/retro/ - old shit general

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>>61447748
And shitty phone pic
Didnt think to grab the DSLR until I put it back together

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check out what i found at the local mom-n-pop for 20 bux! it's basically a NTSC ZX81 with 2kb ram on the board instead of 1. which it really REALLY needed because just having a full page of text up on the screen cost 768 bytes. it uses a mutant version of Basic that replaces common commands like "print", "goto" and "input" with single-byte tokens to cram a whole program into whatever's left of the memory after that.

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>>61448567
It also came with a 16kb ram expander pack with a fucked cardedge connector that i'm gonna have to replace, and a couple neat books. I don't know why one of them's a cp/m book. it can't use cp/m.

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>tfw the hard drive in my ibook is probably dying
Not too retro, but definitely obsolete. Also takes TWO FUCKING HOURS to do.
Have a shitty photo of my dual 450 and tibook.

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Finally found a keyboard for my Osborne 1, damn shipping was 2/3th the price from the US to EU.
Even though I can't use the external case anyways.

>>61447748
Holy shit, that design!

>>61448567
>>61448606
How cool is that!
>answer: very

>>61448618
Man I'd love one of those monitors for my 500. Have you considered snagging one of the black pro keyboards to complete the set? Since you've got everything else already.

>>61449335
I have but every time i remember to look for one i then need to spend money on something else.
I wish it wasnt scratched to hell with some blurry shit on the screen. Its unusual to see them though because they were only made for a year.

I've started to appreciate Shitellites more, now they're taking over my desk.

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>>61449526
Forgot image

This one's old enough to drink and still has a working battery for fucks sake

>>61449540
Kek

>>61447748
Nice.
Fellow ham operator here. I like the old school radios

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>>61449562
>ham operator

>>61449356
Yeah, I bet the prices for them are gay as fuck online. I was lucky enough to get one with mine when I picked it up, they're pretty nice, but so is the one you have already.

Is there no way to buff out scratches or anything on displays that are damaged like that? I just put a big fucking scratch in a cute little 15'' SuperScan trying to roll it into a low shelf the other week and I want to kill myself.

>>61449805
Ive asked before and looked at forums and it seems that there isnt, you will just make it worse.

>>61449843
Shit, whatever. I'll just be more careful next time.

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>>61448618
Sweet! I've always had a soft spot for those machines.
Such a nice setup.

Here are my dual G4 and G5 machines (KVM switch) and iBook.

>>61448567

damn, I had one of those until about '88. Had a 64K expansion for it too.

I used it as a science fair project back in '86. gutted it and installed the board and rem expansion in a radio shack metal case, used a TI 994A keyboard which I mounted into a metal sloped case and wrote an extremely basic, not really functional OS in Z80 ml and had it burned to an EEPROM.

I kinda miss the thing. I spent a lot of time playing shit like Bat Cave and typing in stuff from various magazines and books.

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Picked this up for 20 dollars a little while ago.

Monitor does not work but from what I can tell everything else does. Going to see about getting it fixed up soon.

>>61450164
That's a nice terminal!
Monitor doesn't work? Might be something simple as a blown flyback.

>>61449540
I can fucking hear Brian Eno

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got a sweet 70's oscilloscope from my university when they replaced the electronics lab equipment with digital stuff

it's got 3 expansion slots for putting in all sorts of stuff but only 2 seem to be working, although I have a couple of the cards to play around with

not sure what to do with it yet, any ideas?

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>>61450886

another scope I picked up after the first, seems to be mid-80's vintage

>>61450886
>>61450932
does it have two axis/inputs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaTuFB5QXHo

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Zenith Stratosphere

>>61450965
What does it measure? Temperature on 5 local planes of existence?

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>>61450248
I would not doubt it, but my knowledge in repairing older hardware is lacking.

>>61451335
Don't fry yourself tho

>>61449591
Fellow ham again - holy shit, I have that radio - the FT987D. What a coincidence.

>>61451026
I guess it's a radio and clock.

Very nice one though.

>>61448618
Yeah, swapped a hard drive on those once. It was something like 80 tucking screws.

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Just bought a breadbox c64 off a friend.
Turned it on, no blinking cursor and the keyboard doesn't work. Opened it up to find the CIA that controls the keyboard has been replaced with an 8521. Thoughts?

>>61451529
8521 is CIA

>>61451545
Yes, but the newer HMOS version.
I'd assume it's compatible with the old one, but why else would it not be working? Were it and the chip it replaced just fried?

>>61451606
The most common fault with C64's, specially bread boxes is 5V rail has fried something. Most of the time a DRAM chip.
It's literary 90% of the faults.

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>left all my old shit at my moms place
>my C64's and all the related gear
>my old PC's
>consoles back to NES
>ancient laptops
One day i come home and hear the following:
>"I sold it, i needed money for FOOD"
>implying implications could have called me etc
Are women hardcoded with evil?

>>61453720
>implying moms know what retro (costs) is

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>copying that floppy

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>>61454125
>kill Frodo

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>>61454086
>implying they don't
She asked me about it before she sold it. She routinely buy and sell old shit off ebay.
Now some fat fuck hipsters are going to put pi's in my old tech to play games they pretend to be nostalgic about ;_;

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>>61454140
>Now some fat fuck hipsters are going to put pi's in my old tech to play games they pretend to be nostalgic about ;_;
yup

>>61454157
>mfw i plan on doing this to a mac plus case
Its not like there arent a billion of them and whoever i bought the case from probably sold the guts to people who actually used them.

>>61454236
True, no harm in it

>>61454417
Honestly the plus is in a weird place in the AIO Macintosh family because it isnt the iconic 128k/512k collectors go crazy about and cant be used as a transfer machine like a SE/30.

>>61449540
I use on of those bad boys for RADtracker.

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>tfw having pre-release software

>>61454135
>put frodo in pipe
>smoke frodo

>>61455449
>You try to put in Frodo the pipewe but you can't.

>>61455641
>kill sam

>>61455641
Which weighs more, a pound of Frodo, or a pound of pipe?

>>61455816
a pound of pipeweed

>>61455833
i'll pound your pipeweed

>>61455892
o-oh

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>>61449540
Those nihm cells just don't give up
This 20 year old bastard still gets and hour and a half of battery life

>>61455813
>>61455816
>Throw Pippin in Mt. Doom.

>>61457796
I have some NiMH AA batteries that I had since 2012 and they still work fine.

>>61454460
It's the best of that first generation of compacts though, I fucking love mine.

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I found this huge old ass TV.
Haven't properly tested yet because I have no SCART cables, but the electronics turn on and there is no noise on the screen (I guess it should, there is no analog TV signal in my country since few years).
A repair facture from 1994 was taped behind.

>>61461028
That case is fucking sexy.

>>61449540
Those screens are really nice to look at, is there any way to use them as a standalone monitor?

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>>61462255
Myself for scale

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the living computer museum is the shit my dudes

>>61463588
But... you're not a measuring unit, how do we know how big you are?

Also, real nice TV, I'd love something like that with a Atari 2600 or related, those old TVs, especially big ones, are really sensitive to magnets though, hope that speaker has good shielding.

>>61463653
HOLY SHIT

moar!

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>>61463676
I was too hype to stop and take pictures of everything, they've got tons of good shit though

here's the 3B2 controlling the BLIT, it came from SDF and still has a ton of their shit on it

>>61463657
the screen is 24", the box is 35" (90cm)
the TV is laying on a 300W subwoofer, I guess the TV is going funky/LSD

>>61463777
>I guess the TV is going funky/LSD
kek

nice digits

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Like the oldest thing I have

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>>61463767
if you're retarded and kill the window manager you can restart it from /dmd/layers

but they work fine as conventional character mode terminals too

>>61463873
how does that game run on the ps2?

>>61463905
Meme magic

>>61463588
Nice GOROD shirt dude.

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I also got this old networking equipment
Any idea what is this and how it works?

1/3 front

>>61463967
thanks

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2/3 rear

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3/3 bottom

>>61464004
>>61464030
>>61464054
Some kind of multiport serial modem I think, ports on the right are probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_Unit_Interface

>>61464030
Could you translate the labels?
>>61464117
>AUI port with screw posts
Spotted the newfag.

I finally made a video about the fan, guise!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGWTOeenrjQ

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It came with two cables :
>D-sub 9 to RJ45 on the "Réseau" (network) port
>D-sub 15 to ??? on "Jonction A"

>>61464228
>Horloges ↓ Boucles ↑
Clocks / Loops
>Usager ↓ Réseau ↑
Users / Network
>Jonction A/B
Junction A/B

And on the front panel
> JA / JB / G 703
No fucking idea
> Bcl2L / Bcl2D / Bcl3L
¯\_ (ツ) _/¯
> Normal / Boucle
Normal / Loop

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Caddy drives are sex.

Too bad they are basically pointless today and there aren't any for DVD/BR except for some failed DVD-RAM thingamajics from Panasonic.

>>61464331
'ere you go mate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_circuit-terminating_equipment

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>>61464302
I think all your fans here have already seen it

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>>61464377
thank you
have a sexy metallic d-sub 15 male connector

>>61464343
Caddy drives are bestest drives

>>61464428
The amount of puns you fuckers are making about my video is really blowing me away.
>>61464445
Amphenol?

>>61464302
>>61464483
FANtastic !

>>61463905
That's a PSOne, anon.

>>61464719
...and a PS4 game

>>61464739
Yeah, and 1+4=5.

>>61464483
>Amphenol?
It's plastic, made to look like the die-cast stuff that AMP and Amphenol put out.

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Has anyone tried a C8050 with a C64?
How do you address the drives, will the serial drives still work?

>>61447748
What is the best way to go about getting a boat anchor radio, how much work do you generally have to do to get them working, what does one look for to minimize the work they may have to do, and how much does it generally cost once it's all done?

>>61454732
I fucking love the look of that machine.

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>>61453720
>Are women hardcoded with evil?
Nope. They are evil. See proofs.

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How many grills you know who are genuinely interested in /retro/?

>>61466833
I didn't know moot was a trap

>>61467090
moot a cute. CUTE

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>>61467090
You didn't know?

>>61467117
I could do better "photoshop" with scissors and glue

>>61463653
neato

>>61463905
As well as it runs on the ps1

>>61468310
What a lovely monitor

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>>61468727
Truly a leader in trailing edge technology.

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>>61468877
kek

Anyone know any resellers of beige ATX cases that don't cost an arm and a leg? I want to build a sleeper.

>>61469297
>resellers
>don't cost an arm and a leg
check random listings not resellers

>>61469297
Where are you located?

>>61468727
fucking glorious

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>reusing old customer displays

>>61469846
i'd so do that if i knew how to

>>61469871
Just get any serial customer display and USB serial adapter.

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Recently scored a Roland RAP-10 for my little monstrosity here.

>>61469965
>Roland RAP-10
you running an old school home studio?

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>>61469995
It's mostly for game midi, at least until I can get my hands on a MCB-10 breakout box.

It even still had a receipt with it showing it was purchased in 1995 for the princely sum of $499.

>>61469965
>>61470135
Sweet

>>61447748
i've been lurking here for two years and this is the first time I see fellow hams
gl hf boys
catch you on the air
73

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>>61470249

>>61470264
like something an old spy would have

Honestly, what the hell do you guys do with this stuff?

Do you marvel at it for an hour or two and then put it in the closet?

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>>61470295
>marvel at it
>put it in the closet
fug off collector scumm

>>61470278
dey still make those
http://theportablepc.com

>>61470295
I use my Trio TS-510 transciever
it's really fun to operate

>>61470313
11kg for a triple screen setup

nigger what the fuck my CASE weighs more than that

>>61470205
The closest thing I can compare it to is an SC-88. The sound is amazing. Also it's LAPC-1/MT32 compatible so software works with it whether it's MT32-only or GM-only.
I think I can remove the Dreamblaster card on the SB16 now.

>>61470356
Awesome.
I'll check out some MIDI music on youtube.

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Any CRT experts here? How does the picture related work? The physical dimensions of the monitors here are the same, but the aspect ratio is different (5:4 vs 4:3). The 5:4 monitor has 80 additional lines, but can't dislay more than 1600 pixels horizontally. Wouldn't that cause the picture to be stretched or flattened depending on which monitor you are using? What would even be the reason to have two monitors like this but with an insignificant difference in resolution?

>>61470646
Both are 4:3 monitors, both are same size (as you also mentioned).
One just has slightly different (higher) refresh rate capabilities, hence the resolution difference.

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>>61449260
Been working on the Osborne 1 today.
Cleaned and greased the floppy drives, I still have to fix the power supply, after that it's just the keyboard that's in postage and then it will be done at last.

Have a glorious picture of the motherboard.

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>>61451529
>MOS Technology

>>61469518
>>61469518
Boston

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best headphones from 1970's coming through

>>61450965
Now that's a beauty

>>61451500
Not as bad as the clamshell iBooks.

>>61470295
In my case they're mainly restoration projects.
Buy something old and beat up for cheap, bring it back to optimally like new condition, though in some cases I accept "at least it works", then I play with it for a bit, securely package it and tuck it away for the future.

You never know, ive got some obscure stuff from the 80's and 90's put away that might be cool to have some day. Ive donated some stuff to the local museum too, including my most successful refurbishment, a 1984 Macintosh with all the accessories.
Met a guy through there that owns a fucking new in box Apple Lisa, I'm insanely jealous

>>61475950
>you have to remove the display
What the fuck. I still want one though.

>>61476266
I'd sell you my remaining one, I have no desire to open it up myself. And as it is the 3 GB disk is still healthy. Needs a new battery (again).

>>61476310
Sadly im broke right now and i dont want to pay the inflated price they go for anyways.

On a side note, if has any beige full six ATX cases I'll take them off your hands

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>>61476713
But im using mine.

>>61468727
Holy fuck your power bills....

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>>61470249
>$999 on fleabay
>happen to see a cube one day on craigslist
>$1,500
Somehow I just never seem to have the spare cash to add an old NeXT machine to my collection.

>>61451529

Rule No1. of C64 - thou shalt blame the PLA for everything. Try swapping CIAs, since there's two of them. If the garbage screen changes, you can refer to the "C64 pictorial guide" to narrow it down.

>>61470264
Are there any modern or old computer components or monitors/keyboards/mice with this theme? Dark gray/med gray with white and black lettering? I adore the executive feel.

>>61478437
SGI had a bunch of stuff like that, and that granite effect on the plastic

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I powered on one of my old PCs that hasn't been used in like 10 years. First it powered on just fine, but after that it has been very unreliable. Nothing happens when I try to turn it on, but if I try again later it will sometimes work. I tried changing the CMOS battery and checked the PSU and other components for swollen caps, didn't see anything unusual. Anyone else had something like this happen?

>>61479120
>my 10 year old computer is retro, let me give you some incredibly vague info so you can be my personal tech support team
Fuck off.

>>61479237

Please read more carefully. I did not say it is 10 years old.

>>61478929
Any examples? I'm not seeing what you're mentioning.

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>>61479452
For example, though its light gray and white, i know there is a dark gray and light gray variant but i cant find it online

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>>61479607
and then theres this thing

>>61479650
>>61479607
Good stuff, thanks.

>>61465316
OP here, basically hit up ebay and estate sales/yard sales from old dudes. But expect to pay a pretty penny for on.
Mine was a gift from my grandfather, who was a radio operator in the vietnam war.

But a Heathkit HW 101 like mine isnt too bad to pick up. The transceiver is about 100$ in OK condition, you can get them for slightly less if theyre not working or in poor shape. One in the condition mines in goes for around 200-250$.
Then comes the accessories. They are where things get expensive. An HP-23 350w power supply is going to cost as much as the transciever. An original Heathkit speaker is going to be another 50-100$, the power cable is like 30 bucks, i matching microphone is also around 100$.

If you go with non working units, theyre not too bad to fix, the boards are fairly simple and there are plenty of manuals online (remember, these were home built kits), hell i still have my manuals somewhere. Some parts might be harder to find than others. Things like the meters are hard to find but not expensive, tubes can be expensive since theyre mainly new old stock, and sometimes you have to find the odd old school part like the big ass orange barrel capacitors.

>>61476361
Heh it's cool. I haven't even looked them up. I should prolly see what they're getting.

>>61479824
>But a Heathkit HW 101 like mine isnt too bad to pick up. The transceiver is about 100$ in OK condition
That's not bad then. I've heard about how boat anchor radios were a cheaper way to get into HF but never got a good answer on how much they were. I figure one could probably use other non Heathkit parts for less when it comes to the speaker/microphone and possibly the power supply.

>>61479948
Well hell, check this out
www.ebay.com/itm/201988593039
Decent heathkit model, comes with a PSU and speaker, all in working shape, at 182$ right now but with only 2 days left i dont expect it to go over 300
could use a bit of cosmetic work but it seems minor, seller has done refurbishing of a lot of internal components
just need a microphone and a big ass antennae

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>>61447748
Not that retro, but, today, I got a qt 15" 1024x768 75hz LCD from 2001 for $3.99 ($2.00 with employee discount). Before you ask about my camera, it's a Logitech C110.

>>61480116
is that fucking camera from 2001?
wait, its 1280x1024
2002?

>>61480128
Did you bother looking up the model?

>>61479942
$80 on the VERY low end. Up to $250 for a clean one with a charger.

>>61480115
Damn, if only I wasn't a bit low on income at the moment and living in an apparent where even dealing with a small outside antenna for a Baofeng HT is a pain.

>>61480160
its a joke nigga
making fun of how shit your camera is

but seriously, invest in a better camera
iphone 4's go on ebay for 40-50 bucks and have a decent camera on them, and you can directly shitpost from them

>>61480261
please no. Nobody wants 3000x2000 images of random blurry shit everywhere. I have the camera on my moto g set to as low of a resolution as possible for a reason.

>>61480251
a sneaky trick i do with my hw 101, since i sure as fuck cant afford a big ass 40 foot antenna, is i CAD welded a regular wire to my rooftop turbine vent, and just ran it through the attic into my garage where the radio usually is
ok-ish signal, not great but not terrible as if i just ran a little 2m antenna outside my house

total cost was like 10 bucks for the wire, and 8 dollars for a single use cad weld kit, though i only used that because it sounded fun, solder or even just bolting it down would do fine

so if you have a metal railing or gutters you can access, anything metal and high up can work

>>61480261
I have a Galaxy Amp Prime, if that's any better.

>>61480324
I bet attics are great places to build dipoles.

>>61480324
>i CAD welded a regular wire to my rooftop turbine vent
I take it as you aren't trying to transmit at all.

>>61480387
i thought about that too, but mines full of bees

>>61480418
I dont have a license anyway, i know i cant put a decent amount of wattage into it
i think gutter setups ive seen online are like 5-10w but ive only got gutters on one side of my house so the turbine vent was a better idea

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>>61480116
>>61480371
Better?

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What would be the easiest/cheapest way to get an A1200 when you're poor?

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what is wrong with my "crt retro" monitor ,what could be causing these bars on different colors n shit

half a month ago worked fine and I use it very rarely

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>>61480792
Also, I think this would look better with a thin client like pic related (this one has 98 SE drivers, and with the PCI expansion module, I could add a PCI GPU as well).

>>61481185
Looks like the neck board is shot, but it could really be anything down the video signal path.

>>61481290

like bad capacitors tier or something worse ?

>>61481176
put some money aside

finding them in junk store for cheap times are long past

>>61481493
More like bad hard to find discontinued ICs

>>61481518

ICs can be replacated with rom chips

>>61481185
Time for it to die

>>61479237
kill yourself you whiny piece of autistic shit

>>61481557
What?

>>61480116
Why buy a shitty early LCD with crap backlight when you could get a high end late CRT for the same price?
Waste of money, nothing of value there

>>61480426
Honeybees are very docile, especially if you wear white and smoke them a bit beforehand. Plus you can rob the hive for honey.

>>61481873
It was $2.00, so, no real loss there. All I need is the power adapter (since it doesn't take a standard 3-prong chord, instead, it takes an AC adapter). Here's a video of the same model in case you're curious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp3JG9aN8xU

>>61454732
I am extremely jealous

>>61454732
A:\
B:\
?:\

>>61481680
This would only be cool if the stickers were all homemade and/or period correct. Not stuff from the past year.

>>61477739
What has this to do with anything?
Do you keep all your electronics turned on all the time?

Not to mention, most of the tech, specially computers, take even less than modern equivalents.

>>61479237
First time here? Bait like that is considered stale.

>>61481996
Its good for the back of a store or something i guess
>that vid
Are you actually nostalgic about those pieces of junk? They are just like modern LCDs, but worse and heavier. At least CRTs give fucking amazing color quality and scaling that modern displays just cant deliver

>>61482202
This
Besides the monitors, old tech is very low power. Although innefecient at the time, theres a reason most 486 stuff didnt even have a heatsink

Hell, a Pentium MMX only draws like 14w

>>61479120
Yeah, I've had machines that required a restart after turning it on.

>>61482200
No, that would imply he isn't actively using it.

Why would have it been okay to do it then but suddenly stop and it's not okay to do it now?

>>61482284
Sonic and MLP stickers on a computer have never and will never be cool.

>>61482284
M-M-MUH RETRO

>>61482226
I wanted something small and light to use as a secondary monitor for my ThinkPad G40.

>>61482170
Any drive letter after A: or B:.
You can map 0-4 floppy drives with DRIVPARM.

As long as your BIOS supports it.

If you have a hard drive, usually it's set up like A: B: C: D: E:, C: being the HDD rest is floppies.

>>61482369
But then who is CDROM

>>61482232
It's inefficient, it's not a power hog.
People tend to forget that.

Just because it's inefficient at 14W, it's also 100x times slower than a 90W CPU.

>>61482232
Even monitors only surge the power consumption up when you turn them on, running them doesn't take nearly as much power as it says on their back.

>>61482388
CD-ROM is something that came way later.
Map it anywhere you want on the alphabet.

DOS can override BIOS drive letter assignments. you can map A: as Z: if you please.

Original PC had possibility for 4 floppy drives with the expansion unit even before hard drives.

>>61482297
>>61482311
You guys are taking a hobby way too seriously.

>>61482390
Thats what I mean.
A 19w AM1 apu is leaves ahead of a 14w MMX, but power draw is still very small
Innefecient, but not power hungry

>>61482406
CRT power consumption also scales pretty well as screen size increases. A 30" plasma screen is more or less matched with CRT for power consumption, but move up to 37-40" or more and the CRT is the one drawing less power.

>>61482200
>4 drives with a 3.5" drive
>several expansions
>this would be cool if..
no, this would be cool even if it was full of dicks

>Having stupid old rinky dinky grandpa computers
Why not recycle them to make useful things like iPhones?

>>61482699
Fuck off.

>>61448567
I remember seeing that in the drugstores' Sunday ads for something like $40 way back.

>>61448606
Unless the people there are computer nerds, they probably got a bunch of "computer stuff" and just bundled it all together.

>>61482699
gr8b8m8 i r8 it an 8

>>61482699
welcome to /retro/
we appreciate the bait and bump

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this is what i have within arms length...

>>61482898
kek

requesting drawing of the IBM logo

>>61476731
Excellent choice.

>>61457796
Stunning.

>>61479607
I have one of those with a PS2 connector.

>>61457796
Lead-acid and NiCad are the same way. I've got 30+ y/o NiCad power tools that still hold a decent charge on their original batteries.
Shitty service life is mainly a lithium-ion thing.

>>61483314
Does it have the dampened ALPS switches?

>>61482898
Clies were pretty great. So many different designs. Some were better than others, but at least they were trying different things, and most of them just looked cool.

>>61483338
Not sure, I kinda shoved it in a corner after I got about it and only remembered I had it when I saw the pic in this thread.

Kek.

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>>61483418
Yeah I have a bit of a Sony fetish and I really wanna go buy different looking Clies or at least a Sony Mylo but in all honesty I barely use it for anything other than taking notes or drawing shitty pics...I still have all of the original documentation and software setup on the Thinkpad for syncing too. Its a nice device I just can't justify spending money on obsolete PDAs right now.

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>>61483418
I'm gonna post some of my favorite Clies.

Even the first one stood out among other Palm devices of the time.

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>>61483506
If memory serves, they were one of the first Palms to have higher-res displays.

>>61483495
What the fuck is that

I want it

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>>61483495
Loved the mini-palmtop look of that one.

Even though I was pretty proficient with Graffiti, I always liked the idea of having a physical keyboard.

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>>61483571

>>61480792
i have two of those

the built in calibrator is amazing

>>61483556
Sony PEG UX50 Clie

>>61483556
Its a Sony Clie PEG-UX50

runs palmos

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Was bored, thought I'd try xserver and remotely running programs through it on my A600.

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>>61483606
I admit, some of them were a little bonkers.

>>61483611
Also its 12v 3A i forgot to add

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>>61483619

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I still have my HP 200LX in a drawer somewhere. Playing DOS games in study hall was pretty fun back in the day. Pic related is game made just for the 200LX, but it would also run regular DOS games. Sometimes you had to mess with the screen contrast a bit, but still fun. And two AA batteries lasted a pretty long time.

The keyboard was actually quite ingenious. Easy to touch-type on while placed on a desk or table, despite the small size. But could also be easily thumb-typed while holding the device with two hands.

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>>61483697
I own one of those as well, I use it to securely store my passwords.

The calculator program is very unique and powerful as well.

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I always wanted one of the MS-DOS HP Omnibooks, before they had the color screens and such. They take ordinary AA's which solves the battery problem so many of us are plagued by.

Neat machine, truly portable and ran for dozens of hours on some AAs.

>>61483722
>The calculator program is very unique and powerful as well.
I must've made dozens of custom equations for the equation solver. Could input and perform calculations on dates as well, which was useful.

>>61483722
>pocket quicken
>pocket lotus

god those are just program names from another time

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If memory serves, this was the last one before they made the switch to WinCE. Kind of rare, but quite... interesting.

>>61483821
the spreadsheet is accessible programming for normies, a scary amount of work is done on spreadsheets even today

the HP 200LX's Lotus and Quicken all worked with each other and the RPN calculator, you could send a cell into the calculator app and perform a calculation you'd whipped up in its solver, send it back, and so on. It was an extremely powerful solution and better than what you'd get on desktops of the day.

It was a full Intel 80186 EGA PC-compatible computer, including a PCMCIA slot, wireless networking (IRDA), and it runs for about 20-30 hours or more on a set of AAs.

We should be so lucky to have something like this today, everything's a gaymen meme, but I'd buy something like this or the Omnigo, if it had a nice screen and could run for a couple dozen hours on some AAs.

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>>61483826
You could dial up with that bad boy and hack the matrix.

>>61483635
I looked it up and it seems to be 12V 4A (48W).

>>61483879
Would it be possible to connect a EGA display and keyboard to it?

>>61483894
Only one of mine came with a supply. The other supply was broken. I cut the cord and used it with an old GC supply.

>>61484162
There's no keyboard port unfortunately, but you can hook a serial keyboard up to its serial port and use any common driver for that.

I don't know about hooking up an external monitor, but there might be a way with a PCMCIA VGA adapter?

>>61484276
I just looked under my Rad-5. Looks like it takes a 12V 2A DC adapter.

>>61483791
You can take the .exe off the thing with the link program and run the calculator program in Dosbox if you wanted.

I do that, I like it better than orpie.

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>>61485272
this

>>61482334
>small and light
>for a 15" 8 pound laptop
Anon

>>61482170
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>>61463653
gibs me tis

>>61463767
gibs me that

>>61487190
I don't know if it's better or worse now

>>61487608
kek

>check out my sweet upgrade
>changes every part of the machine except for 90% the external plastic

>>61487190
>3.1 wallpaper
>7 taskbar
The fuck are you doing

>>61487190
>blue led gaymer fans
>that shit keyboard replacement
I bet it's just desktop parts shoved in there too. That of some low end craptop.

>>61483697
>>61483722
I do wish I had one, would be pretty fun

>>61481176
>Amiga
>cheap
Those days are sadly over

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Anyone used these before? It's supposed to make an ATX PSU compatible with AT.

>>61490423
Just double check the wiring and pinouts.
I've converted a few ATX PSUs to AT one's myself, no worries, works.

>>61448567
>penus

>>61489550
That's nothing compared to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3wkhDfzqlo

>>61490423
I use one of these for an old DOS machine. If you value your equipment just be sure to check it before use to make sure the chinks wired it up correctly.

>>61490511
>>61495324

Thanks for the advice. I just noticed that the wiring of the AT PSU in question is nonstandard, for example there aren't wires for the power button. There's just a 3 pin connector for the motherboard, which in turn has a 2 pin connector for the power button.

>>61486104
God-tier micro-portable back from the days of custom engineering.

I have 2 of 'em, the batteries still get over 1 hour of runtime on a charge.

I got one from the Goodwill which was set up for VPN to Cuba, if the NSA is reading this I'm more than happy to let them image the drives as long as they give the machine back.

>>61487190
you're fucking killing me, those plasma screens are often busted these days and that dork killed one for this meme machine.

>>61496204
>wireless
I wonder if that still works in Japan?

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Post tiled wallpapers if you have them.

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>>61497279
Here.

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>>61497582

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>>61497605

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>>61497890

>>61490511
>>61495324
>>61495393

I just took a closer look at the wires. There are six +3.3V wires on the broken AT PSU. Three for a riser and three for the CPU I think. My ATX PSUs have five at most. A simple converter or rewiring might not do it.

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>>61495393
>AT
>nonstandard
It can't be AT if it's not AT standard

>>61500179

Yeah, I thought it was AT at first, I worded it poorly.

>>61500179
Is that a PCMCIA card?

>>61500244
What does it look like?

>>61500633

Aesthic.

>>61500657
it's from windows 3.1

I'm surprised it doesn't appear in more screenshots of the OS

>>61500624
>>61500633
>>61500668
Hitting all the bases

>>61451441
I have one too, what not a coincidence.

>>61500393
It looks like an old PDA designed to dock as a PCMCIA card.

>>61500766
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REX_6000

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New thread when?

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>>61501317
>new thread when this one has to be constantly bumped

>>61501342
Shitty timings. End of the week and everything.

>>61500244
And a PDA.

>>61501364
Maybe it's the other way around?

>>61501401
It'd be cool if stuff was that neat these days though.

Here are some Mac System 7 wallpaper tiles.
http://www.mikerichardson.name/tidbits/System753DesktopPatterns.zip

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>>61502161

Thanks Anon!