a successful career, so....

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>>57758343
And they chipped it too, guess someone did buy these things after all...

>>57758356
>Are old PCs becoming the millennial version of boomers having to keep around an old car?
>Yes.
incredible deduction, really makes me think

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>>57758439
I don't think a tour would be necessary.
Just sit down and have fun.

I want an old Power PC. Hate modern Macs, but the platinum era Macs are just comfy. I can't imagine using an old PC or Amiga for writing or something, but the old Macs were so aesthetic.

>>57757171
>Packages: 306
What a bloat

>>57758973
>Arch*
What a autist*
FTFY

>>57758343
That drive looks sad.

>>57758455
Awesome, a DX4

>>57758356
>not interested
>still watches the whole video

>>57756352
Muh dick

>>57759035
Was probably sitting in a garage forever, the whole thing is a little beat up, one of the plastic shell lock tabs got broken off and it's triggering the shit out of me, might just wait for a better example down the road.

>>57759369
Well, it's better then nothing if you don't have one already.

>>57759285
I saw it months ago when he published it. You guys were doing pretty good as you were at least self aware but now you're basically aspiring to be this.

Similar thing is an N64 "hack" that was "just found" with a gameshark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDiHgKil8AQ

the guy's voice, is so desperate, and he's so fat. Also notice how he doesn't even respond to or acknowledge not only emulators, but ANYTHING made "after the 90s". The kicker is he still looks like he's in his early 20s.

Try to make the connection that you can do this at any age, 20s or 40s, but this meme phenomenon is being accelerated by circlejerks like this in which you think you're fitting in.

>>57758461
Yeah I need to go make an infographic for this.

Hope
>>57758051
is around to keep it so that he can post it each time.

>>57759517
btfo with your /vr/ shit

>>57759546
you positively must realize that absolutely everyone else on the board thinks that about these threads.

>>57759517
So what do you care?

Of course only because you want to troll.

>>57759572
>caring about what others think
>specially on a /GPU/ and /mkg/ board
btfo with your /vr/ shit and /vr/ tier bait

>>57759572
>Caring about what other people think about your hobbies instead of enjoying them
Yeah, insecure hipster fag detected.
Grow some balls and do what makes you happy.

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>>57759572
>getting so buttblasted about something you don't like you have to go on a Taiwanese flipbook enthusiast BBS to rage to a bunch of people who don't care what you think

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>>57759431
Yeah pretty much, looks alright from the front still too especially after a little bezeltism, think I have another matching HP seagate drive to stick in it too.

Maybe I'll roll it back to a DX2-50 while I'm at it, I've already got some real tricked out socket 3 gear that would probably make better use of that chip anyway.

>>57758356
The two player parts were cringy as fuck but otherwise it was an OK video for anyone interested in old PCs.

But what I would like to see is a video that explains why some people feel the need to shit all over other people's hobbies.

>>57759572
who cares, old video games are shit anyway so why the fuck would I go to /vr/???

>>57738320
>1991
>Core2Duo
Nothing to see here. Move along.

>>57759743
>The two player parts were cringy as fuck but otherwise it was an OK video for anyone interested in old PCs.
Why do people find shit like that cringy? They where trying their best at acting and I had a kek about it.

>But what I would like to see is a video that explains why some people feel the need to shit all over other people's hobbies.
You don't need a video about that, it's also not about hobbies but about being a general dildohead.

>>57759783
What are you even talking about? Confused much?

>>57758356
>makes fun of 40 year old people as if there was something inherently bad and pathetic about being that age
>makes fun of people who keep being fond of technology from two decades earlier

Let me guess, you won't be a balding 40 year old because you're going to kys much earlier?

>>57759804
did this not stem from a justin shitpost telling everyone ITT to go back to /vr/?

either way who gives a shit about what a bunch of faceless reddit migrants and facebook machine hipsters think about a thread they don't like or care about invading their safe space

>>57758356
>making fun of the 8 Bit Guy
edgy

>>57759698
I like how sensitive faggots are nowadays.
You can also clearly see it with SJWs and feminazis.

>>57759845
Does justin shitpost on /vr/ too?

>>57759517
It's pretty obvious that you can emulate 90s stuff on most post-2000 systems. Still, running an (imperfect) emulation of some software in a window on a modern screen is entirely different from getting original hardware to work and run the software on that.

>>57759934
Who gives a fuck about emulators.
I can't do even half the software sided shit on them, not to mention hardware hacks.

>>57759703
what did you do with the CD drive!?

>>57757708
Insides? What neat stuff does it have?

>>57738388
Someone mentioned something like this to me the other day. I think he has one somewhere. He said the small LCD showed information about the display mode. When he told me about it, he mentioned a brand name (which I can't recall right now) and I googled for an image, but could not find anything relevant despite my best efforts.

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Thanks for the great thread everybody!

>>57759934
You're right - It IS different from the original - it's much, MUCH better.

Ever played a 2D game on a TV that's bigger than a 12 inch CRT? the pixels are about 2 inches. Emulators have this thing called "supereagle", it makes it work on any res or any size TV. (nerd flip shit psuedo rage goooo!)

>"but it's wrong because its differ-net and I can't afford anything besides a 30 year old 12 inch crt anyway so this doesn't apply to me"

3D games - literally any res or ratio you want.

"b-but these things weren't in the o-original"

In the case of dolphin and pcsx2 they were, you flip a switch to get 4x internal res - this time, it DOESN'T downscale and you get the shit that they made and was there the entire time.

Also can have the entire 2D library and all the 3D games you want on a portable laptop.

Also netplay. Also you can get usb adapters to take real, oem controllers so you do in fact get "muh feel".

I have to tell you these things because you've chosen to ignore everything made in the past 15 years.

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>i still haven't built a MAME cab
>i still haven't found an Area 88/U.N. Squadron cab

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>>57760957
I have a bunch of emulators on my psp and have a netbook set up with even more emulators

...but I still like to use the original hardware

>>57760957
>>>/vr/

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>>57761138
>>57761190
Cool non-responses. Very similar phenomenon to this is stance, bunch of people ruining their cars on purpose because they want to fit in with web circlejerk forums. This is you, in /o/ form.

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>>57761281
But the difference is we aren't ruining our computers.

You're ruining this thread.

>>57761330
Kek

>>57759016
>What a autist
*What an autist.

>>57761281
Cool non-related shitposts.