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Cojawfee posted:Was this the one that sliced your fingers open if you tried to work on it? Yes, even more than other bloodthirsty Apple products that came out before and after. No computer model made me bleed more consistently than these fuckers. Also, replacing one of those displays was a massive pain in the rear end. Say what you will about the old G3 iMacs, they actually weren't bad to take apart once you got used to them. Hell, even the eMacs weren't too bad although they were more of a hassle than the G3 iMacs. And Apple laptops from the G4 and up are best serviced by pissing on the fuckers and burning the corpses.
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Regular Nintendo posted:Iirc he had an arduino and raspi in it (this was like 6-7 years ago) and ran an irc client on it that just listened for stuff like "/yosvape turn on" or "/yosvape 300" for temp (totally paraphrasing the irc commands) and it would report into the irc channel its temp as it warmed up and be like "ready for WeEeEeD" when it hit its target The only successful goon project
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Cartoon Man posted:This was always my most hated Mac design: I still have one of these stashed somewhere. It was great in winter. It put out stupid amounts of heat with a passive heat sink.
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May 15, 2019 20:45
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I have a soft spot for old Mac laptops. Old PowerBooks are just... sexy. 
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May 15, 2019 21:05
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May 15, 2019 21:14
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Cartoon Man posted:This was always my most hated Mac design: Everything in the late 90's was translucent colored plastic for some reason. I guess we assumed that transparent materials were the future, it's not like Babylon 5 didn't use transparent paper, which makes no sense at all.
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You quoted the reason
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yeah it's really mysterious why translucent plastic electronics became a thing. almost like there was one really successful product that people liked and bought that did this and a lot of companies followed suit. not sure what it was though.
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May 15, 2019 21:20
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I had a little calculator that had rubber sides and the body was that apple teal translucent plastic. You could hit a little switch and the lid over the screen would rotate around and lift the calculator up so it was tilted towards you. That was the coolest poo poo.
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Last Chance posted:yeah it's really mysterious why translucent plastic electronics became a thing. almost like there was one really successful product that people liked and bought that did this and a lot of companies followed suit. not sure what it was though. And that product was: my old sega controller 
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May 15, 2019 21:27
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Nah it was a telephone.
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May 15, 2019 21:32
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the phones and that controller were usually all not colored translucent. they looked cool though. hope someone figures out which the real "genesis" of electronics started the colored translucent trend though. it's really bugging me now!!
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hmmm, according ot my Wikipedia research, the translucent gameboy pocket was released in 1996. it wasn't colored plastic though, just straight-up transparent. Then in 1998 they released a colored translucent purple gameboy color. So some where between 1996 and 1998 something must have shifted towards using colored plastic. no idea what it was though
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There was that old 80s/90s transparent phone with bright primary colors, but that was clear plastic. Google tells me it was the Unisonic 6900  Really, what happened is that materials technology got to the point where you could make durable tinted plastics that weren't compromised. So it was a manufacturing trend since it was the New Cool thing. Just like rounded cars happened because of computer assisted design, modelling, and fabrication innovations. FilthyImp has a new favorite as of 21:47 on May 15, 2019 |
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Looks like it was part of an environmental marketing fad for sodas, where 'clear = pure', which is why things like Pepsi Crystal emerged. The 'Clear Craze'. And then this sidestepped into electronics as well. It's a shame, modern electronics aren't as chunky and neat anymore inside, but I'd still like transparent electronics for stuff like my phone. e: https://www.newsweek.com/clear-and-cashing-195254 quote:From gasoline to soda pop, from mouthwash to mascara, clear is here. In the past year consumer-product peddlers have rolled out some two dozen products whose major claim to fame is that they're see-through and, sometimes, fizzy. Companies hope the new products will help them catch the green wave-they're betting that customers will equate clear products with things that are pure and good for them and the environment. In fact, the early returns show that the marketers may be on to something. Says a bubbly Gillette spokeswoman, Michele Szynal: "Clear represents the biggest trend in consumer products since the 'lite' products craze of the '80s." SubNat has a new favorite as of 21:50 on May 15, 2019 |
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FilthyImp posted:There was that old 80s/90s transparent phone with bright primary colors, but that was clear plastic. Yeah this must be it. there couldn't have been a turning point or a "corner being rounded" at all in taste or public perception. it was just the manufacturing guys saying "hey we can make blue things now, let's do that." mystery solved! e: could be this too, the soda and electronics industries often follow similar, parallel paths: SubNat posted:Looks like it was part of a health-ish marketing fad for sodas, where 'clear = pure', which is why things like Pepsi Crystal emerged. The 'Clear Craze'. Last Chance has a new favorite as of 21:51 on May 15, 2019 |
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Last Chance posted:mystery solved! For anyone not having An Extremely Normal One online today, the clear craze resulted in Clear Miller lite 
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Last Chance posted:hmmm, according ot my Wikipedia research, the translucent gameboy pocket was released in 1996. it wasn't colored plastic though, just straight-up transparent. It was a popular all-in-one computer from Apple based on the G3 processor. I refer of course to  https://www.macworld.com/article/2013960/the-unexplored-history-of-translucent-apple-design.html
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FilthyImp posted:lol My favorite was always the SNL spoof from 1993, at the height of the clear craze: Crystal Gravy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0sjRG34DlA
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barbecue at the folks posted:I have a soft spot for old Mac laptops. Old PowerBooks are just... sexy. It looks like it should be in a modern day adaptation of Naked Lunch. It'll start pulsating and chittering and the keys will start wiggling on their own and jizz will start leaking out of the charging port.
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FilthyImp posted:There was that old 80s/90s transparent phone with bright primary colors, but that was clear plastic. Google tells me it was the Unisonic 6900 I was at an antique flea market a couple of weeks ago and there was one of them there. They wanted $80 for it.
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RetroManCave just released a 25 minute video about the late 90s SGI Octane 3D Workstation and it feels thread-appropriate to share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHsA8iq4N0s
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an actual frog posted:RetroManCave just released a 25 minute video about the late 90s SGI Octane 3D Workstation and it feels thread-appropriate to share: My old university had a ton of SGI machines (Indys, O2s, Octanes, a few Onyxes and a handful of Origins in the server room). When they were phased out, they were pretty much up for grabs. I left behind the O2s and Indys, and was too slow for the Octanes (also, they were pretty beat up by then). I was good friends with the IT guys, so a friend and I scored most of the Origins, including link cables. We ran them in our small office for a couple hours. Raised the temperature significantly. After having them take up a significant amount of office space for an extended period, we just gave them to a friend. They used a ton of power and were very loud. In addition, Linux support was very sporadic and IRIX very much dead by then, so we would never have actually used them (despite them having an impressive amount of memory and CPU for the time still). With today’s retro wave, I kind of regret that; could have made a decent penny on eBay. Especially the O2s were very very neat and paved the way for the trash bin Mac Pro by computerizing home appliances (they looked like vacuum cleaners).
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klafbang posted:...After having them take up a significant amount of office space for an extended period, we just gave them to a friend.  
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I used to have a bunch of sparc cubes and pizza boxes. They were so cool but so, so useless
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I used to have a bunch of sparc cubes and pizza boxes. They were so cool but so, so useless Yeah I variously owned a sparcstation 20, an ultra 1, an ultra 30, a vaxstation, a pizzabox alpha that looked exactly like that pic, a dec multia (the most useless machine i ever owned), an sgi indigo2, and a pdp-11. All fun to play with except the indigo2 which didn't have the proprietary drive caddies and was thus literally a doorstop, but all ultimately useless in the face of my mighty Athlon XP.
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Oh I have a Mac LC pizzabox story. We had one in our trig classroom in high school. In MacOS 9 and earlier, one of the "fun" things you could do as a dumb kid screwing around with the Control Panel (along with changing stuff like the desktop background and icon sizes) was to record your own custom system alert sounds. So my friends and I would sneak onto the machine before class and record things like "Barbaric YAWP" (a takeoff on the built-in "Wild Eep") and one that my friend did, "Bloodcurdling Shriek". Two key things to note about classic MacOS: - Alert sounds can be any length - Once an alert sound is triggered in the Control Panel to listen to it, it cannot be stopped So then came the day of our big midterm exam. All of us students were heads-down on the test, in complete silence, for the duration of the hour, and our teacher decided to use the opportunity of some peace and quiet to sit down at the LC and clean up some of the crap that we students had been cluttering it up with over the past several weeks and months. About 20 minutes into our exam, we heard some vague sounds coming from the back of the room: "Boop" "Eep" "YAWP" I stiffened, because I knew what was coming next: "EEEYYYYYAAAUUUAAGGGGHHHHH" *this continues at top volume, splitting the air in the silent room, for about 20 seconds* This brings me to a third thing about the classic MacOS: - When you are playing alert sounds via the Control Panel, every time you click—single click—on an alert will queue a play of that sound. This is a lot of fun for dumb high school kids loving around on a computer with no supervision, because you can click quickly all around the list and it will play all the (brief, microseconds-long) alerts that you're able to queue up however fast you can click. This is not a lot of fun when an alert sound is 20 seconds long and you have no idea how to stop it from playing. Our poor teacher, surrounded by the earsplitting cacophony of my friend's Bloodcurdling Shriek, and desperate to find a way to stop it, quickly saw that there were no audio controls in the panel, so he did what anyone would do: tried clicking on Bloodcurdling Shriek again to try to stop it. This (seemingly) did nothing. So he clicked on it again, and again, and again. "EEEYYYYYAAAUUUAAGGGGHHHHH" "EEEYYYYYAAAUUUAAGGGGHHHHH" "EEEYYYYYAAAUUUAAGGGGHHHHH" "EEEYYYYYAAAUUUAAGGGGHHHHH" "EEEYYYYYAAAUUUAAGGGGHHHHH" For the next ~3 minutes, our class was treated to repeat after repeat of the Bloodcurdling Shriek from the back of the room, while we hunched silently over our tests and tried to keep from busting up. The poor teacher could do nothing but sit there at the computer burying his head in his hands until finally the queue was exhausted and the noise stopped. I don't know whether we ever owned up to having been responsible for this system alert fuckery, but I'm pretty sure he knew who it was. In retrospect it was all pretty funny, and the teacher had a good sense of humor, so we didn't suffer any ill effects on our grades or anything. But I'm pretty sure that Mac got a note posted next to it warning dire consequences for anything like that happening again in the future.
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Another fun classic Mac OS tip: certain versions wouldn’t give the screensaver timeout a sanity check, so you could set the timeout to 0.1 seconds, which was super fun when combined with a screensaver password. They did eventually fix this in a later version of Mac OS when we discovered we could no longer do this to every single Mac in the schools library
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When I was in high school I had an alarm clock modeled after the original G3 iMac. Used it for well over a decade before throwing it out. Shortly afterwards I discovered that there's a whole community of alarm clock nerds who would've given me quite a bit of money for it.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I want flying toasters back *winds up throwing arm*
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I want Johnny Castaway back 
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Speaking of intriguingly elaborate shell programs, does anyone remember the promotional one for the 90's movie The Game? I vaguely remember it as an ARG that ran on your desktop and would mess with you by putting mysterious shortcuts to programs at odd times. It probably was nowhere as deep as my imagination at the time made it, and I never "finished" it because I installed it on a really crappy work computer at a call center I worked at and got moved around a lot.
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klafbang posted:My old university had a ton of SGI machines (Indys, O2s, Octanes, a few Onyxes and a handful of Origins in the server room). A friend of mine grabbed our university's old SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer when they replaced it, and that thing was a beast. I scored one of the empty racks like the one on the far right of this picture (so no LCD display) but I've no idea what to do with it. It still sits in my garage 10+ years later.
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The grouch was the best extension ever So long as you don't have children who will delete all the everything to make Oscar appear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE7EWDKVM1Y
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I want flying toasters back Mak0rz posted:I want Johnny Castaway back These both actually still work on the latest version of Windows. Johnny Castaway: https://www.screensaversplanet.com/help/guides/windows/how-to-run-johnny-castaway-on-windows-64-bit-28 After Dark (flying toasters, etc...) https://youtu.be/zTz__hvOQus check the comments section for a fix/workaround for the settings panel
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Gromit posted:A friend of mine grabbed our university's old SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer when they replaced it, and that thing was a beast. I scored one of the empty racks like the one on the far right of this picture (so no LCD display) but I've no idea what to do with it. It still sits in my garage 10+ years later. I assume you're in Australia by your av, but if you're anywhere near the pacific NW of the USA... (I already have two racks in my garage, but holy poo poo those look cool and I adore SGI aesthetic)
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