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Code Jockey posted:lol if you didn't just have hard drives hanging freely in the case by their IDE/power cables Honestly it never occurred to 14 year old me 
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I was just reminded of a thing I was thinking of when people were talking about old iMacs earlier in the thread. For some reason the highschool I first went to decided to invest entirely in those first transparent bubble iMac machines for students to use. Three things stuck out to me as horrid design choices: the soft-power button on the keyboard, the puck mouse that even to my 13 year old hand was way too small, and a CD tray that didn't slide out when you pressed the eject button. Rather it just 'unlocked' and then you had to hope it popped out enough for you to get your fingernails under it and pull it out. God I hated those things.
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Black Pants posted:I was just reminded of a thing I was thinking of when people were talking about old iMacs earlier in the thread. For some reason the highschool I first went to decided to invest entirely in those first transparent bubble iMac machines for students to use. Also, every classroom received at least 1 iMac. This is largely because everyone was scared of Windows viruses, and because Macs Are So Easy to Use!
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Claris Works and HyperCard is where it's at kids! Along with 4 bit scanners that did everything in greyscale. 
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Jun 20, 2016 04:45
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My multimedia teacher in high school took advantage of some grant that no one else in the district ever applied to and was able to get new Macs for her classroom and other equipment like cameras and software every year. She even trusted me enough to let me check out one of the iMac G4s and a $4,000 camera over winter break to finish some projects.
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Jun 20, 2016 05:01
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I ended up in the brand new charter school for 3-5th grade, plus about a month of 6th until my parents had enough of their insane excuse for a middle school and then sent me back to public school. They bought a poo poo ton of the original iMacs and a bunch of SuperMac clones to fill in. They also had a home use program where they gave you a SuperMac to take home. Didn't really do me much good sonce I already had a computer at home, but I could play all the Edutainment titles that were hybrid Win/Mac, remember those? I think Jobs shutting down the clones probably killed that program, buying everyone real Apple stuff wouldn't be at all cost effective. Also the whole utopian "Give everyone a computer, and progress!" thing didn't really pan out since that was as far as it went.
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This image however is not a relic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna It is forever etched into my brain. School sucks
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Jun 20, 2016 06:05
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When I had study hall I would use the one computer in my school hooked up to the internet and download onto a 3.5 disk nes roms and MIDI version of top gun songs to listen to while playing Jane's games
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:When I had study hall I would use the one computer in my school hooked up to the internet and download onto a 3.5 disk nes roms and MIDI version of top gun songs to listen to while playing Jane's games My cousin and I would sit one behind the other in his parents office chairs wearing respirators and bike helmets while playing the Top Gun game. One would play the game, and the one behind would be in charge of kicking the chair wheels around as a lovely force feeback attempt.
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Humphreys posted:My cousin and I would sit one behind the other in his parents office chairs wearing respirators and bike helmets while playing the Top Gun game. One would play the game, and the one behind would be in charge of kicking the chair wheels around as a lovely force feeback attempt. brilliant.
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WebDog posted:Claris Works and HyperCard is where it's at kids! This reminds me, here's a fun lil iOS app https://appsto.re/us/BGwDcb.i
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Lucky they say that hard disk temperature doesn't matter that much for longevity (so long as it doesn't get really really hot) because the airflow over that doesn't seem to be really optimized.
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Jun 21, 2016 12:54
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Black Pants posted:the puck mouse that even to my 13 year old hand was way too small seriously can anybody explain what the gently caress apple was thinking here? i found one of these laying around at work with a bunch of other discarded peripherals and it is so ridiculous. all of apple's mice suck actually. their trackpads are nice though. keyboards are somewhere in the middle.
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Jun 21, 2016 12:58
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thathonkey posted:seriously can anybody explain what the gently caress apple was thinking here? i found one of these laying around at work with a bunch of other discarded peripherals and it is so ridiculous. Their magical mouse is a dream for doing work but just plain unsuited for gaming, it's like using a knife to eat soup Well on mac osx 10.3674 it's good, idk how it plays w windows
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People always mention Microsoft Bob, but I was reading an old computer magazine and saw mention of a parody called Bubba by a shareware company called OsoSoft. There are some screenshots here: http://www.techrepublic.com/pictures/bubba-parodies-microsoft-bob/ The screenshots get boring and repetitive after the 3rd one, like I don't really need to see proof that it can launch WordPad, and that it can launch Control Panel, and that it can launch Firefox.
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Jun 21, 2016 13:57
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thathonkey posted:seriously can anybody explain what the gently caress apple was thinking here? i found one of these laying around at work with a bunch of other discarded peripherals and it is so ridiculous. It looked cool, hip and edgy.
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All I know is they were the perfect size/shape/cord length to swing around like some sort of primitive hunting weapon.
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Jun 21, 2016 14:21
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I got in trouble in 6th grade because I unplugged a puck mouse from one of the iMacs in the lab, then plugged it into the other USB on my keyboard so I had two mice. Some tryhard dipshit kid wrote some stupid speech about proper behavior in school that they read over the intercom, and specifically mentioned the mouse thing without using my name.
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Jun 21, 2016 14:40
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why are the last bits of the system requirements redacted?
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Casimir Radon posted:I got in trouble in 6th grade because I unplugged a puck mouse from one of the iMacs in the lab, then plugged it into the other USB on my keyboard so I had two mice. Some tryhard dipshit kid wrote some stupid speech about proper behavior in school that they read over the intercom, and specifically mentioned the mouse thing without using my name. What's tracey flick like in person
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Casimir Radon posted:I got in trouble in 6th grade because I unplugged a puck mouse from one of the iMacs in the lab, then plugged it into the other USB on my keyboard so I had two mice. Some tryhard dipshit kid wrote some stupid speech about proper behavior in school that they read over the intercom, and specifically mentioned the mouse thing without using my name. 3 1/4 floppy discs are basically plastic throwing stars with a small metal part if it hits just right
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Casimir Radon posted:I got in trouble in 6th grade because I unplugged a puck mouse from one of the iMacs in the lab, then plugged it into the other USB on my keyboard so I had two mice. Some tryhard dipshit kid wrote some stupid speech about proper behavior in school that they read over the intercom, and specifically mentioned the mouse thing without using my name. I'm imagining the whitest, sweatervestiest, most goody-goody school ever if that of all things was a behavioral incident worth making a global announcement over.
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kids in my school used to steal mouse balls and hurl them at each other
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feedmegin posted:It looked cool, hip and edgy. it was literally the opposite of edgy
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Mak0rz posted:I'm imagining the whitest, sweatervestiest, most goody-goody school ever if that of all things was a behavioral incident worth making a global announcement over. They had a demerit system where you got to go to a monthly party if you had two or less demerits. The month I was there I had 7.
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Augmented Dickey posted:why are the last bits of the system requirements redacted?
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Casimir Radon posted:This was the middle school of the charter school. They had no handle whatsoever on discipline or anything at all for what it's worth. They made an announcement one time because parents were calling the school with unimportant messages for their kids about what tv shows were on and so on (this was in 2000). My parents put up with a month of this poo poo then sent me back to public school. This straight up sounds like a school full of Martin from the Simpsons and maybe a little Carlton as well.
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I went to a charter school for high school and it kicked rear end. We got to choose our own class schedules (within reason) which meant that if you picked your classes/semester right you could have days where you had 2 classes and were done by like 1pm (normal days went til 4:30). Because we were the "smart" high school we had tons of autonomy, going off-campus for lunch, choosing specializations (basically like choosing a major in college), etc. Senior year every Wednesday was internships, and except for the fact that it was one day a week, it was every bit as challenging and fun as a legit college internship (I got to track Flu and SARS infection patterns and my work eventually ended up directly in the hands of the CDC which was awesome).
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Connor the Conure posted:Wow. Cyrix. I remember a LOT of Cyrix CPUs overheating back then when I worked at a place that repaired PCs on the side. I'd scrape off the old thermal paste, apply some fresh and slap a larger sink and fan on it if you can. There was always one guy on every local BBS talking about his Cyrix CPU and its heat problems, at the same time calling Intel users dumb for overpaying for hardware.
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thathonkey posted:seriously can anybody explain what the gently caress apple was thinking here? i found one of these laying around at work with a bunch of other discarded peripherals and it is so ridiculous. I think it was them just trying so hard to be different they never bothered to consider the usability. I had to use one in college for a mercifully brief time. The biggest problem with the puck mouse wasn't the size, it's that the round shape means you have no sense of orientation based on touch. Grab a mouse without looking and you can still tell what way is up by touch - you lose that with a circular mouse and your actual grip is more diagonal than straight up-down. Haptic feedback is an important thing, and they removed it for the sake of looking different. Sadly I no longer have my old VIC-20 stuff to show off; maybe I've got a few 5 1/4" disks still hanging around from the Tandy 1000 I used to own. God I'm old...
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:This straight up sounds like a school full of Martin from the Simpsons and maybe a little Carlton as well.
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thathonkey posted:it was literally the opposite of edgy I rolled out a ton of iMacs at a place I worked and one of the first steps was to replace that worthless piece of poo poo puck mouse. It's one of the rare pieces of technology that not even one person said "NO DON'T TAKE IT" like they've done over the years with their giant old Blackberrys or hand scanners or some other outdated piece of crap.
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Casimir Radon posted:They had a demerit system where you got to go to a monthly party if you had two or less demerits. The month I was there I had 7. Was it worth plugging the mouse into a different port?
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Last Chance posted:kids in my school used to steal mouse balls and hurl them at each other We did this too, so the computer science teacher glued the little trap-door on the bottom of the mice shut. With near constant use from multiple classes a day, it was only about 3 months before the rollers inside the mice were completely gunked up with poo poo, and then couldn't be cleaned because they were now glued shut. Two dozen mice, into the garbage. Our comp-sci teacher in high-school was kind of an idiot. Most of the class knew a LOT more than he did about computers, and I mean even the people who had barely ever used a computer before. We had endless fun installing and reinstalling Leisure Suit Larry Games on the PC's. He'd keep trying to delete them, but we kept finding more and more convoluted methods to hide the install directory. Eventually he gave in and let us keep the games, as long as we didn't play them when another teacher might come in.
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I think I may have shared this before but one time in computer class my teacher was bored so he decided to beat the poo poo out of an old dot matrix printer with a meter stick. There were pieces of that gross yellowed plastic flying all over the place. It was pretty funny.
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I liked puck.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. It's still a bad design because it was great if you mostly move mice around with finger movement and unusable if you like to rest your palm on it and move your whole arm.
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I wonder, what's the largest amount of 3.5 floppy disk for a game/program anyone's come across? On my shelf I have "Martian Memorandum" which came via 10 disks. Google's suggested some of the older Office suites hit around 45 discs.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:We did this too, so the computer science teacher glued the little trap-door on the bottom of the mice shut. With near constant use from multiple classes a day, it was only about 3 months before the rollers inside the mice were completely gunked up with poo poo, and then couldn't be cleaned because they were now glued shut. Two dozen mice, into the garbage. My high school comp-sci teacher was happy to teach VB and some intro C++/Java to the kids who didn't know it, but for us gigantonerds he didn't give a poo poo. Lots of great memories of the Tony Hawk 2 demo, Starcraft, the aforementioned Subspace Continuum, and a whole lotta multiplayer GTA1 (AKA the best GTA game) WebDog posted:I wonder, what's the largest amount of 3.5 floppy disk for a game/program anyone's come across? IIRC Windows 3.1 NT was like 25 or something. At least 20. e: according to this old FAQ from MS's website, Office '97 Pro was 55 disks. quote:If you're installing Microsoft Office 97 from a compact disc, have your CD key available. it's also pretty awesome that article is still archived on their website, I bet there's a trove of great thread-worthy poo poo in those archives. Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 01:40 on Jun 22, 2016 |
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GTA 1 was really cool and my parents had no idea what it was. I remember them slowly coming to the realization that the objective of the game is to steal cars and kill people with them.
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