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Jerry Cotton posted:A goon, at that. Funny enough, I was actually very skinny then. edit: Clarifications, I didn't buy both foot longs for me. Lowen SoDium has a new favorite as of 15:30 on Sep 6, 2015 |
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Lowen SoDium posted:They game me poo poo once for having a card with 4 sequential stamps on it. Like it was beyond belief that someone could possibly buy 2 foot longs at once. Or that someone might pick up lunch for the office, or any number of other scenarios...
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Fo3 posted:What's wrong with yours? Is yours a DV-9500 by any chance? The one that comes with 2 hard drives, because back when they came out it was the only way to have 320gb. Most of the time it's ok, but when you have anything that uses the graphics card and/or heavy CPU utilisation, the temps climb up to 75°C. A friend of mine who was working in computer service told me long ago to sell it while it was still working and worth something since they often overheat to the point of damaging the board. Basically it's just a matter of being judicious about letting those temps get high. It's also from that era where you can't just get at the fan and clean it - that requires a full disassembly.
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Sep 6, 2015 07:42
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Squish posted:It's also from that era where you can't just get at the fan and clean it - that requires a full disassembly. I had this problem with an old HP laptop, the fan was so clogged it would barely turn- so a friend and I blew through that sucker with a compressor. We got some chunks of fan blade out the back, as well as several years worth of dust, it was glorious. Fucker kept chugging for another year or so without a fan.
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Squish posted:Is yours a DV-9500 by any chance? The one that comes with 2 hard drives, because back when they came out it was the only way to have 320gb.. e: I blow out the cooler with compressed air every couple of years. In this model it's easy to have acces to hdd, ram or cpu with removable covers. So upgrades and maintenance is simple. There's been some nightmare stories about these PC's, but mine has been the most reliable PC I've ever owned. Also no slower or worse than my partner's newer i5 lenovo laptop. I did have a hybrid seagate drive in it for couple of years that made it even quicker, but that died. Main problem with the laptop was it shipped with vista, and has no drivers for winxp or win7, that's the main reason why I am using a linux distro on it. Fo3 has a new favorite as of 11:53 on Sep 7, 2015 |
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Fo3 posted:Main problem with the laptop was it shipped with vista, and has no drivers for winxp or win7, that's the main reason why I am using a linux distro on it. Really? I've never seen anything that had Vista preinstalled and couldn't use the same drivers for 7. Is it more of a 64/32 bit issue?
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Fo3 posted:No, mine is a dell vostro. I bought it with a t7100 or t7200, upgraded it to a t7800 in 2001 for $90 with a s/h cpu. I am currently on a Vostro 420 desktop. It's a older Core 2 Quad system, but amazing for it's age.
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Fo3 posted:No, mine is a dell vostro...Main problem with the laptop was it shipped with vista, and has no drivers for winxp or win7, that's the main reason why I am using a linux distro on it. There's gotta be Windows 7 drivers for whatever model of Vostro you have. Where are you looking for drivers?
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I have a piece of obsolete technology that needs replacing. It's the Netis WF2190 Wireless AC1200 Wireless Dual Band USB Adapter. It cost $50 from Fry's a few months back and it was made obsolete the moment I installed windows 10. The adapters were sold starting about two years ago but driver support for them stopped one year ago with windows 8.1.
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Sep 7, 2015 07:38
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Any TV or device that doesn't have HDCP 2.2 in the near future! 
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Wilford Cutlery posted:There's gotta be Windows 7 drivers for whatever model of Vostro you have. Where are you looking for drivers? Dell never supported win7 with this particular laptop, so there's no official release. There were some drivers others found and did test, and linked to if you googled. IIRC the main sticking point was no audio drivers for win 7 (64bit)late edit: I bought the laptop with 2gb and also upgraded it to 4gb when I did the CPU upgrade, so I wanted a 64bit OS. There was a work around using some other drivers later on. But back then I wanted to get rid of 32bit vista ASAP, and any work arounds didn't come up until much much later. You might find them now, but it was a lot harder back then. But anyway, who cares, I'm OK with running a 'nix on it. Fo3 has a new favorite as of 12:10 on Sep 7, 2015 |
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To make up for the derail about my laptop, SSS posted this in AI. Nissan/Datsun used a plastic phonograph for car warnings/chimes in the late 70s/early 80s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hJBko3-oV4 We didn't have chimes for Australian market cars (just warning lights, or buzzers at most), inc regular Japanese made cars sold here, so it was amazing seeing it.
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Fo3 posted:What's wrong with yours? As long as it's not one of the old Dell Latitude 600 series laptops with the Quadro GPU - I still remember my previous IT job ordering a bunch new and finding out the hard way about the inadequate graphics chip cooling. Dell made a new heatpipe cooler after so many complaints but parts of the laptop were literally melting from excess GPU heat, I want to say it was near the upper right corner of the touchpad. That's what happens though when Dell thinks a tiny sliver of metal covered with a cheap foam cooling pad is going to keep a gently caress-off hot GPU cooled off 
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Ozz81 posted:As long as it's not one of the old Dell Latitude 600 series laptops with the Quadro GPU - I still remember my previous IT job ordering a bunch new and finding out the hard way about the inadequate graphics chip cooling. Dell made a new heatpipe cooler after so many complaints but parts of the laptop were literally melting from excess GPU heat, I want to say it was near the upper right corner of the touchpad. That's what happens though when Dell thinks a tiny sliver of metal covered with a cheap foam cooling pad is going to keep a gently caress-off hot GPU cooled off I have to deal with a D630 and it's actually that whole series of GPUs that's hosed up. Several other laptop manufacturers also had overheating problems with them. Dell's solution was to push a BIOS update that kept the fan spinning. I could get a board with Intel graphics, but there's software installed that requires a new key if hardware is changed.
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We have a couple of D630C "loaners" which will spin the cooling fan at max speed for 5-10 minutes after each boot.
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Fo3 posted:To make up for the derail about my laptop, SSS posted this in AI. It sounds like it's about to cry.
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Fo3 posted:To make up for the derail about my laptop, SSS posted this in AI. These would make real good samples for an EDM song.
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mostlygray posted:
This. What's keeping poor African countries poor isn't a lack of laptops. It's massive corruption, no rule of law, lack of property rights, kleptocratic governments, and do-gooders who don't understand the other things. This complex set of socioeconomic factors isn't corrected by giving them cheap laptops. If you can't do something, you can't do it with a computer.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I see them all the time because they're not failed or obsolete. Doesn't change the fact that far too many bicyclists don't have proper lights and retro reflectors on their bike. Or worse, they only have a red one on the front. Call me a oval office, but I can't be arsed to do more than avoid a collision with twats like that. gently caress your right of way, start by making sure people can see you.
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This is the only thread I know of that might be able to help me. First, here's me as a kid pretending to be a Master Hacker  Now, here's the thing: What computer is that? I can't seem to find anything from a google image search of early PCs that would give me any sort of keyboard configuration like that, not to mention be straight up black.
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WeX Majors posted:This is the only thread I know of that might be able to help me. Looks like a black Commodore B128 to me.
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WeX Majors posted:This is the only thread I know of that might be able to help me.
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Putting my chips on Amstrad of some kind
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blugu64 posted:Putting my chips on Amstrad of some kind Same here, quick Google search led me to Amstrad CPC, there are a couple models that look near identical to what's behind Wex
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I can't deny that the Amstrad is pretty close. It's at the very least, the only one I've found so far that matches the weird rear end color scheme. But it's not it. Here's a CPC 664  The Enter Button is ginormous, and also helps to point out the lack of a column of standard-sized keys that stretches all the way back down to the Space Bar Row. The numberpad has the correct amount of keys, but has the blue enter key which I don't have. I also don't have that arrow key configuration above the numpad, nor do I have a tape cartridge slot. Also, the Amstrad line was mostly in the UK. Obviously it doesn't mean that a massive nerd like my dad wouldn't think of importing a PC to the States, but I doubt it. So yea, what US PC had a funky colored keyboard, sometime between 1984 and 1988?
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Well I'm adding that to the list of old computers I want because holy poo poo look at it
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I want to say it's some Franklin model but I'm probably wrong. e: I guess I should've Binged first and posted later. The one I was thinking of had one red key, not loads of blue keys. Sorry.
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WeX Majors posted:This is the only thread I know of that might be able to help me. Who owned it? Where did they work? Did it come from their work?
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0dB posted:Who owned it? Where did they work? Did it come from their work? and what time period?
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And who cares?
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Lady Naga posted:And who cares? People in this thread? Are you unable to read or something?
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Lady Naga posted:And who cares? Good post in the so-called comedy world wide web site Something Awful's user forum thread about posting your favourite old tech.
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Yeah, where’s all the new old tech?
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WeX Majors posted:the lack of a column of standard-sized keys that stretches all the way back down to the Space Bar Row. I've read and re-read this but I still don't know what that means. e: Oh you meant on the keyboard in the kid pic 
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Probably my dad, I don't actually know where he was working back then so no idea if it came from there. We did end up with a lot of mysterious pieces over the years, but it was usually things like monitors, or whatever modems they were upgrading from. I thought I put down a timeframe, but JIC the picture is somewhere between 85-88. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqa76GUS5dw Turns out, I was looking in the wrong direction, as it's not actually a PC. It's a Research Terminal!  More specifically, the Research Teleray 10 model. Here's one in the 80's favorite color  For people who might have been upset at me trying to learn something, I hereby gift the thread with a link to a copy of the August issue of ComputerWorld https://books.google.com/books?id=Z4s8fil_zIIC&pg=PA64#v=onepage&q&f=false 1978. WeX Majors has a new favorite as of 15:21 on Sep 10, 2015 |
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I take it that for whatever reason you can't just ask him? The non-standard keyboard layout leads me to think that it was industry-specific, or at the very least not a commercial product. The monitor looks like it has a brand name starting with at "T" so maybe a custom Toshiba product or Wikipedia also tells me Tadpole and Tatung are possibilities, though neither really seems to fit. Seems too long for Tandy. What else can you tell us about the computer? What games did you play on it, did you play any games at all? What did the operating system look like? You may also want to try Dave from Dave's Old Computers. http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/index.htm -EDIT- Or, you know, figure out the mystery over the half hour it too me to get around to hitting post and make me look like a moron for tossing out suggestions after the fact. Whatever works, really. Antifreeze Head has a new favorite as of 15:35 on Sep 10, 2015 |
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Yeah that's cool. I've never heard of teleray, or the http://terminals.classiccmp.org/ site. Also I liked the trip down amstrad lane. E: that wiki for terminals is pretty cool, both from my computing history and spotting the manufacturer that I only know today due to electronics and electrics such as relays, but news to me they were in the computing game back then. Fo3 has a new favorite as of 16:03 on Sep 10, 2015 |
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It's okay Antifreeze, you introduced me to the glory that is Dave's Old Computers and his gloriously awful logo. For that alone, your post was worth it. Also, what I keep forgetting about because I was so focused on the keyboard, was the desk for the terminal itself: An old broken TV. Because of course.
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WeX Majors posted:Probably my dad, I don't actually know where he was working back then so no idea if it came from there. We did end up with a lot of mysterious pieces over the years, but it was usually things like monitors, or whatever modems they were upgrading from. I thought I put down a timeframe, but JIC the picture is somewhere between 85-88. Terminals are considered obsolete these days, outside of specific applications (usually hardware or auto parts stores with really old computer systems), and that's kind of a tragedy. They were really amazing in one important way: when you logged on at a terminal, even for the first time, all your poo poo was there. Because in the end, you were really just logging on to the same computer over a serial line. All your programs are there, your configurations are set up, your files are accessible. Compare that to a modern Windows 7 enterprise setup like we have here at work. The only thing that carries over is your personal network folder. Sit down at a new computer and you have to configure Outlook again, re-map all your network drives, and if you need Visio, well, better put in a ticket! Even Linux has sort of degraded to this level, because we all carry around laptops and the closest thing we get to synchronization is a github repo with our dotfiles in it.
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