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I've been lately reading about MSX stuff because I get a kick about knowing useless facts about obsolete computers I've never even seen live in person. Most machines look a bit dingy and of their time, but holy poo poo, Panasonic FS-A1 is legit  Why can't we have computers that look like 1980s hifi sets anymore?  barbecue at the folks has a new favorite as of 16:35 on Feb 2, 2020 |
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barbecue at the folks posted:Why can't we have computers that look like 1980s hifi sets anymore? Computers never really hit that era of design because they were seen as Business Machines or Important Office Work Productivity Engines first. The Mac put a dent in that but the color scheme was meant to fit into an office or school environment without being obnoxious. The millennium models were on their way towards being Multimedia/Office/INTERNET! Appliances so they incorporated more whimsical styling (like the integrated candy plastic CD caddies or swing-doors to hide peripheral ports). And of course the iMac anticipated the computer as something more than a Word processor and the whole aesthetic changed to make it really obvious you had an iMac. So by the time you could feasibly get a design out there that was more in tune with something from your HiFi rack, the market had pretty much moved on from that design towards colorful and sleek.
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barbecue at the folks posted:I've been lately reading about MSX stuff because I get a kick about knowing useless facts about obsolete computers I've never even seen live in person. Most machines look a bit dingy and of their time, but holy poo poo, Panasonic FS-A1 is legit Bring back these Shadowrun computers, tia
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barbecue at the folks posted:Why can't we have computers that look like 1980s hifi sets anymore? Well, that line of thinking gave us the CDTV, so maybe it's for the best.
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Randaconda posted:Bring back these Shadowrun computers, tia
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RandomFerret posted:I don't know what a CDTV is, but if this is one then it looks pretty awesome It was an Amiga 500, in a shiny new box with a cd drive. A great idea, you might think, except it was insanely expensive at $1000, was based on outdated technology on release and there was little or no software released for it. It was basically the fore-runner to the mid 90s multimedia craze, but against all the odds Commodore managed to gently caress it up. And "Commodore Dynamic Total Vision" is a really stupid name, even for then.
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barbecue at the folks posted:Why can't we have computers that look like 1980s hifi sets anymore? I think the X68000 looks pretty spiffy. 
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You guys want to see something really cool: A head unit with an MD player in it.
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barbecue at the folks posted:Why can't we have computers that look like 1980s hifi sets anymore? It’s Germany. It’s always Germany.
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LifeSunDeath posted:You guys want to see something really cool: You didn't always have to go aftermarket for that.  There's a guy on eBay asking $1300 for a new old stock one if you want to upgrade your mid 90s Ford.
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azurite posted:I think the X68000 looks pretty spiffy. Yes, yes it does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OepeiBF5Jnk
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Is there a name for that era of Japanese industrial design? Other than 'cyberpunk as all gently caress  ', of course.
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barbecue at the folks posted:Is there a name for that era of Japanese industrial design? Other than 'cyberpunk as all gently caress Technically I think we should say cyberpunk is Japanese as all gently caress, William Gibson and other cyberpunk authors were heavily inspired by computers like the MSX and the FM-7.
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I guess so! I wonder if there was a cabal of industrial designers who just decided that the future is now and we're gonna do things this way from now on, or if it was a more organic process. For example, Fujitsu had a strong a e s t h e t i c going on in the late 1980s and early 1990s, here's the FM Towns: 
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barbecue at the folks posted:I guess so! I wonder if there was a cabal of industrial designers who just decided that the future is now and we're gonna do things this way from now on, or if it was a more organic process.
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I've been wondering what makes those cases so drat awesome and I guess one big part of it is that the closed system architecture makes it possible to integrate drive bays completely in the design while taking cues from high-end Japanese hi-fi, not office supplies. Makes everything look sleek and deadly and straight from Shadowrun or Ghost in the Shell. That X68000 case with its double tower design is a goddamn masterpiece.
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barbecue at the folks posted:I guess so! I wonder if there was a cabal of industrial designers who just decided that the future is now and we're gonna do things this way from now on, or if it was a more organic process. For example, Fujitsu had a strong a e s t h e t i c going on in the late 1980s and early 1990s, here's the FM Towns: Those twin 3.5 drives are a real oddity: very few manufacturers offered that config as standard - definitely not with a designed fascia like that.
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Shut up Meg posted:Those twin 3.5 drives are a real oddity: very few manufacturers offered that config as standard - definitely not with a designed fascia like that. The double drives are especially odd because the thing actually booted from CD-rom. (Hard drives were still extra.) I think games and programs still came on floppies so it might just have been an ease of use thing, anyone who's ever owned an Amiga knows what fuckery the constant disk swapping was without an extra drive.
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Honestly kind of surprised that people haven't started building cyberdecks around Raspberry Pi or other single board computers.
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:Honestly kind of surprised that people haven't started building cyberdecks around Raspberry Pi or other single board computers. Theres been a few on hackaday, but I took a fancy to this one even though it's not a 'deck'. Currently printing a few pieces between the huge backlog of other prints:  https://back7.co/home/arm-terminal
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:Honestly kind of surprised that people haven't started building cyberdecks around Raspberry Pi or other single board computers. I'd love a MSX-like case you could drop normal PC components in for a VR setup. It would be a tricky fit though, and you'd need some custom cooling.
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Horace posted:You didn't always have to go aftermarket for that. The Kenwood logo threw me off at first, but the Subaru logo on the MiniDisc door leads me to believe that first MD stereo wasn't aftermarket, either.
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:After catching up with the thread, I can't not post this: I feel like this would have been exclusively used by record producers in high end sports cars or something.
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Took me a minute to realize that wasn't just any old cassette deck. I have so many questions.
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TotalLossBrain posted:It seems to be lacking a radio function Who needs a radio when you can listen to your whole DAT collection on the road!?
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I'm sure this is the thread to ask - is there a thread for obscure TV shows from the 80s and 90s? I have a few shows I would love to get some clips off but don't know the name of. I only have my aging recollection from watching 25+ years ago.
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Humphreys posted:I'm sure this is the thread to ask - is there a thread for obscure TV shows from the 80s and 90s? I have a few shows I would love to get some clips off but don't know the name of. I only have my aging recollection from watching 25+ years ago. The answer is Cop Rock. The show was called Cop Rock.
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Humphreys posted:I'm sure this is the thread to ask - is there a thread for obscure TV shows from the 80s and 90s? I have a few shows I would love to get some clips off but don't know the name of. I only have my aging recollection from watching 25+ years ago. I don't know if there is a TV-specific thread, but there is a thread where people ask for help tracking down obscure/rare things: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3895038
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Humphreys posted:I'm sure this is the thread to ask - is there a thread for obscure TV shows from the 80s and 90s? I have a few shows I would love to get some clips off but don't know the name of. I only have my aging recollection from watching 25+ years ago. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3859074 Lot of people post video clips and music videos.
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We also have a 90s thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3683200
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https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/1224294402417405952 https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/1220855651053834242 https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/1220297402164424706 https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/1220220803221991424 https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/1217409224768135168
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The x68k is a gorgeous computer, and I am buying one when I someday visit Japan. I have no idea how I'll get it home safely, but it will be mine.barbecue at the folks posted:I guess so! I wonder if there was a cabal of industrial designers who just decided that the future is now and we're gonna do things this way from now on, or if it was a more organic process. For example, Fujitsu had a strong a e s t h e t i c going on in the late 1980s and early 1990s, here's the FM Towns: These are incredible too, holy poo poo. 
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Crackdown on the 360 owned 
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