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Dec 25, 2020 01:59
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i received 0 (zero) gifts with any electronics inside them, op. the way god intended.
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Dec 25, 2020 03:20
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I bought myself a new distributor. it’s like a computer except very analog.
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Dec 25, 2020 03:37
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I bought some video games, and i'm pretending I can buy a new video card some time next year
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Dec 25, 2020 03:40
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gramma you fukkin idiot this is an ATI CARD not fukking NVIDIA
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Dec 25, 2020 04:59
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:gramma you fukkin idiot this is an CYRIX 486 not fukking INTEL
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Dec 25, 2020 06:33
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an akai sampler an ipad air and an i7-9700k
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Dec 25, 2020 07:16
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computing is for nerds
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Dec 25, 2020 07:17
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TOOT BOOT posted:computing is for nerds you must love it then!!
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Dec 25, 2020 07:53
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I got a single malt Scottish whiskey. and lego for some loving reason. controlled by a smartphone app. the kids were stoked.
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Dec 25, 2020 11:16
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my work laptop with evening shifts for all of the christmas days and new years eve!
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Dec 25, 2020 13:28
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:and lego for some loving reason. controlled by a smartphone app. the kids were stoked.
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Dec 25, 2020 22:43
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:gramma you fukkin idiot this is an ATI CARD not fukking NVIDIA
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Dec 25, 2020 22:46
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the man at best buy said this is the labtop that all the kids are using this year *unwraps a chromebook*
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Dec 25, 2020 22:50
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i actually was really lucky and my parents got me a brand-new computer for christmas when i was 13. it was some NEC tower, with a pentium 2, a DVD-ROM drive (!!!), 8 gigabytes of hard drive space, 64 megabytes of RAM, 17" monitor, and they even threw in a microsoft force feedback joystick. just absolutely incredible.
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Dec 25, 2020 22:53
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in retrospect i wonder how much that was driven by my dad wanting me to stop bugging him to use his computer to play all the games my old 486 couldn't handle
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Dec 25, 2020 22:54
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i actually was really lucky and my parents got me a brand-new computer for christmas when i was 13. it was some NEC tower, with a pentium 2, a DVD-ROM drive (!!!), 8 gigabytes of hard drive space, 64 megabytes of RAM, 17" monitor, and they even threw in a microsoft force feedback joystick. just absolutely incredible. oh man. i remember when 64 mg of ram was the hot poo poo. 
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Dec 25, 2020 22:55
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yeah absolutely. my computer came bundled with Total Annihilation and i remember some early LAN parties with my friends where there were certain maps we couldn't choose because their computers didn't have enough RAM.
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Dec 25, 2020 22:57
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i actually was really lucky and my parents got me a brand-new computer for christmas when i was 13. it was some NEC tower, with a pentium 2, a DVD-ROM drive (!!!), 8 gigabytes of hard drive space, 64 megabytes of RAM, 17" monitor, and they even threw in a microsoft force feedback joystick. just absolutely incredible. hell same, but gateway i remember seeing the hologram sticker on the pentium 2 case and thinking that was the actual processor lol
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Dec 26, 2020 03:29
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 a more civilized age
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Dec 26, 2020 03:30
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pram posted:i remember seeing the hologram sticker on the pentium 2 case and thinking that was the actual processor lol lol.
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Dec 26, 2020 03:41
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President Beep posted:oh man. i remember when 64 mg of ram was the hot poo poo. 64 milligrams of ram
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Dec 26, 2020 04:48
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pram posted:
drat remember when cpus didn't need 400 fans on them to keep them cool or they erupted in to flames?
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Dec 26, 2020 06:30
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Minnesota Mixup posted:drat remember when cpus didn't need 400 fans on them to keep them cool or they erupted in to flames? by far the biggest single component in my first computer was the hard drive. there was no graphics card and the cpu was a normal looking quad pack ic with no fan or heat sink. now hard drives are the size of a stick of gum and the two most massive things in the case are the cooling systems for the cpu and gpu
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Dec 26, 2020 06:39
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Minnesota Mixup posted:drat remember when cpus didn't need 400 fans on them to keep them cool or they erupted in to flames? I can still passively cool mine pretty much fine. Of course it's because there's about two pounds of copper in a heat spreader.
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Dec 26, 2020 07:34
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my first computer wasn’t a Christmas present but my parents did get me the mouse for Christmas that year I spent so much time with MousePaint and Dazzle Draw on my IIc, when I wasn’t programming or playing games
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Dec 26, 2020 09:58
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right after the Pentium III came out I had a schoolmate ask me why their Internet didn’t speed up. they had bought the internet processor!
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Dec 26, 2020 15:14
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makes u think
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Dec 27, 2020 03:18
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Hed posted:right after the Pentium III came out I had a schoolmate ask me why their Internet didn’t speed up. they had bought the internet processor! 
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Dec 27, 2020 07:35
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I have a fond Christmas memory of getting an IBM Thinkpad from my Dad in the early 00's. A good gift
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Dec 28, 2020 01:16
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I got a coffee maker that has some computer things in it
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Dec 28, 2020 05:46
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i got a pair of socks op xmas is a good excuse to dump some old e-waste onto other people though
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Dec 28, 2020 08:34
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I'm at my parents' for christmas, so I'm taking the opportunity to go through a bunch of old computers to image all the drives for future nostalgia purposes so far the only casualty has been one half of an external SCSI drive, which didn't spin up
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Dec 28, 2020 10:33
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i got an aerogarden as a gift and im assuming theirs a computer in there somewhere or maybe its just a 555 timer with a divider
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Dec 29, 2020 08:51
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Sagebrush posted:by far the biggest single component in my first computer was the hard drive. there was no graphics card and the cpu was a normal looking quad pack ic with no fan or heat sink. the maths are far too difficult for a human to do but what got bigger hard drive sizes or tranny counts
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Dec 29, 2020 09:36
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Raluek posted:I'm at my parents' for christmas, so I'm taking the opportunity to go through a bunch of old computers to image all the drives for future nostalgia purposes I found a stack of old 2940 and 3940 scsi controllers at my folks this holiday... the great connector feel of the 80 pin SE cable
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Dec 29, 2020 16:28
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echinopsis posted:the maths are far too difficult for a human to do but what got bigger hard drive sizes or tranny counts Well I had a 40MB hard drive and a 68030 processor vs today a 2TB NVMe drive and a ryzen 3900 273,000 transistors vs 9.9 billion 40 million bytes vs 2 trillion So the hard drive got 50,000 times bigger while the processor got 35,000 times as many transistors. Close but the storage edges it out
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Dec 29, 2020 18:21
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Hed posted:I found a stack of old 2940 and 3940 scsi controllers at my folks this holiday... nice. the 2940 is a classic. I've got one in my G3 that I'm using to pull a lot of these disk images i don't think I've seen a cable with SCA on it, just backplanes. whats that used in?
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Dec 29, 2020 22:26
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I was going off memory and got it wrong. there were 80 pin connectors but I’m talking about the HD68 connector: I can feel it in my hands edit: to fix the pic Hed fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Dec 30, 2020 |
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Dec 30, 2020 05:58
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i remember years ago i grabbed a couple of 15k scsi drives off ebay without realizing they had 80 pin connectors instead of 68 pin, so i wound up grabbing a couple of 80-68 pin adapters. looked janky as heck but it worked lol
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Dec 30, 2020 07:31
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