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anyone else go to thrift stores? ever see any cool computer thigns there ? discuss it here in thsi thread. one time at the thrift store they had a tandy trs-80 model 100 in a case for only $20, and i didn't buy it for some reason, and i wish i did i did get a hauppauge hd pvr2 for like 10 bucks or something so that was ok. they had a sears pong console once but it didn't work i always enjoy seeing something that has the "imac design", like vcrs, home phones, even tvs and stuff like that. anyway, what cool things u ever see or buy at a thrift store? maybe u are one of those book scanning weirdos? thanks for reading my thread, like and subscribe
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 02:31 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 12:01 |
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i am one of the book scanning weirdos, op. also i got a tandy trs-80 model 102 from the salvation army near me. there's also a weird pawn shop near here that has tons of 90s and early 2000s era computer stuff for some reason. old palm pilots and more esoteric pdas
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 02:46 |
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infernal machines posted:i am one of the book scanning weirdos, op. thats cool, unfortunately the thrift stores near me only occasionally have any cool computer stuff. i wish i could find a trs-80, mostly for my aunt who used them years ago and always talks about getting one there's a book scanner guy at one of the thrift stores i go to and whenever they bring out a new cart of books he runs over and grabs as many of the books as he can carry and scurries off to his cart to scan them all, and gives people a weird mean look whenever they get close to him, like a book gollum or something. i'm sure ur not all weirdos but i always think of that guy. the regulars call him "the beast" as he grabs everything right away
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 02:55 |
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i just spend forever and a day scanning each and every shelf for old sci-fi books
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 03:09 |
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heres a pic from a thirft store anyone want movies u cant play anymore?
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 03:10 |
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to the mod who renamed this thread ..it was smythe, wasn't it
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 03:27 |
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lol hosed up but true
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 03:41 |
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:heres a pic from a thirft store i mean, it's good to have on a bookshelf for a laugh "i got the complete set!"
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 03:43 |
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Thrift stores kinda suck now, the supply of tech stuff from the 80s either dried completely or its in a glass case and it's the most expensive thing in the store
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 03:47 |
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post your hovel/storage unit full of junk itt
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 05:52 |
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Anyone signed up for the next excavation at Computer Reset? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvM82T3C2Ik also my house is gradually filling up to the ceiling with mainly old macs please help r u ready to WALK fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Jul 22, 2019 |
# ? Jul 22, 2019 06:05 |
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so where I live people do this thing where if they have things that are too big to fit in trash cans, they just put them in a pile at the corner. Old couches, bed frames, inkjet printers, water damaged ikea furniture, that kind of thing. And there's enough pack rats that someone always wants that poo poo. That old couch covered in morning dew? Someone wanted that and took it home. That hosed up BLIKEN bookshelf with the particle board swelling up because it got wet? Gone before sunset. So one day about 5 years ago I'm takin my kid for a walk to try & get her to go to sleep and I see a big pile of something up at the end of the block. Tires maybe? As I get closer, I realize they're computers. Someone had left a stack of Sparc 5s and 10s on the corner. About 15 or 20. Two stacks, each about 4' high. That stack of computers stayed on that loving corner for two goddamn weeks before the local trash pickup finally cleaned it up. Several people had complained and were afraid the computer pile would fall on a child, or an old person. No one wanted those loving sparcstations.
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 06:13 |
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lol nice
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 06:14 |
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:heres a pic from a thirft store
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 06:22 |
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r u ready to WALK posted:Anyone signed up for the next excavation at Computer Reset? i tossed a bunch of my old macs the last time i moved because i decided my apartment probably shouldn't look like a computer museum. it still looks like poo poo but it's largely confined to my office, which i have a plausible explanation for
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 06:24 |
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what did people use sparcstations for in the old days like were they CAD machines or or what
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 06:28 |
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infernal machines posted:to the mod who renamed this thread it wasnt
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 06:39 |
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rotor posted:so where I live people do this thing where if they have things that are too big to fit in trash cans, they just put them in a pile at the corner. Old couches, bed frames, inkjet printers, water damaged ikea furniture, that kind of thing. And there's enough pack rats that someone always wants that poo poo. That old couch covered in morning dew? Someone wanted that and took it home. That hosed up BLIKEN bookshelf with the particle board swelling up because it got wet? Gone before sunset. lol
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 06:41 |
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TOOT BOOT posted:Thrift stores kinda suck now, the supply of tech stuff from the 80s either dried completely or its in a glass case and it's the most expensive thing in the store some of my favourite and most memorable items of cloth are from what we call “op shops”
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 08:42 |
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I toss my junk thoughtfully <——— 21st Century Schizoid Man.
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 09:14 |
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:I toss my junk thoughtfully *saxophone plays*
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 15:53 |
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r u ready to WALK posted:also my house is gradually filling up to the ceiling with mainly old macs i got a first-gen g3 imac from a thrift store. it was $15. i boot into macos 9.2 sometimes, load up mozilla's usenet client and read teh yosnet i also picked up a little old black and white tv that somebody had modified with a direct composite video input... i googled it and found a reference to the video board in a 1977 issue of Byte which was cool. then i wired in some rca ports so i could have audio + video without needing an rf modulator. i got a hp digital oscilloscope for $12 at an 'indoor flea market'.
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# ? Jul 22, 2019 23:47 |
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r u ready to WALK posted:Anyone signed up for the next excavation at Computer Reset? LGR is good people.
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# ? Jul 23, 2019 00:04 |
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I have this piece of poo poo prebuilt HP from 2008 that I’m trying to hack up into a Windows 98 rig. So far Windows only boots in safe mode, but it beats the heap of junk I had before it which was apparently too drat new to run Win9x. Would've included a pic but the Awful app won't let me.
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# ? Jul 23, 2019 00:08 |
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I go thrifting every month or so, there's loads of thrift shops within cycling distance. The only computer stuff they sell is cables. Once I scored a calculator older than myself, with a vacufluorescent display, in the correct yospos colour.
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# ? Jul 25, 2019 18:06 |
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i was at the thrift store the other day and they had an "Ednalite projection pointer" http://waywiser.fas.harvard.edu/objects/15548/ednalite-projection-pointer an impressively big and heavy device, it seemed kinda cool. i didn't know what it was and i was hoping it was a really early laser pointer but when i tried it it's just a bright light in an arrow shape i didnt buy it but still, not something i ever heard of and kinda cool to see
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# ? Jul 25, 2019 20:14 |
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hoarding is hosed up and sadrotor posted:so where I live people do this thing where if they have things that are too big to fit in trash cans, they just put them in a pile at the corner. Old couches, bed frames, inkjet printers, water damaged ikea furniture, that kind of thing. And there's enough pack rats that someone always wants that poo poo. That old couch covered in morning dew? Someone wanted that and took it home. That hosed up BLIKEN bookshelf with the particle board swelling up because it got wet? Gone before sunset. lol
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# ? Jul 25, 2019 20:50 |
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rotor posted:so where I live people do this thing where if they have things that are too big to fit in trash cans, they just put them in a pile at the corner. Old couches, bed frames, inkjet printers, water damaged ikea furniture, that kind of thing. And there's enough pack rats that someone always wants that poo poo. That old couch covered in morning dew? Someone wanted that and took it home. That hosed up BLIKEN bookshelf with the particle board swelling up because it got wet? Gone before sunset. lol
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# ? Jul 25, 2019 21:31 |
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i want the sparcstations. i had a couple in college and they were nice. the monitors were especially good but heavy as gently caress
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# ? Jul 25, 2019 21:46 |
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I have several "vintage" macintoshes but that's because I can't remember if I formatted the hard drives before I put them in the closet and it's not worth the effort to find the power bricks or monitor adapters to hook them up
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# ? Jul 25, 2019 23:44 |
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i'd like to believe you, but you can just smash the drives with a hammer. clearly you have a problem, and the first step is to admit it
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# ? Jul 25, 2019 23:52 |
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someone in vancouver proper is selling four sparcstations for $150 and if I could find some drat monitor and keyboard adapters I would be all over that poo poo
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# ? Jul 26, 2019 00:26 |
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those monitor adapters are pretty easy to come by on ebay i could probably mail you one if that's all you need.
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# ? Jul 26, 2019 00:33 |
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instead of hoarding stuff just watch youtube likes this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJXRVyszFbo
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# ? Jul 26, 2019 00:49 |
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TOOT BOOT posted:Thrift stores kinda suck now, the supply of tech stuff from the 80s either dried completely or its in a glass case and it's the most expensive thing in the store I’m the beat up white van floor speakers with rotted foam surrounds and pushed in dust caps priced at $200/pair
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# ? Jul 26, 2019 01:35 |
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:there's a book scanner guy at one of the thrift stores i go to and whenever they bring out a new cart of books he runs over and grabs as many of the books as he can carry and scurries off to his cart to scan them all, and gives people a weird mean look whenever they get close to him, like a book gollum or something. I could only dream to cultivate that aesthetic tbh rotor posted:
She probably could have sold them for a couple of thou on ebay. I wish I could resell old junk like that, but it would just make me feel dirty inside. alexandriao fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Jul 26, 2019 |
# ? Jul 26, 2019 01:40 |
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ok I know I’m gonna regret asking this but what is a book scanner and what are they trying to accomplish
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# ? Jul 26, 2019 01:46 |
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wait what’s the point of book scanning I’ve never heard of this
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# ? Jul 26, 2019 01:46 |
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probably using a barcode scanner to look for stuff with resale value
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# ? Jul 26, 2019 01:59 |
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polyester concept posted:wait what’s the point of book scanning I’ve never heard of this idk what op meant exactly, but in my case it just means visually scanning over the spines of all the books, looking for some old sci-fi paperbacks they're usually just piled on the shelves in no particular order
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