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Krispy Wafer posted:What? No one ever had monochrome .pict porn? I remember when I was a kid in the mid-90s a friend of mine gave me a diskette with random stuff cause I fixed his PC which was displaying 320x200 on Windows 95 or something. There was a .com executable that displayed a b&w animation of a couple loving. I had a Pentium 100mhz though so it was running so loving fast I could pretty much see the whole 2 frames at the same time. Quantum porn.
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Apple wasn't just the Beatles' holding company; it was their record label.
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Negrostrike posted:I remember when I was a kid in the mid-90s a friend of mine gave me a diskette with random stuff cause I fixed his PC which was displaying 320x200 on Windows 95 or something. There was a .com executable that displayed a b&w animation of a couple loving. I remember those. They were bootsector viruses that Windows would end up stopping.
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The mercury delay memory was sonically activated too, right? I think torsion wire memory in old calculators was the craziest scheme I know of aside from the mercury tubes.
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empty baggie posted:Not sure if this is a joke, but it’s one reason why the Beatles weren’t on the iTunes Store for so long. I was being sarcastic.
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replace that ghastly ergo keyboard with a model M and hell yeah e. Commander Keen and Jill of the Jungle demo disks in that holder to the left too
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namlosh posted:I think torsion wire memory in old calculators was the craziest scheme I know of aside from the mercury tubes.
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Ooh I can just hear that machine in that picture. Techmoan shows off a early 90s video phone https://youtu.be/I6El_iKwQsY Its fascinating how everyone was convinced video phones were coming. Telecoms spent millions trying to develop them, but nothing ever came of it. The backbone wasn't strong enough for video and audio, so it was more expensive, slow, bad in every way. Teleconferences were common, but only for big business. Plus people wanted phones that were easy to use and video phones were not that at all. Then when the internet comes along and chatting with someone over video was super easy and now we straight up have video phone, but who the hell uses it regularly? I use it to talk to my parents at Christmas and maybe a few other times if someone has something to show me, but the idea of straight up sci-fi video calls being the primary communication tool for people is dead. Hell, we're basically using telegrams via texting. It is funny how many sci-fi shows do show video calls still being used when just plane text messages would be so much better in the situations.
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It's because they want to show you both actors, of course. Shows like Sherlock came up with all sorts of clever tricks to put texting on the screen, but two faces talking is still the gold standard in terms of immediacy and engagement. Facetime and stuff is trying to live up to what's essentially a narrative device.
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I've actually used a Tandberg system from somewhere around 2000 that must have been a direct descendant of that one. Nice large (for the time) Tandberg branded TV with a camera, control box underneath with four(!) phone plugs for eight(!) channels of ISDN, for a 512/512 kbit connection. (ISDN was 64kbit/sec/channel in Europe and 56 in the US, I believe? Not that I remember why - something about inline or separate control channels?) We used it so soldiers in Oslo could be taught by high school teachers in northernmost north Norway, as far as I remember. Perfectly usable quality, but it really would have made more sense over aDSL ... or the 10mbit fibre hookup to the Norwegian defense network, but I guess they didn't want to hook the school at the other end up with that.
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This picture is very comforting, like a warm blanket and a cup of hot coco on a snow day 
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I need to listen to that "March of the Pigs" single CD now.
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twistedmentat posted:Ooh I can just hear that machine in that picture. I do video calls every day at work. I work from home and my coworkers are across a few locations. I feel like in the last couple years we're at the point that it works reasonably well. It was only 5-10 years ago where I was at a company that had specially designated video conference rooms with ISDN connections. They were probably a little behind. I remember hearing about ISDN and T1 connections, and thinking I would want one of those, they sounded so fast. When I was looking at colleges, one of them said they had dual OC-3 connections for the campus. That's only 300 Mbits. I have a gigabit connection at my house, it's essentially the standard option.
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The Ape of Naples posted:I need to listen to that "March of the Pigs" single CD now. Everything in here hits me right in good feels. Drinking Jolt, being barely online, gaming all night, not a care in the world.
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Computer viking posted:I've actually used a Tandberg system from somewhere around 2000 that must have been a direct descendant of that one. The camera was amazing and the image quality was great, but no way was the setup worth it. And this was when Skype was getting off the ground, so it was doubly useless. FilthyImp has a new favorite as of 17:06 on Jan 30, 2020 |
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 It has some weird VGA cable with a built in wireless receiver. Has a 3.5 disk with drivers for Windows 3.1 or 95
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Jerry Cotton posted:RF? - NO. Please stop posting quotes from my C.V.
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Johnny Aztec posted:
That thing is like one step removed from being a product in a Tim and Eric sketch. I'm sure it would work great with my Cinco MIDI Organizer. Mr.Radar has a new favorite as of 01:28 on Jan 31, 2020 |
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lol I remember being stoked as a late 90s teen, when my parents got a new TV and I got their mid-80s 28" Linytron- my video card had s-video out and I went 'sweet, huge second monitor' but lol you can't read poo poo on those still ruled for console emulation, though
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Unperson_47 posted:That x10 poo poo was EVERYWHERE.
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Computer viking posted:I've actually used a Tandberg system from somewhere around 2000 that must have been a direct descendant of that one. Nice large (for the time) Tandberg branded TV with a camera, control box underneath with four(!) phone plugs for eight(!) channels of ISDN, for a 512/512 kbit connection. ISDN was sold as 128kb in the US. I know that because I was the poor fool who had to support it well into Bush’s first term for people who couldn’t get DSL. The actual bandwidth was 56kb because 8kb was overhead. So essentially what you were talking about. But I don’t think anyone ever sold only 1 channel.
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 From Right to left on the monitors: NeXT Megapixel 17 in N4001 M1297 High Res RGB M4681 Multiscan M1787 14' Color M1299 12in RGB M1297 High res A2M6020 Composite M1787 Color Plus 14 M7768 Studio Display  M1596 Performa 631CD Quadra 630 Performa 6214CD power Mac G3 PowerMac 7300/200 Mac IIfx PowerPC 8500/150 Empty LC case/shell PowerPC 9500/180MP Mac IIx Performa 6200CD Performa 6214CD PowerPC 8600/300 Not picture: 9600/200MP Quadra 950 some LC systems, couple other monitors. Pile of keyboards, few printers Mac Pluses/Classic These did not have a good retirement. Some of these will probably get stripped for parts/
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twistedmentat posted:Then when the internet comes along and chatting with someone over video was super easy and now we straight up have video phone, but who the hell uses it regularly? I use it to talk to my parents at Christmas and maybe a few other times if someone has something to show me, but the idea of straight up sci-fi video calls being the primary communication tool for people is dead. Hell, we're basically using telegrams via texting. It is funny how many sci-fi shows do show video calls still being used when just plane text messages would be so much better in the situations. We use it pretty much every day at work because there are a lot of remote employees
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Can someone explain why they always used that beige/white plastic back in the day...like they had black plastics but didn't come into popularity till the mid 90's...they always got so dingy from cigarette smoke.
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Betty Holberton suggested the UNIVAC be beige-grey and it came to be associated with computers
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LifeSunDeath posted:Can someone explain why they always used that beige/white plastic back in the day...like they had black plastics but didn't come into popularity till the mid 90's...they always got so dingy from cigarette smoke. They used the plastic because it was the style at the time. But they couldn't get the white plastic, because of the war. So they had to use the big yellow ones.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Performa 6214CD The computer of most of my childhood! The one we had before was some flavor of Tandy 1000. I still remember booting up the Performa and playing Power Pete for the first time. Not too long afterwards I was getting shareware from a local BBS. Then an addiction to MacAddict magazine.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Can someone explain why they always used that beige/white plastic back in the day...like they had black plastics but didn't come into popularity till the mid 90's...they always got so dingy from cigarette smoke.
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BogDew posted:I recall Jobs apparently testing the best shade of beige for the Macintosh so that it wouldn't look obvious when it aged. I don't know if the early ones has a specific color name, but I remember the later "beige" ones were called "Platinum"
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Explosionface posted:I don't know if the early ones has a specific color name, but I remember the later "beige" ones were called "Platinum" My first personal PC was a tandy variant, and the poo poo was like grey/beige....but that poo poo went on for forever until the early to mid 90's....anyway, not sure JOrBs had any say in these decisions   (for some reason I remember my PC in my room as the "Tandy K-pro" but I can't find info on that one)
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Maybe It's 'natural' colored and costs less than adding black dye.
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LifeSunDeath posted:K-pro You're probably thinking of "Kaypro"?
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Buttcoin purse posted:You're probably thinking of "Kaypro"? I saw one of these at a local thrift shop years ago, I almost bought it, but for some reason didn't (I think it had some troubling, "this was probably dropped a lot" physical damage). Holy gently caress it was heavy. My dream """portable""" computer is a Commodore SX-64. 
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