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VikingSkull posted:Yeah, there was a definite hierarchy to it. Like PC users with broadband were gods, then came the DC BB players, then 56k mouse and keyboard, 56k controllers next, and finally you had the Brazilians with 575 ping. loving Low Ping Bastards.
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Dec 31, 2015 15:41
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yogizh posted:Cleaning a mouse. This was the most satisfying thing.
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Dec 31, 2015 15:46
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yogizh posted:Cleaning a mouse. would
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Dec 31, 2015 16:09
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HD DAD posted:This was the most satisfying thing. It's a short-lived satisfaction though. For the real slow-burn kind, I'll take "buying my first optical mouse that actually worked (and wasn't one of these bastards:)" 
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Dec 31, 2015 16:11
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Data Graham posted:It's a short-lived satisfaction though. For the real slow-burn kind, I'll take "buying my first optical mouse that actually worked (and wasn't one of these bastards:)" These things were awesome and made me feel like I was in THE FUTURE like if I moved my mouse off the pad a little AI hologram would pop up on it and tell me to put it back it never happened tho
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Dec 31, 2015 16:15
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You mean like this guy?
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Dec 31, 2015 16:22
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Data Graham posted:You mean like this guy? I remember time cowboy! I got him killed I got him killed by a big titty cavewoman once.
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Dec 31, 2015 16:29
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VikingSkull posted:Quake 3 Arena loving owned on that. Quake 3 TEST was about 30 MB to play. It took more than 7 hours to finish downloading that. But boy, was it worth it!
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Dec 31, 2015 16:48
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Wicker Man posted:Quake 3 TEST was about 30 MB to play. And those curved surfaces!? Forget about it, games could never look better.
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Dec 31, 2015 16:50
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making web pages with Hot Dog HTML editor, HoT MetaL, Microsoft FrontPage and DreamWeaver.
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Dec 31, 2015 16:52
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Good design. Apple does OK, but there's a little too much estrogen in it, you know? Too much practicality, too little Frank Lloyd Wright. Like their machines were meant be used by human beings instead of fastidious, hard edged, dystopian minimalists. For instance, I always wanted one of these:  Running this:  Because color and rounded corners are for children and other loser bioforms who don't have the 2001 monolith for a soul. That's why my daily driver is one of these:  The highlight? A 1600x1200 4:3 display. No good for movies, but there's nothing better for writing.
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Dec 31, 2015 17:16
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Brainworm posted:The highlight? A 1600x1200 4:3 display. No good for movies, but there's nothing better for writing. until you want to split the screen between your writing and a source or whatever
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Dec 31, 2015 18:16
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I live near a computer history museum which is full of relics. Here's some photos I took when I visited last year. A Psion PDA to organise your early '90s life with:  An Acorn computer - we used these in school to move a turtle around the screen using elite programming tricks not for the faint-hearted:  SGI Origin 2000's - clusters of these make up the ASCI Blue Mountain supercomputer.  A stack of old SGI boxes - O2, Octane, Indigo, etc. They all ran Irix, I assume.  Sega Master System, for all your Alex the Kidd needs.  Altair 8800 - the thing that spawned Microsoft.  IMSAI 8080 - all you need to start a global thermonuclear war, or play chess.  DEC PDP-8, not quite as cool or historically important as the PDP-7 or PDP-11.  Fruity.  Apple III.  NeXTCube.  Apple Lisa. First commercial system with a GUI.  Sega SG-1000. Not popular, apparently.  ZX Spectrum.  ... and 640K ought to be enough for anybody   Retro games wall - all playable, and more round the other side if I recall.  It was pretty cool, if you live near one you should definitely check it out 
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Dec 31, 2015 18:45
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Oh man, what about Palm Pilots? I had the III, the Vx, and whatever the last one they made (Lifedrive maybe?). They were awesome and I played a shitload of games on them instead of listening to class in high school. Also the Treos were amazing - smartphones before there were smartphones. A friend of mine used to openly cheat on exams with his because none of his professors realized that it was possible to access the internet on a phone (IIRC he also ran up insane data charges because the rates were something crazy like $.10/Kb or equally absurd back then) horizon posted:
I distinctly remember going to Epcot at Disneyworld as a kid and there being a similar setup except way bigger, and I think it was all Sega products. e: found it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innoventions_(Epcot) quote:Innoventions first opened in 1994 which prominently displayed Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear, Sega 32X, Sega CD, and Sega Pico games in an arcade style. Goddamn that place was the poo poo  also lol 32x lol Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 18:53 on Dec 31, 2015 |
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Dec 31, 2015 18:49
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They're missing the original iMac color, and the Lisa wasn't the first commercial system with a gui
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Dec 31, 2015 18:51
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horizon posted:Retro games wall - all playable, and more round the other side if I recall. A working Jaguar? 
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Dec 31, 2015 18:55
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yogizh posted:Cleaning a mouse. Kids at school would steal the mouse balls all the time
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Dec 31, 2015 18:57
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Bonzo posted:making web pages with Hot Dog HTML editor, HoT MetaL, Microsoft FrontPage and DreamWeaver. And don't forget PageMill. Best Silicon Valley pun name ever, wasted on a doomed piece of shovelware. I still remember when my boss at the little ISP where I worked emailed me after I had gone back to college. "By the way, I tried making some web pages using PageMill. The pages suck, and so does PageMill."
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Dec 31, 2015 19:01
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horizon posted:Apple III. I've never seen any photos of one of these being used in the wild, but was this actually the configuration they were supposed to be used in? How did Apple think people would be able to deal with the screen propped up so high? I've always assumed this was just a "serving suggestion" or something, but I get the impression they actually expected this kind of geometry to catch on.
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Dec 31, 2015 19:05
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Data Graham posted:I've never seen any photos of one of these being used in the wild, but was this actually the configuration they were supposed to be used in? How did Apple think people would be able to deal with the screen propped up so high? I can't read the card, but I assume the middle device is a hard drive, which weren't really common on apple products for a while. The first Macs (I had a mac Plus) were designed to run off of floppies. MY family did have the external HDD though, which was nice because we didn't have to hot-swap discs all the time.
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Dec 31, 2015 19:08
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pssh i have a workig gamecube those things are damne near indestructable
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Dec 31, 2015 19:10
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The Goatfather posted:until you want to split the screen between your writing and a source or whatever Son, if I wanted to work with a 6" x 10" window I'd use one of these: 
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Dec 31, 2015 19:35
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Brainworm posted:Son, if I wanted to work with a 6" x 10" window I'd use one of these: if youd listened to your mom about those videogames ruining your eyes maybe you wouldnt have trouble reading the small text
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Dec 31, 2015 19:38
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Uncle Wemus posted:Kids at school would steal the mouse balls all the time Until some lab teacher or administrator got the bright idea to glue them shut, so they'd get so full of crap they'd stop working.
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Dec 31, 2015 19:40
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 (I still can't believe Radius existed before they made a rotating monitor; I mean, that's like the perfect name for a company with that as its signature product, right?)
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Dec 31, 2015 19:45
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why exactly did people swipe those mouse balls anyway?
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Dec 31, 2015 19:55
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Cyril Sneer posted:why exactly did people swipe those mouse balls anyway? They had a steel core and were fun to throw at people/things
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Dec 31, 2015 19:58
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Iron Crowned posted:They had a steel core and were fun to throw at people/things I saw a kid huck one through an inch-thick plate glass window. Those things could easily kill someone if thrown at their head.
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Dec 31, 2015 20:00
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thathonkey posted:pssh i have a workig gamecube those things are damne near indestructable Same for the N64. My dumbshit self dropped it on concrete years ago and that thing still works.
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Dec 31, 2015 20:01
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The Goatfather posted:if youd listened to your mom about those videogames ruining your eyes maybe you wouldnt have trouble reading the small text It wasn't video games.  Or maybe it was. 
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Dec 31, 2015 20:03
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Riosan posted:Same for the N64. My dumbshit self dropped it on concrete years ago and that thing still works. I never understood why the Super Nintendo and N64 were so stable but meanwhile the Genesis froze up if you so much as breathed on it - even the NES was more stable than the Genesis and that thing had a known design flaw like my SNES got pulled off the stand it was sitting on multiple times by the weight of the AC adapter and the game never even froze once
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Dec 31, 2015 20:16
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cleaning out those mouse balls was almost as satisfying as cleaning out keyboard goop
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Dec 31, 2015 20:46
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Cyril Sneer posted:why exactly did people swipe those mouse balls anyway? middle school kids are assholes for the sake of being assh*les
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Dec 31, 2015 20:47
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horizon posted:Apple III. Hey, that's a Macintosh Portable down there! Quite the sexy hunk of technology:  It weighed 16 lbs and started at $6,500 in 1989 dollars, so you can imagine what a smashing success it was. Apparently part of the weight and cost problems were from the inclusion of pretty high-end display, RAM, and battery types, at least for what it was. It sucked anyway. You could move the trackball to the left side in case you're a lefty, or you could replace it with a numeric pad if you wanted to use a mouse, like above. That's kinda neat. It was even in Twin Peaks!   This thread is taking me back to middle school and early high school, when I spent all my free time reading about lovely Apple products on my lovely Mac 
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Dec 31, 2015 20:48
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you were warned posted:This thread is taking me back to middle school and early high school, when I spent all my free time reading about lovely Apple products on my lovely Mac That was pretty much me from like 6 until 15, because Macs were the best! 
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Dec 31, 2015 20:52
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thathonkey posted:pssh i have a workig gamecube those things are damne near indestructable I once accidentally dumped a ton of root beer on a friend's gamecube (not plugged in). I cleaned up what I could, let it dry out, and the fucker was totally fine. It's been in storage for years since then, so who knows if it's been eaten away inside by residue, but I bet it still works. As far as I'm concerned, that made us even for the time he knocked a glass of koolaid directly onto the keyboard of my lovely old Compaq laptop, while it was on and plugged in. Koolaid all running out of the ethernet port. I took out the battery, stood it up to dry overnight, and that fucker was totally fine, too. Just smelled like fruit punch for a while. This was nearly ten years ago. My mom still uses that laptop occasionally to keep her Harvest Moon GameFAQs files accessible near the TV. But apparently if you get so much as a drop of water on a Macbook, it's toast? They don't make 'em like they used to.
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Dec 31, 2015 21:17
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Well if we're going to bring up cleaning a mouse, we should really be talkin' about degaussing that monitor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd9nOtX-CJg
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Dec 31, 2015 21:25
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Syfe posted:Well if we're going to bring up cleaning a mouse, we should really be talkin' about degaussing that monitor. Related https://youtu.be/WPuWrgFJlzQ
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Dec 31, 2015 21:28
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i played a few of the super classic games posted here when i was a kid but tribes needs a mention i don't think i was ever so blown away by the massive maps and being able to fly in ships with my team etc. it was 1998 and ran fine on a lovely pc with software graphics acceleration
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