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FilthyImp posted:That would make sense considering the UX would be better with a new computer, instead of making marginal improvements and having your Performa limp along trying to run OSx. Yeah, you can look at it from the perspective of "Apple doesn't want you to upgrade your old machine!!" which is essentially true, but it's really more like Jobs' Apple was okay with dropping support for old stuff and moving on relatively briskly without too much looking back or navel gazing. Which I'm not sure is still the case anymore, but that's a whole different topic.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:got a source for that? Not being snarky, I actually want to read more on this. Folklore.org is actually a fun website to read through: source quote:Even though the diagnostic port was scuttled, it wasn't the last attempt at surreptitious hardware expandability. When the Mac digital board was redesigned for the last time in August 1982, the next generation of RAM chips was already on the horizon. The Mac used 16 64Kbit RAM chips, giving it 128K of memory. The next generation chip was 256Kbits, giving us 512K bytes instead, which made a huge difference.
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I've been fascinated by Burrell Smith after reading some of the folklore stories, but what happened to him is really sad He developed schizophrenia in the 90s and dropped out of the industry completely http://www.cnet.com/news/burrell-smith-macintosh-hardware-wizard/ http://tradertim.blogspot.no/2007/07/lonesome-tale-of-burrell-smith.html 
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error1 posted:I've been fascinated by Burrell Smith after reading some of the folklore stories, but what happened to him is really sad Best possible end umho
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FilthyImp posted:That would make sense considering the UX would be better with a new computer, instead of making marginal improvements and having your Performa limp along trying to run OSx. Last Chance posted:Yeah, you can look at it from the perspective of "Apple doesn't want you to upgrade your old machine!!" which is essentially true, but it's really more like Jobs' Apple was okay with dropping support for old stuff and moving on relatively briskly without too much looking back or navel gazing. Yes and no. I mean, let's take the example of the original Mac: it came out with 128K of RAM, and then several months later they released a revision that had 512K of RAM. The processor stayed exactly the same, it was just a memory bump, so it's not like an upgraded Mac would have been substantially different. Not wanting people to swap CPUs, or being leery of an unmanageable host of devices that could be plugged into expansion slots and cause unpredictable issues, yeah sure I can see that. But the guy said that Apple wanted to soak him for a RAM bump and I have to agree there; they're fairly aggressive about making big profit off of hardware options and upgrades.
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this thread reminds me of the time my ex wanted me to play through her favorite lucas arts point and click adventure from when she was a kid. i suffered through it and she still got mad at me because i didn't act like it was the best game ever because I wasn't seven when i played it
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What game was it?
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dookifex_maximus posted:this thread reminds me of the time my ex wanted me to play through her favorite lucas arts point and click adventure from when she was a kid. i suffered through it and she still got mad at me because i didn't act like it was the best game ever because I wasn't seven when i played it 
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dookifex_maximus posted:this thread reminds me of the time my ex wanted me to play through her favorite lucas arts point and click adventure from when she was a kid. i suffered through it and she still got mad at me because i didn't act like it was the best game ever because I wasn't seven when i played it She deserves better than you.
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Casimir Radon posted:Good on her for dumping you
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you idiots are only saying that because you didnt date her
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*drags things on to other things for hours randomly hoping something will happen* - but enough about your sex life!
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Germstore posted:*drags things on to other things for hours randomly hoping something will happen* that clitoris really should highlight itself when you hover your cursor over it
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*holds alt* gently caress it worked in d2
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dookifex_maximus posted:that clitoris really should highlight itself when you hover your cursor over it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejaWq2TXRXE&t=184s e: technically  because of very low resolution tits
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dookifex_maximus posted:this thread reminds me of the time my ex wanted me to play through her favorite lucas arts point and click adventure from when she was a kid. i suffered through it and she still got mad at me because i didn't act like it was the best game ever because I wasn't seven when i played it Cojawfee posted:What game was it? That's important. If it was Zak McCracken or something, then yeah, I can understand your reaction. But if it was Day of the Tentacle or a Monkey Island, then we're going to have to fight.
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like I said, I didn't play it when i was seven, and I got through all the greats, dott kq & mi series it was c list if you don't have the nostalgia it's a rough slog anyone remember kyrandia? I played that one on the mac i dont think it was lucasarts grim fandango was a later one I enjoyed dookifex_maximus has a new favorite as of 23:29 on Aug 20, 2016 |
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Happened to find a LaserDisc player at a thrift store for $8. Brought it back home, and plugged it in. Had some issues with the tray, but I got the CD drive working great. But I didn't own any LDs and no one dumped their collection at the store. Fortunately for me, I also live down the road from a great used record store that also has a small LD collection, so I could try that out.  After adjusting the tray and cleaning it up some, it works great. It's not the highest end player, but for an $8 working LaserDisc player I'm not complaining. 
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When I was doing computer repair I kept a couple of laserdiscs hanging on the wall of my workshop and told people they were first-generation CDs, and that it took a while before they got the technology to make them smaller.
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If you need to test a LD player most if not all have a standard cd cutout on the tray and will play a normal audio CD. I got a brand new laserdisc player a few years ago and still have yet to use it for more than a cd player.
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Only time I've used laser disc was when I started teaching in '99, one of our technology textbooks used a Pioneer player with a scanner to read a barcode in the book and play a video.
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Dirk Squarejaw posted:Only time I've used laser disc was when I started teaching in '99, one of our technology textbooks used a Pioneer player with a scanner to read a barcode in the book and play a video. Did the barcode scanner look like this? 
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Powered Descent posted:Did the barcode scanner look like this? No, it was like this one: 
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Powered Descent posted:Did the barcode scanner look like this? We were using laser disc for a high school life science course in 2004. It's actually the only time I ever saw Laserdisc. No one I knew growing up had it.
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We had a laserdisc player in elementary school. It was used to watching science videos. You'd watch a bit and then they'd ask what you think was going on. Then the teacher would scan a barcode associated with our choice and the video would continue. I learned about salmonella.
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drat, look at you Richie Richs going to schools with Laserdisc players my elementary school had 16mm film projectors and those slide projectors where the slides would come with an audio cassette that would BEEP to tell the teacher to advance to the next slide, and like two VCRs they let the kids roll the media carts around too.
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Cojawfee posted:We had a laserdisc player in elementary school. It was used to watching science videos. You'd watch a bit and then they'd ask what you think was going on. Then the teacher would scan a barcode associated with our choice and the video would continue. I learned about salmonella. Speaking about salmonella and tech relics.... How about Squigglevision? https://youtu.be/V_b9KU5etRg
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Dirk Squarejaw posted:Speaking about salmonella and tech relics.... How about Squigglevision? Home Movies was good. Dr Katz was pretty good. Metalocalypse was never good.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:drat, look at you Richie Richs going to schools with Laserdisc players
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:drat, look at you Richie Richs going to schools with Laserdisc players The amazon river is the longest in south america, look at just how long it is BOOONG *nerd turns slide to next one* As you can see the amazon goes through the rain forrest and many other regions has a diverse amount of life in it. BOONG *nerd turns slide to next one* Here you can see the Piranna, in a group it can strip a whole cow down to bone in under 2 mins. [more facts] BOONG
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tater_salad posted:The amazon river is the longest in south america, look at just how long it is I remember it being much more of a beep than a bong, but these are hazy and distant memories.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I remember it being much more of a beep than a bong, but these are hazy and distant memories. that's because of the bong i'll be here all week folks
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 im reminded of miniature cds. not just mini cds, no, im talking those weird rear end rectangular cd's. i guess they're called 'business card cds' but i only ever saw them as included software in cheap toys n poo poo, so i guess it makes more sense that they were created in business card form factor and then adapted for other poo poo. my 8 year old mind could not fathom why these things existed though especially because of all of its downsides like you're talkin apparently 30-100mb for one of them. seriously who at panasonic or w/e saw the diagram for that and was like 'yeah we're gonna sell these'  so much wasted space
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nigga crab pollock posted:
I did occasionally get drivers and such on those mini CD things. Seems like they were only being made in sufficient amounts for a pretty short period of time to actually get used for reasonable things, though.
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Nintendo Power used to distribute soundtracks on shaped CDs. You could get one in the shape of Diddy Kong's head for the Donkey Kong Country 2 soundtrack, for example. Can't find a picture for the life of me though.
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Mak0rz posted:Nintendo Power used to distribute soundtracks on shaped CDs. You could get one in the shape of Diddy Kong's head for the Donkey Kong Country 2 soundtrack, for example. Can't find a picture for the life of me though.  
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I assume the center of gravity is still in the middle of the hole, despite them not being symmetrical, because that matters doesn't it?
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Erugh I don't miss the horrid days of making portfolio business cards in flash for those. Plus some of those designs were unbalanced so would actually lift up and spin into the innards of a CD drive.
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 of course I do a million Google searches and not once did I try "Diddy Kong head CD" which gives those results. Looks like it was for Diddy Kong Racing, not DKC2.Wouldn't those vibrate the gently caress out of your disc players because of the weight imbalance?
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Mak0rz posted:
Probably worse than that was people using those and the business card size CDs in front-load DVD/CD drives. Like the one on the 2nd gen iMacs. If you're lucky enough to get it to draw the disc in in the first place, I could almost guarantee you'd never get it back out again without disassembly. I had to remove a few of those during my stint as an Apple tech. Sure those slot-load drives made the front of the machine look sleek and modern, but at what price?
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