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Juul-Whip: Mar 10, 2008

# ? Dec 7, 2014 03:57

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# ? Jun 10, 2024 13:49

Doc Block: Apr 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

yesssss

# ? Dec 7, 2014 04:03

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

Doc Block posted:

yesssss

Whoa there buddy!

# ? Dec 7, 2014 04:07

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

Bananalogue posted:

prolly gonna replace my 2011 iMac next year but dunno what with yet, current lineup isn't really exciting me tbh

the retinal imac op

# ? Dec 7, 2014 04:38

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

lol forever

# ? Dec 7, 2014 04:39

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012; ERM... Actually I have stellar scores on the surveys, and every year students tell me that my classes are the best ones they’ve ever taken.

THC posted:

hnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggghhhhhhhhhh

# ? Dec 7, 2014 05:58

Tayter Swift: Nov 18, 2002; Pillbug

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

the 1990s

I was at frys in the late nineties and saw a woman lug a flower power iMac into her cart after asking the sales clerk if it had a spell checker

# ? Dec 7, 2014 08:42

Tayter Swift: Nov 18, 2002; Pillbug

leaning toward a retina mbp but not gonna be soon and it'll just complement the iMac rather than replace it

was looking though the licenses for my music stuff and god dammit Korg's poo poo can only be installed on one machine at a time and it's enforced by a one-time auth code, there goes $200

# ? Dec 7, 2014 08:45

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

a while ago I picked up a Mac IIci, since I no longer have the one my family bought as I was entering high school.

I've owned a Lisa 2/10 for 17 years now, the last time I powered it on it still worked though the screen had developed a vertical roll. I have a pic of it and its innards somewhere.

I learned to program before the Mac existed, on an Apple II+ with Logo at school, and then my family bought an Apple //c (with a mouse!) since it was more affordable then. when my family was buying the //c I sat down at a Lisa in the shop and a salesperson said "Don't touch that, it cost more than you did." rear end in a top hat.

I've had a variety of Macs myself. I sold the IIci and bought a Centris 610 on clearance with the money, when I went to college I sold my car and bought a PowerBook 520, I also bought a PowerMac 7100/66, then a beige PowerMac G3 tower and a "Wall Street" PowerBook G3, then a 400MHz blue & white G3 and a 667 MHz titanium PowerBook G4 which were my main workhorses for years across first MacOS 9 (not "OS 9," I didn't use a CoCo) and OS X 10.0 through 10.3.

since moving out to the Bay Area, I've solely bought portables as my main systems. almost the last model of 15in PowerBook G4 in 2005, the first model MacBook Pro 15, a 2008 and 2010 MacBook Pro 15, and I'm currently using a 2012 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display as my personal system.

for retro I've also picked up a Mac Plus (you can see it in my old office window) and a Mac IIx. I also picked up a Newton MessagePad 2100 and an eMate 300 that I recently pulled out to show some coworkers, that was fun. and recently, since it may count for this thread, a 66 MHz BeBox with a finicky CD-ROM drive. (it doesn't like CD-R/CD-RW media, and I don't want to use 20 year old original media to restore I...)

# ? Dec 7, 2014 09:03

Raluek: Nov 3, 2006; WUT.

christ ive made a lot of really bad decisions wrt computer hardware.
here are some of them:

computers that were my main computer at some point:
IIci
powerbook 5300ce, yeea get dat fire-batt
performa 6400/200, integrated subwoofer whattt
G3 yosemite 450MHz, scsi boot drive, 20GB ide for mass storage, what was a ton of ram to middle-school me, ballin

computers that were my dads / the familys:
powermac 7500/100, later upgraded with a G3 Sonnett card and a PCI voodoo5
G4 lampshade imac
G5 slab imac
some hackintosh thing i threw together cause the G5 was a bit long in the tooth in 2009 or whatever
imac 7,1 that hes still using

computers that ive ended up with somehow but werent used regularly:
IIsi
quadra 650 and centris to match
another G3 yosemite, i think this one was a 350MHz
lombard G3 powerbook
snow G3 ibook
like 3 macs mini, i think one was a G4 and the other two were pre-slim intels
a few other imacs 7,1 for parts

there was a quicksilver i could have had for free but didnt take because i am an idiot

yospos bithc

Raluek fucked around with this message at 09:16 on Dec 7, 2014

# ? Dec 7, 2014 09:12

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

also I now have one of these to use as a slow but giant (and silent!) HD on my Mac Plus

he just got support for both floppy and HD images working, as well as write support for HD images, so it can either emulate an attached floppy drive or an HD20

# ? Dec 7, 2014 09:31

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

here's my Lisa 2/10 from the front, as I was unpacking it after moving into our apartment:

it was manufactured in February 1984.

and here are its innards, ooh-la-la:

the lisa was designed in part by minicomputer people so it had an expansion bus to the side (behind the floppy drive(s) and hard drive) separate from its main bus. the main bus was in a card cage and you can see the CPU, I/O, and RAM boards (the smaller ones).

the RAM boards supply what was for the time a whopping 1MB of DRAM, hypothetically they could provide up to 8MB.

# ? Dec 7, 2014 11:16

Trig Discipline: Jun 3, 2008; Please leave the room if you think this might offend you.; Grimey Drawer

i used a mac for a couple of things in the late 80s and immediately thought "holy poo poo this is a garbage computer for idiots" but the first time i saw osx i swooned a bit but i couldn't afford to buy one until a couple of years ago

now i'm mackin' full time and it rules

# ? Dec 7, 2014 14:33

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

despite the terrible design flaws the lamp imac was a high point

# ? Dec 7, 2014 14:41

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

Trig Discipline posted:

i used a mac for a couple of things in the late 80s and immediately thought "holy poo poo this is a garbage computer for idiots" but the first time i saw osx i swooned a bit but i couldn't afford to buy one until a couple of years ago

now i'm mackin' full time and it rules

that is the opposite of what this thread is about please start your own thread for operating system turncoats

# ? Dec 7, 2014 14:54

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

more macintosh bible (1996) quotin:

quote:

On-Line Etiquette: Ten Rules (JH)

If you�ve ever visited France and watched American tourists shouting English orders at scowling Parisians, you know that it pays to do your homework and learn the local lingo. Violate the rules of on-line behavior and you�ll be branded a clueless newbie, a newcomer who doesn�t have the decency even to pick up the basics. Okay, you�re warned. Study these few rules and you just may be mistaken for a veteran.

1. DON�T TYPE IN ALL CAPS! It�s hard to read and it looks like YOU�RE SHOUTING!

2. [It�s OK to type like a banshee e.e. cummings; all lowercase is fine if perhaps a trace too hip. Always put two carriage returns at the end of each paragraph. And keep the grafs short.�DJS]

3. Quote a relevant piece of a message to which you�re replying, just enough to give needed context, but not the entire message. Nothing looks more idiotic than quoting an entire enormous message, followed by your reply: �Thanks for the tip!�

4. Don�t delete messages to which you reply. In a public message forum, the original message helps others follow the conversation.

5. Address people by their first names�it may not be proper in a business letter, but it�s standard on-line.

6. Stay out of flame wars. Just stay out. Life�s too short and nothing ever, not ever, gets settled. Remember: The best way to extinguish a flame is to deprive it of fuel. Corollary: You�ll never have the last word, because there�s always a fool with even more time
to waste.

7. Reread your messages before you post them. You�ll be surprised how often you reconsider and decide to tone down the language.

8. Use smileys and emoticons, but sparingly (see the sidebar �Of Acronyms and Emoticons� later in this chapter). It�s sometimes important to give readers a clue to your state of mind, but you might try writing so that they�re not needed. You don�t see Dave Barry peppering his column with little smiley faces, do you?

9. Give back as you take. Seek help, but don�t forget to help others.

10. Finally, give the clueless newbies a break.

i'm the 90s dave barry reference :allears:

# ? Dec 7, 2014 14:58

kitten emergency: Jan 13, 2008; get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

oh man hotline owned

# ? Dec 7, 2014 16:18

lord funk: Feb 16, 2004

uncurable mlady posted:

oh man hotline owned

to read the rest of this post, click on the second banner link, then enter the fourth word on the last sentence of the page

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# ? Dec 7, 2014 17:00

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

speaking of which, astalavista is still running :monocle:

# ? Dec 7, 2014 20:20

DONT THREAD ON ME: Oct 1, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo; Floss Finder

i 'owned' a few macs in elementary school if you know what i mean

# ? Dec 7, 2014 20:20

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

i 'owned' a few macs in elementary school if you know what i mean

I don't, OP. Please continue.

# ? Dec 7, 2014 20:22

DONT THREAD ON ME: Oct 1, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo; Floss Finder

triple sulk posted:

I don't, OP. Please continue.

i changed their desktop background to 'macs suck'

# ? Dec 7, 2014 20:23

kitten emergency: Jan 13, 2008; get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

lord funk posted:

to read the rest of this post, click on the second banner link, then enter the fourth word on the last sentence of the page

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you know what else was fun? avara

also bolo over AppleTalk

holy poo poo iOS still catches AppleTalk and autocapitalizes it

# ? Dec 7, 2014 22:39

pram: Jun 10, 2001

it also capitalized hypercard

# ? Dec 7, 2014 22:39

kitten emergency: Jan 13, 2008; get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

one summer my dad and I ran a new phone line between my room and his office so we could have a dedicated AppleTalk lan connection to play bolo over

# ? Dec 7, 2014 22:40

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

pro dad

# ? Dec 8, 2014 05:02

duckfarts: Jul 2, 2010; ~ shameful ~; Soiled Meat

nettrek was a cool lan game for old rear end macs

# ? Dec 8, 2014 05:18

Elder Postsman: Aug 30, 2000; i used hot bot to search for "teens"

Binary Badger posted:

still have an Extended Keyboard II NIB, never bought the ADB to USB converter

# ? Dec 8, 2014 05:28

buttcrackmenace: Nov 14, 2007; see its right there in the manual where it says; Grimey Drawer

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

oh yeah i forgot about the radius displays

Radius made a display that consisted of letter-sized CRT which could be rotated from portrait to landscape

you could work on your spreadsheets in widescreen then woosh! craft yr full-size pages in portrait with no scrolling

we had a *bunch* of these.

cannae remember what they were called.

# ? Dec 8, 2014 22:33

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

i have used Macs since the Mac LC II/III, OP, and prior to that IIe's and IIGS.

# ? Dec 8, 2014 22:36

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

buttcrackmenace posted:

Radius made a display that consisted of letter-sized CRT which could be rotated from portrait to landscape

you could work on your spreadsheets in widescreen then woosh! craft yr full-size pages in portrait with no scrolling

we had a *bunch* of these.

cannae remember what they were called.

# ? Dec 8, 2014 22:45

GATOS Y VATOS: Aug 22, 2002

buttcrackmenace posted:

Radius made a display that consisted of letter-sized CRT which could be rotated from portrait to landscape

you could work on your spreadsheets in widescreen then woosh! craft yr full-size pages in portrait with no scrolling

we had a *bunch* of these.

cannae remember what they were called.

Yeah my Pop had one of those hooked up to his IIci. It was the loving bomb (but he only had the B&W one as it was mostly for desktop publishing)

# ? Dec 8, 2014 23:02

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

i can't imagine doing desktop publishing in black and white

i imagine you had to print things out a lot, or did they only ever do black and white design on those?

# ? Dec 8, 2014 23:07

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

buttcrackmenace posted:

Radius made a display that consisted of letter-sized CRT which could be rotated from portrait to landscape

you could work on your spreadsheets in widescreen then woosh! craft yr full-size pages in portrait with no scrolling

we had a *bunch* of these.

cannae remember what they were called.

radius pivot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh5175Q4Vgo

# ? Dec 8, 2014 23:12

Metrication: Dec 12, 2010; Raskin had one problem: Jobs regarded him as an insufferable theorist or, to use Jobs's own more precise terminology, "a shithead who sucks".

THC posted:

COMPUTER

# ? Dec 8, 2014 23:14

Doc Block: Apr 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

carry on then posted:

i can't imagine doing desktop publishing in black and white

i imagine you had to print things out a lot, or did they only ever do black and white design on those?

probably mostly B&W stuff. which they'd then print out on their B&W Apple LaserWriter.

# ? Dec 8, 2014 23:26

Elder Postsman: Aug 30, 2000; i used hot bot to search for "teens"

carry on then posted:

i can't imagine doing desktop publishing in black and white

i imagine you had to print things out a lot, or did they only ever do black and white design on those?

color printers weren't invented until 1993 so using a b&w monitor was ok.

# ? Dec 8, 2014 23:27

Metrication: Dec 12, 2010; Raskin had one problem: Jobs regarded him as an insufferable theorist or, to use Jobs's own more precise terminology, "a shithead who sucks".

COMPUTER !!!!!!

# ? Dec 8, 2014 23:28

Binary Badger: Oct 11, 2005; Trolling Link for a decade

COMPUTER !!!!!!
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# ? Dec 8, 2014 23:50

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GATOS Y VATOS: Aug 22, 2002

carry on then posted:

i can't imagine doing desktop publishing in black and white

i imagine you had to print things out a lot, or did they only ever do black and white design on those?

If it's a lot of printed words, it was just fine. Pictures were actually still being pasteboarded.

# ? Dec 8, 2014 23:51

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