/retro/ thread

What does the briefcase do?

>>60956692
share files between users.

>>60956692
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briefcase_(Microsoft_Windows)

>>60956650
>>60956716
>>60956724
>/wintel/ thread
>Post some wintel shit /g/!
FTFY

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>>60956724

>>60956757
>png
>heavy JPEG compression
>dat resolution
STOP

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>>60956762
>BeOS
>baby's first OS that isn't Microshaft, Loonix or Applel

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>>60956762

>>60956716
He is really manhandling that hardware, hot.

>>60956791
When you look down at the border of the bottom part of the laptop, you can see on both sides two silver lines, that's because the front plastic is broken and it's literary hold on by nails, kek

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>he didn't use a tabbed DE on his Windows 3.1 install

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my favorite malware

>>60956802
When the top most GUI was out, Windows didn't even look like it does on the middle picture

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>>60956782
I recently acquired a PC/AT with a IBM 5151 and Model F.
Fully functional, gonna pick it up tomorrow.

Brings back memories, I didn't hope to find one, local and decent price ever again, since the one I had in my childhood got sold.

>>60956816
>material design
cancer

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anyone remembers this? no?

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>>60956870
>not Voodoo 2

>>60956885
windows 10 forshadowing

>>60956888
trips of truth I loved my voodoo3
glide and 3dfx drivers were a bitch though

>tfw endless tokays towers

>>60956852
I remember Sonique

so many ugly skins

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>>60956885
has this really existed?

>>60956744
get outta here

>>60956775
Nice _brain_ bro

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>>60957092
no u

http://thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?6594-Osborne-1-Resurrection

Discord Server?

>>60956747
If that's your system please join my thread >>60957856 /shill

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I had some spare time this weekend so I bought some wire loom and wrapped all the IDE cables in this AMD486 PC my grandpa gave me.

I also got some stick on vinyl woodgrain to go around the outer case, just for shits and giggles.

>>60958149
That's fucking ugly..
talk about airflow

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>>60958149
God I hate the camera on this phone.

Here's the front panel. Have to clean it up. Don't know whether I'll try to retr0brite it or not.

I'm going to swap the tape drive for a 5 1/4 drive.

>>60958182
>airflow
It's a 486. The fact it even had a fan surprised me.
The cables aren't even organized, they're just been put back in until I can work on it again.

>>60958182
It has been proven that cable management does shit to airflow.

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>>60958149
>>60958203
Noice m8

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>>60958410
Nice b8 m8
2/10

>>60958120
>shilling namefag
another one bites the blacklist

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>maximum video duration is 120 seconds

>>60958692
Thanks

>>60958535
Yeah, that's pretty typical in Goodwill's now, that old shit gets thrown out

>>60956762
The golden age of graphic user interfaces. I still miss is...

>>60958849
I wish i was american.

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>>60956650
Make way! Make way!

>>60959011
those are just random windows
>calculator
>random settings window
>color calibration window
>random graphs
>clock window
looks like it would fit in a desktop thread

>>60959004
Nah, shits same everywhere

>>60960248
Noice anon

>>60960268
Thank you.

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>>60960248
huh

>>60960248
>that severe TN vertical viewing angle shift

My old job (large public university) kept ALL their old records on ONE non-networked computer running Windows 95. If you were malicious and had physical access (I did, and any student employee in my entire office also did) you'd have enrollment records, financial records, grade records, and a whole other bunch of shit from 1990 up until 2006. One of my proudest moments was getting all that shit properly secured and taken care of.

>>60956762

That classic Mac OS GUI is comfy as fuck. Is there any way to reproduce this accurately in Linux?

>>60956804
>He
>French manicure

>90% of the people doing the whole vaporwave/Windows 95 meme are too young to have ever used Windows 95

>>60961127
what's a french manicure?

>>60961169
White only along the tips

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>>60961144
>kids born in the year 2000 will be 18 in 2018
>this is 6 months from now

Fuck man. I started using the internet in 2001. It's been ruined time and time again

>>60961183
huh? my fingernails are white on the end naturally

>>60961205
Pure white, not off-white.

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>>60961244
it's a bit hard to tell in such a low quality video, but they don't really seem any more white than mine

>>60961276
Look at that sheen and perfect line at the tip. Either that dude is in the top 0.000001% of hand models, or that person had a manicure.
Also...
>hairless arms

>>60961194
> people born in 1999 are already 18

how about that

>>60961301
the shinyness is more indicative to me that it has something on it, though that alone isn't definitive that it's not a male
>hairless arms
i don't really have much hair on my arms, despite being 27 and never shaved them
i doubt my arm hair would show up at such a low resolution/quality either

>>60961301
>Knows what they're talking about.

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In Germany, it's also legal to fuck girls who were 6 when bitcoin came out.

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I never finished all my Lucas arts point and click games...

>>60961433

My Monkey Island 3 CD was broken so I could never finish that game ;_;

>>60961276
Those are female fingers, unless you are a gay boy

>>60961496
>they're female unless they're not

>>60961507
This isn't some meme /g/ thread for guys with stocks, being gay isn't openly discussed here
So obviously, they are female hands because there are no gay faggots in here

>>60958182
>airflow
>in a machine that doesnt even get warm

>>60961507
found the gay kek

>>60956801
hey I'm Nathan!

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>>60961433
That reminds me, I've been stuck here for three months and I don't want to look up a walkthrough.

>>60961918
i know that feel

>>60961496
Or like a well groomed male model of the sort they hire for this sort of thing.

>>60961981
>hiring a gay ass male model in the year that came out
That would instantly ruin their reputation

>>60956848
That's skeuomorphic you mong, not material. Also remember there's a 256 color limit - though that screenshot looks like it might be 16 colors with dithering.

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>>60962555 (checked)

>>60962515
>tfw I miss my StarTAC
>tfw it's nearly impossible to use any old phones in the US because of E-911 and GSM frequencies different from the rest of the world
>tfw can't even buy a decent dumbphone these days

>>60962663
Make your own, inside a old phones case

>>60961127
>>60961169
>>60961183
>>60961205
>>60961244
>>60961276
>>60961301
>>60961349
>>60961371
>>60961496
>>60961507
>>60961522
>>60961981
>>60962555
Hands seem to be a far more interesting topic in this thread then actual retro tech stuff

>>60962965
ARE YOU literally INSANE?

>>60956650
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr25E0JoL0A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QIaMFxrtWQ
Which retro netbook should I get?

>>60962965
Don't have that kind of capability, unfortunately. Seems like it would take years of electronics engineering study.

>>60963207
both shit
get toshiba t3200sx

>>60956830
That tank is way too small for that hamster

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>>60956650

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqi2Jy0UMiA

Remember this?

>>60963697
resolution is too big
it should be 1024x768

Should I get an RTC card for my XT? I'm tired of setting the date every time I use anything that requires it.

>>60963991
Write up a script that gets the correct date over a null modem cable connected to some other machine.

>>60956737

>that bezel

JUST

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>>60963697

>downloading a 42 mb video file over 56K

>>60964136
one time i accidentally downloaded a 50M music video thinking it was just the audio
it was one of those downloads that you couldn't see the filesize
>5M in: should be done soon
>10M in: jesus, how big IS this?
>15M in: c'mooon
>20M in: i've spent too long on this not to finish it.

>>60963748
>1024x768
only if you had a 1MB card. With a 2MB card you could get 1024x768 in 16-bit colors or 1280x1024 in 8-bit colors.

>>60964714
its not the card couldn't do it
it's a common monitor resolution limit
>b-b-but muh monitor could do 1600x1200 in 1994
the most common resolution was 1024x768 and that should be represented in such videos

>>60963697

Why did MS remove this

The staggered start menu was the fastest fucking way to find your shit

I end up scrolling or swiping forever nowadays, and resort to just typing the name of the program into the search bar

fucking shit "innovation"

>>60964902
Because there's to much shit in it now

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>>60965017
>>60965030

aesthic

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>>60965059

>>60956650
AMI BIOS

A.M.I.
AMI
AMI_SW
AMI?SW
BIOS
HEWLITT RAND
LKWPETER
PASSWORD
Oder
Award BIOS

01322222
589589
589721
595595
598598
aLLy
aLLY
ALLY
ALFAROME
aPAf
_award
AWARD SW
AWARD PW
AWARD_SW
AWARD?SW
AWKWARD
BIOSTAR
CONCAT
Condo
d8on
djonet
HLT
J64
J256
J262
j332
j322
KDD
LKWPETER
lkwpeter
PINT
pint
SER
SKY_FOX
SYXZ
TTPTHA
ZAAADA
ZBAAACA
ZJAAADC
Russian Award Passwords

% p%
% p%
IBM Aptiva BIOS

Press both mouse buttons repeatedly during the boot
Phoenix BIOS

phoenix
Other BIOS

ALFAROME
BIOSTAR
biostar
biosstar
CMOS
cmos
LKWPETER
lkwpeter
setup
SETUP
Syxz
Wodj
Some computers with a Toshiba BIOS

Hold down the Shift key as the computer is booting.

>>60958675
Windows 7 is outdated garbage.

Prove me wrong. Pro tip: you can't.

>>60965006
>TIL the site has been untouched since October, 1994.
How is it still up?

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Sup, I'm just here to fuck up your fingers.

>>60956752
dis makes me sad

>>60956885
acidOS

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>living the dream

>>60956734
You know Zip drives work on Macs and Amigas, right?

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>>60958519
>3.5" floppy cable installed backwards
>5.25" floppy cable installed right way around only because the entire drive is fucking upside-down

>>60956734
>look at me I'm a hipster
16 hours late but here's the attention you wanted

>>60963191
>>60963214
No, I mean like something really simple, GSM modem with a raspberry Pi Zero, etc, reusing the display and keys that are already there

>>60964902
There's always XFCE

>>60968023
Judging by the CD-ROM, I'd guess it's booting, my floppy drive light remains on a few second after it's finished seeking after boot

>>60956885
Such an eyesore.

>>60968716
That's fucking bullshit and you know it.

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>>60968716
>no IDE activity LED

>>60967142
are you a grill

>>60968647
The keypad and display have proprietary connectors and controllers. You can't simply connect them and use them as if they were standard computer peripherals. That would be the hard part.

Also not sure that a Pi Zero plus GSM modem would fit inside of a StarTAC case, although I'd consider a MicroTAC instead for a bit more room.

>>60968834
Yeah, he just happened to be reading a CD ROM, more likely it was a empty drive checking for boot.

>>60968859
If it's booting the CD-ROM?
Usually it's Floppy > CD-ROM > HDD if you want to be real oldschool about it

>>60969023
The CDROM will still light the activity LED if it's doing anything.

>>60969061
Those old motherboard, not all do, I have several that only respond to hard drive activity. No Pentium board like in the picture, but several 486 and even one Pentium 3 board that ignore CD-ROM access and only indicate HDD, probably shitty ATAPI compatibility.

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>>60969104
The board indicator literally does not care what the device is or where it is on the bus, only that there is activity on the bus.

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>>60956821
>macOS 9: 1999-2001
>Windows 2000: 2000-2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3OlkwESmYM

>>60969178
Well, this literary depends on the controller.
His board probably does not even natively support CD drives without software drivers. You ain't gonna get shit of indication when it's going. It's literary invisible.

This probably makes even more sense and that's what's going on there, it's just doing the floppy seek and not even trying the CD-ROM as a boot drive, the CD-ROM is just doing it's own thing after just receiving power, almost all of mine flash themselves without even being connected to the board. That's pretty reasonable for both light being on at the same time.

Anyways, I highly doubt he put the freaking cable the wrong way, being someone who has lurked these threads for ages and the "floppy connected upside down" is literary in every thread as faggots do that who don't have a clue.

>>60969384
OS 9's GUI is just System 7 with a little extra polish
And System 7's is just the original Macintosh System with polish

>>60969384
You just said it was out one year earlier.
Not to mention, you wouldn't even be able to tell the difference between MacOS 8 and 9 if it didn't literary say that there. Not to mention, the basic GUI is been exactly the same for years before that, Windows was still just a DOS shell file explorer when MacOS was in colour and worked exactly the same way.

>macOS
>not MacOS
Yeah, fuck off

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Nobody cares they got the Alto back together and even the ethernet to work and talk to the outside world?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grl0KCFiJLs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adEr2aRwHnI

>>60956802
How surprising that a Drakeposter has no taste

>>60969472
Nigger can you stop saying "literary" even ironically it's triggering the fuck out of me

>>60969526
Glad you like it, it's literary true though.

>>60968880
I rarely say that, but, kys.
Maybe you want to go to the /vr/ computer thread, they like to disgrace stuff and are total weebs.

>>60968864
>oh no, the little dude got confused, a grill in a retro thread
It's not even remotely surprising

>>60956755
looks Comfy

>>60964879
>the most common resolution was 1024x768 and that should be represented in such videos
Fuck off, not true at all, unless you had some shitty OEM monitor in '94 that could only do 800x600 or 1024x768

>>60958718

>normal people
>reading the manual

>>60969791
>RTFM
>PEBCAK

>>60965806
>mfw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C949BffWfLw

>>60965806
What did you do? Did you try to remove it? I'm pretty sure those are for one time use only, stick it in and leave it there

>>60963033
digits are technology, fight me

>>60963697
That freecell/hearts/minesweeper/solitaire menu.
Hadn't seen that in about 15 years...

>>60968023
>because the entire drive is fucking upside-down
there is no _right way_ the older drives have the power connector opposite to new floppy drives and might also require flipping the whole cable once to chain them like that on top of each other, it's much better just to have the drive in the way that it just adds up nicely with the cables
it's not like it's a one sided drive that has it's head on the floppy by just gravity that it won't work both ways

calm your autism

>>60956782
Very tasteful room, anon. I like your art

>>60959163
>random graphs

It's a fucking trading floor, dingus.

>>60968880
I don't give a fuck about anime and I think that tripfags are cancer, but I will say that this is somewhat swaggy. You get a pass

>>60956650
> Windows 95
> retro
These newfags, I swear.

>>60972129
>says the hipster that barely turned 18
I bet you got all your knowledge from Youtube retro channels too!

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>>60963296
1
2
34

>>60973031
rest in pieces

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>>60965610
Still officially supported by ms

>>60965610
Used by 60% of PCs,every just works,most secure.
Implying you are not a win 10 shill.

Poo

>>60956692
Holds Marcellus Wallace's soul

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ahhh the memories

>>60973066
From a purely case mod perspective, those blue LEDs ruin it.

>>60961918
you have the ingredients to fire the cannon, safety first

>>60973031
>>60973066
It triggers me when faggots use startup/setup graphics as their wallpaper like nigga that shit doesn't even look good nor is it convincing if you want to make your shit look realistic

But then again he spammed the fucking worst kind of LED in the thing so what am I really complaining about first

>>60964879
>the most common resolution was 1024x768 and that should be represented in such videos
it was more like 800x600, 1024x768 was the upper end and 1280x1024 was common in workstations

>>60975855
>1280x1024
>5:4 resolution
>on a 4:3 monitor
*breathes in*
boi

>>60975887
there was also 1280x960, but i remember 1280x1024 being more common

>>60975887
CRTs didn't give a fuck my man
pretty much all of my high-end mid '90s systems support that res

>>60975914
>high-end
see >>60964879

>>60956724
I looked this up, turns out you can still do this with any Windows build...including 10 as I recall? Planning on doing this when I finally get off my lazy ass and get my desktop build together.

>>60975938
what is that implying
there were plenty of good monitors back then that could handle 1280x1024 and even beyond

>>60975983
not enough to be considered the average
let me give you an example
there are a lots of monitors today that can do 144hz and higher resolutions
but the average is still 1920x1080@60hz

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>>60976132
you're certainly not wrong but that's why I explicitly specified the high-end where you definitely saw that resolution

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>>60976302
This is the reason 1080p is a fucking joke
the vertical res hasn't changed much in 25 years

>>60976359
for me;
1999: 1024 lines
2017: 1080 lines

literally the future

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>>60976359
anything around ~1,000 vertical pixels is still pretty comfy though fuck scaling and fuck white ppl

>>60976400
let's predict the future average
>2035: 1200 lines
>2055: 1600 lines
>2080: 2000 lines
>2100: 2400 lines

>>60976438
reminds me of an expo i went to in 2004, where they were showing off the new apple cinema display, at 2560x1600
we can't seem to get past ~120dpi

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>>60976302
>>60976412
do you think in like 20 years we will look at old computer configurations like this and wonder how the hell we managed to use them with only 8GB of RAM and 1TB of storage like we look at those images above today?

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>>60956716
>TFW I had that exact tower

>>60976519
not to the same degree, i don't think
for some time now we haven't really been doing /more/ with our machines, rather just the same things faster (or just fancier at the cost of speed, hell, even backwards in some cases)

>>60976481
>we can't seem to get past ~120dpi
because there's no point to go much higher for a typical monitor viewing distance.

>>60976519
sure but not as much desu
what we do with computers and what data we manipulate on them hasn't changed that much at all while hardware ran circles around it, hardware of 2017 is far less limited in what it can accomplish than hardware of 1997 was and it also advances much more slowly, a mid-end system from 2007 can still do pretty much everything you typically do with a computer while a $10,000+ configuration of the XU from that ad with dual processors and 32-64 MB of RAM and a couple gigabytes of disk storage would probably struggle to boot win2k, let alone do anything with it

hell it probably would have been blown the fuck out in every metric, benchmark-wise and practical usage-wise, by basic Pentium Pro systems only two years later at half or even a quarter of the price

>>60976718
I bet you also fell for the "human eye can't see above 60fps" meme

>>60964902
>The staggered start menu was the fastest fucking way to find your shit
fuck no. I switched to Vista solely for the search in start menu.

>>60976438
>2120: laptops are still 1366x768

>>60959004
>I wish i was american.
we all do
we all do...

>>60967142
alcoholic woman using IRIX ? I dont buy it. Must be one of these fucking IT tranny fags that have become so ubiquitous lately. Dunno why and where they come from must be something in the water.

>>60956820
mine too lol

>>60976774
no, I fell for the 120Hz meme.
I have a 12'' laptop with 1080p, doesn't look much sharper than my old 17'' workstation with the same resolution.
HiDPI (upwards of 150-160dpi) on a laptop is a fucking meme, even more so on desktop.

>>60976786
Not really.

>>60964902
>having to sift through a bunch of useless shit every time to figure out where the application you want is
>accidentally clicking or moving outside of the menu and having to start all over again
>even when it works it's still far slower than the almost instant process of just typing the name of the software into the search bar and hitting enter to have it automatically open it
the vista/7 start menu is the one thing I actually miss when I use my 2k/NT4 systems, fuck your nostalgic contrarianism

>>60976834
my phone is 1920x1080 5.5" 400dpi
and I still can see the pixels
we need 4k phones to hit mainstream soon

>>60976880
You must have incredible eyesight then, because 4 out of 5 colleagues I asked couldn't tell the difference between a 5'' 1080p Nexus 5 and 5'' 720p Moto G3.
The guy who did tell the difference had to practically stick their nose into the fucking screen to see it.

>>60969472
They were both current in 2000-2001. My point still stands.

>>60976855
Same with when I use my XP laptop when I'm not home.

>>60956724
Shit, I completely forgot about this.

>>60977215
>My point still stands.
not that anon but your point was already made irrelevant by macos being pretty much the same for over a decade

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i need something older that i can try to install linux on.

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>>60956830
This is the most pompous advertisement I've ever read.

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>>60978754
are you saying that because it actually is or are you saying that because you're new here judging by the imgur filename and you're just trying to virtue signal and fit in by getting angry at anything with an applel logo on it

>>60978741
Don't do it man.
DO NOT DO IT.

t. Still figuring out how to format floppy to 720kb mode and finding a soft to do it.

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>>60960956
There is a theme for XFCE. It even has original icons.
https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/4l9tlp/xfce_another_nine_based_os_9_based_theme/

These tabs look ugly as fuck, though

>>60979019
>Still figuring out how to format floppy to 720kb mode and finding a soft to do it
just do it manually with a tiny magnet

>>60979019
>Still figuring out how to format floppy to 720kb mode and finding a soft to do it.

Format A: /T:80 /N:9

just be sure to cover up the other hole (not the write protect) if you use a HD floppy
HD floppies aren't as reliable as DD but it get the job done

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>>60956782
I've got the exact same ikea wardrobe, spooky...

>>60979344
Is that a windows command?

>>60978943
>Not posting the 701c.

>>60979566
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Format_(command)

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>tfw no comfy underground retro bunker built by a scientific research hippie commune

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Looking through Ebay and Craigslist all I can say is that millenials are to classic PCs what boomers are to classic musclecars.


JUST WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKING FUCK.

>>60979680
DUDE BRA TOTALLY RARE PENTIUM 786 2GHz BRO!!!!!!!!
ONE IN A LIFETIME CHANCE, ONLY $2000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111

>>60979566
you can do it on linux too.
http://forums.justlinux.com/showthread.php?129230-formating-1440k-floppies-down-to-720k

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Well, gee how do I execute that command if my only way to give information is these two floppies here which both of them work. MSDOS 3.30 is about 300kb memory which is then loaded to the machines' 640kb of ram. Then what?

>>60956789
What kind of ultra portable is that?

>>60979768
a pink one

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>>60961144
>Be visiting family on leave
>Lil bro randomly asks me if there was anything that came before a DVD for watching videos
>tfw

>>60979901
I'd love to have one just to play Doom on it.

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>>60980027
>not kawaiik

>>60980027
I think Toshiba made really tiny notebooks back in the day... maybe it's one of these

>>60958718
>Computer Aided Design Design Room

>>60979584
lowest of the low hanging fruit that you wouldn't even give a shit about if it didn't have an IBM logo on it

>>60980185
Even if it didn't have the IBM logo, people still would've been interested in it.

>>60979704
install freedos

>>60965030
>tfw you learned to type and bitmap on a LISA

>>60980232
dunno, the 701 is certainly still interesting design-wise but it's way overhyped and overposted, there are way cooler folding keyboard designs especially in the PDA market and purely from a hardware perspective it's just another piece of shit DX4 consumer notebook with a pretty case that needs a million peripherals just to function properly

I mean don't get me wrong if someone offered one to me for under $100 I'd take it and put it to work but I don't really jerk myself raw to them like the rest of /g/ seems to which seems more based on thinkpad hype than actual design

>>60978741
>buying something old and novel with the ability to run all kinds of cool abandonware just to install Linux on it and run the same boring libre software your main PC or a $10 SBC will run hundreds of times faster anyway
I don't understand this meme.

>>60956802
Windows 2000 Pro was the best Windows yet. Any developer can tell you that.

>>60956650
How is win95 retro? I mean at least use win 3.1

>>60980378
theres nothing special in x86 hardware. powerpc and others had nice software that might be worth using.

>>60976800

Fluoride.

>>60965059

A E S T H E T I C

>>60969635
what r u on aboot m8

>>60965059
Huh, I wonder if this is what inspired the battle backgrounds for earthbound

>>60976855
>do this
>it opens a full search window instead of what I was looking for

Fucking search index.

>>60980596
>the instruction set that's hidden under 20 layers of abstraction is pedestrian, so let's make the system even more boring than it already is
That logic is even more confusing. Why waste your time with old hardware at all if this is how you feel about it?

>>60981903
>he thinks Wintel shit is "muh special"
only up to 8086/88

>>60981929
I don't think you're fully aware of the usage of "muh," let me show you some proper sentences:
>muh ISAs
>muh RISC
>muh alternative platforms
>muh ancient marketing hype
>muh pointless contrarianism
You sound like one of those tryhards who buys a couple entry-level Unix workstations or a mid-range shitbox Mac or Amiga and won't shut the fuck up about them while shitting on anything you consider too mainstream, we were all there once, but we eventually grew out of it when we realized that the ISA or really any "special" hardware under the hood doesn't matter for shit when you're using it to run the same exact boring shitware the Pi you threw in your drawer a year ago runs ten times faster. It's about the entire experience, both software and hardware.

And yeah, to that degree, any old Wintel shitbox certainly is going to be "special" because it offers an experience most of us posting in these threads would agree you can't get out of your main system, virtual machines or emulators. It's what draws us to this shit in the first place.

>>60976855
Windows 7 was perfection as far as start menus go.
The W10 one is fucking horrendous, though I'm sure they assume everybody just searches for the application they want now instead

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>>60956650

>>60982219
I don't see how W10 is horrendous. If you're old fashioned, you no longer need to click on "All Programs", it's right in front ready to scroll.
But yeah, search is too good and feels less laggy and clunky than the W7 one.

>>60982219
Cortana / Windows 10 Search is broken.

Get ClassicShell, which brings the original, much more effective Windows Search bar back.

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>>60965099
never forgetti

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DAK catalogs were definitely the most wordy ads of the 90s.

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>>60978741

>>60974146

Underrated af

>>60984455
stallman is a degenerate nigger loving marxist faggot

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>>60985119
Stallman is an upstanding scholar of free software.

>>60985655
Stallman can be an extremist.

>>60956820
>>60976825
someone should make a non-malware version of BonziBuddy

>>60985803
Technically, you can kinda do that. Just download MASH (Microsoft Agent Scripting Helper) and the character file for Bonzi (bonzi.acs).

>>60956852
used to use this on the original sony vaio i had when i was a kid
i forgot about it

>>60959378
good ol 008080

>>60984455
>implying you'll be able to fit anything more than just the kernel on such an old machine

Someone have a picture of that cherry red and black Japanese gaming computer from the 80s? I can't remember anything about it besides the above, sadly.

>>60982197
Nope.
Wintel shitboxes ain't anything special, especially because even the Wintel machines we have today are literary the same shit with a shitloads of legacy compatibility layers.

>And yeah, to that degree, any old Wintel shitbox certainly is going to be "special" because it offers an experience most of us posting in these threads would agree you can't get out of your main system, virtual machines or emulators. It's what draws us to this shit in the first place.

Didn't you own one decades ago already? Oh, you're not even that old, are you?

>>60980349
>offered one to me for under $100

They where $200 new, under $100 should be easy.

>>60986948
Was it some kind of MSX machine?

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>>60956650
>Windows 95
fucking newfag

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>>60986948
this?

>>60987290
>>60987379
I'm pretty sure it was an MSX but the picture had all cherry red and black coloring with a monitor as well.

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>>60987401

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>>60987423
Not the exact picture I was looking for but it will work, thanks anon!

>>60987493
Enjoy your fap

>>60961194
Goddamn I hate genetics.

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>>60982262
xp was the last version of windows that the best start menu. it was not enabled by default tho.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-awgfxlR5g

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>>60987716
>ms virtual pc
>slow as balls, probably unaccellerated
>camstudio
>ms video 1 codec like it's fucking 1992
>8.73 fps
>modern sanic wallpaper
>1366x768

>>60987803
That's what makes it better, though.

>>60956755
Is that Back to the Future on fucking LaserDisc?!

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>>60986827
it had an 20gb drive so space should not be an issue. just wanted to try this so i know how much ram it really needs to run. seems that 16mb is enough and even less if you make a custom iso with less bloated programs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu_gE8gQLIc

>>60956904
>glide and 3dfx drivers were a bitch though
Especially on AMD. My Athlon reboots when the stock V2 driver engages.

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>>60956650

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>>60956716
Truly old desktops were the most elegant functionsl designs.

>>60956747
That setup looks incredibly comfy. The photo quality makes it look too recent though. I miss the simple life.

>>60956757
Ahh here we are, my ramless pentium 4 startup. It could play warcraft 3 on the lowest settings, but any matches with 4 or more people would drop down to 5fps late game.

>>60956762
Were windows 2000 and ME the same thing? I think I had ME briefly but encountered some fatal errors back in 2000 that i assumed were microsoft's fault.

>>60956791
This guy looks familiar. That touchpad specifically. Might've been my friend's coast guard dad who owned it.

>>60956820
This guy was on so many school and work computers. What did he even do other than take up resources?

>>60958203
What was Turbo even for? Quickboot?

>>60965806
And fuck them up you did.
>connect the wrong components
>have to pry those fuckers apart again
>pain

>>60976412
Hard to believe they were so expensive. My old windows 3.1 pc mustve been a hand me down from mom's work.

>>60984466
>>60974146
samefag

>>60964981
people always make fun of the "never obsolete" but if they were upgrading you to a brand new system every 2 years for $99 then that statement is basically true...

>>60967142
theres a hole under your door, bugs can just waltz right in

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>>60969429
>my mom and my sister (same person) wont fuck me anymore, im stressed out, im gonna break shit

>>60988742
>Were windows 2000 and ME the same thing?
>was the new NT kernel OS the same thing as the glorified DOS shell?

>>60976800
>alcoholic woman
how /v/irgin are you?

>using IRIX
it would be weird if any type of person who didn't enjoy alcohol enjoyed old sit

>>60988742
>Were windows 2000 and ME the same thing?
no
windows 2000 is NT 5.0, an updated NT 4.0, and came out in 1999
windows ME is windows 4.9, not NT-based, and is an updated windows 98 SE, with the windows 2000 colour scheme and icons. it came out in 2000

>>60988918
I'm too basic to understand your response. All I know is that I had either ME or 2000 after 98 (the awful one, why the fuck did they divide 98 into two parts?)

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>>60988944
it would have been ME, 2000 wasn't a consumer-oriented release (they were planning one though, see codename neptune)

>>60988934
It must have been ME then. Thanks for clearing that up.

>>60988968
Wow I vaguely remember hearing about neptune. Was there ever any advertising for it or disks passed around?

>>60989013
why would they advertise an internal beta?

>>60989038
Well I remember seeing it somewhere. We did know someone who was an IT guy back then, but I dont know where he worked.

>>60989086
if you meant was microsoft talking about it at all, probably to some degree
but not anything like real public advertising, perhaps you didn't mean that

i'm probably about as familiar with it as you are
i think i only really started paying attention to windows betas around 2003 or so, as news about codename longhorn was quite publicised, so i probably found out about previous windows betas around that time

>>60989143
I remember reading about longhorn as well. So maybe thats how I heard about it too. I miss not being old :( the internet today isnt about information, its a social media shitfest.

>>60988933
if you are >>60967142 post pic and I will apologize.

>>60989488
>oh no, a woman replied to me, pls show pic
No lad, I'm not that anon, but darn are you pathetic

>>60989812
> 'woman'
>butthurt tranny or tranny chaser
GTFO

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>>60989845
Sorry

>>60989891
nice theme

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>>60956650

>>60982219
they finally nailed the version of windows "for people who know nothing about computers"

Programming the PDP11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV-7J5y1TQc