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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 15:33 on Dec 11, 2021 |
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shoeberto posted:So did the pot hold ramen or mac and cheese? Ramen. Definitely Ramen.
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teletypes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryb7HFP_GgU
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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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Presto posted:You kids and your Any eight tracks you got are probably gonna need to be reglued soon.
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Achmed Jones posted:when i got a cd player for my 89 buick back in high school my dad REALLY wanted me to get a trunk cd changer instead. he thought they were way better. i disagreed and never regretted my choice Haha, man. Makes me think of all those lovely GPS systems that had a DVD player in the trunk or something.
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Dec 17, 2021 21:55
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SCSI on PC was considered Cadillac. SCSI everything cost so much more compared to IDE/Parallel/Serial. I don't think I used a single PC with scsi anything while it was still relevant.
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Dec 18, 2021 18:29
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Wild EEPROM posted:three buttoned mice like what did the middle button even do If you want to find out, try pressing down on your scroll wheel. Lotta mice have a third button hidden under there. Mine copy/pastes under x.
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Sweevo posted:the third button was a decoy to stop you discovering the hidden fourth button Oh, you mean when you tilt your mouse wheel left or right?
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Wild EEPROM posted:i don’t mean modern 3 buttons i meant like a logitech mouseman for AT compatable pcs, ones which used an aopen motherboard and an s3 video card Application defined under Windows. Can't remember if OS/2 presentation manager had a default but probably not (could be used for hotkeys/chording) since it was kept close to windows. I think the default for Unix was paste. When you say AT compatible... Your talking about the form factor right? Not like an IBM PC/AT? edit: middle mouse was usually double click on OS/2. SYSV Fanfic fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Dec 26, 2021 |
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:oh my god riscOS that's what we had at my school and why I remembered 3 button mice from about 10 years before I ever saw one anywhere else U can run it for free on a pi one, two, three, or zero. I really dig the ability to fall into a full screen basic interpreter.
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That's a game? Looks like an attempt to use schoolchildren to brute force the traveling poutine salesman problem. Like the plot of toys, but for canadian light industry.
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I just got the rank of trail guide on the ibm dos version. Astoundingly all I did was make adult deciscions and my entire family made it to oregon alive.
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Captain Foo posted:sounds like you pressed return Achmed Jones posted:you were in your forties when you played it though I remember playing it in grade school in the computer lab on apple 2s. Kid me was dumb as hell. Rivers 8 feet deep, 200 feet wide? Hmm, let's ford. Queue third grader surprise and panic when the wagon floods. One kid figured out you could move around while hunting and it was like he'd independently discovered general relativity.
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Ahh zip drives. Click of death.
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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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Click of death mostly impacted zip drives from the first year or so. Abrupt power loss could damage the mechanism that positioned the head - the original design called for hardware mitigation (a "crash cushion") and they removed it to save some bucks. Many failed within the warranty period and were replaced, but some of them were in production for awhile before the fail condition happened.
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I think iomega knew from the beginning that their product would only have a market for five or six years max. Why build a long term brand?
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DVD +/- you could at least figure out. BDR LTH vs HTL, that was nonsense.
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Funny tech poo poo I just remembered - kid in high school had his parents pre-order a p4 system. Then the benchmarks came out.
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Jonny 290 posted:yospos poster emeritus sneaking mission came through here Why does this man look more content in these pictures than I've ever felt in my entire life? BRB, switching to amberpos.
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Holy poo poothe wrongly convicted is a riveting read.
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IDK if any of you guys have ever read confederacy of dunces, but holy poo poo.
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The_Franz posted:and how the hell did he think that going around the jail and jimmying cell door locks with a toothbrush was a good idea? how oblivious do you have to be to think that doing something like that would end any way but badly for you? Same sort of person who thinks having a room mate that's currently in high school is going to work out well.
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Of course the narrator is unreliable. The whole narrative is nuts. When I read it I tried to imagine the sort of person who puts the emphasis that what they needed to clear up was that they went to a school for the gifted, not the disturbed navigating each and every one of those scenes. In my mind's eye it got incredibly close to the character of Ignatius Riley throughout. That might have been deliberate, but then you're dealing with someone who doesn't realize Ignatius was a joke throughout. The character telling the "wrongly convicted story" comes across as someone with HFA and Narcissism navigating the criminal justice system. eschaton posted:get yourself an amber VT420 to use as a posting station This is tempting. Do you know is DEC was putting the strontium and stuff in the glass to block x-rays at this point? They ever figure out the whole x-rays and CRT thing?
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jammyozzy posted:We inherited a Dyson vacuum and despite being horrid & plasticky the stupid thing is a decade+ old and refuses to die. My brain cannot allow me to spend £ on 'just' a QOL improvement so I'm gonna be lugging this piece of crap around until it breaks irreperably. My family was using a 1963 canister electrolux in 2002. It could be awhile.
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Anyone remember how small monitors used to be? Like usually 10" visible.
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carry on then posted:i honestly have no idea how i would even be productive programming on like a mac se/30 Ring binders full of documentation.
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You could use a modem and connect to the "online" of the day. There are still dial in unix shell services out there, so with a terminal emulator, there's a way. Not going to lie. I still use dial up for the hell of it sometimes. My parents have POTS service and I watch their cats when they vacation. I take my last dial up modem over there and dial in to BBS that are still up. Or at least I did. My parents got rid of their long distance the last time I used it. Edit: My dad has free POTS dial tone for life at his address as an AT&T retiree. It was in the contract he started under back in... 1970 something.
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:How does this work with the phone companies ripping out copper lines? The house is one block away from the CO. They can't get uverse because it's too close, and AT&T doesn't sell faster internet out of the COs so resellers can't offer them. Here it's less they're ripping them out and more they're refusing start up service. When there aren't any clients left on a cable they cut the trunk off. My dad got the joy of malicious compliance when he tried to tell a new second level that the engineers were wrong, there were still 500 lines on this trunk. He was told to cut it and he did. I asked him and he said he'd probably have trouble if he changed his address. My guess is they'd offer him an apology and a $500 check as a settlement for being unable to uphold the contract. He'd just transfer the number to a cellphone he left in the house probably. There are still air blown, paper insulated cables in service. My dad is mostly doing air crew stuff while waiting for the paper work for a medical retirement. The phone company has some extremely long term contracts and obligations so they'll have to figure out a 100% compatible alternative - including power from the CO to stop using copper completely.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:this happened to me years ago. I was close enough to the exchange that I was (copper) wired to it directly instead of a local cabinet and for some obscure UK reason, it was not allowed to put the new generation DSL hardware inside an exchange so I was stuck with an old sub 10mpbs connection. My heart tells me the "obscure UK reason" was AT&T had made the manufacture add a warning "for outside use only" to keep US telecom resellers from suing about the no CO thing.
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