ITT old tech you want and other retro bullshit.

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I wish I could have this case for rasberri pie

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Well the bid has 13 hours to go and no ones outbid me in two days, so I think I'll win

The question I am now asking myself is

What the FUCK am I going to use this for

Pls gib ideas so I don't feel like it's a waste

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>>61924559

>>61924730
Play Doom with it

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Old tech I did not want.
Just exchanged them both for a beer few months ago.

>>61924559
to the people in these threads that actually collect/ buy this stuff, where the hell do I actually buy it? I always here about people getting awesome stuff crazy cheap at "local computer stores," but I have never seen such a place where I live (South Florida.)

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>>61924785

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>>61924995

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>tfw no qt jap computer

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>>61925030
here comes the Sun

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>>61925059
tfw SPARC will never be a mainstream competitor

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>>61924751

>>61925030
Worthless, but pretty.

>>61924976
Check the archive. This question has been asked and answered in every single thread that contained the word "retro".

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>>61924976
Central Florida here. Mostly got my stuff from flea markets, thrift stores, friends, and recyclers.

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pdps are qt

>>61924976
Thrift stores, garage sales and recycling centers. The latter may or may not be feasible to actually buy from depending on local regulations and your interpersonal skills.

>>61924559
That tv looks cool, what is it?

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>>61925259
indeed, Sun had visionary ideas about computers being the network etc

They had the cloud meme way brewing way before it became a marketing buzzword for any remote service

It's a shame what happened to the company

>>61925334
Don't you have one? Those are like 30 bucks these days.

>>61925141
Maybe if FPGAs get mainstream on phones OpenSPARC will. But I'd bet on RISC-V.

>>61925333
tfw too scared of getting stabbed to dumpster dive for cool tech
thrift stores only have generic crappy keyboards and i wanna have some fun with tech friends sifting through garbage

>>61925361
$100 everywhere i see

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>>61925331
quickly! post more pdps

>>61924559

I have both of these things, OP.

>>61924559
Oh shit, the game from big.

>>61924559
>>61925456
where'd you get that qt pvm? I have shit luck and have yet to find local listings

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I want to get one of these and load it up with a G4 upgrade card and an insane amount of RAM. Just for the lulz.

>>61925392
>20 MHz 80286
isn't that the fastest they ever made those?

Also SIPP RAM, neat

http://www.righto.com/2016/06/y-combinators-xerox-alto-restoring.html

>>61925492
fukken zip disquette brah

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Should I drop $300 on it?

prices are only going up...

>>61925361
>>61925369
How does the N900 compare to an Android device with a proper Linux chroot?

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>>61925472
It's from blank check

>>61925531
>>>/v/
Just get a used Toploader.

>>61924790
Trim your nails, Ivan.

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>>61925548
nvm i'm a total idiot

>>61925360
To be fair, compared to their vision of thin clients today's browsers and phones are rather thiccer.

>>61925481

Well, I found one at a Goodwill for $1 and bought another one off of a guy on OfferUp for $20. This was years ago before they really started being sought after by gamers, though.

>>61925492
Are there quiet/quiet-moddable PowerMacs? It might be fun to use one for a Linux, NetBSD or even fucking A/UX home server, but the ones I've seen in action were vacuum-tier.

>>61925531
Get an unloved Famiclone and show it some love. The keyboard ones are fun.

>>61925531
Not worth it.

>>61925551
but poor color and sound.

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>>61925627
shit, you're lucky.
I don't even want one for games. Just want to hook up a feed to it

>>61925531
You could get an original NES, a powerpak fully loaded with roms, and a top-notch CRT for that price

>>61925693

Yeah, I wasn't even thinking about games when I bought them, although I obviously do play games on them sometimes. I mostly just thought that they looked cool and thought that it'd be cool to hook my VCRs and stuff up to them. I wish I could hook one up to my computer, but I haven't figured out if there's a way to. For some reason I've been having a hard time finding a computer CRT for cheap, which really makes me regret getting rid of the ones I had.

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>>61925787
>a hard time finding a computer CRT for cheap, which really makes me regret getting rid of the ones I had.
yeah, those are only going to get rarer (especially the pro models that have a rep)

There has to be an easy way to connect those PVMs to the computer though, whether a PCI extension or an external converter.

>>61925631
The only Power Macs I can think of that were infamously loud were the mirror-drive-door G4 and all variants of the G5. The rest of them are fairly well-behaved. I like the 9600 because it can take up to 1.5GB of RAM, and G4 upgrade cards up to 1GHz, IIRC.

>>61925838
rules
>>61925885
drools

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>>61925838
recomended a cheap video card for this Pentium3 1Ghz, 1gb dimm ram?

>>61926003
A Geforce4 MX would probably be enough for everything on win98SE and they are cheap

>>61925392
>that battery
RIP

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>>61926017
Thanx fella

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>>61925631
some of the ibooks were powerPC

>>61926017
>>61926052
I'd get a Ti for those sweet shaders.

>>61925495
I think I've seen ads for 25 MHz 286

>>61926107
As if he'd ever use them...

>>61924785
I had one of these phatties!

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>>61924730
Put your rollerblades, go to the subway, hack the planet.

>>61926260
dat baud rate

>>61925826
>all variants of the G5
Not the watercooled ones.

>>61925815
>There has to be an easy way to connect those PVMs to the computer though, whether a PCI extension or an external converter
https://ultimarc.com/avgainf.html

>>61926324
So it's the HD5450 with custom firmware?

>>61926436
Looks like it. I wonder if the firmware's available anywhere, maybe you could just get a regular HD5450 and flash it.

>>61925574
I'm comfortable with slightly less long nails, than on the picture.
Because without them, using mechanical keyboard is pain in the ass^Wthumbs.

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so bad

>>61924785
They still run those in Louisiana's LIGO.

>>61926084
All of them were.

>>61926084
iBooks aren't Power Macs.

>>61927036
I had PM8200, it's not so loud at my opinion.

>>61925826
My gigabit tower (and the other gigabit tower i also had) is insanely loud.

>>61924744
Holy shit what game?

>>61927092
Heiress Creator 3

>>61926861
reeeeee all of my want, I had the NH1 back in the day before it was stolen out of my bag at a train station

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>tfw sonys old palms had better build quality than their current phones

Pic related is almost entirely made out of metal

>>61925302
enjoy your eye cancer

>>61926861
I have one of these, bought it off eBay years ago, it's buried in a drawer somewhere and I can only find the box.

>>61927883
I really wanna see if I can get the linux kernel booting on these just for the hell of it.

>>61924744
Used to have a US version of this back in the day. Comfy little PC.

>>61925302

whats that thing on top of the emac?

>>61926296
Baud rate? get on my level with the Morse code master race

>>61925302
Das comfy in some strange way

>>61925382
>Kermit the frog green

IM CuMMiNG HNNNNNNGGH

>>61926660
What fucking os are you running

The whole thing is a contradiction

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>>61928254

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I'd love to find an old UNIX workstation someday.

They're just so god damn cool looking and neat.

>>61928254
>tfw no avocado pdp for the rumpus room

>>61924559

I'm working on a swap meet style site to preserve old tech. Focus would be on having a place where you could find a person to donate to instead of landfilling, or swap with someone else, or sell for money (but just purely selling wouldn't be the encouraged focus)

http://www.hotscripts.com/listing/iscripts-eswap-online-swapping-platform-software/

Something like that but with also location options and maybe a way to show your 'collection' of old tech and which items are up for donation / swapping / sale.

Be a good way to keep stuff out of landfills, maybe we'd get a community of people to help preserve stuff, possibly even get some custom firmware hacks for things to keep them going into the future.

Any /g/entlemen able to dev stuff like this? I'd rather pay one of us than a pajeet from hotscripts

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>>61928217
It's a 1980 RCA Playmate 5" TV AM/FM Clock Radio

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>>61928290
Yep, they are.

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I always wanted a hi-fi EQ, honestly it's just because I find the idea of having a gorgeous VFD dancing to the music cool. I never got one though since I have no actual use for it and don't really have the space for it in any place where I'd actually see it.

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>>61924559
Not the peripherals, just the main CD deck and the remote. I'd only use it as a CD player, cause it looks god damn stylish.

>>61928254
Kermit suicide.

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>>61924559
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV9ys_GvSSw

>>61928346

i-i made a dumb little imageboard but it's just for some ideas and stuff until i get the actual site going
>www.salvage.tech

no intentions of stealing discussion from /g/ just making a place to list & swap old tech with the whole interwebs

>>61928346
i would scrounge up everything i could to ship to fellow techies if i couldn't find a use for it. really anti-waste and love tech so this idea is perfect

>>61928940
your site is down but noted
nice domain, easy to remember

>>61928940
>>61929012

>>61928940
shit i mean

www.salvaged.tech

salvage.tech is literally unavailable, reserved by whoever owns the .tech TLD

if you visit you can see a picture of the best cellphone ever made

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>>61924559
Come over to my house, anon.

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>>61929083
>laserdisc of a trinitron on a trinitron

>>61929046
that works too

why is that phone so skinny

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>>61928290
you can pick up sun blade 1000s for like $150-$200 if you really want one, with solaris 10 10/09 and openCSW packages they're pretty usable for most shit you'd want to do on one

hard to find a ton of flashy commercial shit for them though anymore, guess you could play quake with a creator3D or something

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>>61925631
A/UX never ran on PowerPC systems
Get a later iMac G4 with a fucked screen and behead it

>>61929168
I've always wanted to get two with broken necks and make a spherical cluster

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>>61929178
Sounds cool if you could figure out a good way to stabilize it and access the internals if you need to.

I've got a couple DDR 1 GHz models with fucked up displays I'd like to pretend are prototype Mac Minis or development systems or something. They'd almost have a kind of lunchbox SPARCstation feel to them.

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>>61924559
Kinda want this one. I could only imagine what a fucking magic it was using such piece of tech with freshly pirated Photoshop 5.0 back in 98... AND SENDING YOUR SPARKLE DOG DOODLES TO YERF.

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>>61924559

Minolta CLE

Have the body, hunting down the lenses now. Having a hard time finding a clean 28mm.

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>>61924559

>>61924559
>auto reverse

dang, this whole time i've been rewinding my discs manually

>>61929262
I used dial up until 2010's at my mothers, lived out in the middle of nowhere and dial up was all we could get. Unfortunately never witnessed it during the 90's.

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>>61924559
>>61924744
I would love to use one of these to play classic DOS and Windows games in bed.

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they have such a professional and serious look to them, plus I need a good example of an AIX system

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These look hilarious

>>61929153
Are those... nixie tubes?

>>61930401
Yep.

>>61929744
$50-$800 on eBay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/172811893801

>>61929744
Just like your entire life.

>>61929367
>>61924744
Pretty sick of seeing these two photos in literally every "retro" thread.

Do the people who keep posting them even want to own one to use? It seems like they just want to buy one, take photos of them, then never use them. You're already posting nice photos of them so just save yourself the trouble.

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>>61929153
awesome

>>61925302
>one of us circa 1988

>>61929083
>Patlabor on LD
I approve, highly.

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I want to know how different it was from ours

For some reason I've always wanted an old dot matrix printer. I don't know why.

>>61928618
Hue

>>61929169
Please tell me this is your personal setup

>>61929249
what the hell is it

>>61930442
That's not a good range

>>61924940
This.

Well, honestly I want something that fucking works like a modern computer, but looks like this. It's fucking comfy

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>>61931694
20th Anniversary Macintosh

I love these quirky designs.

All we have now are phones and computers imitating each other looking as bland as fucking possible.

>tfw no CRT-like revival of the old computer aestethics

>>61926121
Yep, I had the 25 MHz one, was expensive af when it first came out

>>61931841
I want a computer that makes a statement without that statement being about how much it fucks me in the ass.
>>61931785
This is the sort of shit I mean. It looks fantastic and like a respectable piece of equipment, not a fucking toy.

>>61924647
you disgust me

>>61932026
I can decrypt the MATRIX

>>61924744
Japan shot their load too early with minature pcs, these would have been nice in the PIII or Core2 era with XP/Win2k support

>>61924940
I have an atari 520 STFM upgraded to 1 MB of memory and a shitton of games on floppy disks

Also have a color CRT for maximum comfyness

Shit's lit

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>>61924647

>>61929622
>tfw almost finished moving work databases off one of those

>>61929168
>A/UX never ran on PowerPC systems
This makes me sad for some reason.

>>61929083
what tv is that?

post laptops pls

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>>61929233

Man, the blue plastic bit in the cable really cements the era of that thing. The blue+white G3s came out and suddenly everything looked like this.

>>61928286
Win2k
That program comes with a GUI that looks like aero

>>61928290
>Almost got my hands on a Unix System V AT&T system for $100
>Guy from CL never got back to me on the offer

It's heartbreaking sometimes.

>>61933663
what made them choose a pedestal system? they look great but honestly I was never really sure why they existed in the first place, seems a little overkill for small offices and places like that

>>61935165
No idea. Local gov, so not that small. I think it replaced another AIX system that had replaced a minicomputer of some kind (Prime?).

>>61927092
princess maker

>>61932026
I would kill to have a system like this.

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>>61927092
Heresy unleasher 2

>>61924730
>bidding when time left > 10 min

>>61932026
storage tubes are such a weird, awesome display technology. No pixels, no video RAM, just drawing vectors one at a time onto a sheet of non-fading phosphor

https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Direct-View%20Bistable%20Storage%20Tubes%20%28Tektronix%29&item_type=topic&nojs=1

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

>>61932026
I can watch these forever
They are made of dreams

>>61925059
holy shit thats mine :) i sold it to someone in russia

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>>61926861
scuse me, coolest 2000s mp3-player coming through

>>61925369
>$100 everywhere i see
I hope you're baiting

>>61925536
It's just Linux on a ARM device, no different then Linux on a Pi for example

>>61925141
it was for a long time

too bad sun and oracle mismanaged and stagnated it into oblivion

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>>61935961

>>61929367
Why don't you buy one? I guess you really don't, you just post about it

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My father's first computer. Would be neat to have one.

>>61933789
why? the 68k macs where superior by far for their time before switching to ppc

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>>61936022
Shit had something like 200Mhz CPU (that's few years before PSP hit the market) and was actually powerful enough to support sub 2004 flash files

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>>61924559
This thread sucks dick
Wish there was a proper retro thread

>>61935977
>I hope you're baiting
i'm not. please help prove me wrong. i cannot find any quote under $100. i'm about to go through pawn shops and look.

>>61936131
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nokia-N900-32GB-Black-/253027392695

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/telefono-nokia-N900-32-GB-/152644473220

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nokia-N900-/192279363833

that was a minutes search

>>61936103
Harder to find a good A/UX-capable one though, I don't really blame him since A/UX would have been cool to have around on later systems.

>>61932026

It's like a video plotter.

>>61936157
>the only one that isn't some disgusting piece of abused shit or in pieces is bid-only and probably doesn't ship to the US
gay

>>61936164
pretty much any Quadra will be fine
later systems have Mac OS X, having A/UX on latter powerpc hardware would be retarded compared to what specs it's meant to run on, you don't need such power for A/UX

>>61936202
you asked for price proof, not listings to buy from
that's pretty much how much they go for anywhere, but please, go buy from some retarded reseller that thinks it's worth 100 or 200 bucks

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>>61932026

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>>61936103
Yes.

>>61936228
I'm not him, I was just also searching and didn't see dick on the US side of eBay, and the ones you posted are garbage that aren't worth it to begin with.

>>61936157
>-for parts or not working no battery, no charger
>For parts or not working
>May not post to Canada
last ones on me but with shipping thats $100

>>61936228
obviously my intention is to buy one considering im looking at the prices and not the specs

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>>61925369
>>61935977
>>61936131
>>61936157
>>61936228
>>61936260
>>61936279
>$100 everywhere i see
Are you guys for real?

I got mine a year ago for 50€, with box, changer, etc. Just for fun and testing.
I've haven't seen them for for a 100 locally since 2013 at least, they still pop up from time to time for 20-60€.

>>61936157
didnt these have quality issues with the usb/charging connector?

>>61936363
Yeah. See >>61936349
First thing I did was enforce the solder joints on the connector, haven't had any issues though.

>>61928471
I've always eyeballed them but drifted away after i thought about what exactly i'd do with it

Exact opposite, I wan't to get rid of at least five of 8" PVM's, but am too cheap to sell them for peanuts, since none of them have more than 100 hours of usage. Same thing with several 21" PVM's, don't remember exact models, but they are all manufactured in 1995.

I prefer the 14" models, for example 14M2*'s, four of which I've used for 15 years and counting.

Large percentange of my Japanese animation laserdisks have rotted and last year I threw maybe 50 or so titles to trash, because the video had corrupted too much.

And it's not old, especially not in the sense of deprecation, if there is nothing to replace it. Laserdisk have been properly replaced both DVD and Blurays, so that doesn't deserver any attention, especially when majority of titles that were skipped on DVD, are now available on Bluray.

>>61936039
Neat? Then buy one, they go for dollari or less just about anywhere, if you don't mind some nasty smoky plastic.

>>61936410
>I wan't to get rid of at least five of 8" PVM's, but am too cheap to sell them for peanuts, since none of them have more than 100 hours of usage
Define peanuts. Low hours and mint condition is great, but they're only 8" which makes them a tough sell.

>Same thing with several 21" PVM's, don't remember exact models, but they are all manufactured in 1995.
Those should be worth quite a bit more if in good shape, but they have the issue of being huge and expensive to ship. I'd love to have one but I don't think I'd ever trust having one shipped.

>>61925360
we still use these machines. we have medical coders who work from home and we just give then wys machines. havent phased out all of thise sun machines yet.

>>61936208
Nah, A/UX doesn't even like a lot of Quadras and the most accessible option is probably a 650, and those sure as hell aren't getting any younger. OS X isn't going to run well at all on NuBus Power Macs or other early systems that you'll have to frankenstein out with upgrades just to boot it on, and OS X isn't a SysV either or remotely anything like what A/UX was.
>having A/UX on latter powerpc hardware would be retarded compared to what specs it's meant to run on, you don't need such power for A/UX
What kind of thinking even is this? A/UX 3.1.x was a pretty formidable system that chokes a lot of boxes on the compatibility list, and even if it wasn't, why is having a more powerful system to run it on "retarded"? People ran fucking MS-DOS on Pentiums, SysV platforms like Solaris and IRIX were toaster-grade but ran on incredibly powerful hardware, you're running more than just the operating system when you use a computer, after all.

>>61936470
By the way, VIC-20 was my first computer, still has it and it still works, as do the Commodore cassette deck (which I used - and use - with C64 too: just like today, I was too cheap to buy 1541).

>>61936497
huh, what happens if one breaks? Is Oracle still pulling support or is it just EOL ware that you're just supporting internally?

>>61936516
>Nah
A/UX does not like a lot of 68k Macs, it almost likes all Quadras though, specially because they have compatible CD ROM drives.

>>61936479
Less than hundred bucks. Especially when those are the only PVM's for which I've payed any money (the seller was university, which had never used them or even unboxed them and for this reason some big shot demanded more than a token price to be paid).
The 21" ones have at least 10000 hours in each, but brightness is still high and exteriors are mint.

>>61936516
>OS X isn't a SysV either or remotely anything like what A/UX was
don't know where you hang out, A/UX is based on SysV but it's pretty damn shit for *NIX

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Browsing "Vintage Computing" on ebay gives me cancer.

>>61936610
It's not like this thread is any better.

>>61936620
At least this thread isn't full of people selling overprice shit.

>>61936745
Most of them are just as dumb though.

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>>61936793
So whats a proper retro thread about then, in your opinion?

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>>61936818
I lack opinions on such matters like what threads should be like on a board like /g/
Obviously some threads will draw in more autism though

>>61936818
>proper retro thread
>proper
pls go to /vr/ if you want to start shitting up actual /retro/ threads, which this thread is not part of

>>61936610
Collectors market exists which means every Tom, Dick, and Harry think that they can sell anything for $$$ without knowing demand, the scarcity of collectors to actual pieces and overall sense that at the end of the day it's a hobby for most going in.

Hell don't look in the Apple/NeXt area of things, you will just be disgusted at the prices.

>>61936995
But nobody actually buys the "overpriced" shit if they know that most of those things will pop up from time to time for a fracture of that.
I can trace back some eBay listings for years.

>>61936024
One day I will.

>>61936861
Yeah no true Scotsman would call this a retro thread.

>>61937371
What did you expect? This is a "old tech you want" thread where "normies" post things they would want but probably not even know what to do with
Retro threads are full of way more autism, the only autism here is when people argue about things they have no idea about

>>61924559
http://myrkr.info/photo/Tiles/Windows%2095%20&%2098%20Wallpaper/

I'll just leave this here.

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>>61936908
>>61937371
What the fuck is a "retro" thread?

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>>61930880
^

>>61937033
That may be true, but it doesn't help with bots out there for eBay not to mention auto bidders for open bid ones. The latter can make something really reasonable/cheap into stupidly expensive very quick.

>Bid on cheap IIgs with color monitor and keyboard at $60
>3 days straight of nothing activity wise
>Last 5 minutes in the bid 3 auto bidders raise the price from $60 to $150

I miss the days when bidding was done by people.

>>61937628
150 bucks is a normal price for a IIgs with monitor and keyboard
they weren't made as many as a IIc for example that's far cheaper

>>61925487

Post video card

>>61935772
>bidding when time left > 10s

just define how much you would be willing to pay for it, wait until there is no time for anyone else to counter-bid, and bid that amount

I never understood people who are bidding on items for days, it's like you want to pay more...

>>61937445

Thanks for this. It's tiled wallpaper heaven.

>>61925531

get an NES raspberry pi case, and a pi 3, a micro SD card, and download an image loaded with ROMs

toss in a USB controller or 2 and it will set you back maybe $70

>>61937831
>I never understood people who are bidding on items for days, it's like you want to pay more...
This. Auctions where always a quick thing, with online ones lasting for weeks, it's retarded to bid like that.

>>61937831
>wait until there is no time for anyone else to counter-bid
They usually add time after every bid. But still, this >>61937893

>>61936247
browse this thread

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>show only buy it now only listings
>only display items less than $50
>free shipping
>pretend that everything that doesn't match that criteria doesn't exist

>>61938237
>he thinks this is a poor man's hobby
Ahahah, well memed

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Some guy here is selling this for 70 dollars.

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>>61938229
I did it out of my free will and not because you told me to.

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>>61930509
I do own a Libretto, because I found one at a yard sale. The keyboard is just as cramped as you would expect and a lot of older DOS games don't work right for whatever reason.

>>61938698
they aren't supposed to work
it was never meant as a games machine like so many libretto faggots want to use them for these days

>>61938806
I know that, mine was only ever used as an email and FreeCell machine before I got it. At least unlike a lot of other 90s Toshiba laptops it has sound and an active matrix screen. I'd still like to know why a lot of games crash right when you exit the menu (whether running in native DOS or not).

>>61938698
Look at that display
it's nonstandard
no wonder shit dosen't work

is it even fully VGA compatible if it can't display the most common VGA resolution?

>>61938806
>Windows games aren't supposed to work on a Windows computer

>>61938910
You ain't gonna run shit of Win9x games on it, maybe Win Quake but that's about it.

The topic was DOS games though, but I guess you don't know what that is even.

>>61938892
It displays 640x480 centered and 320x200 pixel-doubled then centered, that's not the problem.

SCUMM games, Roller Coaster Tycoon and pretty much everything written for Windows 95 works, but Doom, Betrayal at Krondor and Jazz Jackrabbit all freeze as soon as you start a new game from the menus.

>>61938937
>pretty much everything written for Windows 95 works
>what are graphics drivers (that dos does not have)

>>61938932
You can be semantic all you want, you get the fucking point.

>>61939090
you sound like a dumbass assmad person

>>61936039
>feels

I accidentally threw out my Vic 20, and my C64s got dumped too.

I'm an idiot.

>>61939116
You sound like a friendless twat.

>>61939139
Better friendless than an idiot.

>implying friends are of value to someone who's happy alone

>>61925392
Looks like the battery has already buttfucked the traces around it. You'd better hope it isn't spread by now.

>>61937371
>no true scotsman
Underrated post

>>61926307
Holy shit what type of IBM monitor is that?

>>61937677
>Fags trying to sell iigs "woz" editions for 1k+

It's not even the best rom version.

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>>61925302
lel

>>61932600
lucky

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>>61924559
I'm designing a retro-styled website (made in simple, classic HTML, no CSS or JavaScript). Despite working on it for over a year, it's not on the internet yet. What do you guys think of the design so far? I'll show some other pages if needed.

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>>61931972
>It looks fantastic and like a respectable piece of equipment
The 20th Anniversary Macintosh is an odd piece of hardware to characterize like that. The screen module looks like some dystopian jukebox propaganda monolith. Lain's designers actually improved on its IRL look. Older and later Macs have both had a equally or more pro look without the telescreen weirdness.

>>61929046
>www.salvaged.tech
> i was going to link to goatse.cx but now it's some attempt at a crypto-coin and the guy who made TinyIB hasn't done anything online since 2013 so he's probably dead and i'm not linking to a dead guy's github no matter how nicely he asked in the php code comments
kek

>>61932026
Here is a reminder that your xterm can emulate a Tektronix 4014 terminal.
>>61935856
Thanks for those links.

>>61938434
>twm
why

>>61935772
Good auctions add extra time if they detect last-moment bids.

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So it turns out that the IRS is still using code written in 1961

If it ain't broke, don't fix it

>>61924730
I think you should do

WHATEVER THE MOOD
JUST BUSINESS (kiddo)

>>61925334
is that cmus?

>>61936410
Put one on eBay, bid only, to find out what it's worth.

>>61939640
you have to ask such a question?

>>61936497
Do they write MUMPS?

>>61939640
yeah. it's from a project called postmarketos where they're trying to make a new phone OS using alpine linux to revive old phones

>>61939376
I like it anon. What's it for?

>>61939686
except you can run cmus even on the default out of the box n900 firmware

>>61939692
Basically a YouTube fan site/abandonware site.

>>61939701
that's where the pic is from though

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>>61939626
>kiddo
Spotted the faggot from /vr/ that thinks you can't use two ISA sound cards at once, hates Gotteks and calls everyone kiddo.

>>61936995
>Apple/NeXt area of things
Why aren't there repro NeXTcubes yet?

>>61939542
Because CDE is too mainstream.

>>61939744
too niche and too undocumented

>>61939284
PS/2

>>61939677
>SO PUT YOUR LITTLE HAND IN MINE

>>61938806
>they aren't supposed to work
Do Libretto have a broken mode 13h or something? You don't need a lot to run the likes Jazz Jackrabbit that >>61938937 complains about.

>>61939376
Fixedsys on a webpage is a bit too modern day retro computing. It would have been Times New Roman or Courier back then.

>>61938937
>Doom freezes as soon as you start a new game from the menus.

That's strange, a guy got Doom95 running on his 110CT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr25E0JoL0A

>>61939751
Build IceWM.

>>61939720
What's Gotteks?

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>>61939909
>modern shitty DEs on old UNIX

>>61939932
>IceWM
>modern
>DE

>>61939900
>Courier
Never thought about that.

>>61939376
When you put it up post the URL and I'll see if Arachne will load it on my IBM AT. (unfortunately that means it'll need to be accessible over HTTP, without TLS)

>>61939953
>IceWM
>WM
>1997

>>61939907
he was talking about dos doom not win95 doom
doom95 already uses the display driver and does not talk directly to the hardware

>>61939520
Heh. TinyIB is alive and kicking, though.
https://github.com/tslocum/TinyIB

>>61940032
So is this thing not VGA-compatible?

>>61940053
I guess it's problematic

>>61940014
>1997
>modern

>inb4 modern is 1980+

>>61940014
So why the fuck did you
>DE
?

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Dell Dimension L800CXE (2001). Got her 16 years ago, right before the XP release. Came preloaded with Win ME, quickly installed Win 98SE in it's place. Sadly, last week the stock psu died, I could smell it burning. Visual inspection of the inside of the case showed no damage so hopefully all parts escaped harm. Ironically, after being stored away in mothballs for 8-9 years she only lasted that week Specs:
Celeron 800mhz (Socket 370)
Ram 384mb
HDD: 40GB
24x CD-RW/40x cd-rom drive
Iomega Zip 100
Floppy
Graphics - 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 pci (Pulled from old Aptiva system before I sold it)

Back then, Dell, really fucked with the atx wiring, the dell psu 20 pin main connector & aux connector aren't wired to standard ATX Spec so you can't throw in a new psu from newegg and expect it to work. If you do, you'll only fry the mobo/components. So I did some hunting and some bright folks made a adapter cable that fixes the fucked up Dell hack job. So now you can use any old psu you like along with a new case cause the existing case won't take a new psu

>>61940356
>3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 pci
nice

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>>61924559
Remember LimeWire?

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

>>61940368
>no Don't Download This Song

>>61940389
There's also fake Nirvana covers that are actually Wesley Willis songs.

>>61937540
>>61936818
Not him, but what I would love to see is a retro thread/board/whatever where people created things using old technology. Gopher sites, 3D graphics made in the original 3D Studio prototype, ports of Perl 5.16 to old-ass Unix, brand new Windows 3.11 and Atari ST software, stuff like that. There is some of this going on on the Interweb, but it's all clustered by system. There is no one big "do cool shit with old tech" place.

>>61940368

>>61940425

>>61940368

I helped an industrial music artist put out a fake leak of their album in order to fuck over pirate distributors. I still had contacts in what.cd at the time. It was horrible versions of every single track, with accurate lengths.

I still have the tracks. It was absolutely hilarious. No one remembers now and I can't find anything about it on google (artist was Faderhead) so maybe I should re-release the fake album, lol

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>>61940543
Sounds pretty cool. How did what.cd react?

>>61940368
I was more of a dc++ and winmx kind of a guy

>>61925302
Something about this feels off. It seems disingenuous.

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>>61941230
I'm going for more of an overall aesthetic not so much a candid era

>>61941230
It's anachronistic.

>>61941369
It kinda appears that way. I dunno the closer I looked at it, the more I could tell. Toy story and Disney in the shelves, but no Pokemon or other tail end of the 90s kids pop culture.

Karate kid, but no arnie movies. Just a few things that are off

>>61940543
What artist?

>>61941651
REM TRY TO REREAD
GOTO 61940543

>>61940543
They probably couldn't tell because industrial is already horrible.

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>>61941526
>but no Pokemon or other tail end of the 90s kids pop culture.
I have a few tapes from my childhood like Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Brave Little Toaster, and Short Circuit

I also have Terminator 1&2, Jurassic Park, the Back to the Future Trilogy, etc.

>>61941939
To be honest, I wouldn't watch VHS tapes today. LDs are another matter.

>>61941939
>I also have Terminator 1&2
I mustn't have been able to read them. Anyway the Xbox says you actually do use the room, so keep doing you breh

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>>61937802
Riva TNT2 32mb AGP
DIAMOND S3 VIRGE ST 3D 2000 PCI 4MB

What's a good CPU cooler to get for a socket 370 Pentium III? I have the Intel cooler and it's ridiculously loud. I want a cooler that is as quiet as possible while effectively cooling the CPU.

I see a lot of generic copper heatsinks with holes for mounting a 50 or 60mm fan, but I don't know if a Noctua fan will move enough air. My CPU has a max TDP of 30w so it shouldn't take much.

>>61942914
Socket A coolers will mount on Socket 370. At least as long as they don't need the bolt-down holes in the mobo, or all three socket lugs on each side. There should still be places with new old stock of generic Socket A heatsinks. Fancy overclocker's sinks will need some hunting though.

>>61943305
I don't want to overclock, just want something quiet. The Intel fan is ridiculously loud

>>61943380
Socket A sinks were when they started to use 80mm fans, and even a dead silent 80 will move more air than the 50mm fan on the Intel sinks from that period. Even if you aren't overclocking the same principle applies, a big sink can shift the same heat with less noise.

>>61940226
>>61940247
>too freetarded to get a joke

>>61925631
G4 Cube? The thing was passively cooled.

>>61943525
There's still hard drive noise unless you upgrade it to a CF card.

>>61940533
so basically the normal /retro/ thread where people post shit they do with their old shit

>>61939178
Good thing I'm neither friendless nor an idiot. Meanwhile you're a deluded troglodyte who has convinced himself he's actually happy without loved ones.

>>61939460
've got to disagree, I think the 20th Anniversary Macintosh looks great.

>>61940543
So, you spend a lot of time and so did the artist to annoy pirates for a few minutes? Sounds pointless, like most of the bait on /g/ nowadays

>>61943618
>Sounds pointless
Hey if they enjoyed doing it, then it's quite the opposite. I know I'd enjoy it.

>>61943599
>Good thing I'm neither friendless nor an idiot. Meanwhile you're a deluded troglodyte who has convinced himself he's actually happy without loved ones.
>make stupid statements unrelated to something
>get made fun over it
>starts talking about friends and how those make him better
Yeah anon, you're happy, I'm sure, I'm sure.

>>61943666
>make honest mistake
>get intelligence insulted repeatedly
>return fire
>hurrdurrr ur dum xD
You sure showed me

>>61943722
>get intelligence insulted
It would be hard to insult something one does not have

>>61943743
Go fuck a chainsaw sideways

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>>61943756
That's my fetish.

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>>61939932
This, don't ruin your UNIX desktop environment with a newer GNU WM