Let's post some vintage computer hardware ITT

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[Anonymous No.6669773]

>go into abandoned house for some dosgaming

[Anonymous No.6669780]

look at that design

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[Anonymous No.6669828]

Some very nice hardware - love the old PC towers. Last time I bought one was in 1995.

[Anonymous No.6669839]

>>6669828
I really like the sound of those huge towers if they have at least 2 of those big and old case fans inside AND a Seagate 5.25" HDD spooling up. The whole case resonates with that thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e60ME1Z4NU

[Anonymous No.6669840]

>>6669839
SOME MOAR SOUND

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=033HCg3-Ghw

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[Anonymous No.6669918]

>>6669761
>let's zoom this place up
You go girl. The grownups are going to discuss classic, or "retro" games.

[Anonymous No.6669939]

>>6669918
Whatever floats your boat

[Anonymous No.6670006]

>>6669773
where do you get the energy to power that thing?

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>>6669856
Industrial AT computers are absolute units

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>>6669939
>5 Disc CD-ROM changer

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>>6669761
this belongs in /g/.

[Anonymous No.6670148]

>>6669786
SGI hw is so sexy

[Anonymous No.6670163]

>>6669783
That intersects into the field of broadcast hardware, which is also fun to collect. I have a lot of 90s video equipment like switchers, effect devices and rack-mounted stuff.

[Anonymous No.6670214]

>>6669939
>Whatever breaks the rules
zoom zoom

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>>6670148
It definitely is.

[Anonymous No.6670338]

>>6670148
The peak of 90s industrial design

[Anonymous No.6670504]

>>6670006
From the sun

[Anonymous No.6670505]

>>6670006
eating healthy and exercise

[Anonymous No.6670508]

>>6669773
>wow that looks super old
>computer looks like a typical ~1998 machine, something i grew up with
do i look this old to kids now?

[Anonymous No.6670514]

>>6669918
>zoom this place up
>with some 286-looking IBM tower
bro, plenty of millenials weren't born before that thing, letalone zoomers

[Anonymous No.6670530]

>>6670061
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeHOT2FCPNg

[Anonymous No.6670681]

>>6670128
/g/ hates old hardware

[Anonymous No.6670695]

>>6670681
the bitter faggots on /g/ hate everything that isn't some obscure Linux distro

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>>6669761

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>>6670718
The picture on the wall was one of the very first 100% computer graphic artworks if I remember correctly

[Anonymous No.6670734]

The Japanese had some really sleek designs in the 80s

[Anonymous No.6671207]

>>6670148

Too bad it's a proprietary nightmare to actually use. There is nothing standard on those things

[Anonymous No.6671301]

>>6671207
Never had any problems. Job-wise that was handled by IT department, now I fix them myself.

[Anonymous No.6671475]

Have you guys ever retrobrighted anything?
Will it stay white for a couple years or will it go back to orange after only one?

[Anonymous No.6671540]

>>6671475
Never encountered any "re-yellowing" after bleaching or UV light treatment. I also heard that repeated treatment can make plastics
brittle or fragile, but can't confirm that.

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>>6671778
are you making jurassic park, son?

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>>6670148
>>6671778
Something about Irix just looks so comfy.

[Anonymous No.6672109]

>that keyboard layout

[Anonymous No.6672145]

>>6672109
Not uncommon for that era

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[Anonymous No.6672167]

>>6672162
The cool thing about it was, that it was designed to look good as tower (as intended) but also as desktop to put your monitor on top.

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[Anonymous No.6672934]

>>6670508
With ~20 years of hard, direct exposure to the elements you'd probably look like a pile of shit too

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[Anonymous No.6675617]

Apple 2E from a workshop of my friends. Might buy it from him later.

[Anonymous No.6675671]

>>6672830
Peak fucking comfy right here. God it warms my heart to see machines of this era still in decent shape after all this time.

[Anonymous No.6676060]

>>6675671
>machines of this era still in decent shape after all this time.
For some reason this VAX station was still in actual service for some company up to 2018

[Anonymous No.6676067]

>>6676060
And its peripherals

[Anonymous No.6676168]

>>6676067
I can hear those printers in my head.

[Anonymous No.6676197]

>>6670061
My first PC in 1996 had a 4 disc cd-rom drive, could switch discs with the buttons or a win 3.1 program
Was fucking noisy and in the time it took to switch discs you could have just just swapped them normally

[Anonymous No.6676214]

>>6669761
Is the OS security meme right or you can use a Win98 in 2020 with no problems?

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>>6669761
>>6669762
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>>6670148
>>6671778
>>6672109
>>6672162
Something about these wood desks/wood floors makes these feel very not retro. Like it's a advertisement for a nastolgia bait re-release of something like the mini consoles.

[Anonymous No.6676256]

>>6676214
OS Security isn't really a meme so much as the ancient shitbox that you use to play old games on wouldn't be a good target, or wouldn't have anything valuable on it if it were compromised.

[Anonymous No.6676267]

>>6676256
On the topic. Where would you find pieces for a shitbox machine? Is there some retro retail shop somewhere?

[Anonymous No.6676298]

>>6676218
I mean, the background has a lot of modern devices, so if you're going to be autistic about such things, the woodgrain really isn't an issue. I had desks and floors like that in the 90s.

[Anonymous No.6676503]

>>6676218
Imagine HP bringing out an SGI Octane Mini.

[Anonymous No.6676595]

>>6676214
There's literally nothing keeping you from using 98, 95, 3.1 or whatever in 2020 if you're fine with what software you're able to use with it.
But you don't want to connect those boxes to the internet. Then again most internet sites today are so bloated they wouldn't even load or take literal hours. There are sites that would fill literally half a CD-ROM on the landing page alone.

If you want to do some DOSgaymen, writing without distractions, MOD tracking or other tinkering, just go for it but yeah, forget using the internet with them.

[Anonymous No.6676731]

where is a good place to start learning about hardware, computers in general to someone who doesn't know anything about technology/Science ?

[Anonymous No.6676780]

>>6676731
Do you mean in general or old computers?
In case you want to live through history in a way, watch every episode of the Computer Chronicles on YT or the Internet Archive

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[Anonymous No.6677035]

I would love to have an Onyx so I can LARP as a Nintendo 64 dev and use Photoshop 3.0 on it for shits.

[Anonymous No.6677089]

>>6669780
Why didn't the japs make affordable home computers? MSX and MSX2 were expensive as shit compared to American and European 8/16 bit gaming computers.

[Anonymous No.6677271]

a bit dusty

[Anonymous No.6677658]

>>6677271
Europower indeed.

[Anonymous No.6677662]

>>6676218
At least the pic I shared >>6670148 is from a Norwegian classified ads page:
That's just how Scandinavian homes are furnished.

https://www.finn.no/bap/forsale/ad.html?finnkode=186504496

Sadly 8000kr (~$880) is a bit steep of a price tag. Not that I'd have the space anyways.

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>>6676917
>>6677035
>>6677662
I hate knowing these probably aren't going to people who know how to actually use the things. I'd love to see some new Rareware styled renders using the real tools they used.

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>>6669785
Ah, yes, sitting at a 90 degree angle to your monitor is wonderful.

[Anonymous No.6677929]

>>6672830
That 3.5" floppy position always annoys me.

[Anonymous No.6677942]

>>6677763
>hey let's be like Tomb Raider and make our protagonist a female.
>and yes it will still be a first person shooter.

[Anonymous No.6677945]

>>6669761
Is this some sort of new hipster meme?

[Anonymous No.6678105]

>>6677942
I don't see the problem. Also Tomb Raider had nothing to do with that decision. Stop making shit up.

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>>6677662
that looks damn sexy

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>>6677945
no, old computers just stand out compared to all the tempered glass RGB light faggotry. the stories and history behind them is very interesting too. every decades old computer has a story behind it.

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>>6677929
>That 3.5" floppy position always annoys me.
that was like babby. watch THIS

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>>6678604
Btw, that was from some urban explorer who got into this seemingly abandoned house.
Surprisingly a lot of uninhabited houses still have power on because they often get used as storage place and/or the owners just simply don't care or are old, have everything on autopay and forgot the power is still running.

[Anonymous No.6678626]

I heard this dude was quite into retro fun & games...

[Anonymous No.6678627]

>>6678598
>huh? that 3.5" looks fi-
oooohhh

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>>6678626
hnnnghh, is that a fucking brushed metal case?

[Anonymous No.6678652]

>>6678626
>3 simultaneous tones from 110Hz to 40,000Hz
>40,000
Lmao, for what fucking purpose

[Anonymous No.6678780]

>>6672830
I had two of those exact model 5.25" drives - they were black with white arrows though. Unmistakeably the same though.

[Anonymous No.6678845]

>>6678780
Yeah those are floppy drives made by TEAC.
I really like the look of them.

[Anonymous No.6678863]

>>6678845
Yeah those were the badboys. I wish I still had one because I still have all my old floppies, which I'd love to see if are still readable.

[Anonymous No.6678895]

>>6678863
Well they're readily available but the question is if it's worth to you to dish out 30 to 40 bucks for one now.

[Anonymous No.6678901]

omm nomm nomm

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>>6678626
TI-99/4A with the peripheral expansion box ... first computer my family ever owned, even before the C64.

[Anonymous No.6678961]

>>6677035
There are more capable tools worth checking out. My favorites are Matador, an image editor/video compositor hybrid and Amazon Paint which lets you draw on 3D models(better than the build-in 3D paint of Softimage).

[Anonymous No.6679040]

>>6676731
Read old computer magazines: https://archive.org/details/computermagazines
and go from there. You can also try reading computer textbooks.

[Anonymous No.6679090]

>>6679040
lol, the covers of some of those magazines

[Anonymous No.6679135]

>>6679090
I bet that Young Ones game was some shovelware bullshit.

[Anonymous No.6679151]

>>6679090
It's wasn't easy coming up with something every month that A didn't cost a lot of money(artists, license fees) or B offended people in some kind of way.
Of course there are many artistic accidents among magazine covers, but who cares. This is literally throwaway stuff.

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>>6679151
As oldfag I don't care much about artsy covers. As long as it says what's inside I'm happy.

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>>6670148
Frankly, nothing beats a Sharp X68000

[Anonymous No.6679413]

>>6679404
It's nice, but not SGI-tier nice.

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>>6678652
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoMqUTsJzKc

[Anonymous No.6679461]

>>6679425
lold

[Anonymous No.6679497]

>>6679425
Ow

[Anonymous No.6679705]

>>6678593
Saying no then following it up with that drivel tells me yes, thanks for clearing it up

[Anonymous No.6679735]

>>6678593
Just give me a beige box that does porn and music and I'm set

[Anonymous No.6679913]

>>6679705
What are you doing on this board?

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>>6676267
craigslist, ebay, e-cycling shops

[Anonymous No.6681156]

Was the Retrogames "The C64" ever actually sold? All I can find is the mini. I would love to be able to buy a brand new retrocomputer. All of the original hardware is gradually breaking down and becoming unusable.

Where do I buy "new" vintage computers if such a thing exists?

[Anonymous No.6681169]

>>6681156
You mean a Raspberry Pi in a keyboard case? Because that's all The C64 is.

[Anonymous No.6681347]

>>6670148
That's some comfy ass shit

[Anonymous No.6681417]

big think

[Anonymous No.6681419]

>>6681417
THICC

[Anonymous No.6681459]

>>6681156
Nobody is recreating old computers. The best you can get is a refurbished one or just emulate them

[Anonymous No.6681508]

>>6679913
Enjoying old games and consoles for playing games, not some nostalgic shit for bad computers because you miss the aesthetic of yellowing plastic

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looks like straight out of TNG era Star Trek

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[Anonymous No.6681775]

>>6681762
>integer raper
wow intel really went above and beyond with their old product names.

[Anonymous No.6681829]

>>6671778
There's an O2 locally (which is insane for the area) for $300 with keyboard and mouse. I want it, but idk if I want it $300 bad.

[Anonymous No.6682019]

>>6681771
Oh my god, this is the comfiest one yet.

[Anonymous No.6682283]

Not enough early 80s micros ITT. Someone needs to post their VIC-20 or Acorn Atom.

[Anonymous No.6682290]

oh yeah and here's some whack shit

[Anonymous No.6682326]

>>6681746
imagine the smell

[Anonymous No.6682519]

>>6682019
In a snapshot it is. It's not comfy at all to play or even work like that for extended periods of time.

[Anonymous No.6682542]

>>6680682
huh, i don't think i've ever seen a PC-XX laptop before

[Anonymous No.6682547]

>>6681743
does she have tiny hands or were 3d mice back then that big?

[Anonymous No.6682829]

>>6682547
The original Spaceball is pretty substantial in comparison to the later ones like the 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse

[Anonymous No.6682842]

>>6682829
i'll say, i have a spacepilot next to me and the "ball" is like 3 times smaller than that one apparently is

[Anonymous No.6683046]

>>6682547
damn

[Anonymous No.6683062]

>>6682547
Good for CAD stuff, impractical for games.

[Anonymous No.6683187]

>>6681731
>happy new year
>2000
It's been downhill ever since. I wish I could jump into this photo and live in this year again. Got some photos to scan with that handy dandy scanner there.

[Anonymous No.6683317]

>>6681508
I play mostly on my old PCs, while my old consoles are mostly collecting dust

[Anonymous No.6683389]

>>6682542
They were quite common in Japan. The later models are functionally identical to a desktop, but with the bonus of built-in keyboard/mouse/monitor and autoswitching worldwide power supply. I got mine for $180 shipped on Yahoo Auctions.

[Anonymous No.6683398]

>>6669762
Why the floor though? Nothing comfy about that. Other than that nice. Is the stand built into the monitor?

[Anonymous No.6683402]

>>6669772
Is that a VLB Gateway 2000 tower? I got the Desktop variant of that. Love that 486.

[Anonymous No.6683421]

>>6670338
At one point in time the equipment in that room was worth over a million dollars wasn't it?

[Anonymous No.6683426]

>>6671475
You'd be better off cleaning that the best you can and then getting a sticker to cover any light spots. That computer's patina is gorgeous.

[Anonymous No.6683435]

>>6670721
I thought it was a David Hockney.

[Anonymous No.6683496]

>>6683421
If these SGI machines are in their base configurations then no, not really.

[Anonymous No.6683527]

Seems like a good way to get on the highway

[Anonymous No.6683709]

>>6683398
pic like many itt was from an ebay auction

[Anonymous No.6684481]

The patrician's retro computing choice.

[Anonymous No.6684482]

>>6684481
how does the crt not break the stand?

[Anonymous No.6684483]

>>6684481
Nice try zoomer but NOBODY used that back in the day. Looks like YouTube lied to you again!

[Anonymous No.6684504]

>>6684481
I have to admit they're pretty good, though I'd rather have an SGI.

[Anonymous No.6684607]

>>6669939
Off-topic but what are some modern, black, cases with ridges like this? I have a thing for ridges in cases like the Atari VCS, 80's hardware and the PS2.

[Anonymous No.6684617]

>>6684607
Any server case.

[Anonymous No.6684974]

>>6683317
right, but why?
PC's are extremely backwards compatible

[Anonymous No.6685278]

>>6681767
do want

[Anonymous No.6686353]

>>6684974
DOS emulation is fine, windows games are an absolute crapshoot

[Anonymous No.6686364]

>>6684974
>PC's are extremely backwards compatible
mid-late 90's windows games can be tricky to run, they all have their quirks
some have 16-bit installers
some won't start on new versions of windows
some run too fast
some run too slow
some have broken video and/or audio
some need special hacks or tools to work
as for emulation, emulating pre-95 can be done in dosbox, early 95 in pcem is ok, but late 90's requires too much cpu power, early 2000's games you can just run XP in a VM with virtualisation
i have more luck running these games in wine than i do windows

[Anonymous No.6686528]

>>6686364
The funny thing is that most late 90s to late 00s run perfectly fine with WINE under Lunix while it is often a pain in the dick to run them on native Windows nowadays.

[Anonymous No.6686929]

>>6681771
lol i have like 3 of the same home made monitor risers. i'm such a stupid fuck at wood working, i wish i could make something nice.

[Anonymous No.6686941]

just watered the computines and I think they're coming along really well!

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>>6686941
Silicon Valley indeed.

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[Anonymous No.6687136]

>>6681746
we still have these over here

[Anonymous No.6687140]

>>6687134
I had a Peacock tower case! It had one of those push-click doors to access the drives.

[Anonymous No.6687236]

>>6681743
why is she wearing a power glove and some 3D shutter glasses when it's likely that machine didn't support them? Just for a cool photo?

Also makes me think how crazy it is that today, what is being suggested here is essentially possible with a 400 dollar piece of consumer hardware. Our modern level of tech is truly extraordinary.

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[Anonymous No.6688271]

>>6687236
that specific photo is obviously a publicity photo, but there's no reason to assume the shutter glasses and power glove couldn't be used on that machine
neither of them require a complex interface driver, if you're in the business of experimenting with new vr tech, you can easily write your own interface drivers for these simple devices
they don't appear functional in that specific photo, if the 3D scene was actually being rendered in 3D, it's likely the shimmering from rapidly rendering two viewpoints will show up in the photo as a double image or blur, and the powerglove's positional method requires ultrasonic emitters around the display, which are missing here (they might just be using the finger movement detection for this project, though)

[Anonymous No.6688290]

>>6670338
>>6670338
Is that onyx useful for /vr/ stuff? I work IT in the bay area and we recycled one last month. I was under the impression that it was a shitty enterprise server.

[Anonymous No.6688297]

>>6687236
>>6688271
Those 3D Googles look like the 3D Glasses for Sega Master System.

[Anonymous No.6688338]

>>6688297
it doesn't really matter, prototyping stuff often involved using or modifying existing stuff to suit a new purpose
shutter glasses are really simple devices, just two lcd's which go dark when a voltage is applied to them, they all work the same way, so why not use something cheap off-the-shelf and just build a simple interface circuit/driver for it?

[Anonymous No.6689095]

Where do I find CD-SPDIF cables that are not coaxial?

[Anonymous No.6689151]

>>6669783
kino

[Anonymous No.6689426]

>>6688290
Not for games, but for anything graphics-related. Granted that you have access to the software which is hard to come by now...and in some cases can't be properly installed or authorized anymore.

[Anonymous No.6689709]

>>6689095

what are you trying to do?

[Anonymous No.6689734]

>>6669780
I don't think there's a single all-in-one PC that looks better than the MSX2+ machines

[Anonymous No.6690109]

>>6681704
I will learn moonspeak just to use this.

[Anonymous No.6690837]

>>6681712
id on this please god that key

[Anonymous No.6691126]

I realize this might not be the right thread, but >/g/ hates old tech
I'm trying to upgrade my atari ste to TOS 2.06, I've got a programmer for an EPROM, but I'm not sure if I can use the 27C2001's I've got lying around (it's two rom chips in the system, one HI, the other LO). I've seen diagrams where you can snip resistor jumpers and rewire them to enable 32 pin EPROMs, but still am not sure about the pinouts. What do

[Anonymous No.6691357]

>>6669761

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>>6669761

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[Anonymous No.6691591]

>>6690837
the key is just on one of those HDD swap bays that you can get for quite cheap and the light is most likely just the HDD access LED since back in the say HDDs also had them on their controller board too (in addition to the external LED on the computer case)

[Anonymous No.6691715]

>>6681731
This one hurts. I can just smell the basement and the optimism in this photo of the new century. Kids don't understand what a great time that was.

[Anonymous No.6692307]

>>6689709
I want to connect a Sound Blaster Live to a DVD drive using a digital signal. I get too much interference with CD_IN.

[Anonymous No.6692362]

>>6691395
>5 hdds
Good lord I can FEEL this thing booting up

[Anonymous No.6692397]

>>6692307
Windows since 2000 uses digital pathways to read/play audio CDs and ignores the dinky audio cable, FWIW.

I mean, it's possible that you want CD playback running on 98 or something but...

[Anonymous No.6692496]

>>6691715
It really is like the euphoria for the new millennium was like any other bubble that popped like they always do but in this case it is way harder to cope with in the long run

[Anonymous No.6692501]

>>6692362
amazing that the torque doesn't make the case break loose and spin suddenly kek

[Anonymous No.6692518]

>>6676595
There really should be a secondary ring of the web designed for low-power browsing. Like those people who convert reddit to a telnet browsable version.

[Anonymous No.6692691]

>>6692362
I have six 3.5" HDDs in my PC and don't really notice anything different. The 8 case fans mask all the sounds they make.

[Anonymous No.6692715]

>>6692518
That's called browsing the web with lynx.

[Anonymous No.6692748]

>>6692518
that's called WAP

[Anonymous No.6692760]

>>6692362
its has 8 hdds, there are 3 more 10k rpm scsi hdds on top of the power supply, all of the hard drives working on RAID 0 mode they all read-write at the same time, i can hear the drives vibrating too loud while copying files

[Anonymous No.6692826]

>>6692760
>RAID 0

[Anonymous No.6692861]

>>6692518
It sure is fun living in the past but there hasn't really been any need for that in a long time now, since basically even the poorest fuckers have some kind of smartphone capable of browsing the modern web in their pockets. And if you are too poor for that, then I'm sure you have some other issues that you want to worry about instead.

[Anonymous No.6692870]

>>6692861
Also internet should be just less bloated overall. Most sites should not need 500 megs of javascript to load up a few lines of text.

[Anonymous No.6692896]

>>6682326
haha

[Anonymous No.6693085]

>>6692362
What so special about that? The machine I'm currently posting from has 8 x 6TB.

[Anonymous No.6693103]

>>6693085
Modern drives just aren’t the same. My dad had a 10x 10k half-height SCSI drive cabinet in the basement of our house growing up and I could feel it spin up from my bedroom on the second floor.

[Anonymous No.6693110]

>>6693103
I know old HHDs but that sounds a bit over the top

[Anonymous No.6693127]

>>6693110
*HDDs
fuck

[Anonymous No.6693190]

>>6693085
>implying that this is normal
Why the heck are you even posting from that thing?

[Anonymous No.6693196]

>>6693110
To be fair he had it bolted directly to the floor joists so that may have had something to do with it. Still put out some serious vibration though.

[Anonymous No.6693214]

>>6693190
It's just one of my machines used for seeding/torrenting. The other one has the same setup, but used as a video server.

[Anonymous No.6693239]

>>6669761
Not vintage, but I can play old school games with this!

[Anonymous No.6694459]

THICC

[Anonymous No.6694498]

>>6692307
>emulated synth
Yuck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hzxE1_nl0k

[Anonymous No.6694525]

>>6694498
You don't buy a Soundblaster Live to use the OPL3 emulation, you buy it for the wavetable synth with decent soundfont memory.

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>>6693239
Barf

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>>6691591
nice thanks

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nREuTPk9ipE

[Anonymous No.6694802]

>>6694715
such a weird name for a computer though
idk what "fm towns" is supposed to mean, but i would not imagine it to be a computer

[Anonymous No.6695084]

>>6669939
What's that drive above the CD drive?

[Anonymous No.6695217]

>>6695084
tape drive

[Anonymous No.6695483]

CONTROVERSIAL

[Anonymous No.6695497]

I don't get it, doesn't RAID mean there are still 7 functional drives with the same data on them? Or are they acting as one big drive, in which case he's lost 1/8 of his data?

[Anonymous No.6695501]

>>6694715
I like the FM Towns' design so much.
I wish there was some of way to fit modern computer parts in there, but the case isn't big enough :(

[Anonymous No.6695515]

>>6695497
it's raid 0, which means it was acting as one big drive and he's lost ALL of his data

[Anonymous No.6695547]

>>6695515
So the data is fine on the other 7 disks but the protocol has deemed that you're not "allowed" to access it in this situation? I don't know whether that's stupid or actively spiteful to the consumer.

[Anonymous No.6695561]

>>6681712
there is no escape

[Anonymous No.6695626]

>>6688182
Seeing doom on a CRT with a beige box underneath it like that sends me into a crazy nostalgia time warp. Because that was exactly how I experienced doom the first time :'(

[Anonymous No.6695636]

>>6695547
It's not like a 1/7th contiguous chunk is gone. It's like shotgun holes throughout the data every 64k/7 bytes or so. Completely screwed and unrecoverable.

[Anonymous No.6695639]

>>6695483
>Hot Wheels PC
>Metal Black poster
Godspeed to whatever madman lives in such a wild realm.

[Anonymous No.6695640]

>>6695547
RAID 0 takes each disk write or read, splits it into 8 pieces (in this case) and writes it to each disk. So there's going to be holes all the way through the data.

[Anonymous No.6695726]

[Anonymous No.6695775]

>>6695497
you're thinking of raid1 (mirror), which would just be 8 disks with the same content on each
this was a raid0 (stripe) meaning that every chunk is split into 8 parts and stored separately on each disk, losing one disk in a raid0 will corrupt the entire contents of the raid, only files small enough that they don't span all 8 disks even once can be recovered

[Anonymous No.6695818]

Then what the fuck even is the purpose of 0 if it can fuck up your shit this easily?
For files that are bigger than the individual harddisk?

[Anonymous No.6695858]

>>6695818
Its faster when ever you add a new drive you gain its performance, for example lets say that you have 2 hard drives configured on raid 0 and the read/write speed is 50MB if you reconfigured the array and added 2 more drives you will gain another 50MB so this mode focuses on performance

[Anonymous No.6695860]

>>6695818
it serves two purposes;
a. as a scratch disk, that is, space for temporary data which is a copy of data which is being worked on, losing such data is not a problem, scratch disks just need to be fast, not safe
b. to be combined with other raid types to combine their powers, like the common "raid10", which is not "raid ten", but rather 1 + 0, or 1 over 0, basically, a mirror of stripes. for example, take 4 disks, make two raid0's with 2 disks each, now raid1 the raid0's. the resulting raid is a raid10, this results in mix of raid1 and 0, it's safer than 0, faster than 1, and has more capacity than 1

[Anonymous No.6695927]

>>6695726
what is this?

[Anonymous No.6695982]

>>6695927
looks like an A4000TX "Lisa" to me

[Anonymous No.6696058]

>>6695636
Wow, so RAID0 is, practically speaking, crap because it just introduces more points of failure - each of which will fuck the whole volume?

But I suppose you;re right - they can't be contiguous or you'd lose the benefit of parallelism.

[Anonymous No.6696267]

>>6696058
Raid0 is a relic from a time when hard drives were minuscule and dreadfully slow. There was a time when the benefits outweighed the risks.

[Anonymous No.6696570]

gotta say IBM got a bit clumsy with their personal computer case designs in the late 90s. as if they were struggling really fucking hard to kinda stand out while having no idea what to do.

their servers and business machines were still cool looking though.

[Anonymous No.6696607]

>>6696570
Is this an Aptiva? I had one similar - I quite like the look but it never had the nostalgia feels like early 90s with their turbo switches and 7-segment LED speed indicators, etc.

[Anonymous No.6696629]

>>6696607
The ad says it's a 300GL

[Anonymous No.6696637]

>>6696629

[Anonymous No.6696641]

>>6696637

[Anonymous No.6696657]

[Anonymous No.6696948]

oh damn

[Anonymous No.6696953]

>>6696948

[Anonymous No.6697010]

>>6696948
>his tv has a visor
/cyb/ af

[Anonymous No.6697063]

[Anonymous No.6697275]

>>6694528
>hating on a futuristic computer design
You lack taste, don't ya NPC?

[Anonymous No.6697279]

THICC

[Anonymous No.6697427]

>>6681419
docc
also bricc

[Anonymous No.6697439]

>>6676218
Yeah its really try hard, its like someone who cares more about buying and collecting than actually using the systems they find interesting

[Anonymous No.6697459]

>>6676218
>>6697439
what the absolute FUCK is tryhard about having normal ass wooden flooring or wooden tables you get from ikea that have literally nothing to do with the computers anyways?
they just fucking needed a place to make a photo. should they have put it on the concrete ground of their garage to be authentic for you or what

[Anonymous No.6697586]

>>6683062
the smaller flatter 'dlr magellan' style spacemouse is actually pretty great to play descent (and overload) with XY on the mouse-mouse for aim, then ZUVR on the spacemouse. a very nimble control scheme. spectators will vomit. you might vomit.

[Anonymous No.6697658]

[Anonymous No.6697776]

I want a retro computer to program badly but I am afraid it will last no longer than a few months before a chip dies or something.

[Anonymous No.6697792]

>>6697776
Do your homework. Something like a C64 is only really susceptible to voltage problems and perhaps heat. Both can easily be mitigated by a new, modern PSU and some cheap heatsinks. Honestly the biggest problem is probably having a proper display to hook it up to

[Anonymous No.6697794]

>>6697776
And?
Then you fix your shit. Programmers without a hand for hardware are utter shit. Don't be shit.

[Anonymous No.6697838]

>>6694802
FM = Fujitsu Micro
Towns = the surname of Charles Townes, a Nobel prize winning physicist. Originally it was an internal codename (they always used nobel winners) but then they decided to use it for the production model. They weren't sure if Japanese people would pronounce "Townes" correctly though, so they made it "Towns" to make pronunciation clearer.

at least it helps it stand out compared to a more standard name like FM-7, I guess.

[Anonymous No.6697842]

>>6681829
you tried bargaining? Chances are the guy also knows its tough to sell goods.

[Anonymous No.6697934]

Is this a good card for a Win98 build?

[Anonymous No.6697940]

>>6697934
Why is that card backwards?

[Anonymous No.6697967]

>>6697940
>he's never seen an ISA card

[Anonymous No.6697983]

>>6697940
zoom harder

[Anonymous No.6698017]

>>6697967
>>6697983
Sorry gandapa and grandma

[Anonymous No.6698061]

>>6697934
Hmm, appears to be one of the SB16s affected by the hanging note bug, but that'll really only be important if you want to use a MIDI daughterboard or external MIDI module with the card.
If you plan on playing a lot of DOS games, it's a great card to have, but if you only want to play Windows games (and later DOS stuff like Doom or Duke 3D) then you don't really need a Sound Blaster compatible card.

[Anonymous No.6698093]

>>6697940
>is familiar enough to recognise that it's around the other way compared to PCI cards
>but hasn't seen an ISA card before
we're finally there, the point where young techs have never worked with a 90's computer

[Anonymous No.6698445]

>>6698093
You haven't truly worked on a PC until you've drawn blood in the process (FUCK molex connectors and unfinished stamped metal plate)

[Anonymous No.6698924]

>>6698445
lol, deburring? hemming? what are those?

[Anonymous No.6699846]

>>6698445
There is literally nothing wrong with Molex.

[Anonymous No.6699860]

>>6699846
yea it's ok if you can wedge them out with a screwdriver, i just love wiggling them until my fingers are red then having them let go and fling my hand violently against sharp stamped sheet metal or the corner of an I/O card. that's great, i love it
i also love how sometimes the pins don't line up so one of them gets pushed out when trying to install it, then you have to pop it back in and hold the wires in a weird way to make sure it doesn't happen again. this is also pretty cool, sata power connectors don't do that, i miss it.

[Anonymous No.6699863]

>pathetic.

[Anonymous No.6699865]

>>6699860
You sound like a total wimp.
Grow some fucking normal sized balls.

[Anonymous No.6699867]

>>6699846
>>6699860
in all seriousness though, while i think sata power is better, it's not perfect either, i think it's a bit too flimsy for the kind of wires it's using
i've seen way more broken sata shit than i ever did molex/ide, and even the few times i did see broken molex shit, it was just either popped out pins (just put them back in), or the plastic around the female ends was broken, which is not even necessary to keep them in place like it is with sata

[Anonymous No.6699870]

>>6698093
I love how long old cards would sometimes get. That one of the bottom is ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.6699873]

>>6699870
Yeah, the long one surrenders to gravity while the one above it is winning the fight

[Anonymous No.6699874]

>>6699870
looks like an AWE32

[Anonymous No.6699881]

>>6699873
I had a CGA card that size.

[Anonymous No.6699886]

[Anonymous No.6700045]

>>6695561

[Anonymous No.6700287]

[Anonymous No.6700291]

[Anonymous No.6700293]

>>6700291

[Anonymous No.6700297]

[Anonymous No.6700686]

>>6698093
that sag tho

[Anonymous No.6700779]

>>6700287
>trackpad
But why?

[Anonymous No.6700805]

>>6699886
bitchin fast 3d!

[Anonymous No.6700861]

>>6700686
from the XT up until somewhere around pentium 3, cases had support rails built in that full-length ISA cards would slot right into. often integral to the front fan mount.
PCI cards were "on the wrong side of the bracket" relative to ISA and needed an offset plastic spoiler-looking thingy to engage with the ISA card supports, but few PCI cards actually shipped with one attached, the hole pattern to fit to the card wasn't standardised, and you couldn't buy them anywhere, so we just gave up and let shit droop.

[Anonymous No.6700903]

>>6700779
to slide into a 1u tray in a 19" server rack, because KVM-over-IP didn't exist.

[Anonymous No.6701042]

>>6700861
>from the XT up until somewhere around pentium 3
Sound like you mean up to the introduction of the ATX cases after AT

[Anonymous No.6701321]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbH5-e81pE4

[Anonymous No.6701645]

>>6701042
atx cases had long card supports on the front fan carrier. they were squeezed out by demand for bigger fans and more drive bays.

[Anonymous No.6702735]

Retrobright? Yes/no?
Are there any longterm studies on how much it fucks with the plastic in terms of stability?

[Anonymous No.6703128]

>>6702735
it's your junk and you can do whatever.

[Anonymous No.6703169]

>>6703128
those keyboards sucked when new

[Anonymous No.6703371]

>>6703128
>filename
kek'd

[Anonymous No.6704675]

>>6703128
oof

[Anonymous No.6704697]

>>6669761
My current Amiga 1200 setup.

[Anonymous No.6705110]

>>6704697
sweet!

[Anonymous No.6705169]

>>6681729

God damn, CMs are sexy

[Anonymous No.6705232]

[Anonymous No.6705271]

One thing I miss the most is how technical and serious devices looked in the 90s and 80s.
Now everything looks like it is designed to look the least intimidating and dumbed down as physically possible.

[Anonymous No.6705460]

ESCOM was one of the few manufacturers that also offered some black cases back then on the German market

[Anonymous No.6705464]

>>6705460

[Anonymous No.6705475]

>>6705464
And the fucking scalper wants 400 euros for it OF COURSE

[Anonymous No.6705532]

>>6705475
looks like the computer the bad guy in an 80's movie has
love it

[Anonymous No.6705783]

[Anonymous No.6706091]

>>6705783
lmao there's even a review of this one with some sultry voice guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHpzIqNBC7U

[Anonymous No.6706149]

holy shit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHpzIqNBC7U

[Anonymous No.6706152]

>>6700779
Also available with a trackball.

[Anonymous No.6706164]

>>6706149
YOURS
MINE

[Anonymous No.6706202]

Does anybody know how to fix your VCORE voltage if its out of range?

[Anonymous No.6706239]

[Anonymous No.6706247]

[Anonymous No.6706250]

>>6706202
or is it maybe your PSU is about to go up?

[Anonymous No.6706306]

>>6706250
Its a very new PSU.

Cooler Master 500 rs-500-pcar-d3

[Anonymous No.6706323]

>>6706202
>out of range
looks about right for a Pentium II
what's your actual cpu?

[Anonymous No.6706325]

>>6706306
strange. well, sorry, no clue but maybe some other anon has

[Anonymous No.6706353]

>>6706323
I tired both a Pentium II 450mhz and a Pentium III 450mhz. Same error.

Asus P3B-F Motherboard.

[Anonymous No.6706372]

[Anonymous No.6706404]

>>6672068
Irix is the comfiest of OS.
I've been wanting to find a trashed Indigo to rebuild into a PC so i'm not destroying a functional machine.

[Anonymous No.6706417]

>>6706353
can you ignore the error?
tried taking out the battery for a minute?

[Anonymous No.6706452]

>>6706202
>-5V Voltage = -6.14V
99% probability that it's OK to ignore this.
-5V isn't used by the 'modern' parts of the system, it only goes to the ISA slot for backwards compatibility, and most ISA cards don't use it. if your sound card doesn't use -5V (or it has onboard voltage regulation) you're good to go.

[Anonymous No.6706998]

>>6706417
Yeah, I can ignore it but it stops me at every boot. I hate it.

[Anonymous No.6707196]

that was actually breddy clever

[Anonymous No.6707202]

>>6707196

[Anonymous No.6707540]

[Anonymous No.6707659]

God I want a CRT monitor so bad. But I don't have a car to pick one up off of Craigslist with

[Anonymous No.6707675]

>>6707659
Meanwhile I have this boat anchor sitting in my bedroom closet because I took the 4Kpill.

[Anonymous No.6707682]

>>6707659
You should probably focus on getting a job and a car, then.

[Anonymous No.6707687]

>>6707675
never give that thing away man

[Anonymous No.6707693]

can't believe i used to think those clicky ass ibm keyboards with keys like one inch deep were good, after u get used to skinny ass apple keyboards you cant go back to typewriter stylee

[Anonymous No.6707697]

>>6707682
I have a job, I just live in the city so I don't really have a need for a car

[Anonymous No.6707702]

>>6707697
order an uber bruh

[Anonymous No.6707703]

>>6707687
If I ever move I might just sell it. $1 starting on eBay and see it hit $400 or something. 22" Diamondtron NF tube with dual VGA inputs.

[Anonymous No.6708031]

>>6669761
I wanted an HB-F900, but my F5 has since grown on me.

Been planning on pulling the trigger on a MegaFlashROM SCC+, though what is the difference between the 1 and 2 SD slot models?

[Anonymous No.6708984]

>>6708031
damn nice

[Anonymous No.6708995]

i would kill for a vintage comp. i just dont know which one i should get...

[Anonymous No.6709431]

>>6708995
ask your gramps, maybe they still have one kicking around in the attic

[Anonymous No.6709669]

>>6672830
the little switch to lock drives when they autoeject shit, lmao
that really brings me back

[Anonymous No.6709740]

>>6708995
Well, what are you looking to play?

If you're fine with any old vintage computer, 9x PCs are still cheap.

[Anonymous No.6709802]

>>6708995
>i would kill for a vintage comp. i just dont know which one i should get...
Depends on your geographic region and budget. Though C64 is probably the best bang-for-buck ecosystem outside of old PCs and Macs to get into for the average browser here.

MSX and PC-98 are also fairly accessible options if you’re in Japan or open to importing from there. Amiga and ZX Spectrum if you’re in Europe.

[Anonymous No.6710085]

>>6709802
Amigas are on their way out of affordability.
The only ones you can still get for OK prices are absurdly yellowed, grungy and sticker residues plastered, BAREBONE 500s without powersupply, disks, nor mouse.
1200 easily sells for 300 and anything else like the 4000 sometimes even sell for literally 4000 bucks.

[Anonymous No.6710392]

[Anonymous No.6710395]

>>6710392

[Anonymous No.6710451]

old original packaged stock feels magical

[Anonymous No.6710458]

>>6710451

[Anonymous No.6710616]

East German computer from 1989

[Anonymous No.6710786]

>>6692861
Smartphones are for fags.

[Anonymous No.6711470]

Local guy has a Dell Dimension 4100 for $80, price negotiable. Says it freezes on a screen that shows the Dell logo and says "www.dell.com." Is that just part of the bios or Windows startup? Worth it?

[Anonymous No.6711492]

>>6711470
It's what the BIOS shows when there's either no hard drive or bootable OS. It'll just hang at the startup screen because old computers didn't have network boot to fall back to.

[Anonymous No.6712897]

>>6695483
not gonna lie if i ever came upon a broken Barbie PC i'd install a modern Mini ITX borad into the case and replace the CD-ROM with a Blu-ray drive and the standard floppy with an LS-120 drive

[Anonymous No.6712920]

>>6707196
can you use a unit like that with a kryoflux

[Anonymous No.6713168]

>>6712920
judging from >>6707202
it's probably just two electrically separate drives internally hooked up in master/slave configuration
notice the ribbon cable
idk if kryo flux has an issue with being hooked up to two drives, but i imagine you could modify this drive to appear as just one or the other

[Anonymous No.6713526]

[Anonymous No.6713528]

I love how the image limit isn't 150 on this board

[Anonymous No.6713529]

[Anonymous No.6713530]

>>6711470
>80
FUCK NO, don't feed fucking scalpers. I'd offer him 20 or he can fuck right off

[Anonymous No.6713534]

>>6711470
Also, it looks dirty as fuck. And those better not be bugs you can see on the case.

[Anonymous No.6713538]

bezel king

[Anonymous No.6713909]

>>6688271
>>6688338
That's a pretty cool thought, man. You know, I wish I knew electronics better so that I could play around with things like that.

[Anonymous No.6713914]

>>6690109
I hope you do it for more than just that, you're asking a huge commitment of time and effort for something relatively trivial. At least use it also to meet new people, study a new culture and learn about the nation's history and society.

[Anonymous No.6713918]

>>6681712
why does it have the furnace from home alone built into it

[Anonymous No.6713961]

>>6713909
it's not as hard as you might think, it's certainly way easier now than ever before, what with things like the internet, open source stuff everywhere and is easy to access, things like arduino which are designed to get people interested in entry level systems development, etc, etc
if it's something you think you might enjoy, i would suggest looking into something like arduino, it could be a nice hobby

[Anonymous No.6713970]

[Anonymous No.6713973]

>>6713918
he allowed cookies

[Anonymous No.6713978]

>>6713970
>Look at our ENTIRE data center superiority

That company was really damn smug back then

[Anonymous No.6714027]

>>6713978
They had and have all rights to do so

[Anonymous No.6714212]

>>6672109
There isn't a single thing made by Schneider that is not shit. Literally the worst company ever.

[Anonymous No.6714458]

>when you like retrobrighting too much

[Anonymous No.6714463]

>>6714212
wtf is your problem?
my tower AT did a great job back then and is still a neat machine. never had any problems.

[Anonymous No.6714850]

someone from /g/ has been living like this for years

[Anonymous No.6714860]

>>6714850
I would honestly love this.

[Anonymous No.6714921]

>>6714850
I don't see the problem. My old apartment looked like this until 2010.

[Anonymous No.6714932]

this must be the tower that kicked off the computer case ricing back in the late 90s

[Anonymous No.6715049]

>>6670338
Beautiful.

[Anonymous No.6715104]

>>6714850
c o m f y

[Anonymous No.6715134]

>>6713538
huh, I was always under the impression that blue logo ThinkPads only had B&W displays.

[Anonymous No.6715506]

>>6714850
>no white balance whatsoever

[Anonymous No.6715537]

>>6715506
>this is your brain on autism
Hint: He most likely went for "warmth" for the whole nostalgia theme.
There's also a chance he fucked up the white balance unintentional but it is not that likely given the nostalgiafaggotry in general.

[Anonymous No.6715541]

>>6715537
It doesn't take autism to notice the sepia piss filter over everything.

[Anonymous No.6715550]

>>6715506
>>6715537
>>6715541
How colors change everything.
It is now a crime scene.

[Anonymous No.6715556]

>>6715550
>80s noir kino

[Anonymous No.6716175]

>>6707675
thicc

[Anonymous No.6716697]

>>6714458
albino gameboy

[Anonymous No.6716698]

>>6669761
Is it fair to call something less than 40 years old "vintage"?

[Anonymous No.6716707]

>>6716698
why not?
'vintage' can be applied to anything which is old or dated, but has some lasting appeal about it
i don't think there is a specific age past which something can possibly be considered vintage

[Anonymous No.6717051]

>>6716698
Of course it is

[Anonymous No.6717082]

>>6693239
why does it look like an xbox

[Anonymous No.6717110]

heh

[Anonymous No.6717121]

>>6679425
Pff. Trolled the fuck outta me

[Anonymous No.6717280]

[Anonymous No.6718625]

>>6717280
damn good

[Anonymous No.6718641]

>>6715550
Good god, I keep trying to spot ANYTHING that isn't /vr/ and I can't.

[Anonymous No.6718801]

>>6710616
Holy shit neat, I'm a sucker for East German stuff.

[Anonymous No.6718926]

>>6669840
Oh my god, I never knew 5.25's existed... they're so.. so big...

[Anonymous No.6718945]

>>6718926
If you think this is big then you're in for some really beefy shit

[Anonymous No.6719014]

>>6669840
>when your hard drive doubles as a siren

[Anonymous No.6719091]

>>6711470
I have the same DVD burner (bottom) laying in the closet.

[Anonymous No.6719309]

>>6707196

you couldnt use both drives at the same time. so no it wasnt. you couldnt copy directly from the 5.25 to the 3.5. it was merely to put 2 drives in one space.

[Anonymous No.6719468]

I can have this IBM PS/1 Consultant for free, but how the fuck would I clean up this rust?

[Anonymous No.6719480]

>>6719468
Well, I can tell you one thing for sure, their support staff did not appreciate my asking

[Anonymous No.6719491]

>>6719480
I should probably check the inside condition before I go any further...

[Anonymous No.6719917]

>>6679404
this is mine, pretty expensive setup these days

[Anonymous No.6719930]

>>6719917
Heard their PSU can be pretty unreliable too

[Anonymous No.6719991]

>>6719930
stock psu is almost always dead. pico psu replacement is the way to go. very reliable.

[Anonymous No.6720208]

>>6718926
really? i'm 30 and even i'm old enough to have at least used 5.25" "bigfoot" drives

[Anonymous No.6720247]

>>6719917
damn

[Anonymous No.6720253]

[Anonymous No.6720358]

[Anonymous No.6720360]

>>6720358
oh shit, it's him

[Anonymous No.6720362]

>>6720208
Lol i remember having two. My case had a special space to screw it in flat against the front panel if you removed one of the floppy drives. I “made space” for the other one. It was just zip tied against the first lol

[Anonymous No.6720393]

>>6669918
I if only you didn't need two players..

[Anonymous No.6720402]

>>6670707
Must You pollute this place with Mac garbage

[Anonymous No.6720415]

>>6686364
Fuck, just run everything on XP.

[Anonymous No.6720416]

>>6686941
15 year old me would have loved these

[Anonymous No.6720419]

>>6692518
Do they still have telnet bbs or did they all go the way of Netscape

[Anonymous No.6720797]

>>6719468
It would take a few passes but white vinegar left on a few hours would definitely dissolve all that. Like you said though who knows what the inside looks like? Good luck anon, thats cool shit

[Anonymous No.6721073]

>>6720415
Not everything works on XP anymore.

>>6720402
There are some very nice Macs from the 90s. But yeah newer ones are garbage.

[Anonymous No.6721089]

>>6719917
'Super' is the 10 MHz / 2MB version, right?

[Anonymous No.6721104]

>>6720253
>Don't give DOS a chance
Semi-OT, but never got this war of different hard/software owners. They are just tools. The artisan uses whatever gets the job done.

[Anonymous No.6721107]

>>6721073

[Anonymous No.6721114]

lmao, the classic weird 90s camera angle

[Anonymous No.6721121]

[Anonymous No.6721132]

[Anonymous No.6721225]

This image is so old was from the time when most images online were still image GIFs

[Anonymous No.6721264]

>>6721225
and...?

[Anonymous No.6721310]

>>6721264
and what?

[Anonymous No.6721316]

>>6721225
I can smell the warm, slightly bitter and sweet, dry circuit board ozone air through the pixels.

[Anonymous No.6721351]

>>6721225
I've spent too much of my life in rooms like this.

[Anonymous No.6721372]

>>6721225
Server room at UT Austin looked something like this in the mid 90s

[Anonymous No.6721398]

>>6721225
it's got that old digital camera/webcam look to it as well, with the splotchy blacks and slight chromatic misalignment visible around edges

[Anonymous No.6721681]

>>6721398
Maybe even one of these badboys was used

[Anonymous No.6722323]

>>6719468
>>6719480
>>6720797
Just a bit dusty inside.

[Anonymous No.6722328]

>>6722323

[Anonymous No.6722336]

>>6722323
>>6722328

[Anonymous No.6722625]

>>6722328
you're lucky. the machine itself is relatively hard to get now thanks to IBM memefanfaggotry and the disk drive alone fetches massive buck on ebay because again, hype

[Anonymous No.6722627]

>>6722625
also, sure, not the same drive but the dual drives are apparently rare or whatever. they sell usually for absurdly high prices.

[Anonymous No.6722638]

>full retard mode

[Anonymous No.6722839]

>>6718641
Pibb Xtra only replaced Mr. Pibb in 2001.

[Anonymous No.6722909]

>>6721681
it was probably a fairly early one considering the resolution (576 lines suggests the usage of a regular PAL camcorder CCD), it's possibly a still of a video, though that's hard to prove considering early digital still cameras worked the same way as video cameras, it does look like it might have been taken as two interlaced fields as well, slight camera movement causes more horizontal artefacts than vertical
i could be wrong and it's just a high quality analog format, there's a bit of overlap in technologies around the mid-90's, where high quality analog video looks the same as digitial stills, since they're captured in the same way

[Anonymous No.6722978]

>not having a gibson supercomputer in the early 90s

you werent special unless you had a gibson!

[Anonymous No.6722981]

best computer ever

[Anonymous No.6722986]

>>6722978
How do I make my computer look like this? I need some people to thin kI'm a hackiner

[Anonymous No.6723067]

>>6722986
right click > set as wallpaper

[Anonymous No.6723071]

>>6723067
OK, but how do I move through the blocks of my program datas?

[Anonymous No.6723108]

>>6723071
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXQnWJpMLn4

[Anonymous No.6723139]

>>6670128
All of these play games. Seems within the rules to me

[Anonymous No.6723171]

get on my level noobs

[Anonymous No.6723207]

>>6723171
>Atari
Pathetic

[Anonymous No.6723241]

>>6723207

lol you just mad you commodore loser

[Anonymous No.6723773]

>>6723171
Awe...my first.

[Anonymous No.6723972]

mid 90s pure sex

[Anonymous No.6724095]

>>6708031
Best looking crt ever made

[Anonymous No.6724206]

>>6723773

mine too and I didnt see one in this thread. not my pic but I have all 3 of those. actually I have 2 1050's. one was modded back in the day with the US doubler mod. not sure if any of it still works its been stored away for a few decades

[Anonymous No.6724343]

>>6723773
>>6724206

after the atari 800XL this was my first actual PC. altho for some reason the one I had said legend 125, but doing a search for a pic of it yields no results. not sure why. maybe I was mistaken all these years but I was sure it was a 125
anyways not my pic, this computer has long since been gone.

[Anonymous No.6724360]

Look at what I found at a computer recycler. Near perfect condition. Just had to replace a lost capacitor.

[Anonymous No.6724532]

>>6723207
rude

[Anonymous No.6724536]

>>6724360
did they just let you rampage through their bin?

[Anonymous No.6724579]

>>6724536
yes. It all scrap to them.

[Anonymous No.6725034]

Dammit, thread's over.
Hope we'll have one like this again

[Anonymous No.6725209]

Picked up this external 5.25" drive complete in box today for $20. It's a "Weltec W 525 Subsystem"

[Anonymous No.6725217]

>>6725209
Oh and they also gave me MS-DOS 4.01 complete in box for free.

[Anonymous No.6725414]

>>6700861
That's why they're offset? God damn, never knew that.
There's still modern workstation cards with the offset piece of plastic. Always thought it was bent for structural support or something.