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Johnny Aztec posted:I just need to hurry and sell this to a collector so THEY can get into this drat hard drive and solve this poo poo, because it is seriously bugging the hell out of me. Out of curiosity, what would you ask for it?
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Jan 23, 2020 14:12
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Johnny Aztec posted:Was it a chain Pharmacy? What state was it in? Nope. Local pharmacy attached to his rural medical practice. Pennsylvania.
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Jan 23, 2020 14:54
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I found the biggest kit of these tools I've ever seen at a thrift store. It's probably in my post history in this thread. Edit: Yep. 
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Jan 23, 2020 15:00
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What's the dotted line tool/attachment thing called?
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Jan 23, 2020 15:10
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"dotted line drawing pen", a subset of "drawing pens"
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Jan 23, 2020 17:17
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Queen Combat posted:"dotted line drawing pen", a subset of "drawing pens" That seems too simple for such a clever device. It deserves a name like "Gepunkteteliniezeichenstift
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Jan 23, 2020 17:40
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Strichzeichnungstift
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Cojawfee posted:Strichzeichnungstift Punktierapparat (in German, scroll down for translation). Not to be confused with the Punktiergerät used by sculptors.
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Jan 23, 2020 20:55
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I'll say it this owns
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verbal enema posted:I'll say it Until your balls get dirty.
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Jan 23, 2020 22:39
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Queen Combat posted:"dotted line drawing pen", a subset of "drawing pens"  And like others said, that's a strangely simple, straightforward name. Not what I expected with something as esoteric as that.
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Jan 23, 2020 22:48
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Plinkey posted:I've been to a few wedding where they had these: I had this at my wedding. I got pissed of because the film is stupid expensive and my sister was taking individual pictures of her kids rather than just a family unit like the instructions said and how everyone else was doing it.
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Jan 23, 2020 23:04
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DariusLikewise posted:I had this at my wedding. I got pissed of because the film is stupid expensive and my sister was taking individual pictures of her kids rather than just a family unit like the instructions said and how everyone else was doing it. If your camera came back full of pictures of cute kids, rather than a guest's dick, I don't think you should complain too much
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Jan 23, 2020 23:10
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Phanatic posted:Until your balls get dirty. There was no pleasure quite like cleaning your balls for smooth, stutter-free motion.
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Jan 23, 2020 23:15
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Shut up Meg posted:If your camera came back full of pictures of cute kids, rather than a guest's dick, I don't think you should complain too much It's an instant camera. If it was similar to the other person's experience where people were supposed to stick the pictures in an album, it would probably be annoying for a large section of the album to be used up by each individual kid.
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Jan 23, 2020 23:26
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Cojawfee posted:It's an instant camera. If it was similar to the other person's experience where people were supposed to stick the pictures in an album, it would probably be annoying for a large section of the album to be used up by each individual kid. Still less annoying than a large section of the album to be used up by each individual dick.
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Jan 23, 2020 23:29
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I doubt people would put dick picks in it when they have to put a physical picture in the album. Anyone can take a disposable camera to the bathroom, take a picture of their dick and throw it back on a table without anyone knowing. It would take a real nutjob to do it with what is essentially a modern polarioid.
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Jan 23, 2020 23:32
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You don't have to keep rubbing my face in how much more classy your family is than mine. Granny Mable was very surprised. Uncle George was oddly excited.
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Jan 23, 2020 23:40
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Cojawfee posted:I doubt people would put dick picks in it when they have to put a physical picture in the album. Anyone can take a disposable camera to the bathroom, take a picture of their dick and throw it back on a table without anyone knowing. It would take a real nutjob to do it with what is essentially a modern polarioid.
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Shut up Meg posted:If your camera came back full of pictures of cute kids, rather than a guest's dick, I don't think you should complain too much I would have been extremely impressed if someone managed to get a picture of their dick and stick it in the album given the time and setting of the wedding
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The trick is to Wayne Gretzky it.
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Shut up Meg posted:You don't have to keep rubbing my face in how much more classy your family is than mine. Shut up Meg
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Jan 24, 2020 03:37
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Bare bum shots are way classier anyway. Anyone can laugh at those.
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Jan 24, 2020 05:02
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When goons get married, there's going to be a lot of bums in those pictures anyways
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Jan 24, 2020 09:32
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This sound in this video is half the joy, my dude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaAHiiCnteY
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Johnny Aztec posted:Well, after taking it apart, seems the thing doesn't have any RAM? I have an SGI Indy which will hook up to external SCSI drives. I even have a whopping 512mb external SCSI (which cost a fortune at the time). Oh, and instead of floppy disks the Indy reads 20Mb floptical disks.
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It may be easier to find a 68 to 50-pin adapter and put it in an internal slot, if the Indy has more than one drive bay. (Unless it's already 50-pin? I'm not sure when that transition happened vs the age of the Indy).
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Stoatbringer posted:I have an SGI Indy which will hook up to external SCSI drives. I even have a whopping 512mb external SCSI (which cost a fortune at the time). Oh, and instead of floppy disks the Indy reads 20Mb floptical disks. I never owned an Indy. I almost bought one to use as my home desktop back in the mid '90s, but I ended up getting a DEC alpha instead. I still have an old R4k Indigo though, mostly because it has what I think is my favourite physical layout of any desktop/workstation design.
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Film of the last day the New York Times was done on linotype, with interviews of several of the workers at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGjFKs9bnU
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ryonguy posted:Film of the last day the New York Times was done on linotype, with interviews of several of the workers at the time. Unreal, they had a quick cast machine to turn paragraphs into lead casts. Also no-one handling these with gloves. Strange times.
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ryonguy posted:Film of the last day the New York Times was done on linotype, with interviews of several of the workers at the time. Pro-click. This is one of those videos I wind up watching whenever I run into it.
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ryonguy posted:Film of the last day the New York Times was done on linotype, with interviews of several of the workers at the time. *sticks article to nonreproducable blue layout board with wax roller*
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LifeSunDeath posted:Unreal, they had a quick cast machine to turn paragraphs into lead casts. Also no-one handling these with gloves. Strange times. And they were cutting them on table saws (see around 10 minutes) which must have created lead dust. 
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Mr.Radar posted:And they were cutting them on table saws (see around 10 minutes) which must have created lead dust. I'm just surprised there wasn't at least several people chain smoking whilst doing so.
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SubG posted:All of SGI's old floptical drives will read standard 3 1/2" floppies as well. Ooh, did the Alpha have one of those awesome round mice with two angled wheels instead of a mouse ball? They were the tits. Indigos were great as well. There was a single big screw holding the entire thing together, really easy to take apart.
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ryonguy posted:Film of the last day the New York Times was done on linotype, with interviews of several of the workers at the time. What struck me about this was how philosophical the old-timers were. "It's sad I guess, but you've got to move with the times and computers are the new thing now...". They liked the old way, but accepted that it had to end. Because if you told a bunch of 50+ years old today that the tiniest thing was going to change then you'd never hear the end of it.
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Sweevo posted:What struck me about this was how philosophical the old-timers were. "It's sad I guess, but you've got to move with the times and computers are the new thing now...". They liked the old way, but accepted that it had to end. Because if you told a bunch of 50+ years old today that the tiniest thing was going to change then you'd never hear the end of it. Dang millennials are ruining typesetting! 
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Stoatbringer posted:Ooh, did the Alpha have one of those awesome round mice with two angled wheels instead of a mouse ball? They were the tits. Stoatbringer posted:Indigos were great as well. There was a single big screw holding the entire thing together, really easy to take apart. The big purple box. The vents at the top are where the internal speaker lives, and the vents on the bottom are just vents. The panel on the righthand side of the front fascia swings out to give access to the internal removable media bays:  The two oval things are the catches for the front fascia. Depress both of them and the front comes right off.  Front fascia removed. The big round thing is the speaker. The black rectangle below it, next to the caution sign, is the power switch. Below that is a tape drive, and below it are two SCSI drives, all on tool-less drive sleds. In the upper left is the dzus that holds the internal cage closed.  A quarter turn and the panel swings forward to reveal the daughter cards. Unlike PCs and most other computing hardware today, the Indigo doesn't have a motherboard, it has a backplane (note: technically not a backplane, but whatevs) and daughter cards that slot into it.  A closeup of the release tabs for the CPU and graphics option daughter cards. Release the tabs and the cards slide right out.  The back of the enclosure. You'll notice that I've described how to remove the CPU board, the graphics board, and the drives and none of this involved using any tools. Which is great if you need to work on the thing. Not so great if you're leaving one in a graphics lab or something and don't want someone to be able to field strip the thing down to the bare metal in about ten seconds flat. To prevent that you could get a lock bar that runs through the front fascia and out the back (through the slot you see there below the output plug on the power supply) and then can be secured by a cable lock or whatever. This view is also a sort of mini-museum of arcane and obsolete connectors: Centronix 50, parallel port, Ethernet AUI, proprietary keyboard, RS232 over mini DIN-8, 13W3 video, and the proprietary StereoView port for SGI 3D glasses: 
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SubG posted:Nah, this was one of the first 21164s, waaaay more modern than the e.g. VAXstations that used pucks. Oh poo poo, weren't these like 10k back in the day?
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