|
Skoll posted:When I first read that, I was hoping you had disks full of dodgy old porno pictures of Microwave's mom. Maybe I do, Maybe I don't. I don't Oh poo poo, new page! Brian Lunduke mentions a lot of old stuff and a lot information on things of the web dying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lkol6APlrg Humphreys has a new favorite as of 18:02 on Mar 29, 2018 |
#
?
Mar 29, 2018 10:07
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 22, 2024 00:04 |
|
|
I've been finding all sorts of useless hardware and software that people are donating to charity shops who think it's somehow still worth £20 and up:  
|
|
#
?
Apr 1, 2018 03:44
|
|
|
jojoinnit posted:I've been finding all sorts of useless hardware and software that people are donating to charity shops who think it's somehow still worth £20 and up: Im keen on the Dragons Lair. Still have my Xbox 360 HDDVD player (also computer has a combo Bluray/HDDVD drive)
|
|
#
?
Apr 1, 2018 10:10
|
|
|
jojoinnit posted:I've been finding all sorts of useless hardware and software that people are donating to charity shops who think it's somehow still worth £20 and up: I just got back from my weekly trawl through the charity shops. Empty-handed as usual. I don't know where they get their ideas about prices. I know they're trying to raise money for charity, but who looks at a clipart CD-ROM from 1998 and thinks "yes someone will pay £10 for this"? So it sits on the shelf for 8 months between the PS2 wrestling games and the no-brand Pentium 4 computers they're trying to sell for £50. Meanwhile the hideous grandma ornaments that fill 50% of the shop are flying off the shelves because they know nobody is going to pay more than 50p for some tacky ballerina figurine or a weird porcelain-headed doll. Sweevo has a new favorite as of 12:18 on Apr 1, 2018 |
|
#
?
Apr 1, 2018 12:13
|
|
|
Sweevo posted:I just got back from my weekly trawl through the charity shops. Empty-handed as usual. I don't know where they get their ideas about prices. I know they're trying to raise money for charity, but who looks at a clipart CD-ROM from 1998 and thinks "yes someone will pay £10 for this"? So it sits on the shelf for 8 months between the PS2 wrestling games and the no-brand Pentium 4 computers they're trying to sell for £50. It's feast or famine with those places. I hit up 2-3 thrift shops every weekend or two and go months without a find, then one day I get something like this:  for $30.
|
|
#
?
Apr 1, 2018 16:56
|
|
|
Goodwill Hoover's 90% of the tech stuff to their tech outlets, but I got a complete copy of a Wing Commander game a while back because someone thought it was a DVD boxset
|
|
#
?
Apr 1, 2018 17:42
|
|
|
Humphreys posted:Im keen on the Dragons Lair. Still have my Xbox 360 HDDVD player (also computer has a combo Bluray/HDDVD drive) I'm away this week but if they still have it next time I stop in I dont mind shipping it out if you don't mind fronting the cost + shipping. 
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2018 01:22
|
|
|
FilthyImp posted:Goodwill Hoover's 90% of the tech stuff to their tech outlets, but I got a complete copy of a Wing Commander game a while back because someone thought it was a DVD boxset Yeah, Goodwill is complete trash and you will not likely be able to find a good price on anything on their auction site because you’ll just get outbid and sniped like crazy. I’ve had way more luck with local thrift stores and chains like Arc.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2018 05:12
|
|
|
jojoinnit posted:I'm away this week but if they still have it next time I stop in I dont mind shipping it out if you don't mind fronting the cost + shipping. Sadly I am in Australia.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2018 06:27
|
|
|
Humphreys posted:Sadly I am in Australia. Probably not the last time that will be said eeeeeeeeeyooooooo
|
|
#
?
Apr 3, 2018 14:43
|
|
|
jojoinnit posted:I've been finding all sorts of useless hardware and software that people are donating to charity shops who think it's somehow still worth £20 and up: BALL BLASTER The best way to transfer screenshots onto 35mm slide film on the move
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2018 03:19
|
|
|
The Sausages posted:I had the LS-120 superdrive back in 2001, which took regular 3.5" floppys as well as the LS-120 floppy which held 120Mb. The local university also had them -ho they also had CD burners but I didn't have one at home. They never broke down on me but the transfer rate was ghastly. IIRC I had one disc which cost about $20, USB drives became available that year at about $50/8MB or $80/16MB which I couldn't afford. My dad worked for the company that invented and/or manufactured these things and his home office room had piles and piles of the disks, they all ended up in the trash after he stopped working for them I got a job after college where we received stuff from client sites on physical media and some of the machines that generated the data we got exported to ls120 disks. This was years after they were obsolete and no longer manufactured, they were going for like $30 a pop on ebay Felt real good suckin poo poo for $30k/year with student loans when the piles of trash in my dad's office could've paid for the entirety of my loans
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2018 03:56
|
|
|
tactlessbastard posted:Probably not the last time that will be said eeeeeeeeeyooooooo Fair call.
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2018 10:43
|
|
|
Fallom posted:It's feast or famine with those places. I hit up 2-3 thrift shops every weekend or two and go months without a find, then one day I get something like this: Nice. You could probably sell Ultima 7 and Underworld II for at least $50 each if they're complete with all the manuals, maps and trinkets (U7 came with a little metal fellowship medallion and a cloth map, UU2 had a little bag with metal rune stones in).
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2018 12:27
|
|
|
Quote-Unquote posted:Nice. You could probably sell Ultima 7 and Underworld II for at least $50 each if they're complete with all the manuals, maps and trinkets (U7 came with a little metal fellowship medallion and a cloth map, UU2 had a little bag with metal rune stones in). I found a boxed copy of Wing Commander 2. Did I miss out on any gold?
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2018 12:46
|
|
|
jojoinnit posted:I found a boxed copy of Wing Commander 2. Did I miss out on any gold? I see copies on ebay at under $20 with no bids. So no, sorry!
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2018 14:01
|
|
|
On another note, the only Ultima games I don't own in the original big box with all the goodies inside are 1, 2 and Escape from Mt Drash. I never see the first two on offer for under $200, and Drash seems to often be > $400 which is just insane. I don't own any of the compilations either, but they're basically worthless. I'm betting I could get a fair few quid for 3-9, both World of Ultimas, both Underworlds and every boxed version of UO. Anyone want to sell me Ultima 1 or 2 for a not-completely-crazy price?
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2018 14:05
|
|
|
Quote-Unquote posted:Nice. You could probably sell Ultima 7 and Underworld II for at least $50 each if they're complete with all the manuals, maps and trinkets (U7 came with a little metal fellowship medallion and a cloth map, UU2 had a little bag with metal rune stones in). Not only are they complete, they have all the previous owner's notes and dungeon maps carefully written out on paper.
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2018 14:19
|
|
|
Fallom posted:Not only are they complete, they have all the previous owner's notes and dungeon maps carefully written out on paper. Hah, drawing out maps for RPGs - now that's a relic
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2018 14:24
|
|
|
Quote-Unquote posted:Hah, drawing out maps for RPGs - now that's a relic I started playing Fallout 3 a while back and gently caress my rear end if the god drat tunnels and poo poo are navigable without hand-drawn maps.
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2018 14:41
|
|
|
Quote-Unquote posted:Hah, drawing out maps for RPGs - now that's a relic The game had a sewers maze where the map was shown to you via an arcade machine game, so that got traced for reference. It didn't wash off that well. BogDew has a new favorite as of 19:06 on Apr 4, 2018 |
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2018 19:04
|
|
|
Other things that dry erase doesn't come off of easily: Shower wall Dad was pissed.
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2018 20:34
|
|
|
WebDog posted:A friend's dad once had a the faint online of a map from Manhunter drawn out in red marker on the monitor. My father and I both belonged to the "write everything down on the beige plastic VDU frame with a 2B pencil" school of note-taking in the CRT days.
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2018 20:36
|
|
|
Jerry Cotton posted:My father and I both belonged to the "write everything down on the beige plastic VDU frame with a 2B pencil" school of note-taking in the CRT days. The ol' Finnish Bookmark
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2018 20:38
|
|
|
Pham Nuwen posted:The ol' Finnish Bookmark Haha what is that a reference to?
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2018 20:44
|
|
|
Found some amazing stuff at an antiques warehouse today:       
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2018 22:41
|
|
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VE1sjjT7JQ Bunch of commercials for dead restaurants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cWRuHDNt0 Other dead chains
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2018 23:00
|
|
|
Man, Dragon's Lair with C64 graphics instead of full-screen laserdisc animation must have ... hmm. I was gonna say "sucked", but
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2018 01:03
|
|
|
So hard rubbish season (a thing where people put junk out the front of their homes, then the council collects it) is in full swing in my area at the moment, and so far I've been behaving myself by not dragging unnecessary crap home with me. That is, until today when I found this baby:  This means I now have the means to
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2018 03:52
|
|
|
jojoinnit posted:Found some amazing stuff at an antiques warehouse today: Wow - i had this exact thing when I was a kid back in the late 70s.
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2018 15:23
|
|
|
Quote-Unquote posted:On another note, the only Ultima games I don't own in the original big box with all the goodies inside are 1, 2 and Escape from Mt Drash. I never see the first two on offer for under $200, and Drash seems to often be > $400 which is just insane. Fallom posted:Not only are they complete, they have all the previous owner's notes and dungeon maps carefully written out on paper. I bought a copy of MegaTraveller 2 where someone had photocopied/printed the map of all the star systems and annotated points of interest on like 50% of them by hand, it felt like finding buried treasure
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2018 16:02
|
|
|
monolithburger posted:This means I now have the means to They don't mind a bit of fire. 
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2018 03:25
|
|
|
Horace posted:They don't mind a bit of fire. Setting fire to the houses of people who buy your products seems like a weird marketing strategy but hey, it worked for Marantz!
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2018 04:14
|
|
|
Horace posted:They don't mind a bit of fire. Ah, that warm analog sound.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2018 04:46
|
|
|
Horace posted:They don't mind a bit of fire. I've seen that before. The good stuff from the 70's was loving indestructible. My mom had quite the Hi-Fi setup back then. When I was very young we had a fire that pretty much destroyed everything, except for these speakers...  Not sure if those are the same model of Sansuis but they had that grill. They were burnt, drenched with water and hurled outside where they sat for god knows how long. They were charred and hosed up but still relatively intact. At some point, months later after the house had been rebuilt my mom got the idea to drag them into the garage and hook them up. They still worked and even sounded better than the more modern speakers that replaced them. They lived out there for a long, long time and they only reason they weren't the main speakers inside was because the cabinets were basically charcoal.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2018 05:21
|
|
|
Horace posted:They don't mind a bit of fire. Up to a maybe 5 years ago when I did tech work on Marantz, they STILL used that image and story in their training courses on new equipment. And no they didn't answer anyone who put their hand up about current build quality and why theres a room full of us to detail why X or Y Vreg would become unsoldered (poor quality/mass production). Kinda like Panasonic claiming zero warranty claims recorded for 'vermin' (mice, rats, geckos, other little animals) damage. Yeah, cos they decline any of those claims, the 3rd party service agents know and won't even bother trying to lodge the claim. Customers poo poo out of luck.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2018 10:59
|
|
|
Dr. Quarex posted:I feel like Escape From Mt. Drash usually went for more like $10,000 but I suppose I have not paid attention for a few years. I remember a complete, boxed copy going for something like that yeah. I see it on ebay for < $1,000 but it's usually incomplete or unboxed or generally in poo poo condition. There's a copy of Ultima II right now with a completely torn up box that the seller is asking hundreds of dollars for, lol.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2018 11:40
|
|
|
Grumbletron 4000 posted:I've seen that before. The good stuff from the 70's was loving indestructible. My mom had quite the Hi-Fi setup back then. When I was very young we had a fire that pretty much destroyed everything, except for these speakers... I have two sets of similar Sansui speakers with that grille, one is almost exactly like the one you posted, the other are smaller 3-way’s, sort of large bookshelf speakers. They both sound fantastic even though I’ve done nothing whatsoever to either the speaker elements or the crossovers, and I only paid about $125 for all four secondhand. It’s amazing how well they were built compared to the junk that came out in the Eighties and later.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2018 13:22
|
|
|
JnnyThndrs posted:I have two sets of similar Sansui speakers with that grille, one is almost exactly like the one you posted, the other are smaller 3-way’s, sort of large bookshelf speakers. They both sound fantastic even though I’ve done nothing whatsoever to either the speaker elements or the crossovers, and I only paid about $125 for all four secondhand.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2018 22:16
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 22, 2024 00:04 |
|
|
Nessus posted:Some of this is probably the components being rugged, but I also imagine the ones with minor problems which later led to failures have, at this point, all failed, so it's just a question of how long until there's a major failure. Very true, plus the (inflation-adjusted)cost of those speakers in the early ‘70’s was a fortune. $200 for a pair of decent speakers in 1971 is $1240 today, and you could easily pay much more than that back in the day. So a)people took care of them, and b) speaker companies could source better components back then.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2018 01:51
|
|