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Shadow posted:Didn't the speakers come with the monitor though? That's how it was for the Packard bell I got in 94. Looked the same as that pic. Hm... if tower, monitor, and accessories were sold together, it's possible that my dad bought a whole set and then took the monitor to his office, leaving her with whatever she'd already had. Either way, it was weird. This all made me remember these bad boys, found in every room of my elementary school:  The all-in-one Power Mac. Many a game of The Incredible Machine was played on these. We also discovered the text-to-speech feature in SimpleText and got yelled at for making the computer say naughty words. Looks like everyone was dabbling in dumb-looking monitors with speakers, even Apple.  Clearly during their Steve Jobs-less design lull. you were warned has a new favorite as of 06:14 on Dec 29, 2015 |
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Packard Bell had a "V' shaped desktop. I think the term that I'm seeing for it is 'Packard Bell corner case', but if you had it facing you none of the drives or anything would actually 'face' you. They'd be veered off in either 45° angle. If you wanted to have one bay of drives facing you, the other bay of drives would be facing 90° away.
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you were warned posted:
I'm the six-inch mouse cord.
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May I present the Macintosh TV At least that wasn't a VHS slot. But yeah, there was a time when their design clout couldn't even extend to force a third-party CD-ROM drive door to be the same color as the rest of the case.
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 My middle school had the iMacs with these mice. They were a little awkward.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:
I worked in a Mac-centric office in the early part of this century, and we had a bunch of the drat jelly iMacs with those idiot mice. We actually had a bunch of third-party add-ons that clipped to the stupid puck mice to give them a more usable shape. When I realized that normal two-button USB mice worked just fine it made the whole Mac experience much more tolerable. edit: I found a picture: 
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Chief McHeath posted:
Aaaaand that was the piece of garbage computer I got in '99 (you know, the one that I finally got with a sound card). 600MHz Pentium III, 256MB memory, 20GB drive, CD/DVD burner, and a goddamn Zip Drive (gently caress those things, but they were required at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh)... and the motherboard fried in '01, as I was trying to get my [complete poo poo] computer animation demo reel together. loving thing cost $2,600 if I remember correctly.
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Item Getter posted:
Nope! I had one of those drives and several cartridges. I also had the SyQuest EZ 135 years later. Even later, the 1GB Jaz drives.
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Playing Miner 2049er, Wizardry, and Choplifter on my family's Apple II+ computer (with 64K RAM!) SupraFAXModem with green LED readout indicating your connection speed. Most propeller heads at the time creamed their jeans over the US Robotics line of modems, but the Supra was great. Power Macs Arguments with PC/Windows faggots over computer platforms
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you were warned posted:This all made me remember these bad boys, found in every room of my elementary school: I bought one of those off the local craigslist earlier this year, it even has the TV card in it that displays amazing 320x240 video  I thought it would be cool to have a retro mac around the house but there's a rattling fan deep inside it and the CRT flickers like hell so eh  At least I can say I own a blackintosh from Apple's goth phase
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you were warned posted:Hm... if tower, monitor, and accessories were sold together, it's possible that my dad bought a whole set and then took the monitor to his office, leaving her with whatever she'd already had. Either way, it was weird. These kinda suck: http://lowendmac.com/1997/performa-and-power-mac-x200-issues/ quote:One of the biggest complaints about the x200 series is slow Internet handling. For one thing all data from either the ports or the ethernet controller must pass through the processor to get to memory, then be processed, sent to the IDE controller for cache saving, and then interpreted for graphics display.
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 Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games
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Buttcoin purse posted:
gently caress yeah when games were made for trolling eachother https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTKTYvMOd0
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Loading programs onto my family's TI-99/4a via cassette tape. Better yet, trying to impress friends with TI-Basic programs that made R2-D2 noises.... by making them sit while my 6yo self typed it out for a 5 second sound. Speaking of the TI-99/4a, the Speech Synthesizer was a nifty gimmick.
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A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:Legendary mainboard manufacturer: PC CHIPS. In the 486 and Socket 7 era, they made boards with fake cache chips, fake chipsets (reverse engineered UMC chipset but marked as ALi with a sticky label!) and then in the Slot1 era, they made boards which weren't capable of running 100MhZ FSB Pentium 2s (despite claiming otherwise), they were painfully slow. Apparently Atari used to do something similar. They failed to copyright Pong, so the market got flooded with clones, so Atari started putting chips in their units that were intentionally mislabeled to gently caress up anyone trying to reverse engineer it.
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Who else actually liked the iMac puck mice? When I first saw one I thought, "Wow, somebody finally made a mouse that doesn't have a bunch of extra plastic hanging off the back!" I couldn't wait for someone to make a three button clone with a longer cord that would work well with my PC.
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an AOL chatroom posted:Ram Doubler don't need it, I got doublespace
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JediTalentAgent posted:On the subject of Wing Commander, though, from a bit earlier, I remember some computer magazine article about some of the most important PC games of all time and I think they ranked WC having some added importance in that it sort of overnight made people start upgrading their hardware specifically to play it. It is, but it's also funny due to the fact that there were other games at the time with better graphics that required significantly less power, which was due to WC being really poorly coded for the era, but having a hype train behind it making it come off as a must play. The dev learned a lot from this tactic you were warned posted:My mom had one of those, except her monitor wasn't from the set. So she ended up with these weirdly-shaped speakers with hooks on the side, and nothing to hook them to. I had one too, but it was a Packard Bell with a Pentium MMX I think. I played a lot of Jane's US Navy Fighters and Dark Forces on that one Booblord Zagats has a new favorite as of 16:25 on Dec 29, 2015 |
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an AOL chatroom posted:Ram Doubler Howard Beale posted:don't need it, I got doublespace And the ever popular, super-shady STACKER:  During my first year in dormitory probably ten guys had the same idea: If Stacker doubled your hard drive space, and DoubleSpace doubled your hard drive space, then running both at once would quadruple it. You could end up with like 500 megabytes. It would have been clever if it worked. We were at a fancy private college, so about half the students -- the Catholic school crowd -- had these:  .Only God and their tutors know why. Me, I found an office that was switching over to Windows machines and picked up this friendly little bastard:  They were asking $20 each. This was the mid '90s and a real computer had like 4 MB of RAM instead of 128K. Other students gave me poo poo about a postcard-sized black and white screen, but the Lisa never gave me a problem.* After I graduated I gave it to a dowager aunt of mine -- that was in 1999. I imagine that unless a cat or ten peed on it she's still banging out misinformed historical erotica and wondering whether other human beings are good for anything. Either that or she's dead and the cats ate her. * Of course I had to go the the computer lab to email anyone. In case you were wondering, the lab machines were a VAX terminal system and we handled email with PINE.
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Playing Infocom text adventure games on the Apple II+ that were funnier, more imaginative, and cleverer than 95% of the crap put out these days Meeting Doug Smith, author of Lode Runner, in his home before he sent the game off to Brøderbund to be published for the Apple II+. It became hugely successful and was eventually released for most of the popular computer platforms back in the day, including an arcade version. Using ZTerm to access local BBSes on my Mac in the early '90's Typing "PR#6" on the Apple II+ to get it to load the 5.25" floppy disk in the drive
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Chief McHeath posted:
this used to be really common for (lovely) computer monitors to come with speakers that attached to the side like that. a lot of times they would break off though and you'd find them just resting next to the monitor or leaning shoddily against the side of it. they still sounded better than the speakers built into flat screens though I guess. i'm more offended by that extremely stupid and superfluous looking keyboard
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Buttcoin purse posted:
Aces of the Pacific (1992)
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Brainworm posted:* Of course I had to go the the computer lab to email anyone. In case you were wondering, the lab machines were a VAX terminal system and we handled email with PINE. ah yes VMS and digital unix, the labs with row after row of vt320 terminals set to smooth scroll, the territorial grad student working on "his" term, somebody asking how to quit vi, lp0 and lp1 always down, the genius who wrote "/var/spool/paper" above the toilet paper in the restroom and the creepy guy in the far corner on furrymuck 24/7
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Who else actually liked the iMac puck mice? When I first saw one I thought, "Wow, somebody finally made a mouse that doesn't have a bunch of extra plastic hanging off the back!" I couldn't wait for someone to make a three button clone with a longer cord that would work well with my PC. Ah yup
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Does anybody want to join my webring?
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Ultraviper posted:Does anybody want to join my webring? Pretty sure that's how Sheen got AIDS
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my dad would always play some 95/98 era game called.. Necropolis? all I really remember is I think it was an isometric adventure puzzle sort of thing, and it had some dank rear end box art. he said i was too young to play it, but he let me play duke3d. I guess it had boobies or something. Haven't been able to find anything on that game since. gently caress you, dad, i wanted to play it.
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I just thought of another great game from the 90s - Caesar II. Hours would magically disappear when playing that game.
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thathonkey posted:Rise of the Triad owned. Buttcoin purse posted:It was so ugly compared to DOOM which came out at least a year before it One of the id Software guys (Tom Hall) got kicked out of the company while they were making Doom, so he went on to make RotT without the benefit of John Carmack's spergy wizardry. e: Still a fun game though. I think I remember it instantly killing you and printing some snarky message if you tried to use Doom cheat codes. Skeleton Ape has a new favorite as of 19:37 on Dec 29, 2015 |
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Anton Chigurh posted:Using ZTerm to access local BBSes on my Mac in the early '90's Man, I still have to use ZTerm if I want to do serial comms, like for Arduino programming (when I want more flexibility than the IDE gives me). Either that or write my own stupid client in Python or something. Serial terminals are a technology that will never be popular again but will also never die. I still laugh every time I think of the fugly licensing job Microsoft did cramming Hyperterminal into Windows for all those years.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Who else actually liked the iMac puck mice? When I first saw one I thought, "Wow, somebody finally made a mouse that doesn't have a bunch of extra plastic hanging off the back!" I couldn't wait for someone to make a three button clone with a longer cord that would work well with my PC. The one that came with my G4 tower had a wide indent on the mouse button, so it was easy to feel which way was up. They eventually made that change in response to people's frustration, but it was too late. Since I never had any problems with that, and I have small hands, I really liked the puck mouse! I actually recently thought about grabbing one from eBay to be silly, but apparently the indented ones are way more uncommon than I expected. Bokito posted:These kinda suck: http://lowendmac.com/1997/performa-and-power-mac-x200-issues/ Yeah, the Performas were a series of trainwrecks. I actually had a 6360, which they note as being the only one that isn't a disaster. I think that all-in-one case design was also used for a non-Performa Power Mac that was better, though. There were a million different model numbers with slightly different specs around that time, and it was excessively confusing. Howard Beale posted:hanging speakers from the monitor is amateur hour compared to the Compaq Presario which shoved the speakers into the monitor and took the CPU with it as well Can't decide if it's even uglier than this actual mac 
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Data Graham posted:May I present the Macintosh TV 
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