Retro Thread

>>57952917
that's because these computers and threads are completely useless.

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>>57952998
Just like your life

>>57953020
shut up pussy

>>57952917
These threads have given me a yearning for my old A1200 and surprisingly my old Acorn Electron.

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>>57953020
this

>>57954210
Do you use the reel to reel? I still use mine all the time to record live music I make, it's really nice, the aesthetic can't be properly emulated with computers.

>>57954300
You could probably emulate your meme if you took it apart and put in a modern PC and set the emulator to go slow, dunno if the connector for the kb/mouse has a usb converter anywhere. I should go pay some youtube shit to try to tell the difference and then be unable to but it means I'd have to buy two of them.

Emulation isn't like the original - it's much, much, much better in every way.

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>>57954300
I haven't used it yet, the plan is to master onto it from the 80's desk on the right.
>pic related
It's a much nicer way to work for sure, I'm really looking forward to getting them together.

Any tips?

>>57954427
>much, much, much better in every way
I get the feeling you haven't used both

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c o m f y

>>57954525
holy fuck that is so comfy

>>57954565
looks like a travel lodge, not necessarily a bad thing but yeah.

>>57954427
I'm not talking about visual aesthetic. I'm talking about listening to an actual tape versus and the process that entails versus a digital recording of one or, worse, a software emulation on an audio recording using sine wave modulation to fake tape imperfections and filtered noise to give the impression of tape hiss.

For you it may be a meme but I've been using mine for 15 years.

>>57954492
>master onto it

What outboard will you be using? are you passing a lot of stuff through the desk? what model of desk is it?

>>57954626
the desk is a Rebis Omega, went out of production in the early 80's, they sold all their eq designs and wotnot and became Klark Technik.

As far as outboard goes, all analogue dynamics, as good as I can afford, hopefully API/SSL stuff.
Early digi reverbs for the moment, untill I can build some spring/plate monsters, but that's a dream at this point.

>>57954518
>>57954603
If you've only used one, it will sure sound better than everything else. The reason why the entire industry and all professionals moved on to digital is because they realized things like "tape hiss" is a bad thing. Now we have this hipster contrarian movement which dictates you must be different and pretend to use 40 year old hardware to "make music" and you see people throwing down a grand for this stupid shit and saying they retroactively were using nothing else the entire time. What are you making? nothing. you replace this by t y p i n g o u t w o r d s l i k e t h i s to pretend to fit in online with other contrarians that you hate and they hate you.

>>57954869
Philistine
Use both
Don't be a twat

just my 2 cents

>>57954869
And also, the reason the entire industry moved over to digital is because it's quicker and therefore makes more money btw.

Looking forward to a new dark side of the moon or Led zep album with the 'churn it out' mentality,
I despair, I really do.

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2017 predictions, kek will confirm:

-Lenovo will release their retro Thinkpad
-MS will release "Retro Mode" making W10 look like Win 95
-Retrocomputing will become cool to the normie hipster graphic designer types. This will be a natural evolution of the vaporwave aesthetic
-Google, MS, Apple and others will begin to move their Design Language away from this post-modern skeuomorphic whatever back towards mid-90s era functionalism.
-The retro Thinkpad will kickstart a trend of moving away from island-style keyboards with all major manufacturers.
-America will become Great Again.

>>57954869

there's a lot of projection in this post. Like I said I use the tape to record live stuff, it's quick, easy, I skip having to turn the computer on at all. It means I work in a different way than when I'm recording in to a multitrack DAW, no post-production, no chance to go back and rework things, an entirely different mindset. It's refreshing and makes a great change of pace of obsessing over minute details in large recordings, espcially if I'm just working on single piano pieces or similar.

I'm not sure what half of your post is about to be honest. Of course digital has its rightful place, that's why i'd never release any of my tape stuff and why I'd never use it for a professional production.

>>57955332
1. there's just not enough market demand outside of /g/ neckbeards. the normies will stick to their macbooks and businesses are content with the current thinkpads
2. I can kinda see them doing that as an april fool's joke.
3. definitely. it's already starting too. I recently found some kid's youtube channel with memesthetics slathered all over it, and has a video about a "Windows 98 gaming PC" aka a silver-case HP Pentium4 piece of shit. start stocking up on OEM pentium machines to sell at inflated prices to hipsters next year.
4. nope. flat design is here to stay till the end of the decade I'm sure.
5. never gonna happen. every manufacturer is too obsessed with aping apple and making everything thinner now.

>>57954525
ah man i miss computers like this. Clean case design Just works. None of that flashy light, alien borg theme cases that seem to be all the rage now.Haven't seen a creative breakout box in a long long time, nor a real internal floppy drive either. Most the usb floppy drives are cheap junk that will break in no time not to mention fuck up a perfectly good floppy disk.

>>57954525
I love that tower.

>>57954525
>teddy bear
PhilsComputerLab?

>>57955332
retro-aesthetics are already normie as fuck, they always have been, just because it's rolled around to fetishising something you have a tangential relationship with does not mean it will spill over in to influencing something as widespread as phone UI design.

This is just something young people do and as such you don't really see these trends outside of music and fashion because that's what they influence because that's what they buy.

When the early 80s were being reworked in music at the turn of the century Sony didn't suddenly start releasing betamax inspired DVD players to cash in, for example.

>>57955332
>-Lenovo will release their retro Thinkpad
please Lord

>>57954210
Vertical turntable looks cool.

>>57954525
The only thing missing in that tower is a zip drive

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>>57952917

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKakermaQ68

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Salvaged this thing. Comes with Windows 95. How to "clean" current install since I have no recovery disc or drivers..?

>>57956526
do a linux install, first figure out what Linux distro will be compatible with that old of a laptop, what is it a x486? maybe an older version of slackware will do it Slackware-13.37 is x486 and is still getting updates so it will run on that

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>>57954525
Literally my computer setup from high school, posters and all. Except my tower wasn't as huge.

Also, that feel when you never got to experience the glory of retro Japanese computers.

How about retro web?

Just discovered neocities, and I'm having a blast. It's like jumping into the wayback machine, but with new stuff.

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>>57952917
retro computer hobby is cute but stupid

you dont want to relive those years
nothing worked right, nothing was compatible with anything else, everything was super overpriced and unreliable

I dropped like $600 on a SCSI scanner once, paid another $200 for the interface card, then spent the next 6 weeks trying to get the fucking thing to work before I finally gave up and it gathered dust in the garage for 5 years

>>57956956
>SCSI

Found your problem

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>PMMX 233
>64MB EDO
>Matrix Mystique paired with Voodoo 2 8MB
>AWE64 Value

On a Gateway 2000 my family had in the early 90s, I have a distinct memory of a case badge boasting about the 32-bit processor.

I haven't mean able to find anything in GIS. Am I imagining things?

>>57956956
What has this to do with retro computer hobby?
They don't cost anything and if you're stupid you won't' get anything to work anyways.

Never had problems with SCSI scanners.

>>57954427
>Emulation isn't like the original - it's much, much, much better in every way.
Emulation, by definition, is still emulation.

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>>57957407
why did you delete your first post

>>57956459
Maybe it's a magic picture, that everything else stays the same but the person ages.

>>57957455
Not my post.
I didn't even see that post when I opened the thread 10min ago.

>>57955651
>back then hardware was simple and sophisticated and software were crazy eyecandy
>now hardware is crazy eyecandy and software is simple and sophisticated
I don't see the problem

>>57955332
There will be no retro WMs for wayland

>>57954427
Sound is analog, no matter if you like it or not, you still have a DAC, with a reel you just have a amp. You can't differentiate between digital and high quality reel anyways, sorry.

>>57957617
>simple and sophisticated
wut

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>>57956591
Literally read the sticker on the laptop, it says it is a pentium...

>>57957617
>There will be no retro WMs for wayland
I'm pretty sure they will port all of the over, can't you already run every X VM fine on Wayland?

>>57957779
Loonix fags are blind

>>57952998
>>57953020
#REKT

>>57956956
> Insert supplied floppy for SCSI interface
> C:\>A:
> A:\>install

or in Windows 95

> Insert supplied floppy for SCSI interface
> Control Panel
> Add/Remove Hardware
> No new hardware detected
> Device manager <Unknown Device>
> Double click
> Update driver
> A:
> Driver is installed

Then you'd have to install the Twain driver supplied by your scanner. Were SCSI scanners any faster than LPT ones??

>>57956956
If you're too dumb to make the parts work together you can't blame the hardware.

What kind of moron spends $800 on a setup they don't even know how to configure?

>>57955332
Yes, we must not let those normie hipster graphic designer types infiltrate our retro circles, because we're sooo different from them. We're like, the real hipster pioneers, or something. We were 80s normies hipster types in the 10s first, so you had best back the fuck down.

You posers are your own biggest enemy by far, I honestly think you take "do other people do this" into each and every step you take. This is what happens when you tell everyone they're special and they have no outlet for it.

One of my favorite things about hipsters is what I call the "exploding hipster complex". Due to the internet, you can indeed find someone else who's pretending to be into your stupid shit too. When you find 1-5 people it's nothing but circlejerk city, the moment it hits 20 or even sometimes 10 it's "oh no I'm SUPER stupid and still different from this group in an even more retarded way!". This is literally all IRC was, channels getting too big and they would explode and everyone would stick to their gay little 5 man circlejerks and idle and never communicate.

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>>57958019

>>57957184
Only a single Voodoo 2? Up your game man!

Perfect little Pentium build!

>>57957859
stop replying to your own post

>>57958513
Not my post faggot, butthurt much? I'm >>57957491

>>57958482
Shit's expensive.
I'm actually getting two Voodoo2 12MBs as part of a trade in a few days. They will be going in my Pentium III build though.
A Pentium MMX bottlenecks even a single V2 actually. I would be using the original Voodoo Graphics card on this machine as it's more period correct, but again, expensive.

http://www.njuskalo.hr/informatika-sve-ostalo/amiga-1200-cd-oglas-20715665

Is this thing worth buying and restoring? What would I need to do?

So far I know I'd need to buy a new case, desolder the CD drive shit, and replace the HDD with a CF card. Possibly upgrade the Kickstart roms too.

Is it worth it? Also which accelerators should I get

>>57958662
>A Pentium MMX bottlenecks even a single V2 actually. I would be using the original Voodoo Graphics card on this machine as it's more period correct, but again, expensive.
Good thing about the Voodoo 2 is it's 100% compatible with the original Voodoo, the way it does SLI won't bottleneck it much more, if the cards are on separate PCI buses.
Still a huge boost in performance even on such a system.

>>57952917
Keep this thread alive for a little while. I've got some new cells arriving in a couple days to rebuild another old laptop battery.

On a partially related note, any reason why a PCMCIA slot would detect some modem and storage cards, but not, say, a wireless network card? It's Windows XP.

>>57958728
yeah i'll keep it alive. need to get off my ass and post some pics of my old computers like i promised a couple threads ago.

>>57958728
>On a partially related note, any reason why a PCMCIA slot would detect some modem and storage cards, but not, say, a wireless network card? It's Windows XP.
Well, depends on the card I guess, some are 16-bit and some are 32-bit, also if the slot only supports 5V or 3.3V also.

I've got an old IBM 5155 with all the discs and manuals with the carrying case and everything. Anyone have an idea of its value?

>>57958824
invaluable

>>57958780
Shoot, valid points. Some moderate Googling is not making it easy to find out what I can support.

Linksys WPC54G v3.1 in a Gateway Solo 2100 magically running XP, if anyone cares to join in the hunt.

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>What's the matter with the OS I'm running?
>"Can't you tell that it's out of date?"
>Should I get a set of Voodoo2 SLIs?
>"Are you gonna run those 3D benchmarks?
>Nowadays you can't be too sentimental
>Your best bet's a true baby cool Pentium-II."
>Hot funk, cool punk, even if it's old junk
>It's still ret-ro to me

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>>57959133
I'm pretty sure you need a 16-bit card.

Looking at the back of the Linksys card, it seems it's a 32-bit card.

I know that all Amiga cards are 16-bit and 5V/3.3V
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/karta-sieciowa-WIFI-network-card-PCMCIA-AMIGA-600-1200-BRAND-NEW-BOX-version-/262753141495?hash=item3d2d4ec2f7:g:MtUAAOSwr7ZW5JEU

>>57959208
Overkill, love it!

>>57959208
Can i have that wallpaper again? I lost it when i forgot to copy it over from my x61t before reinstalling GNU/Linux.

I remember somebody once posted how to run modern applications on Windows 2000(?) with the help of an OS patch. Does anybody know anything about this?

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>>57959226
here you go my good sir

>>57955917
Plan B: ThinkPad X62 mod.

>>57959210
That seems to agree with all of the cards that are recognized versus the ones that aren't. Some mighty fine information. Well shit, guess I need to find that damn ethernet adapter to make the other cards get a connection.

>>57959314
Where can I buy the mod?

>>57959375
>buying mods
You mod them yourself dip

>>57959375
reddit

>>57960160
Man, those where the times

>>57952917
>system.jpg
>Amiga1000.jpg*
FTFY

>>57960160
Whats the big empty slot in MIDI under the floppy drive?

>>57959301
Something like KernelEx but for Windows 2000?

http://win2kgaming.prophpbb.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/149233-kernelex-for-win2000/

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/120936-kdw-fcwin2k/

>>57956956
>you dont want to relive those years
>nothing worked right,
>nothing was compatible with anything else,
>everything was super overpriced and unreliable
t. Windows 95 User

>I dropped like $600 on a SCSI scanner once,
>paid another $200 for the interface card,
>then spent the next 6 weeks trying to get the fucking thing to work
holy fuck CONFIRMED

I once got a scanner for my Macintosh. I plugged it in. It worked.

>>57960981
our computer cases need to go back to desktop though. origenae or zalman hd160 type cases

>>57960981
Top fucking kek

>>57958763
DO IT

>>57960981
This made me laugh harder than it should have, so true tough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjDSY8LczFw

>>57957475
yup, when i first took that picture that chick was a 21 year old hottie

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My SE still works perfectly, boots in 9.14 sec from it’s internal 15MB SCSI disk. The MBP, in contrast, takes 29.76 sec with 6 thousand times more RAM and a 256GB SSD. Of course the OS is much larger, but funny, that.

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posted my comps too many times, have some old portable CRTs

>>57963526
>non-tripcode namefag

It's awesome yeah, the software on the SE was of course much more optimized and lighter, no TCP, etc.

>>57963706
This version at least. I'm fighting the temptation to get a PDS 10base adapter, 4MB RAM, and roll it up to 7.5 just to troll 4chan. This version of the OS is still pre multitasking.

>>57963746
No javascript for captchas, not even pass.

>>57956591
>MMX Pentium
Looks more like a 586 to me. He can still recompile available sources or use something like Slackware if he wants recent software, Linux hasn't yet dropped support for 586, and 686 binaries that most 32bit x86 distros offer won't work without segfaults.

>>57964095
Why the fuck would you want to use recent programs or recent Linux on it? Retarded much?

>>57963756
Actually, iCab 2.9.9 supports 7.5, 68k machines and has JS and CSS support. I may give it a whirl in Basilisk on my Mac Pro and see how it holds up before going through the effort.

>>57964235
Won't work, believe me

>>57955631
>>57955917
CES 2017 is January 5th to 8th. If Lenovo is going to unveil a 25th Anniversary Thinkpad it would be then.

>>57963526
>tfw my younger brother gutted our family SE because he heard you could get gold out of older computers
Fml

>>57964330
Bahaha, fuck, sorry

>>57964272
You’re right. Damn. That’s a shame.

>>57964519
It is, would be epic otherwise.

>>57964330
Im considering buying a Color Classic to build a sleeper with a quad core Mac Mini board, but man I would kill someone if they gutted this SE.

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>>57952917

Here's my dormstation of 15 years ago.

>>57964537
broken* Color Classic

>>57964555
Nice digits.

You must have been a popular kid around the block?

>>57964235
>>57963756
>>57963746
It might be a really big red flag if your right of passage to join the secret club falls through because you don't have enough power or the software to handle javascript. You know, a technology from 20 years ago. But that's okay because 4chan is bad because of this reason, the proper solution is to find some site that happens to not use any of this so you can post on it, and then take a picture I guess.

>half of the pictures in here are screenshots moved over to the other PC and opened in its picture browser so they can "fit in"

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>>57964602
Whatever you say, friendo

>>57964618
cool non-response, m8.

If I just keep repeating the word "shitposting" enough, maybe I'll fit in to this online e-club.

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>>57964631
Sorry for letting you down and not taking your bait with an actual response. Your life must really suck if that's all there is to it.

Anyways, I'll go back to enjoying the things that make me happy. Have fun.

>>57964602
It's not a rite of passage. It's a 'mountain was there'. Hell if I can just get it on my network I'll be happy. I've been around since this place was a .net and /g wasn't a technology board, I could give a shit about wether this place is good or bad or the size of my ePeen or seeking approval from this place.

>>57964566
Nah I at least need the CRT/PSU working.

>>57964702
Broken board* Color Classic

Also don't use the original PSU, you shouldn't use them even for the real thing.

>>57964714
Not even to power the CRT?

>>57964721
Leave the high voltage stuff, but use another one for the Mac Mini, don't think the original PSU would be a good idea for that.

>>57964738
Oh no I was gonna use the original mini PSU for its board. The quad has an internal supply.

>>57964759
Allright

>>57964602
Javascript is a terrible technology

>>57964796
Amen

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>>57964666
>666
>hellish rekt

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>>57960160

>>57965822
It's so fucking ugly by todays standards, still looks so cool

>its a bloated caps episode

>>57958694
but he says he cut the case. :-(

>>57967090
1280x480

WEW

>>57958694
>Is this thing worth buying
probably, looks like it's been upgraded

>and restoring?
yeah amigas are great

>What would I need to do?
get a CF card like you said

>Is it worth it?
for that price, yeah

>Also which accelerators should I get
check amigaworld also vid related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZMWgW6QNuw

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>Beige
>Surest sign of the patrician /g/entooman

>rolling

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>>57967644
rollinn

>>57956526
>keyboard: clean
>palmrest: clean
R A R E

>>57955332
>MS will release "Retro Mode" making W10 look like Win 95
Only if..

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Macintosh 128k and iBook G3 500Mhz

>>57959208
holy shit, nice

>>57967687
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjGSMUep6_4

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A83PrSW63o

>>57956277
Linear deck, It's as good as record players got before they died (the first time).

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Alright I got off my ass to post pics of my old shit. The C64s aren't working, neither is the IBM 5150 clone. Need to hook up the Amiga and play around with it. My 5150 drive for the Commodores just recently died. Gonna upgrade the iMac to OS9, and the Toshiba laptop fucking runs Doom like a champ. It was one of the first computers I ever laid my hands on when I was a kid.

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>>57969576

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>>57969587

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>>57969602

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>>57969622

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>>57969641

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Retro is my shit.
The one thing I don't miss is ball mice. Optical has given me no issues for over a decade

>>57969659
Also the C128 is working fine but I like running it in C64 mode for AESTHETICS

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>>57956956
>can't get his SCSI to work

I found your problem.

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>>57955332
>having to deal with only a win2K theme

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>>57959208
I'm going to need to know how you performed this sorcery

>>57969665
I actually ran netscape the first time on solaris at my dads workplace when i was like 4 years old.

I liked windows with scrollbars. >:)

>>57969759
>Y2K
the feels....

>>57969695
>windows 3.0 or 95 or something
>dad gets some floppies
>copies games for me from computer shop setups
It's a good memory

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>>57969576
>>57969587
>>57969602
>>57969622
>>57969641
>>57969659
Totally fab & groovy, makes me wanna dig out my (inferior) Amiga 100 and Atari st.

>>57969759
>KernelEx
>Firefox 3.6.28
>Netscape skin
>retro css some anon made (i'll see if I can find it/upload it later)

>>57965822
oh..i totally forgot about this.
this was so cool in '94

>>57969961
Things moved on from 94 then?,
Shit I need to get out more.

What's cool now?

>>57967976
whoa...look at this crappy keyboard with these fucked up arrow keys. so much pain back in the days

I'm stuffing an old Mitsubishi VCR with an eGPU adapter for my laptop, don't know if that counts as retro. Today I managed to "lobotomize" it and remove all circuitry that was unneccesary to display the front clock. It ended up being pretty much empty. Don't worry about the VCR, it was a low-end 2 head mono model, and it had a ton of mechanical problems. Might post pictures if anyone's interested.

>>57969998
don't ask me whats cool now..
I'm still using Staroffice 3.1 for OS/2 ö.o

How did you guys learn about computers back when? The most my schools had was typing courses.

>>57970065
Trial and error.

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>>57959208
I'm glad my Winamp doesn't force its new designs on you. I've still got mine like that.
I wonder if I install AIM if there will be chatrooms

>>57970117
this. broke so much shit but figured it all out myself.

>>57970056
>Staroffice 3.1
Talk about blowing ones own trumpet, brace for impact m8............that's cool, but before cool was cool, like before David Bowie did hero's, or Prince did Purple Rain.
I'm Impressed. Let's leave it at that.

>>57970193
It was horrible though. I had a giant 21 MB hard disk I wanted to partition, everyone said use fdisk. What they completely forgot to tell me is that fdisk destroys all data during the process.

>>57964702
Get a dremel and an iPad 3 screen like I'm going to do with my Plus shell.

>>57967644
I actually have #2.

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My friend gave me a cute Libretto 100CT with Windows 98 SE. If I wanted to transfer files between the hard drive and my main computer using a PC card CompactFlash card reader, would I need a driver, or is it plug-and-play? Some say it's necessary if you want to use a CF card that's >128 MB.

Obviously it'd be easier to just transfer files with an external floppy drive like pic related, but I plan on using the CF card as a hard drive with an IDE adapter.

>>57971728
fuuuuuuck librettos are so awesome. i'm jealous, i've wanted one for so long.

>>57971728
should just work, I use a callunacard on mine and they're pretty similar tech

could also just get a cheap PCMCIA ethernet card, they aren't hard to come by

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>>57971818
You're forced to hunt and peck with it's tinyass keyboard but I would love to have it all set up before my next trip. It seems like the perfect portable DOS game machine.

>>57972016
How does it play Doom?

>>57970129
>tfw this is happening again but with divs

Browsers plugged the holes advertisers were using to produce new popup windows. Things were good for a while. Now web sites have a shit ton of popup/slide in divs.

Web devs really are shit, aren't they?

>>57972089
They are shitheads

>>57972089
I use ublock origin. I have no idea what you're talking about. I've yet to see a div container I can't block with it.

>>57972197
I use AB plus but lots of "popups" are slipping through.

I'll try ublock.

>>57973715
adblock is garbage, it's whitelisting a fuckton of advertisers, has been for years

>>57954525
this reminds me of when i used to go with my mom to work at the office and there was a storage room in the back and i got to play on the computer all day. i played pinball and frogger and stuff it was great

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>>57973811
My mom worked in a day care of an entertainment facility.
>mfw I got to see movies for free
>mfw I got to see Rambo at age 5, because nobody gave a shit about PG decades ago

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A few weeks ago I found this place selling all kinds of retro shit and I was considering picking something up from it.

Here are some of the things I found there.

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>>57974699
Some of this shit is expensive as hell and some not so much. The guy seemed he was more invested in getting rid of it though.

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>>57974732
Also not going to lie, I do like the look of this Apple IIc

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>>57974752
Among all the other things in there they had (stacks of IBM PC towers and Apple II's) they had one of these laying around. No idea how they got it and hell if I could try to get it home and attempt to restore it.

>>57974797
It's just a fridge anon, you can go pick one up at Best Buy.

>>57974842
>being this stupid

Its clearly a microwave/fridge combo you turbofuck.

holy fuck where is that? i WISH i could find a place filled with old computers like that. i'm fucking lucky to find some piece of shit from the early 2000's sitting in a goodwill.

>>57974892
Its a warehouse over in Pennsylvania. Guy has a shotload of old stuff and among that he just has old technology just laying around.

A lot of it is not in the greatest condition but the guy aside from restoring some of these to a working order also allows you to test them to see if they work before you decide buying them. Honestly speaking its rare to find someone that much of a good guy to let you do that.

go looking on ebay for prices and make some dosh anon.

>>57960858
I could be wrong, but my guess would be a Minidisc slot. (The MIDI logo looks "squished" to resemble MD.)

>>57974953
Where in Pennsylvania

>>57974984
>those prices

What I can see in the photos is high. You won't make a profit on eBay.

Possible exception: if the front most compact Mac is in working order and you clean it up you MIGHT get more on eBay.

Sounds like you could negotiate him down though.

He doesn't have any NeXT stuff, does he???

>the microwave/fridge

I would be so fucking tempted to take that home and try restoring it.

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>tfw florida
every time I have found one of those special places, turns out the stuff has been stored in an unairconditioned warehouse in the florida heat and are too far gone for restoration

>>57975218
Florida is closer to the sun then that.

>>57975183
ebay is not so much the option I am going for than it is me looking for some personal add ins to my collection. That said I am not made of money either so I am trying to decide which ones I should try swiping up first.

As I mentioned before I love the Apple IIc set up with monitor and all but I know that the IIc has no real hardware mod ability compared to the classic larger II models. I was also looking at some IBM systems as well but nothing really jumped out any more than anything else aside from the System/34 which is fucking huge.

The Sun microsystems stuff was neat too but pretty goddamn expensive as well.

Also he has no NeXT stuff from what I had asked him, but that said he seemed unsure of what he did have (apparently he still has shitloads more stored away not in his warehouse shop including some of the terminals to the System/34 he has) I also asked about him having a 5100 which more or less he said the same thing. There is no doubt he might be sitting on some rare as fuck shit in storage.

>>57975119
Near Pottstown I believe.

>>57958694
>>57967612
Way too expensive for the shape it's in

>>57969918
wtfis a amiga 100?

>>57969665
I use ball mice daily and they don't give me any issues. Have a good mouse pad and clean them from time to time, no problems.

The thing is, lots of that old shit won't properly work with optical, because the software on it isn't optimised for such accuracy.

>>57974631
Where is this located? I'd love a CGA display and Apple II

>>57960981
This.
I'm so fucking tired of le Windows 95 on IBM PC was le dawn of home computing meme.

>>57956526
literally just download Windows 2000 SP4's ISO or something and upgrade to that if you want it, if not just get whatever Windows disc you want dude. It's that easy.

>>57975597
Don't think Win2k would be a good option for that laptop

>>57974631
Does he have any macintosh 128/512/plus keyboards for under $40 and if he did would you be willing to ship one to kansas?

>>57969576
Why isn't so much of your shit working?

>>57974631
Does he have literally anything for any money that you would be willing to ship to florida? ;_;

>>57959210
And I'm set. Managed to find a Netgear MA401 on ebay for a decent price (compared to everywhere else). Now this old beast is really shaping up to be quite something.

>>57976621
Awesome! Good luck!
I have an old Armada with a 486 too that has working WiFi.

>>57976554
Bought the first C64 for parts, the second one was working for quite a while. No clue why it stopped working, no leaks from any caps that I can see on the board. The 5150 clone has a leaked capacitor which ruined a ram chip, it had been sitting in my aunt's attic for well over 3 decades. I just want to be able to fix it all up and use it once I get a better grasp of soldering and electronics repair. But yeah it kind of sucks having a bunch of useless stuff taking up space for now.

>>57976668
Get working on them!

>>57974797
http://www.corestore.org/34.htm
Wonder if that thing can still boot, seems pretty cool.

>>57977417
this

>>57976424
He has keyboards out the ass. Apparently some other wise anon before me stopped in and grabbed a stock full of Model M's to probably resell (or at least that is what the owner told me) he supposedly still might have some in their stock but again even when I was there it would take more than a whole day to go through his stock.

I plan on going back up there in January or so once I have enough money saved over for something. That and when I can get there early enough to really take my time there.

>>57976558
Apparently he does do shipping on some stuff, he was working on an Apple II that was being sent back out to a collector in New Zealand supposedly.

>>57977448
Those drives

>>57978353
>I plan on going back up there in January or so once I have enough money saved over for something. That and when I can get there early enough to really take my time there.

I can't really make out from the pictures, how are the prices? Like how much is a Apple II or a PC, XT or AT?

>>57978362
The prices are OK in that depending on if they were recently worked on, are known to be running, unknown if they are able to run, and questionable quality.

A lot of the things I have seen go from 40 to around 200, that said these prices are also not firm and he has said plenty of times he just would like to see the stock moved since he does not want to hold onto it forever.

Hell, out of curiosity I asked him about the System/34 in its pricing and he seriously just said to name a price. He has no idea if it works or not, but to him it's a giant object that is taking up space and would love to see a home.

>>57978362
I should also mention as I said before he has a bullshit amount of IBM PC's just piled together. I would have taken a picture but the owner was nearby and I did not want to go nuts with pictures on my first run. The amount of IBM's piled together would be 4 times the size of the System/34. My guess is he got these from businesses/schools when they were getting rid of them back in the day.

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My Windows 7 Desktop

>>57978476
What are you running it on?

>>57978480
My Thinkpad

>>57978481
Must look cool with the desktop open

>>57955332
? /g/ is live already

>>57978353
How does one contact this hoarder of treasures?
I doubt he would want to go through keyboards to test them for me though.

>>57978514
Go there and test them yourself, he isn't going to send you shit

>>57954525
I had a similar tower back in the day... (With a 450mhz p4 inside) But that thing in the picture is just perfect.. Even
The speakers seem decent. Pretty sure it was an amazing setup in its day

>>57954869
>The reason why the entire industry and all professionals moved on to digital
Most professionals and big studios still use some analogue hardware alongside digital to acquire specific textures and saturation. It's not always a question of better or worst, but of different. According to your logic, of digital being better because of precision, we'd all be listening to music that has absolutely no saturation nowadays, which is perfectly possible technologically speaking. But, as you see, that's definitely not the case.
A lot of faggots use it as a meme, just because they saw someone doing, or they like the idea itself, although they don't hear any difference. Bit if you hear, it is there, and it can be used in very interesting ways. So much so that most professionals do it.

>>57978528
>implying I would travel over 1000 miles with a car i dont have to get a few mac keyboards
I guess I'll deal with the muh retro so its expensive as balls even though its completely untested sellers on eBay

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>>57967644
Don't need to roll.

>>57978556
>450mhz p4 inside
wut

>>57954869
>The reason why the entire industry and all professionals moved on to digital is because they realized things like "tape hiss" is a bad thing.

How to catch a person with no knowledge at all in 0.5 seconds flat
The recording industry "moved" from analog solely based on economic reasons. Still if you can afford it and you are not a shitty music producer you have your very costly analog studios all around the world.. It's just that those are a waste for electro pop shit that will only be listened to for 2 months and then disposed

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>>57978593
>dat Debian bage

>>57978566
>muh retro
>expensive
you're doing it wrong

>>57978625
I know I'm a cheapskate. Its just that $70-$100 for a keyboard is retardedly expensive in my opinion no matter what it is.

>>57956526
>pentium MMX

I would stay away from anything above win98 .. Definitively more useful that way. That said .. Really nice score, that thing is clean as fuck

>>57955742
>When the early 80s were being reworked in music at the turn of the century Sony didn't suddenly start releasing betamax inspired DVD players to cash in, for example.
That's not a great argument. In those days there was just so much less options for products. Nowadays everything has a million different versions, and any possible fad ends up getting explored somehow.

>>57978615
Good old days. Remember that feel when the ordered Linux distribution CDs finally arrived?

>>57978640
No, I had DSL and a CD writer

>>57956956
> being computer illiterate at that time

Yeah.. It would have been hard I guess

>>57957919
>Were SCSI scanners any faster than LPT ones??

Yes, they were and normally of higher quality (better definition, etc)

>>57978698
Duh, LPT was max 2MB/s, while SCSI I is already 5MB/s

>>57978651
I had a traxdata 2x CD writer. But only ISDN connection. When did you get DSL? First German customers had it in the mid of 99.

>>57978759
Early 2001, definitely before before 9/11, I remember clearly. It had been out already for a while but I lived in quite a remote place at the time.
Northern Europe.

>>57967976
Slightly jealous of your ADB Turbo Mouse.

anybody out there remember those old forth machines?

>>57978514
Chances are for things like that you might want to test them in person. I typically try not to do online sales as they can be a mixed bag if promise (the only exception being if the item in question is rare enough). For systems I am pretty sure they can be sent out with the promise they work as they are tested/fixed up by them.

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>>57960858
I guess they wanted to emulate the aesthetic of a program or PCM data card from a synth (pic related) not that it does anything.. I guess is there only for decoration

>>57975084
No.. Not MD , that's "general MIDI"

>>57970065
Books. At the local library.

>>57970065
From The Scene.

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>>57978775
Yeah, that was the time when it becomes more common also here.

Pic: Driver updates in 1999. Also nice free software.

>>57973962
>got to see Rambo at age 5, because nobody gave a shit about PG decades ago
First non-animation, actual movie I ever watched, when I was 4, was Hellraiser. Very different times.

>>57974631
The older I get the more I realize how fucking lucky I actually am.

I've used quite a few things shown at that pic.

Feels good man.

>>57967644
I purchased an Aptivia as a kid, worked my ass off for that mother fucker.

>>57978632
Right now there's a whitened/tested Plus keyboard for $35+$10 shipping, buy it now on eBay.

Go search fleaBay dude.

>>57978986
Thanks anon. I get paid friday so maybe then.

>>57978986
>$35+$10
kek, why are you people spending so much of muh retro?
I got a 512K with keyboard, mouse and software for $20 just a few weeks ago

You people are like the /mkg/ faggots who buy Model M's for $70

>>57979010
I live in the middle of fuckall nowhere. Either i get shit from someone who knows someone or i buy it on eBay after lurking for something cheap. There is absolutely nothing worth getting EVER on craigslist here.

>>57978903
Good:
>grew up during 80's / 90's
>early personal computing / gaming
>80's music / mtv / movies
>post-Berlin wall 90's sense of hope
>still played outside
>could still have a "normal" childhood free of phones / tablets / sjw shit
>saw the birth of the internet

Bad:
>feminism / divorce industrial complex
>economic cycles really beat the shit out of me
>9/11
>housing crash
>8 years of stagnation
>college degrees have become worthless
>sjws, sjws every where
>expensive as fuck to live
>"american dream" seems dead

tl;dr - i got to play with most of the stuff in that photo to.

>>57979043
Yup, we where truly lucky.

>>57979010
The pre-ADB keyboards and mice sell at a bit of a premium on eBay. I've seen them sell for more than entire systems. Think about it: you have a working compact Mac. If you buy another one, you still have one that's missing peripherals. Do you recycle it? Destroy it? No, you want to make it whole.

ADB lasted much longer and with much greater 3rd party support, so there are more keyboards/mice then working Macs. The opposite is true for pre-ADB.

>>57979065
I feel lucky and unlucky. Growing up with the tech was great, but holy fuck I'm unhappy with so much else over the years.

>>57978604
Sorry .. Brainfart
Pentium II 450mhz

>>57978640
I lived in a 3rd world country in a time where international shipping wasn't that common so only way was to download them Over the Internet.. At least I had a 64kb/s ISDN ..

>>57978604
The only way to run a P4 without causing thermal fusion, underclocking it.

>>57979141
Agree, they were amazing times but having to go out and make your life work in the 2000's has been anything but funny

>>57979264
Gladly that was just when I jumped to AMD , I got the best years out of the brand, then back to intel

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>>57979232
Download, burn and sell -> local store.
Other way to get it: computer magazines.

>>57974641
>>57969641
Why don't these 5153 monitors have an antiglare coating on the display? I have one and it has a matte finish, looks a lot better than these. Is it exclusive to the 240V/European version?

>>57980149
I have had several, all 220V ones, all the mono ones are matte, one CGA one was shiny and other one was matte too.

I guess it just depended on the exact model.

>>57980149
they don't use anti glare coating, but the glass itself is actually rough, you can't feel it tough

>>57980149
They look actually surprisingly vivid in dark.
I doubt they are 240V EU one's tough, being an American seller.

>>57979410
>Kernel 2.2.3
>KDE 1.1.1

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>>57980794
Good old times. It's a shame that I can't find my suse CDs from their beginning. 6.4 is the oldest i can find...

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Mistakes i made...

>>57978873
That's just bad parenting.

>>57981018
Good old times. When development was so slow, you could just rely on print media to learn up to date shit...

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>>57981653
Talking about print media... My favorite book from 1983.

>>57981819
>"Roboter"
>actor in a robot suit, essentially a fake robot at the front page
KEK!

>>57981852
First page of the book:
>the star wars roboters have nothing to do with reality

>>57982018
Meaningless. You have to have bought the book first to read that. So all it really is is just fake advertising.

>>57982048
Proof that clickbait is nothing new

>>57981852
Like a womans magasine

>>57982048
If you know the "was ist was" books, you will know something like star wars isn't a thing in it.

>>57981638
Well, yeah... I certainly wouldn't let my kids watch it, if I had any. But it had no ill effect on me. I wasn't too scared, and all that was very improper I didn't even understand. Thing is, I was a peculiar kid even before that. I used to make very sinister drawings of Satan, in kindergarden even, and tell the other kids that the Devil was my friend and I'd unleash Him unto them if they messed up with me. Wonder where that thing came from.

>>57982514
>Satan
>Devil
>Him
still looks like you think hes your friend

>>57981018
Marco? :^)

>>57982855
Nö. Woher?

>>57969689
Why did non-infiltration units need such good teeth? Was it just cheaper to mass produce them all by the same design?

>>57983006
Or maybe just war tactics, to make them look more human and scary?

>>57978476
Would you be willing to share those icons?

>>57980149
pretty sure an anti-glare coating was just a common addition on those old monitors

couple of my monochrome monitors have either that or a privacy/contrast filter

>>57971728

damn that is SEXY

one of these with modern internals would sell like hotcakes.

>>57985954
what's a hotcake?

>>57986556
In Germany you would say "geschnitten Brot"

>>57986556
Heises KEK!

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>>57988741
i know that feel

>>57976668
If you were using an original power supply on your c64 it probably failed. When they do they take out the chips since they can't handle the high voltage. Use wall-warts or pick up a power saver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq4DWfrpu8

comfy

>>57989755
I like that video. Wish there was more like that

>>57989755
>>57989777
Yeah because screen recording wasn't that easy, especially keeping the file/tape around for neary 20 years

>>57974953
Upstate NY fag here, What's the name of the place?? Would totes drive down and fill up my fucking car.