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The_Franz posted:i miss the styling of 90s unix workstations. those things cost a small fortune and they looked and felt like it hell loving yeah I just got a Silicon Graphics Indigo R4K Élan
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Sniep posted:you knew you were fuckin with some high end poo poo as the mice got harder and harder to effectively use the most cursed was the early sun optical mice with the special reflective mousepad
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eschaton posted:hell loving yeah i have one of these with a dead mac / eprom, let me know if you get it working or the right set of overlays/procedures to get 5.3 or 6.5 up on it i have a couple boxes of misc sgi cds from the late 90s / early 00s but I don’t think they’re going to work
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HP HPUX workstation stuff from the late 80s/early 90s is my favorite aesthetic. It's amazing how a little styling goes a long way to hide the fact something's a metal box functioning as a faraday cage. Regarding clear side panels. I believe I owned this bad boy in fall semester of 2003: 
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In it's natural habitat, circa 2005 Edit: drat, there's my visor cradle in the picture too. SYSV Fanfic fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Dec 11, 2021 |
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SYSV Fanfic posted:In it's natural habitat, circa 2005 So did the pot hold ramen or mac and cheese?
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Also what brand of tablet is on the left? Some sort of giant palm pilot?
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shoeberto posted:Also what brand of tablet is on the left? Some sort of giant palm pilot? the dry erase calendar board? an lcd like that would be like $2000 in 03
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shoeberto posted:Also what brand of tablet is on the left? Some sort of giant palm pilot? Incredible hbag moment here
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Armitag3 posted:Incredible hbag moment here 
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Jonny 290 posted:the dry erase calendar board? an lcd like that would be like $2000 in 03 Wild how much prices have come down, Amazon basically pays you to take kindle fires. Never heard of dry erase, wonder who gobbled them up. Speaking of former giants of consumer electronics, the creative nomad!!!
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shoeberto posted:So did the pot hold ramen or mac and cheese? Ramen. Definitely Ramen.
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the original white iBooks were just clear acrylic with paint on the inside, so you could soak the housing in paint thinner and get yourself a transparent laptop
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Call me when you can make it sicko mode transparent purple.
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PCjr sidecar posted:i have one of these with a dead mac / eprom, let me know if you get it working or the right set of overlays/procedures to get 5.3 or 6.5 up on it is it actually a dead MAC EEPROM or is it just a dead CPU board battery? the Indigo turns out to have a serial EEPROM for the MAC address (which doesn’t need battery backup) and a battery for the time-of-day clock; you should be able to just jumper the battery to any 3V source and boot, I plan to replace mine (since the Indigo R4K soldered in the battery) with a socket for a coin cell quote:i have a couple boxes of misc sgi cds from the late 90s / early 00s but I don’t think they’re going to work god, IRIX is such a pain to install, there are a couple people who have Docker-based poo poo up on github that’ll do all the work of setting up an install server for you, including downloading the right CD images/tar files from the Internet Archive if you have an Indigo R4K it should run up to 6.5.22, if it’s an R3K it’ll only run up to 5.3, either way I think the “here’s a Docker setup for installing Irix” is the way to go for ease of setup compared to using actual CDs or trying to DIY it personally, I’ve gone the DIY route, using NetBSD as a host, but that’s a bit of intentional pain on my part, I enjoy knowing (or figuring out) exactly what’s happening at every step and once you’ve got a base system installed, having stuff extracted to a modern server and available via NFS is great because inst will just work with it if you have time, it’d be good to go through the CDs and share any that aren’t archived yet, just for completeness
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the amstrad computer that had a sega inside it
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my stepdads beer posted:the amstrad computer that had a sega inside it i used to bar up on this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_Mega_PC 
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lol same. I had a computer and a mega drive but I still needed this thing. unclear why
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that reminds me as a kid I thought tuner cards were cool. you could watch TV on the same monitor as you did windows! and my dad asked me “why would I want to turn my $3000 computer into a $300 TV?”
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Gentle Autist posted:i used to bar up on this one ah yes the kitchen counter, the computer's natural environment
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Hed posted:that reminds me as a kid I thought tuner cards were cool. you could watch TV on the same monitor as you did windows! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW3PFC86UNI
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teletypes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryb7HFP_GgU
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some ham folks (not all 80 year old grognards, curiously enough) still use teletypes for RTTY on the air. super vibey
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Jonny 290 posted:some ham folks (not all 80 year old grognards, curiously enough) still use teletypes for RTTY on the air. super vibey Yeah, I was talking to some hams - they'd save punches for when the satellites would pass over and re-transmit them as favors.
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The whole ATA / IDE thing which was not that long ago. Desktop computers were maxed out at a whopping two hard drives. And if you used a cd ROM or DVD drive on the same cable as the hard drive, the hard drive would run at 2,000 kbps or whatever the speed of the optical drive was
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Also the fact that when DVDs came out in 1996, a $20 DVD disc had four times the storage of a $300 hard drive at the time. That would be like if there were blu ray discs today that held 30TB.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:The whole ATA / IDE thing which was not that long ago. Desktop computers were maxed out at a whopping two hard drives. And if you used a cd ROM or DVD drive on the same cable as the hard drive, the hard drive would run at 2,000 kbps or whatever the speed of the optical drive was motherboards, even in the mid-90s, had 2 ide ports, so that wasn't much of an issue. generally you put the hard drives on one and the optical drive(s) on the other. you wanted a scsi card with your optical drive + burner on it so you could copy playstation games with a high degree of success without having to first rip it to the hard drive
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the groupon ep of always sunny is one of the best
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The_Franz posted:motherboards, even in the mid-90s, had 2 ide ports, so that wasn't much of an issue. generally you put the hard drives on one and the optical drive(s) on the other. you wanted a scsi card with your optical drive + burner on it so you could copy playstation games with a high degree of success without having to first rip it to the hard drive so that was my problem. I had a usb CD burner and a think pad laptop and I could only burn games that lacked cd audio. had to be a bandwidth thing! I was 15 so I must forgive myself for the lack of knowledge cdrwin running at 1x speed to copy games and it failing 80% of the time was a good hobby
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I remember cdrwin as literally the first cd burner which was at a time when I was the only kid in my entire huge rear end school with a cd burner. It's blowing my mind you had one at that time with USB. I could barely get burns to work on ide, I can't imagine how hosed up it must have been on USB 1.1. Black CDs were $4 each at the time which was an hour of work for me as a stock boy which pissed me off so bad when it happened.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Also the fact that when DVDs came out in 1996, a $20 DVD disc had four times the storage of a $300 hard drive at the time. ya you can find articles in a bunch of early 90s magazines about setting up servers to share a cd drive over the network, which sounds fantastically slow if multiple people are using it at once
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Being the first kid in the dorms with a CD burner and having T1 (T1!!!!!!!!) internet access for Napster. I burned and sold so many CDR's at $10 a pop that year. Then other people started getting cd burners and my market dried up 
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:I remember cdrwin as literally the first cd burner which was at a time when I was the only kid in my entire huge rear end school with a cd burner. the computer teacher at my high school was 6’6 and about 400 lbs, and he would use the school’s t1 and irc to download isos and burn and sell them to students. when he transferred to another school to be the principle (!!) he taught me and my friends (his best customers) how to do it. one of us had a real tower with a burner inside and I had a job and a car so I’d go to electronics boutique, buy a game, burn it, and return it. we made friends with the movie store peeps and they would re-shrink wrap the games when the policy on returns shifted. that’s why I got my own burner so I didn’t have to rely on my friend. it did not work out so well. but you live and learn and then get a job computer touching
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carry on then posted:ya you can find articles in a bunch of early 90s magazines about setting up servers to share a cd drive over the network, which sounds fantastically slow if multiple people are using it at once networkable CD-ROM jukeboxes still turn up on ebay from time to time and I'll often put a bid in because the older ones have multiple SCSI CD drives that you can sell to mac/amiga owners for a good profit
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:The whole ATA / IDE thing which was not that long ago. Desktop computers were maxed out at a whopping two hard drives. And if you used a cd ROM or DVD drive on the same cable as the hard drive, the hard drive would run at 2,000 kbps or whatever the speed of the optical drive was as a Mac kid it was pretty bogus going from daisy chainable scsi to slave/master + 2 mega slow usb1 ports
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Sweevo posted:networkable CD-ROM jukeboxes still turn up on ebay from time to time and I'll often put a bid in because the older ones have multiple SCSI CD drives that you can sell to mac/amiga owners for a good profit i didnt gently caress with any network ones but i was the kid in 10th grade who successfully finally figured out how to get the pioneer external 6 cdrom changer working in the hs library. so many mscdex.exe's running lmao. but it worked!
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Jonny 290 posted:i didnt gently caress with any network ones but i was the kid in 10th grade who successfully finally figured out how to get the pioneer external 6 cdrom changer working in the hs library. so many mscdex.exe's running lmao. but it worked! when i was in university we saved one of those things from the dumpster. i think we got it working once, then i wound up selling it on ebay for $50. neat, but it was really slow at the time (4x or 6x when 32x or higher was the norm), and kind of pointless with hard drives getting into double-digit gigabytes for not much money
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