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While we're down memory lane; early CD-ROM burners that did not have buffer underrun protection. Having to sit and wait for up to an hour for the disc to be burned, and then discover it had turned into an expensive beer coaster was a bit frustrating, to say the least.
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peter gabriel posted:I had a Creative Geforce 2MX for a while that was a well known card to where I worked because it was a Geforce 2 that had been gimped somehow and people could ungimp them or something. Ha, I had a 9700 Pro for ever and ever; that was a great family.
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Feb 10, 2015 23:45
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mng posted:While we're down memory lane; early CD-ROM burners that did not have buffer underrun protection. Having to sit and wait for up to an hour for the disc to be burned, and then discover it had turned into an expensive beer coaster was a bit frustrating, to say the least. Hahahaha I burned so many worthless CDs this way. I remember getting a huge spindle of CDRs for Christmas one year and I remember going through all of them.
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Feb 10, 2015 23:50
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Wearable computers OF THE FUTURE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbK-Bo3k9KQ
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Feb 11, 2015 00:55
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Sweet Jesus... that sweater!
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Feb 11, 2015 01:48
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Mister Kingdom posted:Wearable computers OF THE FUTURE! I loving love this, because they were so god drat close. It was just that no one really understood just how small were going to be able to get and now every single thing she talks about her Power Ranger armor doing, is done with your phone.
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Feb 11, 2015 02:09
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mng posted:While we're down memory lane; early CD-ROM burners that did not have buffer underrun protection. Having to sit and wait for up to an hour for the disc to be burned, and then discover it had turned into an expensive beer coaster was a bit frustrating, to say the least. Man, starting to burn a CD and making goddamn sure that NO ONE who was around would even think of so much nudging the mouse until it was done. You also just KNEW your younger brother would ignore you (cough, I admit this was me a couple of times). So much about computers was voodoo from the mid 90s to early 2000s but CD burning especially.
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Feb 11, 2015 02:14
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mng posted:While we're down memory lane; early CD-ROM burners that did not have buffer underrun protection. Having to sit and wait for up to an hour for the disc to be burned, and then discover it had turned into an expensive beer coaster was a bit frustrating, to say the least. I managed to get a very early BURN PROOF writer, back when you could sell copies to people for 10 quid a pop, and not dodgy software either, like copies of their files  Computer viking posted:Ha, I had a 9700 Pro for ever and ever; that was a great family. Yeah mine saw me through 2 PCs which is a feat that has never been repeated I don't think, very good cards
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Feb 11, 2015 02:53
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Dick Trauma posted:Sweet Jesus... that sweater! 
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Feb 11, 2015 03:52
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Code Jockey posted:For some reason this reminded me how amazing things looked when I first began to run games in 640x480. So crisp! So many pixels! I remember having to physically flip a switch on the monitor to change it to SVGA mode.
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Feb 11, 2015 03:55
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KozmoNaut posted:I went straight from a Riva TNT to a Geforce Ti4200 128MB, which was one hell of leap.
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Feb 11, 2015 03:58
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Mister Kingdom posted:Wearable computers OF THE FUTURE! I'm torn between cringing and waxing nostalgic on the aesthetics. On the one hand, they look like the illegitimate children of a Gameboy and a Thighmaster, but on the other hand, who doesn't want to be a high(er) tech version of Data?
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Feb 11, 2015 04:07
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mng posted:While we're down memory lane; early CD-ROM burners that did not have buffer underrun protection. Having to sit and wait for up to an hour for the disc to be burned, and then discover it had turned into an expensive beer coaster was a bit frustrating, to say the least. This, but when you ran the burner through a "simulation" run first and it still failed. Two hours and several dollars down the drain 
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Feb 11, 2015 04:19
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peter gabriel posted:
Tribes players did. Tribes ran sooo much better on an 3DFX card than it did on Nvidia, at the time.
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Feb 11, 2015 04:52
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Lowen SoDium posted:Tribes players did. Tribes ran sooo much better on an 3DFX card than it did on Nvidia, at the time. I bought that just because of Tribes, I don't regret it.
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Feb 11, 2015 05:54
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Anybody else have one of these babies? It wanted to be an iPhone way before you could really have an iPhone. I also had a palm pilot in high school. I was so into the idea of computer tablets, I knew that poo poo was gonna be hot. Then iPhones came out and everybody got one and they were finally good, and I couldn't afford one for years. 
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Feb 11, 2015 05:59
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NLJP posted:So much about computers was voodoo from the mid 90s to early 2000s but CD burning especially. Everything has become so much easier now, but printing is still a bitch.
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Feb 11, 2015 06:42
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Mister Kingdom posted:Wearable computers OF THE FUTURE! gently caress its weird seeing Beyond2000 with an american presenter. That show ran for like 15 years here in Australia and never really knew it was popular overseas.
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Feb 11, 2015 06:53
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blugu64 posted:They were essentially a hardware MPEG decoder. The king poo poo thing to do was get one running on Linux, and use it to watch the Matrix. This reminds me of something of a predecessor to that, the Reelmagic. Back when CD-Rom made it possible to blow our minds by having grainy, pixelated, 15 FPS videos in our games, this card made it possible to view not-so-lovely videos on our computers, though any games had to release a separate version just for it. I think Return to Zork had one, no idea if anyone else bothered.
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Feb 11, 2015 07:08
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peter gabriel posted:I managed to get a very early BURN PROOF writer, back when you could sell copies to people for 10 quid a pop, and not dodgy software either, like copies of their files I was an undergraduate during the heyday of napster. A guy in my dorm was selling CDs of people's mp3 (from open windows share folders) for $10 a pop.
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Feb 11, 2015 07:25
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KozmoNaut posted:Everything has become so much easier now, but printing is still a bitch. All printers should come with a "stop loving around right goddamn now!" button so that when you need to change the ink it doesn't take five bloody minutes while the print head goes back and forth over and over for no reason. It makes me feel like a parent of a two year old. "Just let me put a clean top on you then you can go play with your friends. Stop squirming!"
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Feb 11, 2015 07:40
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As the family tech support for my entire life, gently caress printers forever. Who even needs to print poo poo anymore? It's not the goddamn 90s now, I got no time for Klax and I sure as gently caress don't want to troubleshoot a drat printer.
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Feb 11, 2015 11:23
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Gorilla Salad posted:All printers should come with a "stop loving around right goddamn now!" button so that when you need to change the ink it doesn't take five bloody minutes while the print head goes back and forth over and over for no reason. Printers are so weird. A cheap printer and tiny ink cartridge is £10 at the PC shop. The full-size cartridges are £15-20 each. I guess the companies figure that they'll lose money on the printer and make the money from repeated ink cartridge purchases, but on the rare occasion I want to print something I just buy the new printer, use it once or twice until it runs out and then buy another.
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Feb 11, 2015 11:36
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Yesterday I tried to print a borderless document. I say tried because everytime I select "borderless" it switches to "HP high quality ultra max glossy 10$ a sheet photo paper". Because that's the only paper the printer can print borderless on obviously. What the gently caress? Its 2015, just let me print.
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Feb 11, 2015 13:06
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I consider myself extremely lucky that I managed to score an almost brand new business-grade Kyocera laser printer with all the upgrades, network interface etc. from work a couple of years ago. 99,9% of the time, it does exactly what I tell it, the other 0,1% I have to open and close all the flaps and it seems to come to its senses. It's kinda handy for printing out recipes, car/motorcycle service diagrams and the like, which saves my smartphone/laptop from a lot of wear and dirtiness.
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Feb 11, 2015 13:29
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Until computers are exactly like paper in every away, they cannot replace paper.
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Feb 11, 2015 13:38
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No I'm not drunk.
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Feb 11, 2015 13:38
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I remember a few years ago seeing a breakdown of HPs profits and the ink sales accounted for something crazy like 50% of them, it may have been bullshit, I am struggling to find anything to back it up now.Jerry Cotton posted:No I'm not drunk. Why not?
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Feb 11, 2015 13:42
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Printers always gouge with ink sales. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBISqS9oNB4&t=161s Bring back the Apple Silentype!
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Feb 11, 2015 13:53
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Just used a printer in our office, to print out some drawings and assembly instructions for a trebuchet my scouts are going to build. So, printing out drawings for obsolete (but very cool) techonology.
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Feb 11, 2015 14:02
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Light Gun Man posted:As the family tech support for my entire life, gently caress printers forever. Who even needs to print poo poo anymore? It's not the goddamn 90s now, I got no time for Klax and I sure as gently caress don't want to troubleshoot a drat printer. These "physical media is dead" posts are getting out of control.
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I print out important emails and put them in front of me so I don't forget about them 
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Feb 11, 2015 16:00
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Shout out to the cheap laser printers. I have a $50 dollar one I picked up from Fry's and she's still chugging ~8 years later
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Feb 11, 2015 16:07
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Ron Jeremy posted:Shout out to the cheap laser printers. I have a $50 dollar one I picked up from Fry's and she's still chugging ~8 years later The Brother HL-22700W is way loving better than it has any right to be, for as little as it sells for. WiFi AND an autoduplexer? And it doesn't weigh a metric ton? Sign me the gently caress up 
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Feb 11, 2015 16:18
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Ron Jeremy posted:Shout out to the cheap laser printers. I have a $50 dollar one I picked up from Fry's and she's still chugging ~8 years later I loved my $50 Brother laser printer so much that I bought a nicer one when I decided I needed a scanner. Except for the few times when you need to print in color, a cheap laser printer has practically none of the drawbacks of most printers.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Shout out to the cheap laser printers. I have a $50 dollar one I picked up from Fry's and she's still chugging ~8 years later I bought a $70 USB one off of newegg when I was taking a screenwriting class something like 7-8 years ago, and since then I've only ever had to replace the toner exactly once, and it's still going.
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peter gabriel posted:I print out important emails and put them in front of me so I don't forget about them Oh god, the IT thread tales were true.
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An Angry Bug posted:Oh god, the IT thread tales were true. Hey, I don't want to forget anything!
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:The Brother HL-22700W is way loving better than it has any right to be, for as little as it sells for. WiFi AND an autoduplexer? And it doesn't weigh a metric ton? Sign me the gently caress up I've got its hot colour sister, it has a touch screen and does A3 at a push: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brother-MFC...her+mfc+j4510dw loving £100 ink 
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