Post old but comfy hardware

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>>59661095

FM Towns

Anyone have the picture of the computer with a desk full of books and nick-knacks? I think there's a toy dinosaur on it or something. That picture is full comfy.

>>59661154
Back in the day I wanted a pink computer. I had a pink tank, but it wasn't fluffy. I wanted to make my pc, which looked like yours to be fluffy pink. Never bought the fabric tho.

>>59661283
It's not pink, it's just pink-lit.

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Muh 380ed

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>>59661260
here's your a e s t h e t i c s you ordered, sir

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>>59661095
Is late 90's considered comfy?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDxLa6P6exc

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>>59661448
yeah but edgy > curvy

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Big fan of these threads

>>59661653
Looks comfy as hell

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>>59661671
Honestly comfy PC's are my new favourite subject to browse

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I miss Sun...

>>59661820
Now that's comfy.

>>59661820
Would use as only computer no matter what it took to do so.

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>>59661613

I want that wallpaper

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this is the kind of environment comp sci grad students get to work in at my uni

>tfw maximum jelly undergrad

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>>59661154
That guy sure has a lot of lisp machines.
Yes, I'm totally jelly.

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>>59661095

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>tfw not living in the SPARC timeline

>>59662044
Why the ability to daisy chain your keyboard and mouse has gone out of style will always puzzle me.

>>59662481
I don't think it was common on PCs anyway since keyboard/mouse connected to seperate places on the mainboard, and by the time USB rolled around everyone was so used to it, with mouse cables being fucking long ass hell anyway.

ADB daisy chaining was rad though.

>>59661927
Junkheap setups like that were pretty amazing back in the day.

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>>59661700
>MUH

>>59662575
Is that a keyhole or just a rotary switch on the right side?

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I don't have a network card for this so it's not too comfy...

How much do you think it'd cost now to buy old computers? Is it expensive cause its retro or cheap cause its old?

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>>59662702
Don't know, I think the handle can be removed when in the bottom position to lock the computer.

Transparent cases are also my fetish

>>59662447
hah I have that same sparcstation, although my monitor is a smaller. Super comfy computer, the only con is its keyboard (cheap membrane)

>>59662740
Probably expensive in the mainstream online channels, cheap in garage sales, free if you ask someone who's planning to throw some old parts in the trash.

>>59662740
Far too expensive for what they are.

>>59662702
it is a key... I don't have the link but the owner posted a detailed video of it a while ago

>>59662868
>>59662447
I found scsi cd caddy & tape drives for that system (and a couple of mice)

Too bad I couldn't find the actual unit

>tfw cases like these are impossible to find these days

>>59662720
Where the fuck did you get a PPC mac without a NIC? Even my Performa 6320 has one and that's considered a Road Apple.

>>59662740
Depends where you get them. eBay is well overpriced, but if you know the right people, they'll throw some bits your way. Managed to get quite a bit of hardware for free over the years, including an Amiga 4000.

>>59662740
free - friends / relatives
$ - flea market / garage sales
$$ - thrift stores
$$$- craigslist
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ - ebay

>>59661448
I still use those speakers

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>tfw nothing will stop the erosion of comfy

>>59662962
Huh, I did some research and apparently I didn't know what the ethernet adapter was. It's some proprietary format. I'm buying an adapter for it right now.

>>59663343
Ah, is it the kind of flat connector? Kind of annoying. I think one of mine has that too, but I haven't bothered to look for an adapter yet.

At least DHCP worked out of the box for me on MacOS 7.6, so getting it connected to the network should be trivial.

>>59663500
It's this thing: http://lowendmac.com/2007/apples-aaui-ethernet-connector/

Fortunately I've found one seller in my country who has it, and relatively cheap (definitely not "collector" price). I didn't expect to find it at all.

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>>59663320

It's amazing to think that any manufacturer would make cases strong enough to hold the weight of a massive CRT

>>59663614
Smaller CRTs weren't as heavy as you might remember.

Yeah, don't drop a 19" PVM on one, but a fairly avarage 14" CRT won't really hurt much.

>>59663578
No glasses app? Absolutely unusable.

>>59663578
Absolutely disgusting.

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>scrolls down

>no Amigas

Tasteless Amerifats.

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>>59663723

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>>59663723
I just can't take a decent picture of mine because there is still a tape machine in the way among other things.

>>59663835

Nice nail varnish and A4000

>>59663320
>>59663578
make it stop

>>59664073
Never. Soon there wont even be a desk at all.

>>59662675
I had one of these. Put out a stupid amount of bass and pissed off my neighbors constantly.

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The original LC was hobbled. But with the 12" monitor, System 6.0.8, and extensions to allow use of the Stylewriter, was a snappy, cozy machine.

>>59661448
My dad had one like this, thing was an absolute piece of shit.

I don't understand why people use images with so much resolution for shitty things

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>>59663320
>>59663578
>>59664073

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>>59664350
>2010 was 7 years ago

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>>59664342
yeah like the latest photo taken of you

>>59661700
They took 'tower' too literally
I didn't know they could stack shit that high

>>59662675
Owned it, this shit was delicious
I gave it to a girl who let me nut in her though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpSfgusep7s

C O M F Y

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>>59664383
>The release of the xbox 360 is closer to the release of the N64 than we are to the 360

>>59664967
>>>/v/

>>59664967
>The release of the SNES is closer to the moon landing than we are to the SNES

>>59665220
>>>/a/

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>>59664967
>There are likely kids browsing 4chan right now who are younger than the xbox 360

>>59661232
What am I looking at?

>>59661448
>mfw 1995 when I owned this.
ewww.
it felt cheap even for a 3000$ NZD machine.

>>59666508
Google image search says it's a missile guidance system.

http://www.minutemanmissile.com/missileguidancesystem.html

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>>59661566
dragon dildo

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Thinking about installing GNU/Linux or BSD on one of my G4s. Cant decide between the dual 450 tower or my 550 TiBook though.

>>59662481
Its nice but you cant really use the other USB port for anything because its low power (and USB 1.1, but i think mine is 2.0 because its newer.) Only one of my usb drives work with mine.

>>59667431
Based

>>59664350
>>59663578
>>59663320
This isn't what I signed up for...

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>>59667431
Also, have an actual photo from back when i cleaned my desk.

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>>59667660

>>59661810
Fuckin' poser.

>>59667431
BSD if you're going to unironically do anything but dual booting OS 9 and OS X

>>59663734
I didn't like the 3000 that much before I saw this photo and now it's the only Amiga I'd ever want to own, even though that missing secondary FDD triggers the shit out of me.

>>59662740
it depends on your source
my shitbox dealer at the thrift store enables my habit for $5 a box off of a pallet in the back
jews online will make you spend hundreds, though sometimes it's the only way for some platforms

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>>59661700
>plexwriter
>Asus ipanel
>ms intellimouse
>x-files poster
I came.
Also, comfy tech related question. I'm looking for comfy, high-quality midi tower case form year 2000/2001. Which one should I go for?

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>>59663723

Fiiine

>>59667678
i just came.

>>59661154

Never seen this before and I'm grandpa tier old.

Looks very nice and comfy.

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>>59668267
I kinda wish I could find an early 2000s/late 90s case like the one I had back in '02-03, but I have no idea how I would set about looking for one, nor how common that particular case was.

>pic related
I regret how much of a dumb motherfucker I was in destroying the thing. Granted it was just the case and motherboard, but the case was innocent and the motherboard probably could have been repaired.

>>59668267
>that case is ATX
well i know what I'm going to use now. I have one right next to me with some random P3 parts in it.

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any old rubber-dome keyboard. They are so fuckin comfy.

>>59665271
>>>/n/

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JUST
give it to me already. God.

>>59664346
>>59664346
I want my PC with the same case.
So fucking sexy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZZBxV1Hhw

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>that sound old monitors made when they switched on
>the scratchy noise of and old HDD
>everything is beige
>that 'beep' when it boots up
>every program comes on a disk
>this colour

>>59670992
>buy a computer
>comes with a thick manual about how to use it

I miss that. It set the tone.

>>59667662
Back when apple hardware was worth talking about.

I feel like the era where technological progress = design change is long passed.

>>59671064
Technological progress, all in all, is stagnating and has been for a while.
Sure you can get the newest smartphone with bendy screen and the newest ultrathin laptop with a spinny display or whatever, but none of these things are actually NEW. There's no innovating going on anymore, it's all the same stuff that was already around before.

Name one single invention that was actually made within the last ten, twenty years. There aren't any, because all the "new" stuff is just old stuff slightly improved upon.

You can't really call this innovation, just.. improvement.

>>59671140
I think innovation does occur in less visible ways, perhaps leading towards refinement or improvement (as you say) of current products.

The biggest problem in my opinion is that we, tech companies and consumers alike, are so set in our paradigms that there is very little incentive for novel design. To borrow from your example, a smartphone is a smartphone is a smartphone. A hunk of metal or plastic with a glass screen is not only safe for companies, but it is what people expect.

As computers have made their way deeper and deeper into everyday life, radical change has become more and more difficult. Entire industries exist around instagram, twitter, whatever soshmeed bullshit people use. And in turn, those industries are dependent upon our current paradigm in what a smartphone should be.

And that's not even taking into account the shitstorm that would occur if tech illiterates who have been conditioned to become competent with smartphones suddenly had the rug pulled out from under them.

>>59662044
That mouse looks awful.

>>59671267
It is.

>>59663320
>>59663578

comfiness is more important than convenience, fuck the modern world

>>59671064
>>59671140
>>59671210
I think we've long since passed the point of diminishing returns when it comes to technology. This isn't even "back in my day..." thinking, I just don't see what advantage a lot of it has on our lives. People have long conversations with people and don't even consider doing it in person, so who can say that is an improvement to our lives?

That's not to say that I'm against online communication, but it should never be a replacement for real-life communication. It should never really be a replacement for real-life anything unless there's a massive amount of tedium or labour saved by doing so.

>>59671290
Comfiness isn't profitable. Enjoy your sterile environment. But yes, I miss rooting through drawers and riffling through paper as well.

>>59671049
I hate the hypocrisy of things like the Raspberry Pi in that regard. "We made this to teach kids how to code! No, we don't supply the teaching tools thanks for the money, sucker." Really that should come with Pico-RISC on the board and have a think BBC BASIC book with it if they actually wanted to teach kids how to code.

>>59670992
Computers in general used to just make more... mechanical noises. I find those far more pleasurable than the endless fan wirring of today.

>put in floppy disc
>KU-DNK

>>59661095
>old
>comfy
Pick one

>>59671800
I pick two
>your mom

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>>59671800
>2017
>go to computer store
>see cutting boards
gee, isn't that comfy

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>>59671886
Sorry for ruining the mood btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-9S8VMMDUw

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>>59671064
nah. in 10-15 years people will praise apple again for their current designs. apple is always ahead of the curve and gets hate in the current period.

emergency bump

>>59672002
a trashcan will always be a trashcan, mac faggot.

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only the dead can know peace from this hell

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I'm a piece of shit computer that doesn't do anything else except BSOD

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At least this piece of shit works

>>59661095
Is that a DAW?

>>59662740
>>59662798
>>59662849
NO STOP TALKING YOU IDIOT
Because you can find good deals, even if you are not living in USA
>>59673824
I bought this for 50€
>>59673847
The IBM computer cost me 20€ and the watch was 70€
>>59673883
This is a T60 4:3 computer. Cost me 50€.

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>>59666471
>tfw I own one
ultimate comfy

>>59671049
>buy a computer
>it's intended to be a computer
>not a facebook machine

I know that you can argue that it's all in how you use it, but the consolidated complexity of modern hardware makes really getting into the guts, the way you would for a C=64 or an Acorn Micro, is actually quite difficult especially for a learner.

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I really love the design of old technology. I think simple geometric shapes are the most visually pleasant. And beige is a comfy color. Aluminium feels so sterile.

Wish the design language was kept and just updated with modern hardware.

>>59674471
The issue is that the visuals of the external device matched the atmosphere of the internal device. Like, the screen output and the case of an Apple // both look like an Apple //, if you get my meaning.

Having those two looks together would clash something awful.

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This computer is quite cool. The keyboard in this is amazin. Very light to push and very satisfiying feeling

>>59661095
if you like old and comphy hardware and software, you may like the revival of this discord server

https://discord.gg/tRPDRFm

dont worry, we hate pretentious linux faggotry and the such.

>>59663578
>TRIGGERED

So I finally know how it feels like.

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>>59663723

>>59671886
really makes you realize how ugly modern electronics are

>>59670332

I still have mine from 1998. It works perfectly, the key caps are laser etched so you can't really see the wear on them. I wonder why they stopped using these in favor of printed keys, which start to show wear in only a couple of years.

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>>59661095

>>59672002
>apple is always ahead of the curve and gets hate in the current period
Not really.
Apple were rightfully mocked for their coloured computers in the late nineties. These designs haven't suddenly become acceptable.
But on the flip side, they received praise for their comfy as fuck PowerMac G5 and associated PowerBooks.

>in 10-15 years people will praise apple again for their current designs
I doubt it, but in 10-15 years if Apple is still spewing out shit, there will always be someone there to defend them.

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>>59661095
Can you get any more comfy than this?

>>59661095
dat PC looks sad

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>>59661810
>>absolute madman

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>>59661095
Bestiest

>>59676177
I always found the all in keyboard ones so much more comfy then the big boxes like 3000/4000 or 4000T here >>59675336

>>59674568
>Having those two looks together would clash something awful.

It already happens. People shove Mini-ITX / RPi into fucking everything because "muh retro".

>>59675336
That's kind of a shitty looking WB for such a nice setup.

>>59673847
>butterfly keyboard
God damn I'm jelly

>>59676261
Something about those keyboard-computers is just so comfy in general.

do you people actually buy and use old computer?

>>59661700
WHAT TOWER IS THAT

I MUST HAVE IT

>>59678371
Generic EATX from the late 90's

>>59671267
Those mice were awful. I remember getting a 333 MHz G3 blue iMac and immediately going back to the store to get a better mouse.

Everything else about the machine was awesome for the time.

>>59661700

I would rub that comfy teddy bear all over my genitals

>>59678403
how much could I pick one up for/a similar case for?

>>59678525
Free from a waste dump

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>>59666757
I don't think you had this computer: it's a 1998 Presario 5270 from Japan (pretty much the best PC you could buy back then). They also had this inferior desktop model.

>>59678371

It's a Supermicro tower, P4DC6 or similar. I think they made and make a lot of towers that look alike.

>>59661198
>that wallpaper and fancy portraits of Mongolian women
What was the last that we've heard of sysadmin guy?

>>59678738
He went to the afterlife to search for his wife and kid

>>59679001
wifes kid*

>>59667662
Pretty much all the evidence one needs to back up the claim that Apple's innovation and magic died with Steve Jobs.

My dad was the janitor for this marketing firm with loads of comfy Apple machines like this back in the OS 9 days that I got to fuck around on.

>>59679245
You need evidence for that?
I thought it was pretty self explanatory.

>>59679249
I picked up a machine with that case off the street years ago. Wish I still had it.

>>59672023
If I were to guess, 95% of Apples products are or were comfy, but the Lisa doesn't look like one.

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>>59679275
me too

>>59667678

noice

t. sonyfag

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>>59677944
what's the name of that robot?

>>59675471
Cost cutting, no doubt.

>>59679722
R.O.B. for the NES

>>59675479
retarded macfag kill yourself

>>59677944
>Thermaltake WingRS 201
Why hello there, mah nigga.

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>>59671800
>>59671886
absolutely disgusting

https://youtu.be/nLy_jEbuY-U?t=22m45s
>we will never have cozy computer noises again.

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A genuinely ubiquitous 80s toy.
Was considered highly educational although in retrospect its impossible to see how.

Moderately off-topic but why are millennials nostalgic and 'ironic' about things they don't even remember?

>>59680096
is that a bomb?

>>59661810
nigga there is a fucking case hanging from the ceiling

>>59662438
you aren't fucking cool like this looks fucking terrible like die immediately this is fucking horrible. Die.

>>59680954
>REEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>59662438
I was going to r8 8/8 hacker grunge until I saw the ponies

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>>59662711
Sun and SGI had some good aesthetics for their time

I've actually messed around with some old computers recently and you really can't use them today for web browsing, its a fucking disaster.

>>59681158
You can run Lynx on them.

>>59680570
>Moderately off-topic but why are millennials nostalgic and 'ironic' about things they don't even remember?
"Millennials" comprise a wide range of ages. Someone born in 85' could easily remember using the computers in this thread when they were still relevant. I'm "only" 25 but I grew up using biege computers and in highschool we had white plastic MacBooks along with the tissue box shaped desktop Macs which IT ser up to dual boot windows.

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>>59661095

>>59680570
Social media is one big circlejerk about being there and doing thing.

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This guy's videos are so comfy. It's like he lives in the 1960s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY80P3J5L44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxQ-gg9j3pw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n65O5tIx5HE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8eK2CyDmiY

>>59681808
forgot to add this
his repair shop is pretty epic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzpH3Rq5CQ8

>>59681308
I'm 25 too and I had a ibook g4 issued by my high school, where did you go to school?

>>59662085
Come on, there are so many reasons not to be jealous of that.

As soon as you think of them, can you share? Because I'm turning green with envy right now.

>>59681882
The guy is preserving machines that would have otherwise been rotting in a dump somewhere or recycled?

>>59680570
>being this much of a firstworlder

Globalization is strong this days, but 20 years ago and earlier things would become common years later in third world countries.

Also being poor doesn't help much.

>>59664274
>The original LC was hobbled
So was the LCII, and I think LCIII, but I can't recall on that one.

With the LC and LCII, I think it was that they halved the memory bitwidth, so it had to do two fetches for every byte.

>>59681808
>>59681837
I wish i could be this enthralled into something.

>>59680570
>tfw """frugal""" parents
I'm 22 and I grew up with Apple IIs, Commodore 64s, and XT & AT class IBM PCs

chegmate atheists

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maximum tiny. Moderate comfy.

>>59681158
I'm surfing from a Pentium M at the moment, it's probably what I'd place at the bare minimum for my usual browsing habits.

Gear in the late PIII/early Pentium 4 range with RDRAM or DDR can handle most sites that don't go overboard on client-side stuff bearably but video in the browser is a no-go.

Anything older than that back to about the Pentium Pro or late-era Pentium can work for shitposting, wikipedia and most other purely HTML+CSS sites.

And further back from that you can use lynx or webrender or X forward from another system or something. I shitpost and work on spreadsheets from mothballed SGIs using the latter.

Sometimes you just have to get creative or reel in your expectations. A lot of this shit wasn't really built for modern ultra-interactive browsing paradigms and wasn't really great with it even when it was worth thousands of dollars, and that's fine, there's lots of other stuff you can put them to work with if you really want to.

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>>59662912
Honestly, that's not really bad either. Sometimes it feels like it's harder to find good matching peripherals for a reasonable price than the actual systems themselves.

Could probably find a nice little SS4/SS5 to match them pretty cheap.

>>59663632

This made me laugh so hard in real life

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Hey guys I mainly browse /o/ but I always loved vintage computers but I'm a poorfag, I also wish I had more money to build a nice rig but I found these at my work and my boss said I could have them

It's a windows 95 in the original shrink wrap and Microsoft dos 6.22 in the shrink wrap and boxes of unopened 5" floppies

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>>59681355

>>59671886
Except Best Buy only carry 3 tablet brands now that other manufactures dropped the Android and Windows platform. There's the Samsung area(your picture), iPads, and a small area for Surface Pro. Everything else is laptops and desktop PC's.

>>59667313
That's neat as fuck anon.

Is there a way to make Windows 98 still kind of function for modern use? I already need to get a VM of it going for 16 bit program reasons, but it would be neat if I could still use it for some basic web browsing or the like.

>>59671267

You just don't get it, Wangblows normie. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

>>59684373
get an old ass thinkpad

>>59679249
I still have an old 90's machine with this case too.
I so wish it was ATX, unfortunately it's an AT box.

>>59684373
Just install Windows Plus! with your Windows 7.

>>59684059
...and they look like shit too

>>59681355
Emma Emmerich

>>59661154
What OS is that? Looks comfy af.

I just fucking love these threads!

Thanks guys!

Thank-you for sharing!

>>59684373
should support new enough browsers to handle most of the web, obviously you shouldn't expect miracles though

>>59685238
presumably genera

>>59671210
I think the problem with a lot of modern innovation is that it's basically just computers being used to solve problems made by computers.

I think Terry is on to something, in a round about way, when he talks about computers and complexity.

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For all the trouble that it caused, I do miss having many different kinds of computer all co-existing and competing.

This is why I think so much of discussion on computing is based on the web: there's just not very much interesting things going on with the hardware.

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>>59667666
Where can I get this, Satan?

>>59661896
Would also like

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>>59684373
KernelEx
SeaMonkey
Competent hardware

>>59685238
>>59685391
Yes, this is Symbolics Genera running S-Graphics.

>>59687731
>you will never live in a world where buying a computer requires you to learn how to use it

I miss paper manuals and shit like that.

I really want someone to make an intentional hobbiest computer that isn't meant to be a replacement for a full computer, like people expect the SBCs to be. Now you could fit all the various chips down to a fraction of the size and have a full machine that's fully capable for all kids of hobbiests.

Imagine one with an awesome sound chip, for example.

>>59681158
Wow, no shit?

>>59663578
>Stapler

It would be kind of weird to be able to close my laptop lid to staple papers together.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUvlWt9WTKA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpSfgusep7s

>>59667666
Was the sound card for that balls?

>>59661154
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV5obrYaogU

>>59662481
Apple only did that because their mice cords are always agonizingly short. It didn't really save space anyway. Once you go wireless, whats the point?

>>59662438
>>59680954
>>59681128
God fuck this boygirl tumblr fag that plays with old ass toys and thinks that his/er computer is cool. This bitch needs to gtrow the fuck up and move out of his parents house and get a damn job.

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I wish I never have gotten rid of it

>>59684673
Oh nice! That one had the tape drive, which makes it way easier to use today than the one without.

>>59687954
I'm actually really pessimistic about the future when it comes to digital data. I remember having a really weird semi-apocalypse dream where for some reason all internet traffic dropped down to a speed that would make even dial-up look fast.

I know this isn't going to happen, but ...

>>59688311
damn...

Not my first PC but definitely the one I always associate with late night Starcraft and Diablo 2 sessions.

Pressing that power button and hearing the whole machine spring into action was so satisfying.

It is now safe to turn off your computer.

>>59688520
The mechanical sound of the various computer parts was really satisfying in hindsight.

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>>59688416
There is an even worse apocalyptic scenario that is way, way, way more likely.

An Electromagnetic pulse (EMP), either from a nuke or more likely the sun.

The most recent solar event was in 1859 (The Carrington Event), but luckily then we were electrical babbyswith just telegraphs to speak of. But when it happened, telegraph transceivers started sparking, telegraph wires burst into flames, and the aura borealis appeared all over the world.

If that event happened today, every power grid would instantly fry, and the internet, and every computer on earth would be destroyed with all digital data permanently wiped.

Have fun sleeping tonight.

>>59681128
I keep forgetting those are on there.

>>59688185
Jokes on you, I haven't lived with my parents in 7 years, thank fuck. I wouldn't have had the space for all this junk.

>>59688593
>normies will wake up to find all their FaceSmarts and WhatsBooks not working anymore
enjoyable

>>59688564
>windows pleb detected
It's "Exit Workbench", "Shut Down (Macintosh)" or "shutdown -P" for the

>>59688716
Who the fuck actually did "exit workbench"? Just make sure your shit is saved and flip the power switch.

>>59688734
So you don't have to snapshot your icons and windows, exit does that before shutting down

I always see windows 98 shitboxes around here at Goodwill and flea markets and the like but what would I actually be able to do if I got one?

I remember trying to do anything internet related with Windows 98 a few years ago was a chore. I think the only site I got to reliably load with everything was 4chan.

I could play games on it I guess.

If I recall correctly Windows 98 didn't get along so well with external storage devices either.

>>59688774
I already have them set the way I like them, usually when I poweroff or 3 finger salute I want things back the way I set it up.

>>59688819
because you already autistically set everything up
but actual productive persons desktop changes all the time depending on what they are doing

>>59662438
I thought i looked cool until I saw the Pony and Sonic shit fucking lame.

>>59664477
Congratulations for having sex, anon.

>>59662438
WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT

>>59688847
Sorry that my picture made you look uncool.

>>59688865
Because I have more c64s than I care for and this one was a bit beat up when I got it anyway.

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>>59680096
Best unboxing ever. Pictures of the old factory in the UK:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cycleologist/sets/72157611597220928/

>>59688593
It doesn't even need to be half that drastic with how delicate digital storage is. But even then it's always best to print your shit out (if you can) if it's really worth saving.

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>>59662438
Reminds me of this desu

>>59680096
>paid $500 for it

One one hand, what a rip off.

On the other hand, totally worth the rip off.

Still, reminds me of some time in the early 00s (I think) when they found an entire warehouse in Malaysia full of fresh Amiga 1200s.

I wonder how many of these caches there are?

>>59688807
They're great for shitposting and gaming

Install these programs to use the modern web:
>KernelEx
>K-Meleon 1.5.4 / Firefox 3.6.28 / Opera 10
>Cell phone useragent
>MPC/VLC

>If I recall correctly Windows 98 didn't get along so well with external storage devices either.
Just download the mass storage USB driver for Windows 98

>>59688937
>>59680096
What do you reckon to any modern computer working in 30 years, even with it being stored and boxed up?

>>59689041
Easily.

>>59688998
>I wonder how many of these caches there are?

I wonder the same thing regularly. You'd think they're drying up, but on the other hand, there's so many massive warehouses all over the world...

>>59661810
Anybody know the original source of this image? I know it's styled after lain, but any idea on who made it/where it is?

>>59672025
>Pathways into Darkness
my nigger

>>59689014
Thanks man maybe I'll pick one of these up when I'm out next.

They'd definitely be safer with me.

>>59687731
I had a stack of old IBM manuals I got rid of a couple years ago, many of them still shrink wrapped. Kind of regretting it.

USB storage on 98 works fine.

I use a memory stick all the time to transfer C64 floppy images and programs to write on the Win98 machine.

>>59680096
That unboxing video redeemed the entire "genre".

>dat manual and disk folder

Computers used to be so classy. :(

>>59690085
You should check out this video of him building a computer like if it was 1995, it made me realize a few things i didn't know about computers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbjYkPKRm-8

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>>59690085
I got a GPD Win for retro gaming recently, the packaging was very classy.

>>59690141
LGR is so comfy. Clearly a guy who just loves his hobby. Same with 8-bit Guy.

>>59690194
Did you even lurk the thread?

>>59690141
>dat smooth jazz

Time to get some coffee and get cozy.

>>59688619
I have two of those, they're really great.

>>59690745
What is that big dual-screen thing on the right? Is this some kind of CAD workstation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jOVqNqIWTU&feature=share

>you will never degauss a monitor again

>>59693540
I do this by accident every now and then.

>>59693540
>you will never degauss your battleship again

>>59693540
I'm glad CRTs died.
Reminded of that when I dragged a 32inch LCD screen from post office for maybe 3/4 kilometer.

>>59693991
There was a long transmission time though before flatscreen became anything even as good or better than CRTs in terms of quality

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This is my little computer.

>>59694896
Let it go anon, it belongs in the ocean/sea

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>>59675536
>Apple were rightfully mocked for their coloured computers in the late nineties.

They were mocked by the hardcore gayming crowd. Meanwhile pretty much every other product did the coloured transparent plastic thing back in the day. I know Nintendo was big on it.

>>59671886
>computer store
>Best Buy

Choose one.

>>59667666
What the fuck is this thing and how can it read Mega Drive cards?

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>>59695237
Yeah.

>>59688807
>I always see windows 98 shitboxes around here at Goodwill and flea markets and the like
Lucky bastard. I've been to every thrift store in the county, and zero of them sell old desktops. They say int heir donation literature that donated computers get sent for recycling, even if in working order.

There's an electronics recycling drop-off place nearby too. They have big signs posted about how it's prohibited to scavenge or take anything, and a security camera pointed at the piles of old junk.

This is either the regulatory state or the lawsuit-happiness of this country run completely amok. Or both.

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>>59682290
10 years isn't that old but this was super comfy

I kinda wanna get a new battery and use it as a daily driver for a while (well I'm not even sure if the battery is that bad, this is not the same E90 I used years ago, but it probably is too bad for a daily carry)

>>59695019
>still shitposts just fine
>botnet free
>10 hour battery life, longer w/o wifi
no

>>59690166
Stop shilling across the board, Zhao.

>>59696902
Good product, buy meny :^)

>>59675536
>Apple were rightfully mocked for their coloured computers in the late nineties.
Fuck no they weren't, check out some archived copies of PC Mag/MaximumPC and look at Compaq's facelift in particular as a great example of the industry reaction to that shit. People for the most part loved the new Macintosh facelift.

I wish I took more pictures of my recycler visits too, I used to see tons (relatively) of whitebox PIIs built into cases with bondi blue pinstriped plastics. You could certainly avoid seeing the trend if you wanted to, but it was still there.

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>>59697212
The kind of foggy kinda-transparent plastic was kinda popular but was it really thanks to Apple

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>>59661448
>speakers attached to the monitor will never be a thing again

>>59697573
>what is glue

>>59697337
I worked at a computer refurb place and I installed WinXP on so many of these.

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>>59661896
>>59687776

Here you go guys, I hope it's ok. I threw it through a vectorizer, so hopefully it will look good.

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>>59697337
I've personally seen a lot more systems featuring it made after 1998 and using similar design cues as well. It's stupid to credit Apple for everything as everything in computing is built on something else and they too drew inspiration from somewhere, but to say such a visible force in marketing doesn't influence the marketing and branding of others even in subtle ways is just as close-minded, people hardly ignored those systems when they came out, it was quite a spectacular reboot when you give it some thought.

As I said before, Compaq is a great example. They went from curvy beige/black boxes to white and blue patterned plastics, pinstriping and other facets of design that may not be blatantly and maliciously "ripped off" but are obviously influenced by consumer expectations in the post-iMac (or iBook in pic related's case) market.

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>>59697889
I guess some of us are just too used to the "influences" being as obvious as they are today...

>>59697889
Looks like a sci-fi movie prop

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>>59691330
I think that's exactly what it is

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>>59697929
Yeah, it's far more blatant than it used to be since there's really very little to "copy" anymore with modern minimalist trends, so anything's going to end up looking like a clone no matter what you intend.
>>59697942
First-wave consumer shit from about 1996-2001 is great, when they were trying all kinds of stupid gimmicks nobody ended up giving a shit about.

I've got one of those 1400s freshly rebuilt with the stock OEM image still on it, the bloat is god awful.