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This reminds me of my grandpa, who had a functional vintage Coke machine in his garage forever. At parties it would empty of bottles pretty quick, and I'd open the tall thin door and feel the chill on my little kid hand in those dark, empty slots.
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Code Jockey posted:I assume you're in Australia by your av, but if you're anywhere near the pacific NW of the USA... SubG posted:Anyway, if we're talking about our favourite desktop cases from the early '90s, mine has to be the SGI Indigo: I still have a shitload of old compute hardware lying around in the garage and in a storage shed: an R8K Indigo2, a DEC Personal Workstation 600, a DEC/Compaq ES40 (that's probably going to sit in the garage until I sell the place because fuuuuuuuck manhandling that beast out of the rack), a whole shitload of Sun pizza boxes (an Ultra 2, I think I might still have an original Ultra, a SPARC 20, a couple SPARC 5s, an Ultra 5, and gently caress if I can remember what all else), and enough crappy old 1U x86 hardware to run a couple startups. Nowdays I don't think I keep anything powered up that isn't a tiny-rear end low-power fanless thing.
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Code Jockey posted:I assume you're in Australia by your av, but if you're anywhere near the pacific NW of the USA... Yeah, nowhere near the US. That friend had a huge collection of SGI computers all the way down from the Origin 3800. He very rarely fired the 3800 up, though, seeing as the CPU and hundreds of hard drives in the array used many kilowatts of electricity. As you say, SGI had a great aesthetic. That's the reason I grabbed the rack when I had the chance - it was just too beautiful to pass up. Not only is it that wonderful colour, but it has an awesome internal distribution panel that goes from 3-phase down to a massive number of household power sockets. Not that I can think of a use for it that would need me to have 3-phase put in. The best I can come up with is to put a fridge in it.
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Chairman Mao posted:These both actually still work on the latest version of Windows. Flying toasters on modern mac os has some issues when you let it run for a long time Source: installed it on our build machine at work
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doctorfrog posted:This reminds me of my grandpa, who had a functional vintage Coke machine in his garage forever. At parties it would empty of bottles pretty quick, and I'd open the tall thin door and feel the chill on my little kid hand in those dark, empty slots. Phrasing! Awesome, I'll tell my former Coke-worker buddy about that. It will put a smile on his face! He has one of these heavy fuckers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuZH3nIWI_Q Batshit. Wanna buy one? It's in my shed.
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I posted in this thread I think (well one of the retro tech threads) fixing an old MP3 player and part of the post dealt with rubberised plastic going sticky. I found my Neo Geo X and the back is starting to go sticky. I am drunk and it's 2am but amazingly found that this random screen cleaner I've had for years works a drat treat!
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My grandfather passed recently, and we've been cleaning out his old office, which was a treasure trove of ancient stuff. Boxes on boxes of vacuum tubes, over a half-dozen radios. Then this:   Apparently, this is a home-made Crystal Radio that he had stowed away for...whatever reason.
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J.A.B.C. posted:My grandfather passed recently, and we've been cleaning out his old office, which was a treasure trove of ancient stuff. Boxes on boxes of vacuum tubes, over a half-dozen radios. That's awesome! Post more stuff as you find it. Any shortwave receivers in the stack? Those are always cool, not least because they'll often have old radio stations marked on the dial like BERLIN and MOSCOW.
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Pham Nuwen posted:That's awesome! Post more stuff as you find it. Any shortwave receivers in the stack? Those are always cool, not least because they'll often have old radio stations marked on the dial like BERLIN and MOSCOW. So, all of the older CB stuff has been spoken for by his brother, and we're packing it up and moving it to him. So the tubes and a couple of the radios got packed away. But we still have some out, like this old Pearce-Simpson Companion CB:  A still-working Gladding Islander set:  An old Zenith X330 AM-FM, along with a car-mounted CB:  And a Realistic DX-300 short-wave: 
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Good time to take up a soldering hobby and make a small tube amp? I'm annoyed that we seem to have lost the stash of tubes my great-grandfather left; it would have been neat to repurpose a few of those for something I might actually use.
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Not really a relic but people might be interested: Edit: Fixed link Humphreys has a new favorite as of 07:42 on Jun 1, 2019 |
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https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/1134233732334964738 https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/1133893978615681025 https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/1133349475194462208 https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/1132277639752933376 https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/1131913952127082497 https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/843734149894758401 Watch out. You never know what will attack on you.
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"The game that takes no prisoners" 
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Known Lecher posted:"The game that takes no prisoners" So, uh, which of the many plausible horrible 90s wars is that photo from?
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Actually I think it is from one of the Windows 95 launch queues.
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Computer viking posted:So, uh, which of the many plausible horrible 90s wars is that photo from? Looks like "The Road of Death" to me, so Gulf War
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Right, that's about the level of edginess I expect from a late-90s game ad.
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For context, that was when the US carpetbombed and incinerated an entire convoy of fleeing/retreating Iraqi troops, which would have taken place only about 5-6 years prior to them using a photo of it in an ad with the tagline "the game that takes no prisoners", so uh.... yeah.
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Humphreys posted:Not really a relic but people might be interested: Fixed. Imgur changed something in their interface, now you have to explicitly do the "copy image location" (from right-clicking on the image itself) to get the forums-ready image URL.
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i played that bubsy on the snes. it was kind of a pile but i liked it anyway
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May 31, 2019 17:58
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had it on the genesis and it was OK, but tough as nails
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You all probably follow LGR already but this got a few nostalgic chuckles out of me: banner & tshirt making on a dot matrix printer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htjxFdG78M0 I dreamed of printing with a colour ribbon one day, like those rich professionals I had seen on magazines 
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Someone in the comments for that video said that making banners was the 3D printing of the 90s and I'll be damned if that isn't the truth.
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May 31, 2019 19:44
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Oh my god it still exists https://www.broderbund.com/catalog/product/view/id/764
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The space jam website of software
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Data Graham posted:Oh my god it still exists Haha holy poo poo good for you Broderbund (man that's an old company too) I think I had a version of Print Shop Pro for every pre-Pentium computer I had. It was just... everywhere
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I have like a dozen little desktop published greeting cards from my high school girlfriend in a box somewhere. The DPI is on the scale of 'bad pointilism landscape' but even at 30-something I still think it's neat you could make a little card and personalize it. I remember making my own and eventually figuring out how you take a Letter-sized paper, divide into quadrants, and the top left becomes the front cover, etc. Eventually we moved on to sending e-cards. Those were cool (midi music my crap Apple Performa couldn't play, animations!)
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I wonder how it can even print banners nowadays now that tractor-feed paper is gone.
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Data Graham posted:I wonder how it can even print banners nowadays now that tractor-feed paper is gone. Have you ever heard of ebay?
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Data Graham posted:I wonder how it can even print banners nowadays now that tractor-feed paper is gone. Who says it's gone? Office Depot's website lists three dozen different varieties.
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As long as there is an auto shop running a DOS computer, there will be tractor feed paper.
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I mean yes I understand that it is possible to obtain both the paper and the printers. I’m saying that what made The Print Shop the killer app of the 80s was that they were ubiquitous. Today you can’t just go “hey holy poo poo am I high, ima make a banner that says ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US to hang up outside my cubicle” unless you’re prepared to spend a lot of time with a glue stick
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barbecue at the folks posted:You all probably follow LGR already but this got a few nostalgic chuckles out of me: banner & tshirt making on a dot matrix printer He liked my cool crab comment :hearteyes: (I REALLY want a CC Shirt)
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I prefer the term belt-fed fully automatic printer
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Now just imagine if that goon had carried an 80s era Dot Matrix printer to Stacy's house. Dude would have been a beast.
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Haven't seen this mentioned in a while. The DeathStar HDD that failed so hard that it would lathe the magnetic coating off the platters: https://www.astro.ufl.edu/~ken/crash/index.html 
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