only post itt if you used a mac before os x

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theadder: Dec 30, 2011

Binary Badger posted:

although rumors persist of a 12-inch MBA that might show up one'a dese days

not a rumour but actual advance warning of what is to come op

# ? Dec 9, 2014 07:50

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# ? Jun 2, 2024 20:44

pram: Jun 10, 2001

Fax Sender posted:

i completely forgot that they ever made an imac g5 haha what the gently caress

yeah putting the g5 in anything but a giant watercooled tower was a bad idea

# ? Dec 9, 2014 08:04

Raluek: Nov 3, 2006; WUT.

i thought the aircooled ones were the ones to have, with their fancypants cooling zones or whatever, because the watercooled ones burn out their pumps silently? some poo poo like that?

# ? Dec 9, 2014 08:09

DONT THREAD ON ME: Oct 1, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo; Floss Finder

Raluek posted:

i thought the aircooled ones were the ones to have, with their fancypants cooling zones or whatever, because the watercooled ones burn out their pumps silently? some poo poo like that?

steve lied. computers died.

# ? Dec 9, 2014 08:10

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

steve lied. computers died.

only in abnormal use op

# ? Dec 9, 2014 08:11

Smythe: Oct 12, 2003

Raluek posted:

i thought the aircooled ones were the ones to have, with their fancypants cooling zones or whatever, because the watercooled ones burn out their pumps silently? some poo poo like that?

actually the computer, much like every other old mac had an epic case of #FAIL AIDS and sucked big time, QP.

# ? Dec 9, 2014 09:03

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

i haven't read any of this thrad yet but i wanted to say that i did this and love the Wild Eep enough to make it my phone noise

# ? Dec 9, 2014 09:11

Raluek: Nov 3, 2006; WUT.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i haven't read any of this thrad yet but i wanted to say that i did this and love the Wild Eep enough to make it my phone noise

nnice. that reminds me, i used (and helped admin lol) a ppc clone lab in middle school whose error was one of the female TTS voices saying "pay atten-tion" and lol that has been rattling around in my head since then.

E: it was kathy

Raluek fucked around with this message at 10:12 on Dec 9, 2014

# ? Dec 9, 2014 09:39

newreply.php: Dec 24, 2009; Pillbug

Smythe posted:

old macs SUCK

old macs own as long as they are used as decorative items (excluding any 90s models)

if you mean using them for computing purposes iawtp

# ? Dec 9, 2014 13:45

Binary Badger: Oct 11, 2005; Trolling Link for a decade

Raluek posted:

i thought the aircooled ones were the ones to have, with their fancypants cooling zones or whatever, because the watercooled ones burn out their pumps silently? some poo poo like that?

wasn't water, it was liquid coolant. after about 5-8 years the seals failed and leaked light green watery crap all over the place, every single one

i know of no unmodified liquid cooled G5s operating to this day

g5s were/still are noisy as hell, except for maybe the last gen dual core G5s where were pretty good but too little too late

fun fact if you plug a firewire device into one of those G5s it will get charged even when the G5 is turned off, as long as it's plugged in

i charge my 4th gen iPod clicky wheel like this every couple days, world's biggest and most expensive wall wart charger

# ? Dec 9, 2014 17:21

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

Binary Badger posted:

wah lah

seriously

# ? Dec 9, 2014 17:29

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

Binary Badger posted:

wah lah

lmao

# ? Dec 9, 2014 19:04

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i haven't read any of this thrad yet but i wanted to say that i did this and love the Wild Eep enough to make it my phone noise

same except the apple newton "bell" and apple newton "trill" sounds

# ? Dec 9, 2014 19:13

kitten emergency: Jan 13, 2008; get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

same except the apple newton "bell" and apple newton "trill" sounds

do you have a link to the newton sounds

# ? Dec 9, 2014 19:22

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

lmao

graph posted:

seriously

i was gonna comment on it but i figured it would make me kind of a fop so thanx

at least he understands phonics and doesn't say "viola!!!"

Binary Badger posted:

fun fact if you plug a firewire device into one of those G5s it will get charged even when the G5 is turned off, as long as it's plugged in

i charge my 4th gen iPod clicky wheel like this every couple days, world's biggest and most expensive wall wart charger

fun fact firewire can source 1.5 amps at 30 volts. 45 fuckin watts of power. compare to even the so-called "fast" usb chargers that max out at 10-12w, or standard usb @ 2.5w

Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Dec 9, 2014

# ? Dec 9, 2014 19:22

Binary Badger: Oct 11, 2005; Trolling Link for a decade

its me im the one who kept cutting engrish glass

# ? Dec 9, 2014 19:37

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

uncurable mlady posted:

do you have a link to the newton sounds

i'll have to check my computer at home, i did this like three years ago, hopefully i still have the files

Sagebrush posted:

fun fact firewire can source 1.5 amps at 30 volts. 45 fuckin watts of power. compare to even the so-called "fast" usb chargers that max out at 10-12w, or standard usb @ 2.5w

yeah firewire is great

# ? Dec 9, 2014 19:39

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

bring back the platinum design language

# ? Dec 10, 2014 14:36

Raluek: Nov 3, 2006; WUT.

oh yeah i also have a quicktake 100 somewhere. does that count

# ? Dec 10, 2014 17:12

Binary Badger: Oct 11, 2005; Trolling Link for a decade

i still have a Global Village 56K fax modem, still works, but no serial port to plug it into

plus a boatload of plain talk microphones

# ? Dec 10, 2014 17:21

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

i wonder if any laserwriters are still in use

# ? Dec 10, 2014 17:22

Binary Badger: Oct 11, 2005; Trolling Link for a decade

one rental place i know still has a IIg, still prints the best greyscales

# ? Dec 10, 2014 17:25

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

i have a g3 upgraded performa around here somewhere that runs BeOS 5 and OS8

# ? Dec 10, 2014 17:54

pram: Jun 10, 2001

I've physically lost the box. I can still ping it, but I can't find it! *audience laughter and applause*

# ? Dec 10, 2014 18:28

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

Missing Novell server discovered after four years

In the kind of tale any aspiring BOFH would be able to dine out on for months, the University of North Carolina has finally located one of its most reliable servers - which nobody had seen for FOUR years.

One of the university's Novell servers had been doing the business for years and nobody stopped to wonder where it was - until some bright spark realised an audit of the campus network was well overdue.

According to a report by Techweb it was only then that those campus techies realised they couldn't find the server. Attempts to follow network cabling to find the missing box led to the discovery that maintenance workers had sealed the server behind a wall.

Things buried behind walls belong more to the world of Edgar Alan Poe than that of the BOFH. And think of the horror facing the college techies if they ever replace this old Novell server with an NT box.

In that case, the terror of the Blue Screen of Death awaits you, fellas. �

# ? Dec 10, 2014 18:36

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

infernal machines posted:

i have a g3 upgraded performa around here somewhere that runs BeOS 5 and OS8

beos screen shots please

I think you can even download a WebKit based browser for it, I need to boot my BeBox and install one myself

# ? Dec 10, 2014 21:30

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

infernal machines posted:

i have a g3 upgraded performa around here somewhere that runs BeOS 5 and OS8

also, a BeOS VNC server might be useful

# ? Dec 10, 2014 21:33

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.