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NonzeroCircle posted:Has anyone copied that godawful Packard Bell virtual house thing from circa '96 into VR, where you'd go into room with a stereo and tv for music and video, and a different room for officey stuff? It came back with VR
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NonzeroCircle posted:Has anyone copied that godawful Packard Bell virtual house thing from circa '96 into VR, where you'd go into room with a stereo and tv for music and video, and a different room for officey stuff? http://toastytech.com/guis/pbnav35.html My family's Packard Bell P75 had this and it was a garbage shell. Microsoft BOB was pretty much identical.
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Our first PC had more issues running that dumb thing than it did any of the software it housed (which it still struggled with), I swore to never ever use a Packard Bell again when it died
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Gonz posted:Netizen This is still very much in use now referring exclusively to China's Internet users. Wintel PUCK MOUSE Voxels Sprites Netscape Navigator RAM doubler Turbo Button Lowen SoDium posted:I 1000% agree with you on this. I LOVE the OG X-COM, but the remake is so much more playable. There is much less between you and playing the game. There are only 1 or 2 things that the remake is missing that I consider a detriment. Off the top of my head, the in ability to pick up items off of downed soldiers. Hope your medic isn't the first person killed... I never camped a base at least not intentionally. I really don't feel like going back to a TU system these days, it a lot of hassle and anger as your dude can't shoot because he missed out by one TU. The random nature of reaction shots mocks reserving TU. One thing OG does better is burning down everything. Blowing up a building is unsatisfying in comparison. XCOM is so janky, almost old compared to XCOM2 and the expansions. Archangel Armour Snipers. Awful near non-existent aircraft combat, you never had a reason to use anything order other than cautious or the boosters. It made the strategic layer not much more than whack a mole and cheesing satellite launches which restricted you to one build order. I swear smoke makes people easier to hit which to this day I refuse to use. YES to Warcrimes. The lack of timer and appropriate skills meant like OG you crawled across the map. XCOM 2 for all the crying about the timer it is amazing to get you to to kick down doors high speed, low drag operator. Concealment really changes up the game allowing you to make you own approach before all hell breaks loose. Class default skills meant you could focus on other skills without feeling like you are playing it wrong, why would you not give a sniper longsight. WotC lets you buy skills making it even more fun and allows you progress a character beyond the old cap.
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SLOSifl posted:Packard Bell Navigator I loved Bob as a kid. It was also kind of interesting in how setting up the “easy to use” interface was actually more complicated than just using loving Windows by itself, but on the other hand... that rear end in a top hat cat friend! 
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No one mentioning PCMCIA as obsolete? I had a Pocket PC with a battery pack adapter that had two PCMCIA slots on it. One had a compact flash adapter and a 128 mb card, the other a wireless card so I could use internet on a mobile pc the literal size of a brick. Just look at this cool poo poo.
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Shellman posted:No one mentioning PCMCIA as obsolete? I had a Pocket PC with a battery pack adapter that had two PCMCIA slots on it. One had a compact flash adapter and a 128 mb card, the other a wireless card so I could use internet on a mobile pc the literal size of a brick. PCMCIA didn’t really go away, it just got faster and is called ExpressCard now.
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:ICQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wnQcZ3HaBQ Also, jfc, they are the original Virgin/Chad 
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Queen Combat posted:Are you telling me that my HiFi system is outdated? from a couple pages back but it really reminded me of this  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSINO6MKtco
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steinrokkan posted:netbook RIP They were too beautiful for this world.
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My netbook carried me through that weird post-highschool period where you're on your own and don't have any money. I wonder when that period will end
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Last Chance posted:have they stopped calling macbook pro ripoffs "ultrabooks" yet? lol @ the idea that anybody is ripping off macbooks anymore
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Queen Combat posted:Are you telling me that my HiFi system is outdated? How did graphic equalisers happen? I mean who thought consumers would want to gently caress around with millions of possible combinations of frequency profiles before listening to the latest Duran Duran LP? Anyone who owned one of these at best tweaked the settings based on one track and never touched them again. Usually they just arranged them in a pattern that made it look roughly like they knew what they were doing (like you have done here). What was the selling point of these things meant to be? Enhance your favourite 1khz frequency band? EvilGenius has a new favorite as of 23:29 on Dec 21, 2018 |
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steinrokkan posted:lol @ the idea that anybody is ripping off macbooks anymore that is not the idea i posited
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I think back manufacturers are dieing out also...no one says “I got a dell” anymore it’s just windows or Apple
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Dell is very much a thing among corporate clients. At least in Europe. I don't think I've seen a consumer level Dell in yer, though.
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Shifty Nipples posted:y2k compliant     picked this gizmo up at a Goodwill the other day for 2bux. I was planning to stick it in my "poo poo i picked up at thrift stores" pentium but ended up using a BIOS update i found on the wayback machine instead. Still a neat old thing to have though. Maybe it'll work in one of the ridiculous gigantic Compaq luggables I've got lying around in the basement.
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steinrokkan posted:Dell is very much a thing among corporate clients. At least in Europe. Yeah, we use Dell laptops where I work and they are pretty stacked for a laptop, of course they weight like 10 pounds but it's something like a quad core with 64 gigs of ram and a TB ssd. There was a big move to them and HP in the gov after IBM sold their consumer PC division to lenovo because gotta buy American and all.
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Most of the computers at work are Dell's. Some people get Chromebooks. Our department is getting new workstations because the cheapass virtualization they pay for runs ArcGIS Pro like poo poo. Not sure where they're getting those from.
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EvilGenius posted:How did graphic equalisers happen? I mean who thought consumers would want to gently caress around with millions of possible combinations of frequency profiles before listening to the latest Duran Duran LP? Anyone who owned one of these at best tweaked the settings based on one track and never touched them again. Usually they just arranged them in a pattern that made it look roughly like they knew what they were doing (like you have done here). You could make the sound work on a specific record for your specific lovely/awesome stereo setup. Or in my case, push up the drum and guitar frequencies when playing records on my dad’s system in high school. (and piss him off when I forgot to set it and the volume back afterwards)
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Using the EQ lets me set it so the speakers sound the same as the headphones. I trust the headphones frequency response and sound, and the tiny bookshelfs I have aren't the same at all. I set the EQ once and it's good. Sometimes at night I drop the bass down so I don't piss off the downstairs neighbors, too. Or raise highs when I've got the fans on in the summer, so I can hear it better over the drone.
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EvilGenius posted:How did graphic equalisers happen? I mean who thought consumers would want to gently caress around with millions of possible combinations of frequency profiles before listening to the latest Duran Duran LP? Anyone who owned one of these at best tweaked the settings based on one track and never touched them again. Usually they just arranged them in a pattern that made it look roughly like they knew what they were doing (like you have done here). It was useful for my dad, a guitarist and former drummer, when he wanted to isolate particular frequencies to learn contemporary rock songs in the days before you could take five seconds to look up a video showing the chords for Uriah Heep's The Wizard uploaded by YouTube user TheGuitarGuy78.
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Expansion slot 16x write speed Greatest Hits Collection (this one applies to both music and video games, there's no need for either when you can just keep the original downloads up) flavor.flv has a new favorite as of 03:37 on Dec 22, 2018 |
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Pham Nuwen posted:WE DIDN'T START THE FIREWIRE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QyYaPWasos EDIT: I remember hearing something crazy that it costs you money to receive SMS on your phones in the USA. Is that really a thing? Humphreys has a new favorite as of 05:22 on Dec 22, 2018 |
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Sam Hall posted:
That board looks like something from the late 70s.
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Empress Brosephine posted:This thread had me thinking of Tech Jargon Relics. Words that used to be common place that isn’t used anymore...what came to my mind was “hyperlink”. No one says Hyperlink anymore. Another one would be http colon slash slash. master, slave Dr. Quarex posted:Even though I agree and hate it, to be fair I was complaining about this around a guy who worked for Microsoft in the 1980s and he said they always used that word internally back then anyway, so clearly "program" is the historical aberration I think the correct term is "proggie"/"proggy"  oohhboy posted:Voxels Indie game designers still like this stuff! SLOSifl posted:Packard Bell Navigator That sounded like about the right era, so I checked the box of Packard Bell CDs that I still have (don't have the PC or anything else from it, just the CDs) and sure enough I'm the proud owner of a copy of this.
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:how is "midi" dead? Dead as a general PC term maybe? Outside of audio interfaces and music equipment you don't really see anything advertising MIDI capability, no General MIDI sound option for games, etc.
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Sam Hall posted:
Weird, I never knew those things existed. I guess none of my hardware was old enough to need it. I noticed the second time I scrolled past the weird F1-F12 key layout. I was going to ask WTF that was, but then when I just did a Google search for "compaq keyboard" the first match was to a YouTube video showing a keyboard that looks like yours. So is this what it is?
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KozmoNaut posted:RIP The term is dead but they're still around in the form of various convertible and 2-in-1s like this one  I have one and it's absolutely great for travel. It's not exactly a powerhouse but not almost useless like the netbooks, basically a 12" macbook for $300. Gonz posted:Bootstrapping
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ishikabibble posted:Dead as a general PC term maybe? Outside of audio interfaces and music equipment you don't really see anything advertising MIDI capability, no General MIDI sound option for games, etc. Yeah General MIDI is largely irrelevant, although I bet almost anything with a speaker these days is capable of playing it. It's amazing how well MIDI as a notation and control format has survived come to think of it. It's never really needed an update in about 30 years. My only criticism of it is that I'd like more than 128 discreet values for control change data.
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So the thread is just buzzwords now? What isn't and will ever be obsolete? PEBCAC
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