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EVIL Gibson posted:Welcome, you are a goon! Back in my day, we called them IBM PC-compatible, don't these people know that an Apple Mac is a goddamned Personal Computer? They're not "minicomputers" even if they're Mac Minis!  (Yes, I know it is in fact pretty reasonable in this day and age to not need to use "personal computer" to differentiate from "mainframe", "minicomputer", etc., we just equate computer with what used to be called a "personal computer", just like we say "car" because "horseless" is the only type of carriage most people ever deal with.)
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Class of '80.... Class of 85! My small town high school actually did have a computer lab and a programming class. The lab had Apple II's and my friends and I would book computer time to play Choplifter and Apple Panic I had a friend whose dad had an Osborne suitcase portable  Same friend got his Dad's old TRS 80 with a modem and a they had a Compuserve account. Like 1981?
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Keith Atherton posted:Class of 85! We had a modem on our Commodore 64 and used to troll Compuserve on a friend's account back in like 1984.
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Nov 5, 2016 04:36
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holy crap you guys are old lmao oh yeah that baseball pinball machine looks dope af btw
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Dick Trauma posted:If it was one of the Grand Slam generation of games we can be friends... That machine was amazing to play. I want one but don't want to see the price tag  That particular one might be cheap considering it's missing the bat though Humphreys has a new favorite as of 05:13 on Nov 5, 2016 |
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EVIL NOONER posted:holy crap you guys are old lmao It happens dude. I turn 50 in a few months. AARP is sending me poo poo in the mail and also emails. I'm a human tech relic.
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Keith Atherton posted:It happens dude. I turn 50 in a few months. AARP is sending me poo poo in the mail and also emails. Dude, AARP is sending me poo poo and I'm 35.
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wallaka posted:Dude, AARP is sending me poo poo and I'm 35. oh god I'm 34 AARP is certain
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Buttcoin purse posted:Back in my day, we called them IBM PC-compatible, don't these people know that an Apple Mac is a goddamned Personal Computer? They're not "minicomputers" even if they're Mac Minis! It's funny, since 2006 all Mac's have literally been IBM PC compatibles. The only practical differentiation is the software preinstalled on it. The same thing could go for the PS4 and XBone but the platforms are a bit more locked down. It's funny to think that after all that fanboy bickering between console, mac and x86 users everyone did end up just settling on the old IBM standard. Then again, one could argue that phones are the real personal computers today.
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Class of '14, you old fuckers. My school had laptops from a decade ago but the latest state of the art vending machines.
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Nov 5, 2016 06:57
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my school had vending machines but the principal and one of the janitors were stealing all the money from them
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Class of '06. I'm almost 30 and feel old as poo poo too, but not as ancient as you fucks.
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Speaking of some old arcades and arcade gaming: James Rolfe (AVGN) just released a video where he visits the Galloping Ghost arcade in Illinois with Doug from Nostalgia Critic and Andre from Black Nerd comedy. These dudes are having a blast at this place, but it's also a good look inside Galloping Ghost for those of us who cant make it out there. Check it out if you want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjTlQBsjp-g
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Nov 5, 2016 09:39
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I'd love to see Cineamasscre and Nostalgia Critic review the Nintendo Classic Edition.
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I'm probably in the middle of you lot. At Hgihschool I remember we ran Windows 3.1 as our main environment, then if we wanted internet and email access through Pegasus we had to reboot into 3.11. Also EVERYONE had a 'No Fear' background.
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Skoll posted:I'd love to see Cineamasscre and Nostalgia Critic review the Nintendo Classic Edition.
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sinking belle posted:I'd like to see them lie down in a ditch A lot of goons seem to hate James Rolfe for whatever reason. What unpardonable crime has the Angry Video Game Nerd done to you, goon sir?
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Dick Trauma posted:If it was one of the Grand Slam generation of games we can be friends... This game made me think of the Arcade I used to go to as a kid. It was called funland or something like that and was the perfect 1980s arecade although I think it had been around for years before. Smoky, dark had a weird snackbar and lots of delinquents hanging around. It was in Lake Geneva, WI and had lots of older games going back to the 1930s that were still in good repair. I remember They had several baseball games like the one you linked but also A 1930s one with a track the balls would roll down for pitching  And one with little figures pitching and batting  Other EM games like these golf games   And the old projector based games  I remember playing the hell out of this game with my brother https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqyyR0nfC54 Sadly the place went out of business a few years ago and the games were all auctioned off. I think the original owner had died or retired in the late 90s and maintenance hadn't been getting done on the games since then so attendance plummeted. luv 2 date boys posted:Speaking of some old arcades and arcade gaming: James Rolfe (AVGN) just released a video where he visits the Galloping Ghost arcade in Illinois with Doug from Nostalgia Critic and Andre from Black Nerd comedy. I finally checked this place out a few weeks ago and it was a dump. They really didn't have that many games in good repair and this was clearly filmed when they were closed as you couldn't move once a few people started to play as everything is way too close together. Underground retrocade in Dundee is way nicer. Or just book a flight to the funspot. I did hear about a new place in schaumburg called level 257 that is a pacman themed restaurant/bar that looks neat.
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Mak0rz posted:Y'all making me nostalgic for the arcade that used to be in my bumfuck nowhere town that had TMNT, Double Dragon, and (I think) Contra. Numan Athletics maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numan_Athletics
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When I was in high school we used dumb terminals and the Madison Metropolitan School District's Time Sharing System. That's right , I learned to program COBOL and Fortran on a DECWriter II and a Texas Instruments Silent 700. We could check out a NCR 2660 terminal to take home and connect on a built in 300 baud modem with acoustic coupler.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:not terrible, just kinda weird how the nomenclature has seasawed. kinda like the emoticon>smiley>emote>emoji thing. Trunko posted:It also sounds like something a casual dining chain would call their appetizers  though.Humphreys posted:The 'emoji' name really irks me for some reason. And I have no idea why. Skoll posted:A lot of goons seem to hate James Rolfe for whatever reason. What unpardonable crime has the Angry Video Game Nerd done to you, goon sir?
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ive never heard of james rolfe and tbh i assume thats a good thing
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Data Graham posted:Fwiw, "application" or "app" has always been the preferred term in Apple land, at least back to the beginning of the Mac. I think "program" was fairly common in the Apple II era, but they standardized it for the Mac as it was less ambiguous. App Apple Application I can't believe I'm such a huge moron I never noticed until now
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EVIL NOONER posted:ive never heard of james rolfe and tbh i assume thats a good thing https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbQ-gSLYQEc6IWgKJNOMUONgtNXdwVcDC He was one of the first people to do this sort of internet video review gimmick, and probably one of the first on youtube as well.
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Dr. Quarex posted:Probably because it referred very specifically to emotion faces on Japanese feature phones initially, and obviously "emoji" sounds entirely reasonable in that context, but then for whatever reason was adopted by Apple(? maybe? somebody?). Probably because it was totally cool?
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some day the forums will support my use of the poop emoji
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EVIL NOONER posted:some day the forums will support my use of the poop emoji 💩
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:poop: E: howd u do this
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EVIL NOONER posted::poop: Phone posting. 👻👻🦃🐸🦃☃️☃️🐸🐢🍔🧀⚔️🔎 😜😜
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Dr. Quarex posted:I did not know why people hated him either, and I watched a bunch of his videos and appreciated how much work he put into things and that he was occasionally fairly entertaining, but then he led the charge of the "WOMAN GHOSTBUSTERS = UNPARDONABLE SIN, WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME SEXIST" thing which pretty much instantly turned me off of him immediately. Good grief did you even watch his ghost busters review? That wasn't his point. At. All.
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Trunko posted:Good grief did you even watch his ghost busters review? That wasn't his point. At. All. I think 99% of the people calling him a sexist didn't.
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hes a troll guys!!
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sinking belle posted:I'd like to see them lie down in a ditch lol I like them, but this post made me laugh pretty hard for some reason
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Finally got some time to disassemble the monitor and put all the parts out in the sun. So complete de-yellowing has commenced... Only 2.5 hours in and they are already almost completely white. What takes over 2 days under blacklight, only takes about 4 hours in the sun.
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Booourns posted:Numan Athletics maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numan_Athletics Yes that's the one! Missile Toss kicked rear end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9vKBIindV4
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Skoll posted:I think 99% of the people calling him a sexist didn't. The twitter telephone game strikes again.
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He has really informative reviews. My problem is that his gimmick is kind of annoying.
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If you want to see a good review of Ghostbusters (by a goon), here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o86IHL-ni88
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Jerry Cotton posted:If you want to see a good review of Ghostbusters (by a goon), here you go: This Eric Forman looking motherfucker. I spent the entire video thinking, "I want to put my foot in your rear end.".
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