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the curta is the only truly cool calculator
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Sweevo posted:i remember when wifi first started becoming ubiquitous and every tech forum was full of people asking how to hack their neighbours wifi there was an old clip of Leo Laporte from techtv or some other show where a woman called for tech support because her wifi wasn't working, and it eventually turned out that she was just stealing wifi from her neighbor, who moved or put a password on it
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i would 100% steal my neighbour's wifi, because he's one of those guys who has to have the biggest TV and the fastest internet even though he uses it solely to check his email once a day
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i have stolen my neighbor's wifi before but that's because i was broke and knew how to crack it later i moved to flashing a custom firmware onto an old motorola sb4100 and just stole service directly. uncapping a cable modem wasn't only just possible back then, it was easy
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The_Franz posted:there was an old clip of Leo Laporte from techtv or some other show where a woman called for tech support because her wifi wasn't working, and it eventually turned out that she was just stealing wifi from her neighbor, who moved or put a password on it lol
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i never stole wifi, but i stole a ton of dial up access via netbus
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you can’t like steal a wifi man
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Corla Plankun posted:gently caress the internet used to be so fun 
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:fuzzy logic unironically had someone recently tell me that quantum computing was going to do this which is why it would produce true AI. like, that's what I thought it meant when I was 9 and heard about it for the first time.
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:fuzzy logic that's when my cat thinks carrying a toy up two flights of stairs and dropping it at my feet will cause her to receive a treat (she's right)
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Beeftweeter posted:i have stolen my neighbor's wifi before but that's because i was broke and knew how to crack it lol TheBuilder posted:
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powerline ethernet
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and Ethernet over Powerlines which was also a piece of poo poo
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:fuzzy logic pretzel logic was better
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Jonny 290 posted:first drive i bought with my own money was a cavernous 4.3GB maxtor . holy god. the world is mine. enough to store hundreds of mp3s, UT99, Quake 3, Half-Life and maybe even a season or two of lovely Southpark rips in RealVideo.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:powerline ethernet I'm still rocking this because I cba to string cat6 up the stairs and my landlord won't take kindly to me opening the walls to run conduit. It actually works alarmingly well for my modest needs
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Jonny 290 posted:first drive i bought with my own money was a cavernous 4.3GB maxtor . holy god. the world is mine. when we ordered our Gateway 2000 Pentium 75 desktop over the phone (lmao), the sales guy literally said “order the 1GB drive, you’ll never fill it up” I thought about that as I stood in line waiting to pay for a 3GB drive to replace the 1GB at Best Buy a year or so later.
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Beve Stuscemi posted:when we ordered our Gateway 2000 Pentium 75 desktop over the phone (lmao), the sales guy literally said “order the 1GB drive, you’ll never fill it up” at the time that was probably still pretty solid advice for most customers though, good on the guy not upselling
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also that reminded me of calling computer companies. in highschool in the 90’s I had a Helpdesk job at a local company and a big part of my job was calling Gateway 2000 to literally tell a sales person to send us 10x desktops with whatever specs. also calling their tech support line. I had all of the menus memorized so I could go from picking up the phone to talking to a real person in about 10 seconds of furiously beep booping on the keypad. analog tech poo poo.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:at the time that was probably still pretty solid advice for most customers though, good on the guy not upselling the 1GB was the largest drive they offered with that machine, so he was definitely upselling, but to be fair I put a ton of games and all the media I could find on it and was probably outside of the use case of most customers
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My dad's PC's hard disk drive broke on 23.12. one year and he called IBM and they told him to bring it in. Turns out their offices were like 200m from where I lived so I picked it up from my parent's place, took it to IBM, and they called me on loving Yule Eve before noon to come pick it up. No charge. The loving things cost like 1½ times as much as they should have but the company had god drat customer service. I guess it was because mostly only businesses and, well, the city itself bought their PCs. e: Oh, ah, I just realized they probably recognized my dad's name (same as mine) through his work for the city.  Well, anyway.
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I recall upgrading from my 20MB MFM drive to a 40MB IDE drive which cost me like a hundred bucks and I was like, sweeet, next I'm gonna upgrade from this poo poo EGA graphics to full on VGA, that'll be amazing nowadays I have to check to see how big my drives are because I don't remember lol
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st225? Classic platter right there.
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Yes indeed, nearly. Seagate ST-220. I took it apart when I was in my early 20s so I still have a box full of the innards somewhere. e. maybe the st-220 didn't exist, and I'm misremembering the 225. Google says this is probably the case.
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I had one of em that had a dying motor, so i had to run it outside of my case and give the drive a twist on bootup to overcome stiction. lol. the motor shaft was exposed on the bottom and i put a drop of 3-in-1 on it to maintain
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:powerline ethernet i just remembered homepna, where the idea was local area networking over the existing phone lines in the house. i remember a few friends who had it cussing it out.
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just lol if you don’t perfectly recall information about decades-old hard drive models
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i just ordered printer ribbon and some four ply continuous feed paper gonna use the print shop in dos to make some banners for a pinball tournament
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makin those little spring thingys out of the tearoffs from dot matrix paper
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Jonny 290 posted:makin those little spring thingys out of the tearoffs from dot matrix paper 
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Jonny 290 posted:makin those little spring thingys out of the tearoffs from dot matrix paper [sighs deeply]
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i was weirdly nostalgic about handheld image scanners the other day so bad but so satisfying
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Cold on a Cob posted:i was weirdly nostalgic about handheld image scanners the other day absolutely trash but being able to like scan anything at the time was so novel
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 the ThunderScan it replaced the ribbon in your Imagewriter II and you'd feed something in and it used the printer feed to scan er in. 1 bit, baby. Still magic. e: i'm wrong, it was 5 bit but macs could only do black/white so they did dithering on the output 
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Shame that the output is like this instead of the smeared CMYK four color garbage that would print out after one rear end in a top hat kid just had to print a banner
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Jonny 290 posted:
this is cool af and I had no idea something like this was ever made
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the late apple // and early mac time period was a gold mine for weird peripherals. want an apple //e on a card to jam in your IBM XT? Get a trackstar 128  want an ibm xt on a card to jam into your apple // ? Get a PC transporter  the Apple CAT modem was particularly influential in the 80s because it could generate and detect any arbitrary tones, not just standard 300 baud modem beeps. So OG hackers would set it up as a blue box dialer. 
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Jonny 290 posted:the Apple CAT modem was particularly influential in the 80s because it could generate and detect any arbitrary tones, not just standard 300 baud modem beeps. So OG hackers would set it up as a blue box dialer. it was a 300 baud modem but you could run the bell 202 protocol on it and get it up to 1200 baud p much the entire apple ii software piracy bbs world ran on applecats using 202
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