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Chillbro Baggins posted:If anything, digital is easier because the trained apes like me can crop our photos to your requested shape. Or at least tell you what shape it's gonna be. Back in the day, you'd have to take a knife to the photo print yourself, right? I've nver done pasteup personally, but worked in a shop that did (I'm a photographer, I've never even seen the print shop, and the copy desk always complained that my photos didn't fit their layout.( Edit: in those cases, I told them to go gently caress themselves, this is ART, who cares about the text, you can make it fit with the fancy computer programs.) Yeah, if it was the newspaper's photos you just guillotined it to fit the space. Someone else's photo, you taped off what you didn't want halftoned and made sure you got the photo back. Digital, please for the love of god just give me raw and let me develop it. I can do a better process color conversion for uncoated newsprint and crop than you can. (Or, y'know, scan your blurry photo to 1mp and embed it in a DOC file - not DOCX, that's too easy - like every other clueless secretary.) But I honestly couldn't care less if the photo fit my layout, when 5 pm hits and the printer is bitching for PDFs, your photo is going to fit, one way or another. Most people don't notice a <20% vertical stretch 
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Jan 28, 2020 01:34
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Buttcoin purse posted:The "I had one of those on my Windows box" post above made me realize: what is actually "Macintosh" about the modem? In the era when Macs looked like that, they had RS-232, just with a different connector, so it only needs a special cable and obviously Macintosh software, but the modem itself can just be the same as a PC one can't it? Oh boy, I can contribute! Unless someone beat me to the punch: The “for Macintosh” serial crap had built-in mini-DIN cabling. I think Apple used a proprietary standard, but all quick googling got me was “GeoPort” and 230kbps as a speed. The key compatibility spec for Macs was apparently hardware handshaking, whatever that was meant to communicate to a user. I want to say that they had a ninth pin in the socket that enabled something special if the serial device supported it, and that might have been the handshaking, but I haven’t had to care about that vintage a set of Mac ports since we moved from our Performa 6118 to the Sawtooth G4 I got in 2000 for college. Apple was big on proprietary ports that did normal stuff; the other ‘cool, I need an adapter’ was AAUI-15 for Ethernet, not that anyone was hooking a machine with that up to Not AppleTalk. That and the super proprietary AV port that Apple only ever sold one display for, meaning the machines that had it required a really inflexible adapter to go to any regular Apple monitor you might have bought or gotten as a package deal.
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Jan 28, 2020 04:36
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 30 year old OS on a 27inch LCD. Just found that a bit amusing. I have an LC M0350 that I got working. Came from an university so it's all maxed out with a 80 MB drive, and 10 Megabtyes of ram.
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Jan 28, 2020 07:26
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I demand to know the contents of 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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Jan 28, 2020 17:01
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bring back old gbs posted:I demand to know the contents of It’s cut off and actually 900000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 and it’s your mother’s weight.
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Jan 28, 2020 17:06
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bring back old gbs posted:I demand to know the contents of Is there any doubt? Porn.
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Jan 28, 2020 17:09
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Is there any doubt? Porn. Of what? Cowdog loving the watch icon?
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Jan 28, 2020 17:23
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Is there any doubt? Porn. Not much you can do with 80MB but I am sure people have tried. There was some random resumes and graphics design stuff. I had three LC M0350s, an LC II and a III. Two of them the lithium battery went KABLOEY and corroded a bunch. Three of them had non-functioning PSUs, but luckily, all this poo poo from these models are Mix-N-Match, so got two working M0350s right now, except the HDD on one won't read, I'll have to switch it out. These came from universities, so they are maxed out on ram, 10 MB, 80 MB HDD upgrade, and two of em had a RasterOps video card on the PDS port.
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Jan 28, 2020 17:26
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Johnny Aztec posted:Not much you can do with 80MB but I am sure people have tried.
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Jan 28, 2020 17:30
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TotalLossBrain posted:gently caress. This garbage was everywhere and it was so drat useless and irritating. more irritating than someone stabbing a finger directly into the screen everytime they want to point something out to you?
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Jan 28, 2020 17:36
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What? No one ever had monochrome .pict porn? I remember being on a PC if you got one of those image files it rendered it all stretched out and we were still grateful to have it.
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Jan 28, 2020 17:51
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Krispy Wafer posted:What? No one ever had monochrome .pict porn? I’m still chasing the high of watching porn become less and less pixilated, your boner becoming harder and harder as you first make out a fuzzy nipple.
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Jan 28, 2020 17:53
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SniperWoreConverse posted:more irritating than someone stabbing a finger directly into the screen everytime they want to point something out to you? That still happens though
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Jan 28, 2020 17:56
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Arsenic Lupin posted:In my youth, people really did pass around ascii porn. And then again, you can go old-school and just use text. Life finds a way, baby. I've tried to explain to younger folks that back in the bbs days we just traded (badly) written sex novels and ASCII tiddies. Sometimes you hit gold and got some extremely low res gifs of an almost naked lady. I treasured those pictures for years. Those really were the days, huh!
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Jan 28, 2020 20:25
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:I’m still chasing the high of watching porn become less and less pixilated, your boner becoming harder and harder as you first make out a fuzzy nipple. Scrambled porn still excites me in ways today's youth will never know.
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Jan 28, 2020 21:45
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barbecue at the folks posted:I've tried to explain to younger folks that back in the bbs days we just traded (badly) written sex novels and ASCII tiddies. Sometimes you hit gold and got some extremely low res gifs of an almost naked lady. I treasured those pictures for years. Those really were the days, huh! HB2A.GIF
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Jan 28, 2020 21:48
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bring back old gbs posted:I demand to know the contents of You know, the consensus is porn, but I'm gonna take the long shot and say it's actually capital Os and it's full of either ghosts or blue jays and raccoons.
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Jan 28, 2020 23:51
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If it was ghosts it would be ooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Jan 29, 2020 00:06
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Jerry Cotton posted:I still don't know if the racing toy is Scalectrix or Scalextric or something else  nurrwick posted:GeoPort  I've got some reading to do on Wikipedia to work out what the heck that is!quote:The key compatibility spec for Macs was apparently hardware handshaking, whatever that was meant to communicate to a user. quote:Apple was big on proprietary ports that did normal stuff; the other ‘cool, I need an adapter’ was AAUI-15 for Ethernet, not that anyone was hooking a machine with that up to Not AppleTalk. 
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Jan 29, 2020 00:15
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Buttcoin purse posted:Maybe all Macs supported RTS/CTS handshaking so Mac modems could have that turned on by default for a better user experience, whereas PCs required you to figure all this poo poo out yourself and figure out the AT commands? quote:Well at least the Quadra that doesn't play the theme from the Twilight Zone when I try to turn it on
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Jan 29, 2020 01:05
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The various Apple error chimes gave me the creeps in a major way, and this is when I was in college! Ugh. Somehow Windows doesn't strike the same fear into my heart with its Oops, something went wrong :-(
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Jan 29, 2020 02:12
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Armacham posted:If it was ghosts it would be ooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOO Peter those are Cheerios.
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Jan 29, 2020 03:14
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they're donut seeds!
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barbecue at the folks posted:I've tried to explain to younger folks that back in the bbs days we just traded (badly) written sex novels and ASCII tiddies. Sometimes you hit gold and got some extremely low res gifs of an almost naked lady. I treasured those pictures for years. Those really were the days, huh! I had to look up the exact quote from this 2002 interview with Tristan A. Farnon, because it's so perfectly put: "If someone is legitimately interested in the contents of an image called 'blowjob.gif,' I promise you they'll sit there and wait while it slowly unfurls like a flag down their screen."
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But that's basically just how delay lines work. I had to design and build some for testing radars but we used coiled fiber optics instead of copper to get multiple miles of delay, same idea just a lot lighter.
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Plinkey posted:But that's basically just how delay lines work. I had to design and build some for testing radars but we used coiled fiber optics instead of copper to get multiple miles of delay, same idea just a lot lighter. Some of the earliest delay lines used liquid mercury, which I think is metal as gently caress. (yes. I did that on purpose.)
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Jan 29, 2020 16:32
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Some of the earliest delay lines used liquid mercury, which I think is metal as gently caress. I think I have them put up, but I have a few Mercury switches that I scavenged. Pretty neat old school safety switch.
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Jan 29, 2020 17:19
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Plinkey posted:but we used coiled fiber optics [...] same idea just a lot lighter. 
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Jan 29, 2020 17:55
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Johnny Aztec posted:I think I have them put up, but I have a few Mercury switches that I scavenged. When I was growing up, we had a few special lightswitches in the house that glided rather than snapped. Those were mercury switches, too.
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Jan 29, 2020 18:08
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Mercury and lead have such nice properties. It’s a shame they’re poison.
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Jan 29, 2020 18:24
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Platystemon posted:Mercury and lead have such nice properties. Same with asbestos.
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I remember, and I think a lot of people my age do, playing with the droplets of mercury from a broken thermometer or barometer. It's just so nifty. Of course, my 2 1/4 kids can't walk upright, but it's the price you pay for fun.
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Cojawfee posted:Same with asbestos. There’s probably alien species laughing at us for our vulnerability to heavy metals and ionising radiation. Hopefully we’ll get to dunk on aliens that can’t deal with iron.
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Jan 29, 2020 18:36
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I haven't given up our sole remaining mercury thermometer yet.
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Hirayuki posted:The various Apple error chimes gave me the creeps in a major way, and this is when I was in college! Ugh. Somehow Windows doesn't strike the same fear into my heart with its Oops, something went wrong :-( This might be apocryphal or I may just be wrong but I believe the default Mac error chime back in the day was called Sosumi (sp?). Phonetically, "So sue me" because in the early days Apple took it's name from Apple records the record company that the Beatles founded. When they haggled back and forth about using the name part of the agreement was Apple Computers could use the name but not do anything music and possibly, audio related. There was some wonder if a branded error sound would count. They took a chance guessing that it didn't and used that name for the chime. Of course, this all might not be 100% correct but I believe that that agreement stands to this day and Apple plays no part in the music business.
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The Ape of Naples posted:Of course, this all might not be 100% correct but I believe that that agreement stands to this day and Apple plays no part in the music business.
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Jan 29, 2020 19:02
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The Ape of Naples posted:Apple plays no part in the music business. Not sure if this is a joke, but it’s one reason why the Beatles weren’t on the iTunes Store for so long.
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No one cared what the Beatles named their holding company. What trolls. It’s like if Google started suing people with “Alphabet” names.
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