/retro/

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>>60860349
the right way around

>>60860390
Does it have a THREE HUNDRED MEGABYTE hard drive?

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

>>60860408
nah, it's actually got a FIVE HUNDRED MEGABYTE hard drive.

>>60860390
that's in pretty good shape
all you need now is a cheap little monitor to match it

>>60860349
What architecture? What kind of Linuxes can you run on that thing with 8Mb of RAM?

>>60860886
It's just a typical consumer x86 system, there are lightweight distros out there that will run on it but they're pretty useless. Way better with DOS.

>>60860408

THIS IS A MULTI. MEDIA. SYSTEM.

>>60860408

Bitch has some hairy arms.

>>60860349
>25mhz 486sx, runs really well
it never ran well. a raspi0 has better specs. good luck getting win 3.1 / freedos / seal gui. i think you're 8 MHz shy of Windows 95. You have to have a 486dx to get the coprocessor, but pop open the case, see if the spot is filled.

>>60860977

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Intel-Pentium-OverDrive-CPU-/192202557198?hash=item2cc02a470e:g:8lgAAOSwaEhZLc1Y

>>60860977
the SX wasn't that bad at all as a new product, it just wasn't a great value, and they'll pull 3.x fine

>>60860977
I can run 3.1 on my 386sx fine

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>>60861031
same here on a 386DX-16 and a couple SX-20s too

>>60860977
>an SBC from 2015 is generally more powerful than an entry-level consumer multimedia system from 1994
With insight that incredible you could be the next Steve Jobs, buddy. Now run along and play some games while the adults converse.

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>>60860408

>shilling so hard for an overpriced fucking 486SX
>SX
>a fucking 386 with a bodykit
>25MHz
>in 1992

A fucking AMD 386 with 40MHz would blow that shit out of the water for much less.

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>>60860349
What kind of ewaste depot?

Did you have to haggle with someone or were you able to just take it?

Where can I find a magical place like that?

>>60860408

>THE SUPER V G A IS THE BEST IN THE INDUSTRY

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8 Megs? That's nice

>>60860408
"The lower the number the better the resolution"
Alright

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>he isn't playing sim city in wonderful 640x480 resolution.

Honestly I can't figure out how to get dos to run in 800x600, tried every thing from last thread, I think its some kind of more hardware based limitation.

>>60863391

I wasn't part of that thread, but, did someone recommend a VESA driver?

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>>60863391
but I am playing sim city in wonderful 640x480 resolution :^)

>>60860349
>>60860390
looks in pretty good shape

i'd probably run win95 and freedos on it
8M ram is a bit low for most win95 stuff though, see if you can bump it up to 24/32M

Pop open the case, I have old CPUs (including an overdrive) and RAM see >>60863275

Lets max out this fucker

>>60863275
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKarYHGNdCQ

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>>60860349
go farm karma somewhere else you fucking leaf

>>60862974
Fuck this impresses me every time I see it

>>60863813
yes, hope it has fsb jumpers

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>>60860349
30-pin 256k SIMMs, ftw.

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Cen I have more stuff like this? 1337-esque mid 90s desktop screenshots n shit.

>>60867456
>Can I
fixed

Just a reminder to picture your “retro tech” literally burning coal every time you plug it in, because that’s exactly what it’s doing.

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>>60867867
Doesn't stop things like my Zenith from still working like the day it came off the assembly line almost 60 years ago, even after having approximately over 20,000 hours on it.

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>>60867867
awesome desu
if I turn all of it on at once will you drown faster?

>>60867468
how? it still says "Cen I"

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I saw a retro thread a while back and saw someone bought pic related.

Major nostalga ensued as it was my families first pc on dial-up in the 90s and later became mine when we upgraded the family pc early 2000s

I legit have one of these in storage that is upgraded and even has all of the stock stickers

Fond memories of D2 LOD and Runescape were had.

would it have any value now or should i just setup retroarch or freedos/reactos for muh games

>>60870026
>would it have any value now
no
but you can still have fun with it

>>60863361
look at this pretender, doesn't even know his dot pitch

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just gonna dump random BYTE articles because this thread is dead anyway

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Has your drive bezel and thicc ethernet adapter arrived yet?

somewhere in my basement i still have a working 286 with 2mb ram, 8mhz and 100mb hdd in storage. it ran dos 5 but i've catched a virus in like 1997 (i still used it back then for qbasic) and if i found the right peripherals i might boot it up with os/2 or something.

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>>60871699
if you were talking to me I'm not that guy

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>>60871782
286-compatible versions of os/2 are depressing desu, since there's not really a ton of native software for 1.x you can come across easily and they can't do any multitasking or anything either

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>>60871811
now that I think of it maybe I'm wrong? you definitely can't multitask DOS and OS/2 applications but maybe you could do it with just OS/2 applications

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seems strange to pay for ad space in the middle of an article about your product but whatever

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the autism concludes

>>60867867
My 380ED has a 30w power brick. The system idles at 1w.

>>60870026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pndX0YNA70s

>>60871699
Nope, still waiting on both. The belt kit for the Betamax has arrived, though.

>>60871811
it's mainly a "yes, it works"-thing.

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Computer Chronicles stream when?

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>>60871608

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>>60860349
Pic related, my Goodwill find.
>Doom 3 and Resurrection of Evil expansion pack
>Microsoft Cinemania '95
>SimCity Classic for Windows 95
All for $7.00 on discount.

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>>60875987
I like where this is going

>>60860349
Keyboard?

>>60866363
>256k
8chips, 32k per
10x15mm 5mm thick chip with 500 clusters of 64 bytes
one cubid milimiter per cluster
if you get it real close to your eye you can almost see the individual byte

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BUMPING FOR YAY /RETRO/ THREAD

>>60861002
I have a Overdrive just sitting here

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>>60861461
>Where can I find a magical place like that?
That's the thing, you never know.
It's an exciting journey to ever nice find.

>>60864463
Didn't the Overdrive manage its clock speed itself independent of the FSB without requiring setting anything on the host board?, possibly nice if you can get faster FSB speeds.

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>>60863275
...I'm lazy as fuck

>>60863787
>freedos
but muh compatibility

DOS 6.2 + 4DOS tho

>>60860349
Man, there's a guy selling plenty of 486DX chips locally, it would fit you nicely.

>>60871699
>Buy C++
>get C for free

>>60871699
>thicc ethernet
wat
why thicc and not 10base-t?

>>60864368
>leaf

wut

>the Glad box has french on it

Jesus nice catch

>>60877203
>tfw MSDOS 7.1 standalone for FAT32 and 8GB CF cards
I had to compromise somewhere.

>>60867867
7/10
It's not quite stale, but overused bait in these thread.
Does catch the eye, does want to make one reply.

Anyways, this /retro/ tech is here is very inefficient, for it's performance.
But it's performance is shit.

Most of the power supplies of the shit here don't even do more than 100W and neither do CRTs while running (except when switching on).
My desktop takes about 3x as much power on load then three 386 machines with CRTs.

>>60875628
Once every full Moon.

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>>60867867

>>60876072
How much was the camera?

>>60878465

I think my 0.3MP digital mavica can take better pictures.

>>60870026
dont slap linux on it, leave it as a tiny time machine to remind you of the better days anon

>>60878465
>>60878608
Very funny, I used my webcam to take that picture.

>>60878656
Period correct webcam?

>>60878676
2012 entry level webcam.

>>60860977
>it never ran well
I think he was talking it ran well FOR A 486SX

Do you see people with old car hobbies selling or talking about their machines that "hurr they run like shit (compared to modern equivalent)."
No, they say it runs well, for what it's worth.

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>>60862974
Is this the official /retro/ meme?

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>>60878963

>>60860349
>>60860390
I use that exact model monitor as a display for the once in a blue moon time I have to log in to my server physically. I'm really surprised it still works.

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>tfw eastern europe
>tfw no goodwills, ewaste, business electronics dumping anywhere
>tfw no hope to ever find a hidden gem
>tfw new stuff is 2x more expensive than in the USA
>tfw people even overprice relatively new used stuff because tech is precious

>>60879612
>eastern europe
where?

shits common as fuck here and cheap, way cheaper then ebay, when you can get a sparcstation or c64 on ebay for 70 bucks, you can easily get it for 10 locally
you think it's as easy as going to a random goodwill even in the US and striking gold? no this is not a hobby for lazy and ignorant people

>>60860349
You're gonna need a Math co-processor to do anything meaningful.

>>60882201
congrats on reaching over 100 subscribers

>>60870026
I remember emachines, they were built like shit

>>60883242
Sheit, it wasn't me. Someone reposted my pic. Noice. Also, thank you. I'm waiting on the floppy drive and the MAU to make some kind of special.

>>60869903
Is that the oldest working light bulb?

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>>60886245
yep. It's the Livermore Fire Department centennial bulb. It's been glowing for 116 years straight.

It was even glowing before the wright brothers got off the ground.

>>60861400
How did Intel ever recover?

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>no adapters have been made yet for edge card PS/2 floppy drives
Why the hell do I need to go around wasting $100 for a small drive? More importantly, why was ALPS put in the job of making these drives in the first place?

>>60886959
Instead of wasting 100 bucks or buying an adapter, why not just wire one yourself? It's just a passive adapter.

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>>60887087
It makes the wiring look ugly. I can't exactly do it passive since it requires some pullup resistors for some lines, which even makes the modded cables look like crap.

I'd rather just learn how to make a PCB to make everything look more elegant, but don't know where to begin.

>>60887303
Cast it in some plastic material. It doesn't have to be bare wiring.

>>60873923
Crazy actually that Surface existed in '93

>>60886446
fucking cartels man

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>

>>60889723
Holy shit, that's a nostalgia trip.

How do I know if my local city recycling place will let people take stuff? Also the private recycling companies near me only seem to sell things online. I want to hear more about anons going to these places,because I want find cool stuff too.

>>60891489
If they sell online, you're out of luck.
Else if it's just a matter of how good of a talker you are, take a box of chocolates or a bottle with you.
Some drop off places also should be easy to just go in and take what you want.

Thing with trying to find stuff in such places is, that if it's a small one, you probably won't find anything or very very rarely, while bigger ones are already scavenged by others.


There is no _magic place_ to get this stuff, it's just pure luck or paying money.

>>60886791

kek

>>60891118
topkek

>>60891489
just ask them you fucking autists
yesterday I literally rolled out of bed, went down to a recycler I didn't think sold anything, proceeded to grill the fucking UPS guy like the autistic retard I am who then took me to the office and asked my own questions to the guy at the desk who handed me a phone number for a yard that does sell shit that I can call any time

you'd be amazed what you can get just by asking nicely

>>60888563
it amazes me how we all forgot about the early '90s pen computing meme as if tablets didn't exist until microshit tried to half-ass them again with XP convertibles

>>60893071
>he didn't own a Lifebook with a touchscreen and stylus in the late 90's

>>60882262
No.
Doom doesn't require a FPU.

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check out this sweet case

>>60863275
all your memory on the table ain't gonna help him if he only has a few slots

>>60879612
>tfw eastern europe
Specifically?

>>60895059
probably some ex-soviet shithole

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Ugh... Late 70-early 80s stuff is so ugly it's actually awesome. I love this kind of futuristic 50 SHADES OF BROWN aesthetics.

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>>60867456
>motherfucking HOTLINE

>>60896059
Ugly? That's beautiful son

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My 486 with 32GB ram and 200MB HDD running with soundblaster vibra 16..

Case design inspired by your favorite youtuber

>>60900393
Whoops, 32MB...

>>60900275
>floppy light on
>eject button suggests it's empty
do you have the floppy connector around backwards, anon?

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>>60900459
its not mine but thats probably what he did.

>>60860390
Nice one, I used to own the very same monitor back in the 00s.

>>60900454
Memba cleaning out hair or dust that gathered on the tiny wheels on the inside inside?.

>>60901036
I memba

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>>60900454
im still using a mouse with that thing. i have a modern mouse too but a plastic thing in it is broken so the left button does not work.

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>>60896059
I always found the PERQ kind of boring and overly '70s but it's still a dank ass machine

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>>60894004
at least it wasn't actually the original in the pic-
>The Executive was only produced in limited numbers compared to the predecessor Osborne 1, before the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
>AMD probably at a time when it was poorfag central
>it's not even actually portable

>>60886446
>guy who engineered this took his secrets to the grave
light bulbs don't have to burn out and light bulb companies don't want you to know this

>>60860408

THE FUTURE IS NOW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSHUIEDBbl4

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>>60906086
>The future... the future is- *drops cards* crap
>no the future isn't crap
>the future is
>The future is NOW

>>60886446
It went out once

>>60907980
that was due to a failure of a UPS, not the bulb

anyway the Guinness Book of World Records says that it didn't count, it's still going

>>60903509
>>AMD probably at a time when it was poorfag central
It was probably around the Athlon64 times, so no

>>60905920
It's physics anon, bulbs work great if they are just left on

>>60908062
kek

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>>60908136
>It's physics anon, bulbs work great if they are just left on
Not so. There really was a conspiracy-theory-tier meeting of light bulb manufactures to build bulbs that wouldn't last as long
sauce:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

>>60908226
You forgot your meds and tinfoil hat anon

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>>60908313
that's just what the government wants you to think

I don't take my meds and tin foil hats amplify my brainwaves

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>>60908313
modern bulbs do die after few years even if they are always on. why would a company design something that you will only buy once when they can make something that you have to buy every year?

>>60908226
>>60908376
>>60908640
Thank God we don't use them anymore

>>60908640
Doesn't change the fact that they still last longer if left on continuously versus being switched off and on repeatedly; unless the activation is gradual, which isn't very common with the average household light+switch. The bulb receives a power surge every time, which is why an overwhelming majority of burnouts occur when when you turn it on.

>>60909137
True, it's a valid point.
Doesn't matter if they are designed to fail more rapidly, the stress of turning it on/off is the thing that kills it.

>>60909137
Still doesn't change the fact that modern-day incandescent bulbs switched on contentiously only last about 1000 hours versus the centennial bulb that has lasted over a million hours

>>60909269
The centennial bulb also emits a fraction of the light.

>>60909299
just put a ton of centennial bulbs in a chandelier and place a fresnel lens or something in front of it

bada-bing; bada-boom.

>>60909269
>switched on contentiously only last about 1000 hours
Kek no, maybe a few hours max, get a bulb and switch it on/off constantly, it will die shortly.

>>60905570
So much space
So little computer

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Hmmm, what could this be, /retro/?

>>60910248
A dragon dildo from 1979

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>>60910256
Not according to the description

>>60910248
a white cardboard box

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>>60910271
Looks like it came with something inside as a bonus, too

>>60910288
an old 3.5" floppy/tape/zip/ls120 drive?

>>60910248
>>60910266
>>60910288
OH SHIT FAMI!
Nice!

Pop that sucker in!

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>>60910302
Yup. This is going into a certain PC/XT just to stop you guys from bitching.
>>60910315
Will be making a video later today.

Also, thanks again to the anon who kindly donated the money.

>>60910329
Not the best fucking design, but hei, it's better than nothing.

>>60910341
Well, I had to get both the MAU and the drive on a budget of €33. It was the best looking out of all of my options, IMO.

>>60910374
not him, but i don't think it looks bad, though i think it looks more mid-late 90's than 1983

>>60910408
That's what I meant, compared to the IBM

>>60910436
i see
i mean it looks fine on it's own, just that it doesn't really suit the aesthetic of an early 80's machine
there are of course drives that will look even more out of place than that one, so i wouldn't call it that big of a deal

>>60910329
You sure this is the right height?
Looks slightly slimmer, I have a similar 3.5" drive with a bezel like that and it's slightly shot on the top when mounted in a 5.25" bay.

>Well hello there, so, what I've got, right here *plomp*

>>60910492
Well shit, you're right. I'll have to figure something out. God fucking damn.

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>>60910542
God damn it!
You could probably saw off a piece from a plastic 5.25" bay case cover and it will still look nice.

>>60910542
Time to rename your channel to ITTFaili, kek
No harm done, you can probably figure something out easily

>>60910542
Where are you located anyways? Somewhere in Europe IIRC?

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>>60910981
Spain. Actually quite close to where this pic was taken.

>>60860349
thats awesome anon. My first modern computer was a 486/25sx. Didn't even have a sound card, I had to save up allowance forever and scour computer shopper magazine for the cheapest sound card. I spent $82 on a mono sound blaster, fucker didn't even do stereo. It had a 120MB hard drive which was enough for Windows 3.1 and some games like alone in the dark, Doom, and Quake.

Someone told my parents that modems would cost money on your phone bill and the news said pedos would rape your kids with modems so I wasn't allowed to use one at first. Neither was my friend either because our moms were spreading this modem fud. So my friend gave me the 2400bps his uncle gave him and late at night I would secretly hook up the modem and go on BBSs. Man those were fun times, still have real world friends I met on local BBSs.

>>60911142
>Quake on a 486/25sx
Not possible. No FPU.

>>60910329

Not Aesthetic

>>60911904
Who cares, better than a fucking hole

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>>60900454

See this? Back then, even mice still had balls.

>>60912077
Top
Fucking
Kek

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>>60908640
>>60908854

>BUY LED BULBS, THEY LAST FOREVER!!!!!!!

>several times more expensive than old bulb led bulb goes with a big bang after a couple months

>OH YEAH, THAT'S BECAUSE OF THE CAPS IN THE CIRCUIT! WE ONLY USE THE CHEAPEST, KEK

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Friendly reminder to check if your LED bulbs flicker.

The flickering makes you actually sick after a while. Only get non-flickering ones.

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>>60910329

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201460879075

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>>60914413
the drive he has doesn't have a normal 3.5" faceplace (pic related), which that is made for

>>60860349
You are a nice guy.

>>60863275
care sending me some 30 pins SIMM or SIPP (2MB or more) or 16-32MB EDO RAM? I pay for shipping

>>60900275
holy shit you're sincerely running temple

>>60863275
is there anybody here that DOESN'T have a bag (or bags) of RAM?

>>60911142
>quake on a 486sx25
u wot m8

>>60860349
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QIaMFxrtWQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr25E0JoL0A
Which one should I get?

>>60900393

Do you have the woodgrain socks, too?

>>60915816
I don't.
I use a box instead.

>>60893071
And normalfags think the ipad was the beginning

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>>60917166
Back in school my teacher actually didn't give me a couple points for a correct answer because she wanted "Apple" to be filled in in the field of who got the first computer mouse/invented it. She was also a complete Apple product slut. She actually thought Jobs invented the mouse.
I told her the whole Xerox computer shit but she acted like I personally insulted her. Didn't want to fucking squeeze out that point even when it actually would have changed my grade.

Teachers who don't have their facts straight are the worst.

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>>60917924
It wasn't Apple or Xerox you dip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart

>>60918136
As I said, I told her the whole story as far as I remembered and if I'm not wrong, Xerox was the first company to commercially produce computers that made use of the computer mouse. It's true that Engelbart "invented" it but Engelbart also worked for Xerox for a while.
In the end it wasn't neither Jobs nor anyone else from Apple who invented it. That was my main point.

>>60918479
*was neither

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>>60917924
>>60918479
if we really want to be autistic about it then Xerox doesn't get the credit for that either, the first commercial fruit of the Alto project was the PERQ in 1979 (see >>60896059) while the Star didn't come out until around two years later

apparently Telefunken offered an optional mouse on a commercial graphics terminal even before Engelbart (who was at Stanford by the way) demonstrated his design too

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>>60910329
>of all the options he picks a fucking Compaq OEM drive

>>60860408
Is that Morse Code in the background?

>>60911021
Arriba España, tete

>>60914802
Not the anon, but you can get them for almost nothing on eBay

>>60861461
>recycled in 1989
>fortune
dude, don't believe those hipster prices, C64's are cheap as fuck

>>60923377
It could be any old computer that they recycled in 1989. Like that little old lady who dropped off an original Apple 1 at a recycling center.

>>60923533
Well they did have that trade-in program for the A-II and most of the original Apples got scrapped by Apple themselves as a result.

>>60923533
Yup, Antique stores sell Apple I's, just nexto the lamps

>>60914471
Didn't he already have a normal 3.5" drive though?

>>60924808
Obviously. I would have just gotten a bay mount/adapter.

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Toshiba again

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>>60924974

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>>60924974
Last one

>>60924974
>>60924982
>>60924996
Eh, I just saw the trackball for sale a while ago for it, no laptop though

>>60919711
kek

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Y'all go fuck yourselves, it actually looks good.

>>60926672
It still looks like an abomination, just not like a abortion anymore.
NIce tho!

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>>60926672
According to my calculations, it's statistically looks 91.6% good (originally 75% good)

net gain: +2/10

overall: 9/10

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>>60926672
mosaic/10

>>60862974
>>60878963
why can't we have this back?

>>60910329
link for that drive?
got a compaq case but the front panel piece broke off and could not find a replacement in white

>>60927580
Normies don't like this shit.
Those who do are too niche of a market.

>>60927624
Not him
Literary searched "compaq floppy drive" on eBay and it was in the first 10 results

>>60927735
>be yuropoor
>shipping from the 'states costs three times more than the drive itself
i guess my quest continues then

>>60928067
>be yuropoor
>know how to use ebay and click "Item Location: Yuropoorian Union"
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Compaq-123958-001-1-44-Floppy-Drive-for-ML350-G2-Server-/301784215208?hash=item4643bdaea8:g:gsoAAOSwN2VZOtvV

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Why the fuck do people make videos for retro stuff, like "Is it worth buying?"
Literary hipster shit.

>So you're a hipster dumbass who heard that retro is the new cool flavor of the month?
>Let me show you this thing, it will get you shitloads of internet points!
>(Not to mention artificially ifnlate the price)

Holy shit is this retarded. It's like literary advertisement for braindead faggots.
>Ugh ogh, this guy says it's cool and a good buy! Lets raid eBay now
Even LGR is at fault.

Sometimes it even makes you see that the makers of the videos are no better themselves, no passion and more like "Hurr, look what I have, buy one too! So you're cool like me!"

>>60928854
yup
that's how you get comments and posts like...
>how do I floppy?

>>60928989
>>how do I floppy?
kek

>>60928854
Hipsters are driving up the prices of old tech. I can see a huge demand in the future for anything up to PIII era with people waiting to make retro gayman machines thanks to Youtubers such as LGR. It's already happening with 486 CPUs and rarer stuff like Voodoo cards. CRTs may even become worth their weight again once they become harder to find.

>>60929034
It has been happening all over for the past few years, some things have easily tripled in price.
Luckily, LUCKILY, it's mostly latter Wintel shit.

It's happening to CRTs too thanks to /vr/ fags

>>60929034
>>60929086
you make it sound like it's a bad thing, or that it takes away from something else
what would you rather see happen to old computer hardware?
destroyed/trashed? sit idle in someone's garage?

>>60929247
you think it won't be picked up in garage sales, recyclers or goodwills?
most people still sold their old retro hardware online 10 years ago, the difference being it was way cheaper, getting rid of your shit costs money and/or time too you know
it's just that it's to be ridiculously priced now and what do you think those faggots who don't have a clue do with it? mostly will ruin those machines even more and then demand even more money for them after they broke something

>>60929247
>hipster see retro shit cool
>buy retro shit, don't know what to do with it
>get idea to look inside and do all kinds of shit with it
>get even more bored, still want those retro hipster points tho
>proceed to create a sleeper build inside this cool old computer

>>60929361
i do agree that kind of thing sucks, though it's not new

>>60929386
it's not new, but thanks to youtube its _fanshonable_

>>60929491
alright, i see what you're talking about
i would place that kind of 'usage' under destroyed/trashed, though

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Just ordered a $5.50 CRT on ebay without realizing it was monochrome. good uses for it?
Was thinking probably just as a terminal or to play gameboy roms

>>60929818
replace entrance door visor with a webcam
connect webcam feed to crt

>>60929818
terminal/gameboy is good
also old b/w tv shows/movies

b/w tv's may be lacking in colour, but they do have a very sharp picture, owing to the fact there is not colour mask in the way of the beam, so take that how you will

>>60930014
(well, doesn't look like a tv specifically, but it doesn't really matter)

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>>60929818
I use mine as a security monitor. I hooked it up to an old camcorder pointed at my door.

>>60929818
If it has composite in, it's a good monochrome display for any micro

>>60928854
>>60929034
>>60929086
Kek
not to mention, you're a hipster too now in the eyes of other hipsters and normies

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>>60929361
>>proceed to create a sleeper build inside this cool old computer
I've had several people ask to buy some of my machines for that purpose

>Dude, I'll buy it, just say the price
>Well, if it gets a good home, I guess we can come up with something
>[deal on price]
>It will come with X and Z, Y is working fine (etc)
>Lol no, no need for that junk, just the computer, I have this cool motherboard (or Raspberry Pi) that's gonna look totally cool in it
>*hang-up tone*

>>60930293
Reminds me of the story of the audiophile who got mad at one anon for not selling his early model PS1 (because he liked to play games on it) to him for "muh audiophile CD player".

>>60930322
top-autism-kek

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A bit of a closer look now that it's finished. I used some cardboard with black vinyl tape to cover the hole in the top. I think it ended up looking far better than what I was expecting.
>>60927624
Look up item #332148358179 on your local ebay. Ships from the UK.

>>60930293
>that cut up bezel with a shitty lcd shoved in it
that's practically a gore image

>>60930448
all things considered that doesn't look too bad

>>60860408
>$3,999.95

>>60860349
what can you even use this for
I assume anything other than DOS is out of the question

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>>60930592
Probably what I and most people do; fill up the hdd with dosgames.

>>60930592
>I assume anything other than DOS is out of the question
You can run a nice graphical shell for DOS on it, it's the new hip thing, called Windows 2.0

>>60928854
>Glide gaming on a budget, Voodoo5 for $50!
Well not anymore, thanks asshole.

>>60930725
I must be blind, can't see Hired Guns anywhere on that list

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Does a t23 running W98 count as retro?

It can't read the DVD drive, making it difficult to use. I can't see it in the BIOS either, so it might actually be a hardware problem.

Anyone know any good debugging methods to identify the problem?

>>60931369
WELL I took out the HDD and tried to get it to boot from the CD. No go. The drive is getting power though, so it might just be a loose internal connection somewhere.

>>60931810
Just pull it out and put it back in. It's an Ultrabay drive, so it' hotpluggable.

>>60931837
Tried that already, problem persists.

>>60931369
>>60931894
try cleaning the connector
also clean the laser
does it attempt to spin the disc?

>>60932199
Yes it does spin up.
I don't think it's a problem with the laser itself, as it's just not coming up in My Computer. I'll have a look at cleaning the connectors, both male and female. Hopefully whatever's happening isn't permanent - I just got it running properly like last month.

>>60932253
does it spin up once and stay running for a little while?
if so then it's probably not the laser, usually you can tell if it's struggling, and they don't usually stay spinning if they're totally worn out (or you give it a disc it can't read, like a dvd in a cd drive)
probably the connector, also check the port it's on isn't disabled/set to none in the bios

>>60932301
>does it spin up once and stay running for a little while?
A little while, not long.
>also check the port it's on isn't disabled/set to none in the bios
That's something else to try, thanks for the tip.

>>60932342
>A little while, not long.
laptops drives don't idle spin as long as desktop drives do, in the interest of saving power
to describe what i'm on about, a drive struggling to read a disc just inserted will typically spin up, then immediately slow down or stop and retry once it's reached the speed needed to attempt to read the disc
when it can read the disc, it will spin up, then idle spin until it times out or is accessed by the host
it if just spins up, then stays at idle speed for a few seconds, then stops, that's good/normal behaviour

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>>60932418
Hm, might be a possibility, then. How do you clean a DVD laser node?

>>60932524
use a cotton swab dampened with isopropyl alcohol

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I'm sad because my company just threw out some old Tektronix 2232 and 2236 Oscilloscopes. I offered to take them but my company has a policy of not letting anyone take anything home. They worked fine but there wasn't space for them anymore.

>>60930725
>no Skyroads
Failure.

>>60932862
I know that feeling all too well. There's a 486DX gateway machine in the company's basement that quite literally has my name on it (contact this guy when you're throwing this out). The official policy is remove and destroy HDD, memory and processor. But I'll see if I can't be sneaky about it.

>>60933485
Before we got acquired by a large company they would put out anything being retired on a table and let the first person who wanted it have it. Then at the end of the week they'd trash it. Now stuff like that is too much of a liability for large corporations so they phased that out.

What officially killed it at my company was when they put out a bunch of old office chairs and some secretary bitch comes along and complains that they're all too old and in rough shape and demands someone gets her a new one. When no one did that she wrote a complaint for some fucking reason and you were never allowed to do it again.

It sucks because getting free hardware was one of the perks of being an electrical engineer.

>>60933485
>and processor
Fucking why

>>60934985
boomers

>>60934985
well obviously they don't want people stealing their bits and the computer thinger in the box thing that sits on the floor must have all the bits

>>60930448
still a mismatched abortion but at least it doesn't look like an abhorrent hackjob

>>60930293
who the fuck goes through the effort of modding an AT system to take an ATX board and even replacing the tube with an LCD yet they can't buy some cheap wet wipes from a walgreens or use a dremel tool correctly

this like half of the reason sleeper hipsters are cancer, they jerk off to a e s t h e t i c s while they themselves wouldn't recognize a good well made product if it walked right up to them and fucked them in the mouth

is there really no place online to find cheap crt monitors?

>>60933865
>When no one did that she wrote a complaint for some fucking reason and you were never allowed to do it again.
God some people are retarded.

>>60936348
Go to local flea markets and thrift stores. If you look hard enough you'll find a few crt monitors in between the mountains of clothes and fidget spinners.

>>60862974
looks like flimsy overengineered bullshit

>>60936348
Look up your local ads, kijiji/craigslist/whatever. Make an ad saying you'll pickup old computers. kijiji has a "free stuff" section. So far I've picked up;
7 pentium 4's
amd 486
busted 3rd gen i7 laptop
switchbox
airport extreme
tiny eee pc in like new condition
and a bunch of other shit

If you go in the computer accessories and electronics and sort by price, all the free shit pops up first. Theres a bunch of people giving away old crt tvs and theres one person right now giving away an old computer crt where i live. Look and ask around.

>>60936428
the only two I've ever seen had gore-tier hinge failure

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This nightmare is soon to be mine.

>>60937046
Oh my christ why

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>>60937065
Because I'm this particular glutton for punishment.

>>60879612
wtf are you talking about raid old soviet places for all those weird fucking 1970s computers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_hardware_in_Soviet_Bloc_countries

if you mind a micro 80 itd probably be worth alot. Clearly you just need to go into the zone more.

>>60937065
Topkek

>>60937046
throw everything out but the keyboard

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>>60937218
>being this retarded
the PCjr's rubber chiclet keyboard is the worst keyboard of all time

>>60937257

But at least it's wireless.

...On the most unreliable IR connection ever.

>>60937145
Topkek, that's what happens when others try to think how life is somewhere else

>>60932862
what company do you work for? I will write them a letter

>>60937787
We should all write them letters, but you know how this shit ends up when it's something 4chan tried to do

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>>60937257
I'm quite sad I've never had the displeasure of using one of these. The shittiness is quite legendary.