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error1 posted:someone is selling a working Macintosh SE close to me, someone please tell me why it sucks and I shouldn't get it doesn't look like it sucks to me the SE was a nice compact Mac, if you have any pre-1991 Mac games you want to play they should work just fine (the Mac LC came out in late 1990, making color Macs affordable to the masses, so games' system requirements started to go up.)
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Prenton posted:Usbourne have scanned in a load of their 1980s books so you can learn how to old computer drat
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Feb 12, 2016 13:23
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error1 posted:someone is selling a working Macintosh SE close to me, someone please tell me why it sucks and I shouldn't get it Because it's obsolete and you can use an emulator to get that "experience" lmao at filling your house with obsolete computer garbage.
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a real non-trolling reason is that that appears to not be a SE FDHD (pronounced fudd-hudd) which means it will only accept 800k double-sided floppies if you get one that takes HD floppies you can read/write them in a "modern" computer, and if you install the appropriate extension you can even read/write FAT16 disks e: the usual indicator of that is that there will be a FDHD or SuperDrive stamp near the floppy drive. there's nothing that prevented a previous owner of that Mac from installing an upgraded drive, though. minivanmegafun fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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Feb 12, 2016 14:44
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yeah seriously unless you have another (old) mac dont get it its gonna be a pain to transfer files
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Got the dumb old Jaguar to (mostly) work again.   audio doesn't work (yet) and I might need to resolder the cartridge connector since it has trouble getting past the game verification boot check. edit: tables, sorry Doc Block fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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Feb 12, 2016 17:51
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Citizen Tayne posted:A 900 square foot house for $549K, that is next to a strip mall. lmao The advertised price is below market in order to get more interest, add another 100-150k for the sale price
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Feb 12, 2016 18:51
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error1 posted:someone is selling a working Macintosh SE close to me, someone please tell me why it sucks and I shouldn't get it error1 posted:Macintosh hth
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Feb 12, 2016 18:51
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Is my n64 old computer? I've noticed that the cartridge slot is a little loose, causing games to reboot sometimes if the cartridge is budged, and wonder if it's worth trying to repair
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volkadav posted:It's normal to still remember the on-campus number for the not-quite-publicized, still-in-testing fast modem bank over twenty years later it was p cool I got mail addressed to: <name> <quad name> Albany, NY 12222 and the mail room found it and routed it to my mailbox. it was awesome
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Progressive JPEG posted:Is my n64 old computer?
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Feb 12, 2016 19:00
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a lot of good games but the actual n64 is a poop
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Feb 12, 2016 19:01
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Sham bam bamina! posted:a lot of good games but the actual n64 is a poop the textures on the n64 were so laughably bad
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minivanmegafun posted:a real non-trolling reason is that that appears to not be a SE FDHD (pronounced fudd-hudd) which means it will only accept 800k double-sided floppies IMO this is why the Amiga never succeeded
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echinopsis posted:IMO *except for its british division Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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Feb 12, 2016 19:13
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echinopsis posted:IMO PCs were still mostly using 5.25" floppies for the majority of the Amiga's productive life over here, and disk interoperability wasn't a consideration at all back then.
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error1 posted:someone is selling a working Macintosh SE close to me, someone please tell me why it sucks and I shouldn't get it You should get it and immediately install The Grouch.
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Citizen Tayne posted:PCs were still mostly using 5.25" floppies for the majority of the Amiga's productive life over here, and disk interoperability wasn't a consideration at all back then. idk man i mean my experince was that my pc mates would have 3.5s but they would never run coz hd vs dd
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echinopsis posted:idk man i mean my experince was that my pc mates would have 3.5s but they would never run coz hd vs dd I guess the amiga was big in the third world long after it became obsolete here.
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reminder that a complete second-generation amiga was designed prototyped and canned in 1987 i don't think it's possible to overstate commodore's stupidity in the amiga period
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Sham bam bamina! posted:commodore was run by fuckin apes* after tramiel left, there were many things that killed the amiga bil heard does an occasional podcast where he talks about what it was like working at commodore. he's the guy who designed the c128 so he wasn't directly involved with the c64 or amiga, but the way he tells it i'm amazed commodore managed to release a single product, let alone say in business as long as they did
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wasnt the team that worked on the amiga mostly comprised of people from atari that worked on the atari 8 bit? same for the team that worked on the atari st but for the C64?
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Olivil posted:wasnt the team that worked on the amiga mostly comprised of people from atari that worked on the atari 8 bit? Jay Miner and friends left Atari to form Amiga on the west coast (Commodore was based near Philly), created the machine independently, and were bought out by Commodore and shitcanned.
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trilljester posted:You should get it and immediately install The Grouch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE7EWDKVM1Y yesss
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http://wanistoo.free.fr/grouch/ Sorry I didn't go through the effort of editing it to be a mac pro
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error1 posted:Sorry I didn't go through the effort of editing it to be a mac pro mods???
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Citizen Tayne posted:Because it's obsolete and you can use an emulator to get that "experience" perhaps this is not the thread for you friend
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Feb 12, 2016 22:36
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Old computers sucked and were garbage, sorry. New ones are better in every way.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:commodore was run by fuckin apes* after tramiel left, there were many things that killed the amiga lol commodore UK not being a total clown show they sponsored a football club well after they didn't have the money to do so and then they used sports betting instead of a real insurer to hedge the risk of payouts for their club winning and they hired a bunch of chavs all over the UK to all place small bets in the same 10min window before a match to avoid changing the odds that is not the behavior of a well managed company (source: head of commodore UK, at the Amiga 30th thing a few months back, while wearing the jersey he got as an honorary team manager or some poo poo)
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Commodore? More like Commode
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Citizen Tayne posted:Old computers sucked and were garbage, sorry. New ones are better in every way. THIS. IS. YOSPOS!!!! *kicks u into the recycle bin at atomicthumbs' work*
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eschaton posted:lol commodore UK not being a total clown show
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Citizen Tayne posted:Old computers sucked and were garbage, sorry. New ones are better in every way. eschaton posted:perhaps this is not the thread for you friend
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This thread is the computer version of 22 year old dudes with Don Draper haircuts talking about how much better the fifties were.
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error1 posted:someone is selling a working Macintosh SE close to me, someone please tell me why it sucks and I shouldn't get it what's the grey square above the keyboard
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Citizen Tayne posted:This thread is the computer version of 22 year old dudes with Don Draper haircuts talking about how much better the fifties were. remembering how much poo poo sucked is like 90% of the point of having memories
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:what's the grey square above the keyboard programmers switch
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A Pinball Wizard posted:programmers switch no that's a reset button. the SE didn't support that button there anyhow iirc, the classic macs all had a button on the side with a reset button and programmer's switch instead
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power button programmers switch is a piece of plastic you clip on the side if you want one, it presses a microswitch inside the case through the air vent to generate an interrupt
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