Code Jockey posted:

I love the look of older "fat" laptops like this. Look at that keyboard too!


By the looks of it, composite video. Lots and lots of laptops had that, I recall.

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

Do I come into your house and make fun of hardware that you have an unnecessary and completely unjustified nostalgic fondness for?

dissss posted:

Yep, after the P4 era it was all over for AMD especially on laptops.

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

My county courthouse's public-use terminal for accessing court records, trial schedules, etc. looks just like this. They have a DOS machine right next to it that can query the same data, but nobody knows how to use it, so they usually leave it turned off. We're truly living in the future

Aphrodite posted:

Libraries are also a big help for low income families/individuals and the homeless.

Jerry Cotton posted:

Me too. Seeing it made me decide to not buy an account at the time because that's unfunny as hell.

Pham Nuwen posted:

I'm looking at ebay and holy poo poo MD players are listed for a lot. Not sure if they're selling at that, but goddamn $200 for a lot of these things.

Can you recommend a good Hi-MD device that has a line-in/mic port? There's a cheap MZ-NH600 on ebay but that doesn't have line-in.

The Orange Mage posted:

Nerds still dress that way though.

Wilford Cutlery posted:

Obsolete technology and video card chat: Here's the video card in my old desktop, which I haven't touched in years:



And for the record, here's the board I'm using it in:

Lizard Combatant posted:

I'm not on trial here!

Pilsner posted:

"Columbo with a dash of Jim Carrey!".

I'm trying, but I simply cannot imagine that.

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

Did you find it on a curb somewhere in the Midwest? Because I just put one out for someone else to claim and it disappeared in short order. I'd have loved to have kept it, but there just wasn't room when I finished packing, so it had to go. I'm sure it's making some hillbilly happy, resting atop his broken console TV

Dick Trauma posted:

It's 1940 and you need a controller for the cutting-edge radio-controlled drone you're selling to the U.S. Army. Nothing like this has ever existed so you can build anything you like, but you also need to keep the cost down and make sure the controller is easy to use and maintain. So what do you build?



Despite selling thousands of drones over decades the company would end up better known for one of their assembly employees...

TheQuietWilds posted:

Or they're attractive women in leggings. Let's not jump to discourage that.

Grand Prize Winner posted:

How do they handle that in European strip clubs, anyway?

IUG posted:

I have a playlist of 3,000 songs exactly (I have 10,000+ songs in iTunes, and I want to cycle out the recently listened stuff, and only have stuff I haven't heard in months). 3,000 songs is 8 days, 20 hours, according to iTunes.

0toShifty posted:

The keyboard connected to it is even more interesting. It's an IBM Model M - made in USA. This one says November 1989 on the back. Some hipster would die to have this. But to us it's just an old keyboard.

Dick Trauma posted:

Collateral Damage posted:

Obsolete but not failed. The Ericofon was produced from 1954 up until 1982 with only minor design changes.

The early versions had no ringer. Instead you had a separate ringer device mounted on the wall next to the phone jack. When marketed in the US it came in 18 different colors, but back in Sweden you could only have it in one of five different colors.

Keiya posted:

So I was at a General Geekery convention (lotsa board games, lotsa video games, plenty of anime tat for sale, they had a pretty sweet pinball room this year... fun times) and one of the stalls was selling mostly japanese import video games and CDs... but there was one thing they successfully talked me into buying.



No video cable, but those woodgrain boxes are full of cartridges and the entire thing was $40. I'll show off more when I'm over con exhaustion.

Neito posted:

My problem isn't with keyboards on screen.

My problem is with keyboards on screen on lovely phones that slow to poo poo after an hour.

Grand Prize Winner posted:

about that CRT eeeeeeeeeeeeeee thing:

A few years back, I was talking to an old lighting designer (not one of the big names, but competent) and what she said is that every generation of LDs complained about the new technologies. She didn't like the way that LED lights couldn't match the warmth of tungsten, while the old people she'd learned from when she was very young didn't like how tungsten couldn't match the qualities of honest arc lamps. I'm betting that the people before that didn't like how arc lamps didn't quite have the sputtery effect that lime lights gave off.

e: my point is that older types always bitch about how new tech isn't the same as what they learned on growing up. We're gonna be the same. Already I feel weird using versions of windows newer than 7 because I just don't get how the UI works, and it's gonna get worse as I age. What do you mean the computer wants to talk to me?? I just want to click buttons on the mouse. But two decade ago my mom was tellin' me "what do you mean you gotta click icons with a mouse? I just wanna punch in text commands."

e2: basically my point is that whenever technology changes, people who've got set in their ways (which is easier and easier to do once you pass 30 years of age or so) don't like that things have changed and might not be able to adapt to it.

Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:

I know a guy who would lose his mind over that sort of thing. He gets super-pissed when he sees those little cards in hotel rooms that ask you to conserve resources by only getting fresh linens and towels if you request them instead of by default.