/retro/ - Retro computers

I've been thinking about bit by bit building an old mainframe

I have no idea what I'll use it for

>>61308599
How old?

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>>61308269
Not mine but I have a few good pics

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>>61308890

How do I get Windows 95 to use 256 colors in VirtualBox? I set the display to SVGA but that didn't help

>>61308640
That's dependant on price and availability. I have power edges at home for my ACTUAL work requiring a server. Honestly probably more as a proof of concept to myself

>>61308745
A solar charger pack?

>>61308890
OP pic isn't mine either, I just like it

>>61308947
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=9918

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i found a Tandy CoCo and figured out how to load .WAVs of cassette programs onto it off a ipod! too bad i can't really do anything about floppies or cartridges.

>>61309350
Wow that's actually pretty fucking cool mate

>>61310010
this

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Posting here, cause no one else on /g/ wants to talk about it. Anyone else have old cassette players?

>>61310096
That is the single sexiest tape I've ever seen.

I also have no love for them. Growing up with them, I can remember the numerous problems they causes me. Having the tape catch in the player and unwind inside there, if it didn't automatically shut off when the tape ended it'd keep winding and snap the cello tape, how goddamn quickly they chewed through batteries

I still stand by what I said though. That is a fucking SEXY tape

>>61310254

MC is the absolutely worst thing that ever came to the world of audio.
Thank fucking god for digital.

>>61310458
Not really, stop using cheap consumer shit

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>snagged for cheap
>Terminal shows signs of life but monitor displays nothing

What do I do?

>>61308745
that's really cool
where's the tp link one

>>61310833
fix the monitor, duh

>>61310096
What does it sound like if you put a C64 cassette in there

>>61311244
like mice in a blender

>>61310833
open it up and check for fucked caps? but uh, unplug it and let it sit for a good while first in case the caps are the only part that AREN'T fucked.

if you manage to get it working then go BBS hunting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mZXs68CjFU

>>61308269
I actually just got on 4chan to look for OPs pic. Fucking beautiful commodore. Very Akira looking. Is there more like this? If anyone has anything similar, please be my pleasure provider

>>61308915
>Erectile Dysfunction

Has about as much content as an 8bit game from the early 80s but is not, in fact, retro.

>>61308947
VBox doesn't support retro OSes.

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>>61310096
Fuck, I want a D6C more than anything in the world. I guess my WM-F31 will have to do.

>>61311356
I pinched it from either a retro or a bst thread on here a few months ago. I never found sauce

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>>61310096
I actually owned these bad boys for the past 20 years. I think I am gonna sell them soon. The wm-ex808hg has a new belt on the way. It's prob with more than the DAT in today's marketplace lol !

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Here's another of the ex808hg if anyone is interested

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>>61308269
I found a free desk on Kijiji today and decided to pick it up. The 486 I've got is a bit big for it, but it's nice to have it setup and ready to use for the first time, instead of having to drag it out when I wanted to use it.
pic related.

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>>61310096
>>61312841
>>61312863

Your guy's are far nicer than mine. Mine desperately needs new belts, but I've not been able to find any and honestly, I'm not sure if I should just buy a nicer one off ebay.

I've heard from a few music production sites the C64s sound chip is still pretty good and usable in the modern era? Is this correct? I've never used one in my life let alone fed it an mp3

>>61313725
SID was a legit as hell music chip for its era but it had some pretty hard and fast limitations. the good composers found ways to work around those limitations to a certain extent but i don't think there's any practical way to play digitized samples through it.

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

>>61311244
Kind of like dial up, you can find out yourself. There's programs for converting c64 .tap into .wavs for recording to cassettes.

>>61312961
The D6C is arguably the best but they're becoming increasingly expensive. If your going to buy one I'd do it soon.

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>>61310254
It's actually a home made tape. It's a replica of one I wasn't able to buy, so I found out who the cassette supplier was and made my own label in photoshop.
I think I did an ok job but there's minor discrepancies that irk me.
Pic related is the genuine version.

I want a tandy 1000 EX so badly.

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>>61314432
Mostly because it was my dad's first computer

>>61314258
Yours looks awesome dude.

>>61312961
Since my tape deck is a model that I couldn't find a proper set of belts for online ($25 for 2 belts + shipping). I got cheap and bought a variety pack off of aliexpress for $2. They're not the best, but work alright.

http://s.aliexpress.com/2iu6fiIr

>>61308269
>pony stickers

Ruined

>>61310096
I used an old Realistic cassette player with Dolby, metal support, stereo recording, but my ex dropped it while listening to audiobooks. Would love something like pic related, or even the Walkman Outback (the one beyond the "Sports" editions, with sealed gaskets and such). Don't know where to find reputable vintage cassette players though.

>>61312272
Sure it does. It doesn't have a driver pack for things like drag and drop or clipboard sharing, but retro OSes is its raison d'être.

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>>61308269
>>61314605
>any irremovable stickers, markers, or paint on vintage hardware
This should be fucking criminal.

>>61313725
you won't be feeding it any digital samples, Paula can do that tough

>>61315445
Everything is removable as long it's not carved into, even then it's a matter or skill.
Step up your game.

No need to get butthurt over something you don't own in the first place.

>>61315090
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=244

>>61315809
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1082

tl;dr: Use Qemu.

>>61315823
shame that qemu is trash on windows

>>61308890
My roomie has a few of these, he sold me the case for one to eventually do a casemod on

>>61315830
How come? Kqemu/qemu works just as fine.

>>61315936
maybe it has to do with me installing it through msys2 but still, launching it doesn't even create a task

is there another way to get a binary distribution

>>61315904
sure anon

not only are they rare as fuck in the west, they go for several grand easily in Japan

>>61315944

http://www.qemu.org/download/#windows

>>61315983
what the fuck how new is this

>>61316011
always existed

>>61315944
is msys2 better then standard cygwin or even windows ubuntu bash?

>>61316027
msys2 is like cygwin but without the bloat (and i think slightly better separation between the mingw and msys components)

>>61308269
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQsznGsKSys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPWmhl49r6g

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>>61316214
>Never any update on the IBM Portable

>>61316314
Pretty much every channel...
>I'll be making a future video in detail about it...
>3 years latter
>Nothing

>>61316402
Apparently he decided to dress up as a princess instead and forgot all about it.

>>61314526
is vintage hardware more static-proof?

I'd never allow a cat around a computer room (they can be anywhere else though)

>>61316427
lmao you were right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q3fR8szOQ8
god bless her anyway.

>>61316526
>vintage
What vintage are we talking about? 80's vintage?

They usually operate at higher voltages with bigger fabrication chips then today. Gives a slight edge over today's hardware.

But that Tandy has a shell around it and all the ports are grounded, that cat won't to shit to it.

Unless your computer room is literary naked hardware, what it shouldn't be in the first place, a cat is least of your problems.

>>61316526
>is vintage hardware more static-proof?

Depending on the vintage it may be before manufacturers realized household users don't have their own clean rooms and started packing their ICs full of protection devices like clamps and diodes. Fatter lithography in older circuits offers a little resilience but it's nothing compared to proper protection.

The most fragile circuits can be damaged by nothing more than induction caused by the electrostatic field of your skin without even making contact. You're unlikely to find anything that completely unprotected in any home/consumer equipment though.

if i get an old monitor with a small resolution, but of a large size (say a 19" with 640x) will my old games look better than they do scaled onto my 24" 1080p monitor? I want to go back and enjoy diablo 2 again but it looks like literal arsehole on my screen

>>61317533
Get any 4:3 CRT and it will look better then a widescreen flat-screen for those old games.

>>61310833
Informer, ya' no say daddy me Snow me I go blame
A licky boom boom down

>>61313725
There's an open source project to use it as a synthesizer:

http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_sid.html

I managed to snag one of these, a solder it yourself kit based on 2 SIDs:

http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=sammichsid

Unfortunately, they don't sell it anymore. It sounds fucking great though! It can actually make some really modern synth sounds, not just chiptune type stuff. Definitely way ahead of its time.

>>61317738
the 2SID circuit is simple enough to make cheaply with off the shelve parts

>>61317738
thats fucking cool.

>>61313899
>>61315706
oh well, i guess ill abandon my plans on getting one then! it was literally to fuck with the sound chip was my only reason for wanting one at all

To the guy trying to get 95 in virtual box, fuck that off and use VMware.

https://winworldpc.com/download/3DCDE31D-18DA-11E4-99E5-7054D21A8599

This is the image I'm using, and it's lovely. Full 1080p support, full colours and opera.

>>61316214
Luggables are my favorite. I need to get a space set up for playing with mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa-DlLAcrjg

New ITTFampai video

Bought p3b-f two weeks ago, complete with slotcket and 256 megs of shitty NCP ram for ~4 USD.
How cool is that?

>>61316314
maybe if you request them they will make one. It's not like they stopped making videos about computers.

>>61320193
thats way cool

>>61320385
usually you get ignored unless you manage to convince other people to bitch too

>>61315065
eBay and pray.

>>61316427
>>61316615
kek, I love how tolerant /retro/ is, rare sight in today's /g/

seriously glad to see that

>>61308890
God damn that keyboard is gorgeous.

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>>61316427
>>61316615
>>61321241

anyone watch rinoa super-genius?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uW4meFwr3I

>>61308269
>mlp
Please kill yourself

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>>61321241
It just isn't worth ruining the thread over.

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>>61308269
> keyboard stickers

forlad Danmark ojeblikkeligt

>>61320113
Is most of this stuff bought or gotten for free from relatives?

>>61321724
Im not ITTFami, but probably cheap pickups from shops etc

>>61321493
MEDIOCRE

>>61321724
The Compaq I traded for a bag of chips when I was a kid.
The Vectra I bought 10 years ago for like €15 at a local shop.
The PowerMac G3 I got on ebay for €1 at an auction. Seriously.
The Dell workstations I got for €6 on ebay, local pickup.
Turntables were bought second hand for €20 each.
The Grundig Receiver was €5
The Dell was €5 if I remember right.
The Toshiba SFF computer was trashpicked.
And all the parts have been gathered for the good part of 14 years.

>>61322211
Very nice

>>61321568
Man, I want a Kaypro for all that CP/M magic. All I have is a Osborne 1.

>>61322484
I just wish they were easier to mess with. I've had a lot of trouble with the floppies.

>>61323030
Like?

>>61323114
I don't have any original disks. I found some bootable images, but a lot of fiddling was needed with old programs to properly write the weird track layout. I eventually got it running, but my test program failed to assemble. I then noticed the assembler was likely corrupted. Plus all the faffing about I did with the drives themselves. Ended up pulling one of the drives to use in my machine that wrote the images, others I tried didn't work. I wish the ROM had a monitor program like my Zenith XT clones do so that I could just sit down and play a bit.

>>61323466
That sucks.
I haven't really had problems writing floppies with a PC, 360k drives work out of the box and 1.2MB drives with 300RPM mod write images fine.
I also use serial for file transfer.

>>61323559
I don't have trouble writing them for my Zenith Z-161, just the Kaypro. I had planned on getting serial setup after things were working, but set it aside for a while due to frustration. I need to finish my dedicated /retro/ area so the fun can happen again.

>>61323721
>so the fun can happen again.
fun must go on

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>>61310096
yep. aiwa xk7000.

>>61324058
Is there any buying guides for record players?

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>>61310096
I have an original Walkman

>>61324089
don't know, but you want to go for early 90s high-end decks from aiwa, technics and sony.

>>61324089
Get something from the '80s that's direct drive with a DJ style tonearm. You can't really go wrong. One that has been used regularly is much more likely to work properly. Replace the stylus when you get it.

>>61312348
W8, it has a record DBX decoder?

>>61324153
This. Go for good brands and high end shit made bfroe the mid 90's. You can't go wrong.

>>61324366
this generally applies to all audio equipment tho

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>>61308745
You are my favorite person on /g/

>>61324408
the Pandora itself is pretty much retro soon

>>61324381
minidisc players became GOAT after '95 and some of the best LP players are post 2000.

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>>61324408

>>61324511
why did the gp32 guys get so assmad tho?

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>>61310096
I use the model in your pic for everyday use.

A lot less botnet than my phone, and better battery life, I can even run it of a normal USB powerbank.

>>61324326
Record as in recording.
dbx was way more popular on tapes than it ever was on LPs. It is done at line level, though, so I've been thinking of patching a line level input to the DBX decoder to loop the output of my preamp to it, just to try some dbx records.

>>61325416
I have dbx on one of my cassette players.
It is fucking good.
I still need an encoder for my reel-to-reel machine.

The Technics cassette deck with dbx I have, have the ability in it, to play dbx LPs without modding it.
As you select dbx-disk and the input terminals goes through dbx to the output terminals.

>>61325468
Why would you want an encoder for r2r? Good tapes at the highest speed have literally no audible hiss, and the dynamic range and frequency response are better than a CD.

>>61325517
When I run at 15 ips, yes, it do sound as good as what I feed it.

But if I want longer playing times, I would need to go at 7½ ips, (which is still ok).

But for the best posibility to record as loud as possible, without bleeding into other channels, I would need dbx-tape.

>no audible hiss
That is only if there is actually music playing, if you have some more relaxed or silent passages the hiss will be noticable.

>>61318570
It's me again, god fucking damn this is a comfy OS.

>>61326278
I'm so glad someone else here likes these threads as much as me

>>61326501
Always, I love /retro/

>>61308890
related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyrr-5YGk08

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>>61326501
>>61326523
Me as well. Tend to get the same pictures over and over though. I'll definitely try to make some OC next time there's a thread up and I have stuff together.

>>61315733
>called out for having shit taste
>everyone else is butthurt
ok

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>>61308269
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKqKrH0O9yg

>>61326871
I wasn't talking about the picture, as the post I responded to didn't specially talk about the picture but stickers in general.

Also not my picture in the first place.

>>61326871
It's not his pic, and as OP it's not even mine either. Damn, are you really so autistic you can't appreciate the theme of the setup?

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bump n dump

>>61326617
please tell me you know the song at 43 seconds?

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Can you imagine this, with a sleek, sexy retro setup as well?

>>61329485
I would kill for your view nibba

>>61329526
lul this ain't mine. I picked it up from a comfy thread, and have it set as a dream goal.

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>>61308599
I'd love to build a system around OpenSPARC flashed on FPGA.

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>>61311356
Hey everyone its me again. So I found this online and I know its not retro but wanted to post it cause it matched OP aesthetic which I now love.

Also if you look up circuit bent shit it usually looks kind of like this !

>>61324942
wasn't it because price raised like 200% and waiting time from two months to years?

>>61310096
I've been wanting to grab a busted one and stick a Clip or something inside for a while now.
The impracticality of it all constantly discourages me.

>>61329921
Unique, I'll say that much

>>61331278
Mirin the /cyb/ wall paper on the third monitor

>>61308599
>building
don't think that's really a plausible course of action unless you're some kind of reverse engineering prodigy with a lot of hardware to work with already

s/390 multiprises and Zs come up all the time though, but locating proper software for them will be a bitch and you'd probably end up doing most things through linux VMs anyway unless you're autistic enough to pull out an assembler and roll your own shit

>>61331407
You're right.

I'll just stick to finding parts for 2000s gaming rig.

>diablo 2
>age of empires
>rainbow six

>>61331278
This //c makes me rock hard.

>>61332722
AOE 2 > AOE1

>>61333400
Age of Mythology > everything else

>>61333708
You are WRONG

>>61308269
How come we don't see large monochrome LCDs anymore? Wouldn't they be cheaper to build than 24-bit color ones? More power efficient even?

>>61321586
Du så vel christiania sticker?

>>61333812
That's not an LCD in the op pic

>>61331278
post the shots with gay furry cub porn

>>61333849
I know that, disregard quote.

>>61331278
10/10

>>61329233
Award BIOS...
Phoenix BIOS...

only American Megatrends is still standing
now there's this Insyde we old folks never heard of...

>>61334023
>Phoenix BIOS

I have not heard this name in years...

>>61334023
Award and Phoenix are still a thing, albeit both under the Phoenix umbrella now.

>>61324122
Those ones are one of my favourites aside from my d6c. I regret not buying one before GotG inflated its price because of movie meme tax.
Thank god the d6c hasn't been featured in a film yet.

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>>61325333
Nice trips! Yeah, I've been using mine more regularly as of late. Ended up buying some rechargeable batteries and you can easily get a full day of constant listening. I actually took mine apart to clean it out a bit, was nervous as fuck doing so. The insides are so packed in it's frightening. Pic related (not mine.)

>>61324058
Are they white tail in the background?

>>61329485
>>61329526
>laugh at gaymerfags and their dumb, distracting flashing and fluctuating LEDs
>drool at this

I'll never understand.

>>61334488
Little do you know, as the guy who posted that pic, I have green LEDs coming out of every part of my pc

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>remove case from system to inspect issues
>Notice this

How fucked am I?

Hello, it is me OP, and I am going to bed now. I hope you can keep this nice and happy thread alive for me when I wake up.

>>61335176
What am I looking at? The EPROM? That shit takes strong UV light to erase, doubtful the data's been damaged at all. Just put a post-it over the hole.

>>61335176
you need a strong UV light to undo the damage :^)

no but you'll be fine. sticker it and pay no attention to it any longer.

>>61335176
Well no sticker on the windows wasn't an problem until you used the camera/phone flash...

>>61335386
>>61335884
Is that like how one of the more recent RPi's got killed if you photographed it with a particular flash?

>>61329552
>>61329526
>>61329485

do you anons think that is nyc?
i have a house very similar to that in nyc..

its a good dream goal. new york is nice but be wary, it isnt always this comfy

usually cloudy and freezing in winter and bright and humid in summer

>>61308269
>HUR RETROCOMPUTERS
where were you assholes during revision 2017,there were like 5 people posting.


AMMMMMMMMMMIIIIIIIIGAAAAAAAAAA

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>>61331278
time hacking setup?

>>61331278
>>61331362
>Mirin the /cyb/ wall paper on the third monitor
I'm not getting anything googling this. Anyone mind filling in my dumb ass as to what it's a reference to?

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>>61336361
shorter, higher-bitrate relevant bits

>>61334296
It is indeed really good.

I use mine if I want to adjust other cassette decks. Simply because it works so well and reliable.
Mine is a very late model, so it shouldn't be in need of new belts/service any time soon.

I have thought of rechargeable batteries. But just making my own USB-to-barrelplug cable was easier, since it runs perfectly well on 5V as well as the rated 6V.
I measured the powerdraw to be ~0.205 A at max, so it shouldn't put too much stress on almost anything.
But powering it from a computer, can sometimes introduce some noise. Which I might be able to fix if I make a proper powerdelivery system to it.

>>61312914
Came

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cute, cute, CUTE!

My friend's boss is letting him take a bunch of old Pentium III machines. There are some sound blaster cards too. Hopefully I can get my hands on one this weekend and we'll have a LAN party.

I still use my Windows 98 laptop to play DOS games and run Python programs (Python 2.5.4). I don't have a C++ or Java compiler running on it though.

>>61331278
>Unreal Tournament
Nice! Have you tried the mac version? I think macintosh garden still hosts those old games (usually in .sit archives or something like that) What are the left PC's specs?

>>61336452
Who the fuck paints their Macintosh pink?

>>61338176
Pretty sure thats the lighting dude.

>>61331278
That roman/egyptian furry thing will never leave me.
It just reminds me of weird math games from middle-school, especially seeing it on old hardware. Makes for a great background on old hardware.

>>61331278
>SYSTEM FAILURE on the apple II
kek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQxuUEMiV8

>>61338432
This. Fully agree.

>>61331278
I wonder what the oscilloscope is for

>>61339782
where?

>>61339794
on top of the iMac

Are there any good buying guides for retro tech?

>>61340003
that's a TV

>>61338176
You're a little bit stupid

>>61340029
maybe for specific platforms and uses but not really overall, just pick something interesting and do some research

>>61340029
Not that i know of but my advice is to ask around to relatives, friends and coworkers if they have any "old junk computers" they want to get rid of. Start looking at local ads. garage sales, auctions, maybe even put an ad up yourself saying you're looking for old hardware. Keep an eye out during big garbage day. If you have any electronic recycling centers near by, maybe go snoop there and ask questions. Some won't let you leave with anything, others don't care, some of these places people just dump shit at the front gate so pass by regularly for a good snatch. Most importantly, don't pay out the ass for old stuff, it's not because it's old that it's worth a lot, check sold ebay listings to get an idea of how much to pay then try to pay less then that. Post back here anything you get.

>>61340029
>>61340233
Also start frequenting thriftstores

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>>61308269
> There'll never be a form-factor as comfy as C64 again

>>61340323
I'm mostly into high-end gear and not very nostalgic for 8-bits so there's a bit of bias, but I never really liked the all-in-one keyboard design myself. It feels more like a toy than a machine and it's not as practical.

Though it's not all bad, I love really simple low-cost designs as well like the TS1000 and co. to pair with shitty portable TVs.

>>61340432
It's quite practical for the time, you didn't have 3rd party keyboards anyways. Just having a keyboard you connected a disk drive and TV onto was quite a neat design.

Also there's high end 8-bit gear, like the CP/M machines of the time.

>>61340633
Fuck

>>61340551
It was definitely practical in context, since they were designed with the living room in mind rather than the office desk. But in terms of the latter use case? It wouldn't serve you as well, they weren't very modular or expandable, nor were they all that powerful.
>Also there's high end 8-bit gear, like the CP/M machines of the time.
But to be fair, here, none of that stuff was truly high-end, even when it was new it was considered slow and limited, but it still did math faster and more correctly than you in the end and that's what matters.

That's not to say that there weren't still some pretty nice 8-bit systems that were high-end within their own class, however, especially in the early days.

Where does everyone find there retro pcs? I live in the seattle are and besides craigslist im not sure where else to look (besides ebay, but im not trying to order online).

>>61340633
Are those finnish light switches?
[source: my summer car]

>>61340776
see >>61340233

>>61340834
thank you :)

>>61340798

No, they're usually bigger and square shaped, and have no visible screws.

>>61341049
beutiful case.
Love the front audio panel and the temperature display.

Is it yours?

>>61341049
You can tell this is a display setup not for serious use because of the non ergo chair, the monitor off to the side at an awkward angle and the phone/ans setup at the far side of the desk behind the keyboard.
Also the internal Audigy panels tend to pick up horrendous interference from shaking across all the noise sources inside the case.

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>>61341066

It's not mine, but something I saved from here. Sadly I don't have any photographs of my old setup. I regret selling my CRTs, it's impossible to buy them here nowadays.

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>>61340798

British

[source: its my amiga]

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>>61341534

>>61341229
nope, real setup

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>>61341554

>>61341239
>sharpie
don't want to know where that has been

>>61341614
Fix your terrible desk layout.

>>61341715
not mine, but it's a grills
should explain it

>>61341756
The grill (male) is you isn't it.

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>tfw your LoTech IDE-XT arrived before the V20 and you can't use it yet

>>61341632
>not growing pot on top of his ThinkPad shelf

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yes fucks yes

>>61343431
Ooh, what lappy?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SszAQB1fhlc

nostalgia, hard drives need to have these noises again

>>61342665
>HD-FDD bios extension.

Noice.

>>61343543
think it's just a low-end 486SL-33 latitude with some exterior damage but it's still cute

no model numbers or even a serial number on the label, like it faded or was never there to begin with

>>61343223
>modem removed

IRQ hell?

>>61343860
wut? modems still there

>>61343740

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PY4U6lEYDY

>>61344030
ive never seen these drives before

>>61336393
Oh that's lovely

>>61344136

They're probably the noisiest hard drives ever. Very reliable too, supposedly.

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>>61344186

Also, they're huge.

>>61341239
i mean, some CRTs are cool, but why would you really want them now? i had to temporarily switch to a backup one at work and a blood vessel in my eye had burst almost immediately

>>61344186
5.25 sized? i didnt even know they got so big lol

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>>61344141

>>61344230
I've seen this one before, was either gonna use that or the c64 for the op image

Got anymore?

Ps1 is my nostalgia fuel because I grew up on it.

>>61344186
IIRC, the earlier Bigfoots were unreliable and the later ones were more reliable.

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>>61344225

I guess I just miss the aesthetic, I haven't used one in over 10 years. I had a cute small 13 inch monitor that I would like to get back. I don't miss the bigger ones as much as there simply isn't room for those anymore.

>>61344281

That's all I have, I'm pretty sure.

>>61344440
yeah, some were pretty cool. i see some people posting those small trinitrons once in a while, those look very cool.
i had a trinitron TV. as much as i like my 55" HD NSA botnet tv, i would take the trinitron back in a heartbeart. the only video games i play are PS2 and N64 anyway.

>>61344440
i miss the tv stands for crt tvs thats how bad this future world is getting to me im just hoping 3d printers save us where old furniture can be mass produced again

>>61344227
Hell yeah, and the further back you go they get even bigger, up to 24" on microcomputers.

Slugfoots were a special case though, all the rage among shitbox makers as a cheap way to store a lot of shit at the cost of speed.

>>61344688
i didnt even know i dont even know what a slugfoot is man lol my earliest memory of the guts of a computer is my ast with a 60mhz pentium think the hard disk was 512mb but 3.5"

>>61344724
Yeah, sounds right. Pretty much everything by then had migrated over to 3.5" but the high end and some outliers. 5.25" was mostly during the '80s and larger sizes during the '70s.

>>61344724
Me either, so I looked it up.

Here's an interesting site

http://www.redhill.net.au/d/d-99.html

tldr slugfoot is the name for "Bigfoot" drives because they are slow and sluggish

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it's dusty as shit but otherwise looks pretty nice

was hoping to find a 387 inside but it's probably not hard to find one on ebay anyway

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loaded with microchannel serial controllers and a nice looking modem too, might have been put to work as a terminal server with Xenix?

>>61345217
Red Hill is the shit, they provide a lot of extra context that most other sites/books lack.

>>61345300
>Modem
That looks like a Token Ring card to me

>>61345424
Well nevermind, just saw the fuses and the surge protection

>>61345424
>Token Ring
Disgusting

>tfw you try installing windows 7 on a pentium ii and forget theres no dvd rom
so pleb

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now that it's dusted off and as clean as I can get it
time to see what this mother fucker's all about

>>61345424
yeah I wasn't sure at first but the FRU came up with a modem, can't remember exactly what kind though

>>61345541
Someone actually got Windows 7 running on a Pentium II downclocked to 133MHz and 96MB of RAM.

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>>61345633
life is a fuck
at least it didn't explode

>>61321568
I want to find a case like this to put a mobile server/retro gaming setup inside.

>>61345640
im literally retarded my win 7 disc is 64 bit lol, installing xp atm

>>61345541
have a spare to install? should run just fine with it, a lot of later PIIs shipped with them anyway

wonder if they'd run embedded/CE well

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>>61326871
>get mad over stickers
>get told they're easily removed
>the person who told you they can be removed is the butthurt one
ok

>>61308890
>Super Raiden

mah nigga

>>61345844
already installed one tried the 7 disc forgot its 64 bit version, installing xp now then going to try putting 10 on

>>61345944
10 won't work without SSE2 (So a Pentium 4)

>>61345633
very sexy machine anon, congrats

>>61346015
gay

>>61346015
i actually have a pentium 4 as well mobo is dead though

>>61321568
I used to sell and service these when they were new. My dad owned a "microcomputer store", the first one in New Orleans called The Computer Terminal.

I still remember building a 3 user S-100 bus based system that was pretty powerful for the time, and it had a HUGE 5 meg hard drive that cost over a grand....

I wish I had kept some of that old tech around. Those were comfy days, my young friends :-)

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>>61345674
refdisk time
>>61346018
thanks senpai
been waiting for years to find one of these fucking things

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>>61346252
...and wow it's fucking nothing
I don't want to clean the heads fuck

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Did anyone asked for great 3D performance?

>>61315445
They made an absolutely insane amount of C64s. It's not a huge deal.

>>61343431
Hey! I've one of those Latitudes. Mine's got a bad floppy drive though.

>>61342154

>a woman not just interested in computers, but vintage computers, that took the time to source original components and set aside space for it

Try to be more believable man, even the women I know in IT don't seem to care about computers for their own sake but as a tool and means to an end. I've never met a one that had a passion for pc building or the history of it.

>>61344440

I had this 14" yellowed SVGA monitor that my family had used since when we got our very first 486 DX 2/66 until probably like 2001. I wish I could get that thing back. I have so many fond memories of having that monitor on top of a keyboard slide out/surge suppressor on a cheap Wal-Mart computer desk playing Diablo 1 and Warcraft 2 until late at night while my cat Biggie was lying asleep on top of the monitor shelf soaking up that CRT warmth

>>61346559
I can say the same for men sadly.

>>61346290

Oh the fun times I had trying to get Tomb Raider to run on a ViRGE DX on my Cyrix M2. It would kinda run but it couldn't do lighting so artifacts and texture pop in everywhere.

>>61346670

I work in a lab but know guys in the IT department, one of which collects vintage gear. He gave me a very old AGP based FirePRO card with the server bracket. Not exactly retro but pretty obscure

>>61346682
Mine did booted and ran TR2, but as was the 2MB version, trying to run the game in a resolution higher than 320x240 resulted in missing textures, making lara croft look like a snow man.
But in 800x600 the game ran surprisingly very playable frame rate wise due having almost no textures to bog it down.

>>61346724
When I worked uni IT I helped a guy get an osborne running (sourced boot images, made disk etc).
He sold it on ebay for $25...

>>61340323
If they can shove laptop parts into a monitor to make all-in-ones, someone's gonna try to do the same with keyboards one day.

>>61341239
My mom has a Dell that looks like that. I upgraded it to a 700MHz Celeron with 384MB RAM and Windows 2000. She uses a newer Windows 7 HP laptop now however.

>>61346784

You should legally be allowed to kill him anon

>>61340323
>>61346815
https://www.cybernetman.com/en/all-in-one-pc/keyboard-pc

>>61346866
Should have just bought it from him, but I naively believed I could get him interested enough to keep it.

>>61346920
>CYBERNETMAN
good grief

>>61346866
Some lucky motherfucker scored a functional Osborne for $25 + whatever horrifying amount to ship it, people like that guy are the ones who make life great for us.

>>61346252
>refdisk time
nope
>>61345674
You need the PS/2 config disk
Adrock, Mike D, and MCA need to be configured with a bootable config disk

http://www.walshcomptech.com/selectpccbbs/

>>61347330
that's exactly what the reference disk is, it configures the system and microchannel cards as well, looks like all the ISA systems use different names for them though

I think mine's fucking up reading it because of dusty heads or the shitty USB floppy drive I wrote the disk with, figured I'd risk it since it was a fucking ancient one but I guess I'll dig out a real one later

>>61347472
>that's exactly what the reference disk is,
you didn't say reference disk
you said
>refdisk time
refdisk
re fdisk
congrats. you are a lazy fuck who couldn't type a few more characters to make sure your message was interpreted correctly.

I wonder how well Debian would go on an old 80s mainframe

>>61347614
what the fuck, why is this my fault?
if you actually knew what you were talking about to begin with and weren't just regurgitating the first few results of a google search you would have quickly linked "refdisk" and "reference disk" in the context of a microchannel PS/2, it's a decently common term

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What's in the box /retro/?

>>61348161
PCI powered dildo

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>>61348169
Hmmm

>>61348237
something phone related
get hype

>>61348237
56k dragon dildo modem

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You're getting warmer

>>61348316
control panel for a bomb or motorized dildoram

I'm about to get a dolch PAC 64 for relatively cheap, but all I need is the keyboard. Anyone here from europe who wants the pc?

>>61348316
WebTV

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>>61348401
Very good, but wrong.
Another relic of a bygone era.

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>>61348452
With some curious undocumented features. (Would have written something about dragon dildos here, but don't remember where the ram scratch area is)

>>61348452
>>61348497
is it actually still usable as a mail device?

don't know if I'd be very into the form factor for that kind of usage but it might be cool just to have something simple and dedicated

>>61348531
I think it actually is, but you'd need a dialup account. I also remember something about needing to hack it to use a different email provider, but it was easy on the older models like this one.

>>61308269
>bevar christiania sticker
ay hvasså

>>61347920
Considering they were pretty modern 32+ bit systems running entire businesses with tons of concurrent users, VMs and processes, an operating system for toasters should be okay.

>>61321547
Enjoying your time off from high school? What classes are you taking junior year?

>>61336404
genhis khan is such a great game.

>>61349688
Art, PE and cocksmuggling

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couldnt wait for system rating shit was taking forever

>>61349878
>shit was taking forever
no wonder

>>61349878
Now upgrade to SP2

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>>61344206
>>61344227
>>61344724
>they're huge

>>61345267
>>61345300
Nice.
Yeah, 387's are plentiful and under 10 bucks on eBay.

>>61346559
You don't get around much, do you?

>>61346670
Kek, so true, specially for /retro/.

>>61346866
Why? It wasn't yours.
Next you want to kill people because they drive better cars then you do.

If you didn't have any interest to buy it yourself from him, don't bitch.

>>61347614
Here's a (You)

We at bump limit

I'd like to see this become a daily general

>>61350117
>I'd like to see this become a daily general
Weekly or semi daily would be better, trust me. I like these threads and don't want to see them degrade.

>>61336372
ask >>>/trash/

>>61350157
Good idea. If I don't see one I'll make one every Saturday.

>>61350117
Not enough content.
If you force it it will just become a shitfest.

Rarely it worked having several threads after another, last time was 4 threads, 3 slow and 1 fast thread, a week in a row, with the last thread hitting bump limit under 12 hours.
But judging by the speed of this thread and amount of bumps needed, not a good time.

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>>61341632
what model?

>>61341534
Very nice. I really need a monitor for my Amiga, any tips for finding one m8?

>>61351298
Just get a scandoubler and VGA monitor