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Nice post. I was trying to find a specific Databack watch that Casio made back in the mid to late 90's that had a round analog face, but opened up like a clam shell to reveal keyboard on the bottom and a digital screen on the top, but I can't find it. But I did find a nice collection of nerd watch porn.
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Astroman posted:Later, when I was getting all into Transformers, and that other watch had sadly died, I got this badass mofo:
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I have very fond memories of those transformer watches. To this day I still wear a Casio F-91W, the official watch of Islamic extremist terrorism. The classics never go out of style.
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Astroman posted:Still wish my phone could turn to a scorpion though. Thanks Astroman. Posts like this are why I love these forums so drat much. 
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 How about an network card with coax and AUI? I believe both of them are obsolete, and for all I know, failed. I can't remember ever using the AUI port for anything.
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joedevola posted:To this day I still wear a Casio F-91W, the official watch of Islamic extremist terrorism. The classics never go out of style. My father used to wear one of those. Should I turn him in?  Datasmurf posted:How about an network card with coax and AUI? I believe both of them are obsolete, and for all I know, failed. I can't remember ever using the AUI port for anything. Coaxial still gets some use, you just don't really see it anymore in home or office networks because ethernet is easier to work with and does everything you'd need in that environment just fine.
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The loving awful Packard Bell modem/sound card. It was the first thing I replaced when my parents bought our first computer.
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Datasmurf posted:
AUI is useful when you want to do something crazy like this. http://ronja.twibright.com/metropolis/ 10Mbit ethernet over homebuilt optical links.
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Well, I'll be. You learn something new every day. How about these fancy things I found when cleaning? Sorry for lovely cellphone pic.  A CD with ISDN drivers from Jensen, Grollier Multimedia Encyclopedia for IBMs, Windows 95 demo and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 Cross Platform Version.
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Jan 8, 2013 18:27
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Someone remind me what the Win95 demo was like. It was mostly functional just time limited right? I remember being all MAN gently caress THAT WIN3.1 FOR LIFE 95 LOOKS DUMB but as soon as I fired up that demo I was in love.
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Jan 8, 2013 18:33
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Kalos posted:My father used to wear one of those. Should I turn him in? Yeah, I remember coax being really popular for small networks up until the mid/late-90s or so just because hubs were still expensive, and just don't ask about switches or routers. Once hubs/switches became common and cheap most people never looked back.
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Jan 8, 2013 21:00
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In the 90s we all used coax for our LAN parties of Doom.
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Kalos posted:My father used to wear one of those. Should I turn him in? Haha I remember Coax networking, having make sure there were terminators at each end. I could be making this up, but I want to say in my first job the IT guys used to have to be really quick when hooking up a new computer to the network and so had to cut and splice the cable and shove in a new T connector within a minute or the whole network would crash and the server would need rebooting or some such making each time like something out of mission impossible. Windows 95 drivers were terrible for coax network cards as well, thats what made me and my neighbour finally buy new cards which took cat 5 (and then found we needed a switch or crossover cable to connect!).
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Lowen SoDium posted:Nice post. Ive been looking for these watches too, there are 2 that I know of with the flip top, the round Casio FlipTop DataBank IA-1000 and the square FTP-10-7B.
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Geoj posted:^ Hahaha I had one of these. gently caress yeah, it was hilarious back in high school. My friend had one that beat me though, his watch was also a universal remote. He had alot of fun loving with teachers, he did it so much in our history class that they called in police to search our stuff for the remote and never found one.
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Do they still make these goddamn things?  There was always one or two weird vendors off to the side with a few demo computers set up selling them at the computer shows I used to go to. All sorts of different makes and models too, some that just glued to the keys with a sticky pad thing, some that had the box like in that picture. I used one for five minutes and immediately decided they were terrible, even in the era before mouselook where they were actually relevant.
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Do they still make these goddamn things? I don't know if they are still made, but i remember using something similar, it was on a Sinclair Spectrum clone and it clamped to the back of the computer and overlapped the numbers row on top of the keyboard. The lever pressed some metal strips that in turn pressed the keys under it. For some reason the arrow keys where another function of the numbers keys, 6 to 9 i think. It was junk because the computer was very light and every time you pushed the lever in the "up" direction you could tip over the whole thing.
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I was wondering if anybody remembers the white plastic slate/art board type thing that you hooked up to your TV and you drew on the slate with certain tools and it showed up on your TV. It was kind if like plugging in MS Paint and being able to draw and color an see it on your TV.
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OozieNelson posted:I was wondering if anybody remembers the white plastic slate/art board type thing that you hooked up to your TV and you drew on the slate with certain tools and it showed up on your TV. It was kind if like plugging in MS Paint and being able to draw and color an see it on your TV. I had this too! I thought for a while it was a Sega Pico, but it doesn't appear to be. Gah, I'd kill to see it again. I had it as a little kid.
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OozieNelson posted:I was wondering if anybody remembers the white plastic slate/art board type thing that you hooked up to your TV and you drew on the slate with certain tools and it showed up on your TV. It was kind if like plugging in MS Paint and being able to draw and color an see it on your TV. Oh poo poo, I remember those from the early/mid 90s but I canNOT remember what they were called. I lusted for them with all of my first-grade heart.
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TheSpiritFox posted:Hahaha I had one of these. gently caress yeah, it was hilarious back in high school. My friend had one that beat me though, his watch was also a universal remote. He had alot of fun loving with teachers, he did it so much in our history class that they called in police to search our stuff for the remote and never found one. Ha ha. I remember seeing some kids in our town centre outside a tv rental shop keep turning up the volume to max on about 10 tvs through the window. The manager eventually came out shouting at them and had a bit of a meltdown.
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Desert Bus posted:The loving awful Packard Bell modem/sound card. It was the first thing I replaced when my parents bought our first computer. Haha, good lord I hated those things. I'm going to assume this was the norm, but with my parent's computer there was a 50/50 chance of the modem hanging and failing to dial out. You would then have to reboot the computer for another attempt. I think we ended up replacing it with a Soundblaster Gold and a 33.6 modem.
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Before I got an actual gamepad ( ), I had something like that. Mine was much simpler thought -- just a stick that sort of latched on to the 5 key on the numpad with a cross to press down on the 2, 4, 6, and 8 keys.At its best, it performed much worse than pressing the keys by hand. More often it just snapped off when you tried to use it.
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OozieNelson posted:I was wondering if anybody remembers the white plastic slate/art board type thing that you hooked up to your TV and you drew on the slate with certain tools and it showed up on your TV. It was kind if like plugging in MS Paint and being able to draw and color an see it on your TV. That would be the Video Painter:  My sister and I had one of these growing up. We played the poo poo out of it.
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Lowen SoDium posted:That would be the Video Painter: I remember the commercials for this thing. I wanted it so badly but I never got one.
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Qotile Swirl posted:Before I got an actual gamepad ( Oh man, I had a Gravis Gamepad ADB.
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Bringing the thread to hitherto unseen levels of obsolete: there is a project in the works to build a fully functional replica of EDSAC, one of the first electronic computers ever built. I can't recall offhand whether it predates ENIAC or the Ferranti-1, but it drat well predates everything else.
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Qotile Swirl posted:Before I got an actual gamepad ( I had one of those gamepads, the "arcade stick" you were supposed to screw into the D-pad broke within a few hours.
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Ensign Expendable posted:I had one of those gamepads, the "arcade stick" you were supposed to screw into the D-pad broke within a few hours.   broken stick buddy
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movax posted:
You can get pills for that.
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If this gamepad didn't define your 90s PC gaming experience, you missed out. Best pad ever. The second I saw that, I thought "Jazz Jackrabbit, Commander Keen, Jill of the Jungle".
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Hell yeah, obsolete PC gaming controllers. I remember the Gravis Gamepad totally blew my mind when I first saw one in the early-to-mid 90s, because as a kid I thought only Nintendo and Sega had controllers like that. Never had one of those myself, though, my family didn't buy a computer until 1999 and by that time there were far better controllers available.  I played the poo poo out of EA Sports NHL and Carmageddon 2 with this thing. (I always wanted the one that had tilt controls, but never bought one for some reason) Looking back, the D-pad was kinda crap (a lot like the one on the original Xbox controller, actually), but back then it didn't matter so much. Besides, it was still ten times better than the one on the controller I got a few years later:  The Logitech Cordless Rumblepad before they redesigned it to be more like the Dualshock. This thing was an unholy monstrosity. Not only was it massive (it was at least as big as the Xbox controller), but the buttons were horrible and unresponsive and the sticks were cheap plastic crap. And that D-pad...  You couldn't do any precise movements with that thing, ever. Playing fighting games on emulators was completely impossible unless you used the stick instead.
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That looks really uncomfortable to hold. Why does it curve up on the left? Just so Nintendo didn't sue them?
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DrBouvenstein posted:That looks really uncomfortable to hold. Why does it curve up on the left? Just so Nintendo didn't sue them? Did Nintendo ever freak out about the Gravis pad? I never thought about it before, though the similarity to the Super Famicom controller [those colored buttons  ] is undeniable. The Gravis pad didn't have shoulder buttons, if that counts for anything.Also, the Microsoft pad you posted Dr. Ohnoman was one of my favorites of all time. Sooooo nice. It had a port in the back you could daisy chain controllers together with. That was my go-to emulation controller for a long, long time, until I finally got a Dualshock 2 adapter and used my PS2 controller when the MS pad died. The MS pad was programmable with macros too [what the center bottom gray button was for, if I recall, and the "Mode" button I think] but I never used 'em. e. and honestly the Gravis pad wasn't too uncomfortable, at least for my tiny rear end kid hands. My monstrous man-hands might have a problem, though.
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Code Jockey posted:
There was a period around late 90's (?) when Microsoft made the absolutely best pads and general purpose joysticks design and quality-wise for PC systems. I personally liked the Sidewinder Precision Pro, Tie Fighter and Freespace was a great experience with it. Then force feedback-stuff started to appear and quality took a nosedive.
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The original Sidewinder Force Feedback Wheel was awesome. So many hours spent crashing old Formula One cars in Grand Prix Legends. The force feedback on that controller was so powerful that smaller objects would fall off the table when you went offroad in Midtown Madness.
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Sex Hobbit posted:Oh poo poo, I remember those from the early/mid 90s but I canNOT remember what they were called. I lusted for them with all of my first-grade heart. I know exactly what you are talking about. I used to love that thing. I know its still in my parents basement. I'll check when I go back this weekend and will report back.
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semiavrage posted:I know exactly what you are talking about. I used to love that thing. I know its still in my parents basement. I'll check when I go back this weekend and will report back. EDIT: Wow I am so late on that one. Video painter, yup. EDIT2: Quote isn't edit, I'm on a bad posting roll.
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Jedit posted:Bringing the thread to hitherto unseen levels of obsolete: there is a project in the works to build a fully functional replica of EDSAC, one of the first electronic computers ever built. I can't recall offhand whether it predates ENIAC or the Ferranti-1, but it drat well predates everything else. Along the same lines this guy built three working copies of the original Block I Apollo Guidance Computer, the most advanced computer the 1960's had to offer that allowed us to land on the moon. And he wrote up a gigantic, painstakingly detailed document (at the bottom of the article I linked) that tells you how you too can do the same! (If you have $3000 and the patience and attention to detail of a goddamn old world clock manufacturer)
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movax posted:
It used pretty standard threads, so you could find a bolt or something that won't break to thread into it. And then subsequently realize that the stick is just a pointless extra step between your fingers and pushing buttons. DrBouvenstein posted:That looks really uncomfortable to hold. Why does it curve up on the left? Just so Nintendo didn't sue them? That little black switch changes the directions of the d-pad so that the controller can be used upside-down. Some sort of misguided attempt at a "lefty flip" option.
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