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carry on then posted:the power Macintosh 5200 is another funy tech poo poo thing, we had some of those around. the library also had one of the all in one powermac g3 molars which i knew was ugly even then My mom used to bring home a computer over the summer (since the schools tended to get broken into and poo poo took over summer break, they'd lend out everything they could in the hopes they would see it again for the new semester) I loving loved the Molar mac. Her home computer was some ancient 68k LC, and my dad's was a 68k Performa. Having a G3 was like having access to a small god at the time, for me.
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hypercard was the fuckin poo poo drat now i want to fire it up on an emulator i had it for the //gs too
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i used hypercard in the weird little bonus computer lab. i had dreams of using it to make a choose your own adventure/street fighter type thing. i of course never got around to making it
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Jonny 290 posted:hypercard was the fuckin poo poo drat now i want to fire it up on an emulator My dream old computer is a IIc withthe cute little monitor. My firned had one and 100s of pirated games when I was a kid we played with that thing til well after the n64 was out.
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https://archive.org/details/msdos_FriendlyWare_PC_Introductory_Set_1983
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carry on then posted:the power Macintosh 5200 is another funy tech poo poo thing, we had some of those around. the library also had one of the all in one powermac g3 molars which i knew was ugly even then i forgot about the all in one G3 today i learned the "molar" term. i always thought it looked like a disappointed face with an enormous forehead, what with the zip + floppy + CDROM holes in retrospect it totally lived in this crossover world between two iterations of apple design language. you had the beige front, and the translucent polycarbonate top and back. a jony ive mullet
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yeah it’s funny it’s like the ultimate iMac; an all in one g3, but with a real mouse real keyboard, and serial scsi AND usb 1, plus floppy and possibly Zip drive.
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Dec 29, 2021 21:28
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Ahh zip drives. Click of death.
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later on we had dino park tycoon on the macs at school, but class was never long enough to get anywhere meaningful. there was also sim tower installed at one point
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cheque_some posted:anyone else waste a bunch of time using Hyperstudio? That was the preferred Mac OS 9 time waster in my fifth grade class over Oregon Train and Number Munchers. ok I’ve been lurking this thread a ton but holey moley HYPERSTUDIO around 1994 I was in sixth grade and they built a new elementary school near my house with a ton of great tech…for 1994 at least. brand new pizza box Quadras and Performas. they even had the equipment for an school wide daily news broadcast. Teachers could turn their TVs to Chanel 39 or something, and it was a video feed from a Sony VCR in the library. I got involved with the news broadcast which was totally low rent…pretty much a Sony 8mm camcorder and VCR, and we shoved the library tables to create a “news desk”, and we did the pledge of allegiance. one of the macs had a/v out and I figured out that we can use hyperstudio for graphics. we could put up the weather and todays lunch menu. then! some of the performas also had a TV tuner and composite input. I was loving around in hyperstudio one day while the TV tuner application was running behind it. I drew something in pure magenta and holy poo poo the video bled through into hyperstudio, and only he magenta parts. not long after our lovely little 6th grade news program had a chyron 
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SYSV Fanfic posted:Ahh zip drives. Click of death. And one of their next immediately subsequent products, the Cliq absolutely not reading the room or having self critical awareness at all
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Butt House posted:ok I’ve been lurking this thread a ton but holey moley HYPERSTUDIO hi welcome to yospos this owns
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Martytoof posted:Speaking of school computers, Ontario had these really lovely Unisys ICON computers they’d dumped a bunch of money into. Wikipedia tells me they ran proto-QNX and they were around from like 1982 or something but I’m pretty sure I didn’t see them in my school until probably 1990. Sorry to drag this back up but drat. You could whip the poo poo out of the integrated trackball, and there was a game called upstairs downstairs where you had to manoeuvre around walls to get to a prize. Late 80s kindergarten in SWO..
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Butt House posted:ok I’ve been lurking this thread a ton but holey moley HYPERSTUDIO post more this rocks
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Captain Foo posted:post more this rocks
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Encarta 95 came with this dope 3D trivia game called Mind Maze.  When I was 12, I figured out that the questions were all in plaintext files stored alongside the game engine. I switched out the questions with different ones about some book we had to read for english class, and turned it in as my final project on that segment.
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Butt House posted:ok I’ve been lurking this thread a ton but holey moley HYPERSTUDIO i also did a 'video production' elective in high school, but 10 years after you. imovie on macs with firewire minidv cameras. it was mostly an excuse for us to leave school to gently caress around and film somewhere in town. every segment would be broadcast on the local school district cable channel. somewhere on youtube is still the fast & furious parody we filmed (most of our segments did not qualify as 'news') i remember the first year i did this the room was a rats nest of obsolete analog video equipment like something from serial experiments lain. squarepusher vibes. the next year they cleaned it up into a real classroom
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loving around a bit with something you didn't previously know how to do is genuinely the highest form of education.
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using school equipment to put a picture of a teacher’s head on an elephants rear end or something was also pretty high up there
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shoeberto posted:I can't help you whatsoever but I have a game memory that's similarly driven me crazy for decades. Mothafuckin LET'S EXPLORE THE AIRPORT WITH BUZZY which we also got with our ugly rear end green acer (with built in drive for magnetic tape backups). also came with FURY3 and we grabbed mechwarrior 2 as well from the store that day  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxxf3N1Uz8o i played the unholy poo poo out of that minigame
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Poopernickel posted:Encarta 95 came with this dope 3D trivia game called Mind Maze. mind maze owned, this owns
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Poopernickel posted:Encarta 95 came with this dope 3D trivia game called Mind Maze. bump for mind maze
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funny tech poo poo; Mac users trying to convince you that they didn't need lots of games because they had marathon Poopernickel posted:Encarta 95 came with this dope 3D trivia game called Mind Maze. this was the poo poo. You wouldn't get kicked off the school pcs for games for playing it either because they figured it was educational. with hindsight, lol at being so determined to play games and avoid going outside that I just sat and played mindmaze and probably learned stuff
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polyester concept posted:later on we had dino park tycoon on the macs at school, but class was never long enough to get anywhere meaningful. there was also sim tower installed at one point dino park tycoon owned. I remember buying it from one of those scholastic book fair things we had at school. Legit great game.
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in sixth grade i bought castles 2: siege and conquest from those. the pope hosed up my kingdom a lot
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Winty posted:i also did a 'video production' elective in high school, but 10 years after you. imovie on macs with firewire minidv cameras. it was mostly an excuse for us to leave school to gently caress around and film somewhere in town. every segment would be broadcast on the local school district cable channel. somewhere on youtube is still the fast & furious parody we filmed (most of our segments did not qualify as 'news')
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The child in me likes the idea of a CD-ROM encyclopedia a lot more than wikipedia, just for the form factor and the "you gotta sit down and browse" sort of approach rather than searching and getting randos to pull in newspapers blurbs to get views on stuff.
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SYSV Fanfic posted:Ahh zip drives. Click of death. i've always heard of this but never experienced it despite using zip drives for almost everything from 1997 until whenever usb thumbdrives became ubiquitous, including through university where they spent the entire time in my backpack when not in use. maybe it's because i always kept the disks in those plastic clamshell cases  mr backup z64 was superior to the doctor v64 since it loaded faster and saved games to the zip disks instead of needing some extra memory cartridge
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i love wikipedia, but while it is not the case that a good encyclopedia is more accurate than wikipedia in pure error-count, the errors wikipedia makes are sometimes real glaring and unfortunate stuff. but the print encyclopedia ship has long since sailed, so w/e.
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The_Franz posted:i've always heard of this but never experienced it despite using zip drives for almost everything from 1997 until whenever usb thumbdrives became ubiquitous, including through university where they spent the entire time in my backpack when not in use. maybe it's because i always kept the disks in those plastic clamshell cases I was managing editor of the high school paper one year, and our publisher's zip drive killed our disc and that was their reason we needed to send another.
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Kitfox88 posted:Mothafuckin LET'S EXPLORE THE AIRPORT WITH BUZZY which we also got with our ugly rear end green acer (with built in drive for magnetic tape backups). also came with FURY3 and we grabbed mechwarrior 2 as well from the store that day No loving way, that's it!!! this rules, gently caress yeah I tried to do poo poo like this in jr high/HS with my parent's Sony camcorder but it was way less cool cuz it was in the era of Adobe Premier and poo poo. Still, some of my most fun memories was making dumb videos for school projects that were really just an excuse to gently caress around with digital video.
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gently caress me I'm so happy I know the name of that game now. I've been looking for it since like 2006.
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yeah I never got the Zip drive click of death. I did have a syquest ez 135 that came pre loaded with Mac game demos so that ruled (until they died in a very non- clicky way).
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i never had a zip drive but i had a mouse for my amiga that just didnt work right, i could only get it to move to the right if i slammed it hard against the table years later i discovered that you could take the ball out and clean the rollers and im pretty sure thats why that old mouse didnt work. impossible to test that hypothesis tho 
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kids would steal mouse balls out of the lab computer mice so the librarians would superglue the doors shut you can imagine how well they worked after a few weeks without being cleaned
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love how IT got appended onto Library
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hell yea library computers. but re mouse its weird cause i was always in the library playing the handful of games they had, and later making games in qbasic on the machine the physics teacher set up tbh the timeline is muddy, i just remember my amiga mouse sucking and later thinking "maybe i shouldve cleaned it"... i might have gotten and discarded the amiga mouse before i realized that mice had balls? anyway one of the games on the library computer was Europaspillet which i guess was an attempt at staking out a similar spot here as the oregon trail one. check it out, its garbage, almost constnat pc speaker bleeting out various national anthems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5oHDntXi6Q
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ErrorInvalidUser posted:love how IT got appended onto Library becuase it would be too hard to just keep all the mice in a basket behind the circulation desk and check them out to each student, and have each one turn them in at end of class (with ball)
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SYSV Fanfic posted:Ahh zip drives. Click of death. i thought i'd lost my zip disk with my college projects on it but nope it was still in my one g3 all these years DamnGlitch posted:yeah I never got the Zip drive click of death. I did have a syquest ez 135 that came pre loaded with Mac game demos so that ruled (until they died in a very non- clicky way). i didn't, either, but my professors warned us constantly and told everyone to buy extras and alternate disks. they were pricy at the time and I was determined to avoid extra expenses I've said it before in this thread, but I had a princely 32mb cf card and reader and felt like I was from the future when I realized it worked as a regular drive, saving me minutes of transfer time and much of the anxiety of zip clicks. a few months later someone shared how to turn our computers in the dorms into ftp servers and suddenly nobody carried those drat disks and a lot of design students became big fans of fetch
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at the first major conference i went to microsoft had a giveaway if you talked to ten vendors across the 200,000 sq ft exhibit hall. it took me over an hour my reward was a 32 mb usb flash drive when 128mb was the minimum standard giveaway also it was nonbootable
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