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Can confirm that my Unicomp Model M from only a couple of years after that was a clacky beast that I only retired because I decided keeping people awake by typing was no longer my jam
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I remember a few years ago (yeah like 10 actually, I'm old and time just flies like a banana) you could get IBM Model M keyboard for 2€ a pop at the recycling centre because no-one cared. The only reason I own one is because I bought a used IBM PS/2 in the early 00s. It's frankly a miracle I didn't dump it or sell it for a pittance in the years before I realised they were special. It started to go a bit soft recently so I did the bolt mod, almost all the plastic rivets had broken off.
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Horace posted:The only reason I own one is because I bought a used IBM PS/2 in the early 00s. It's frankly a miracle I didn't dump it or sell it for a pittance in the years before I realised they were special. It started to go a bit soft recently so I did the bolt mod, almost all the plastic rivets had broken off. Still have my original built in 87 but it needs two adapters and messes with the sound 
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Mine's PS2 so it only needs one adapter but I went through a few before I found one which didn't cause all manner of havoc when I plugged it in, or register random keypresses. You need the one which looks like a little purple cube. I've heard it said the problem stems from the Model M having a higher power draw than these adaptors expect, but I don't know how true that is.
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Horace posted:Mine's PS2 so it only needs one adapter but I went through a few before I found one which didn't cause all manner of havoc when I plugged it in, or register random keypresses. You need the one which looks like a little purple cube. I've heard it said the problem stems from the Model M having a higher power draw than these adaptors expect, but I don't know how true that is. I stopped troubleshooting when I stopped doing any writing for money. I got a clicky Cherry whatever for games and whatever and if I ever start doing something typing-intensive again I'll just use my w95 or w98 box, because that's where Word is.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It's just so god drat pretty. Like a computer a villain would use to kill James Bond slightly. I don't think that even a villain who wants to blow up the entire world deserves the pain of using a chiclet keyboard.
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Buttcoin purse posted:I don't think that even a villain who wants to blow up the entire world deserves the pain of using a chiclet keyboard. Yeah I was error. That's Fellow not Manager.
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Horace posted:I've heard it said the problem stems from the Model M having a higher power draw than these adaptors expect, but I don't know how true that is. This tracks because every time I found an adapter that seemed to work well with my '91 it'd blow itself up in about three months.
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You Am I posted:It ain't a cheap thing to do, but cheaper than the 499 Euro add-on board that Dan Wood reviewed the other day for the A1200. Looks like it came up pretty well. The lamp switch is an interesting modification.
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I didn't come here to be personally attacked !!
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This is the worst guru meditation.
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Dead to rights, except I have a partner who finds all the random poo poo I acquire quirky. Speaking of.... todays haul:        
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Holy poo poo that Roddenberry sig has got to be worth a few bucks.
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Bargearse posted:I didn't come here to be personally attacked !! Oh I'm sorry, this is abuse.
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Trabant posted:This is the worst guru meditation.
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WITCHCRAFT posted:The only time I have ever bought a GAMING MOUSE it was some Razer snake-named thing circa 2005 that had a really high DPI setting. It was very flat and symmetrical, and felt awful for gaming. I loved using it for photoshop and other image editing software, felt like a godsend at the time. It died in ~3 years. Razer uses shitass components. I had one of their mice, and every single button crapped out. I got pretty adept at taking it apart and replacing the microswitches from old scavenged mice.
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Duckula posted:Holy poo poo that Roddenberry sig has got to be worth a few bucks. I'm enjoying the 45 single for Star Trekkin' that was in the pile.
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Humphreys posted:I'm enjoying the 45 single for Star Trekkin' that was in the pile. Captain's log, stardate 9522.6: I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I could never forgive them for the death of my boy. Anyway, back to star trekkin'.
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I enjoyed the music video tremendously when it was a hit in the eighties but then I didn't see it or hear the track at all for more than a decade, until someone uploaded it to Youtube.
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Humphreys posted:I'm enjoying the 45 single for Star Trekkin' that was in the pile. By The Firm? Man the memories, I had the album, it was not great
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peter gabriel posted:By The Firm? Like most (non-Weird-Al) comedy songs, it was best obtained on a Dr. Demento compilation album.
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Bargearse posted:Looks like it came up pretty well. The lamp switch is an interesting modification. That was done by the previous owner. There's still a toothpick jammed in the original power switch to keep it stuck on the "on" position
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peter gabriel posted:By The Firm? Yup! I never thought of it as more than a Dr Demento thing everyone downloaded on Napster/Soulseek/Audiogalaxy. Then all of a sudden I own it without knowing !
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You Am I posted:That was done by the previous owner. There's still a toothpick jammed in the original power switch to keep it stuck on the "on" position That's a pretty frustrating and common failure on 1084. The power switch is still available and a pretty common part, but I don't have the part number handy. In principle it's an easy fix (iirc no solder involved, just blade connectors) but getting to it is a bit fraught. The PCB substrate they used for those monitors apparently has a tendency to become brittle and can break if you flex the board much while opening the case. I kept a toothpick jammed in my 1084's power button, too, lol
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Humphreys posted:Yup! I never thought of it as more than a Dr Demento thing everyone downloaded on Napster/Soulseek/Audiogalaxy. Then all of a sudden I own it without knowing ! That song ruled the playground for what felt like months
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mobby_6kl posted:Diamondback? I think all their mice were/are snake-named but that's the one I got around then and I'm still using it lol That's the one! Mine was exactly this, but blue lights:  It felt so great for image editing because it was symmetrical. I remember having many cheap/free mice that were... engorged on the right side? Just checked my current dumpster rescue HP office mouse and it's symmetrical, but I swear there used to be a bunch of them that were asymmetrical. Not insanely so, just the right side was a little bigger. For reasons. Ergonomic reasons(?)
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WITCHCRAFT posted:That's the one! Mine was exactly this, but blue lights: I'm currently using a Corsair mouse and it's fine, but not as well-made as I'd like. I only got it because I needed to replace my Logitech mouse that had stealthily had the right button flake out and not stay held down, which made games which relied on that for aiming down the sites a massive pain in the rear end. Mice are one thing where I really, really, wish I could try them out in store before committing. I've got a Kensington mouse I actually kind of like (even though it's cheap) but it's too big for my hands, and I've got pretty decent-sized hands.
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peter gabriel posted:That song ruled the playground for what felt like months It still rules the office here... Where I use StarTRACK with one of our clients, whose address is actually on Enterprise Drive... :/ We sing stupid songs like "Startrackin parcels across the earth, boldly forwarding parcels, we don't want returns" Anyway, another day another box load of bits and bobs. Got the first edition of the GAMARS VCD Player module, and one of my   I am especially proud of the sealed boxset of Harry Potter. I dare not open it.
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Hell yeah, The Three Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Migos!
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I bought a bootleg VCD copy of Theodore Rex once while on vacation in Thailand, it is one of my prize possessions. Maybe I should find my own weird PSX vcd player and see if it still works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY7gsUL9Xkk
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Mice are one thing where I really, really, wish I could try them out in store before committing. I've got a Kensington mouse I actually kind of like (even though it's cheap) but it's too big for my hands, and I've got pretty decent-sized hands. I miss the days when stores used to have mice and (lol) joysticks on physical display so you could get a good sense of how they’d feel in the hand.
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Blue Moonlight posted:I miss the days when stores used to have mice and (lol) joysticks on physical display so you could get a good sense of how they’d feel in the hand.  This is another relic, the space later became a Compusa. Compusa is gone now, we had either a TigerDirect or Microcenter nearby but that's also gone now. The only option is Staples/Officemax if you wanna touch mice.
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Blue Moonlight posted:I miss the days when stores used to have mice and (lol) joysticks on physical display so you could get a good sense of how they’d feel in the hand. OMG the Microsoft Sidewinder demo with the boxing and helicopter demos of the force feedback are a treasured memory.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I miss Circuit City. I kinda prefer the showroom being separate from the warehouse. Circuit City and others did it that way, instead of the massive Bestbuy style.
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Humphreys posted:OMG the Microsoft Sidewinder demo with the boxing and helicopter demos of the force feedback are a treasured memory. I used to go to Clive Peeters after school just to dick around with the gaming stuff they had out for you to try. Clive Peeters, now there's a tech relic in itself.
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Tigerdirect was great. I remember when I ordered two 4MB SIMMs for my Mac LC for $99 each from them, which was a great price at the time. I mean, RAM for just $25 a megabyte. Incredible.
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I got a 2.1 GB Maxtor from Computer City, it was around $200. My first 4mb EDO ram chip was like $120 from Best Buy and I didn't really need it.
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