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colas posted: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. I think my 350 megabyte maxtor which replaced the 40 megabyte drive the lc came with cost $300. I upgraded the poo poo out of that lc. Had a daughter card with an fpu because the 68LC040 processor lacked it, which meant i couldn't run games that required it. Also upgraded the vram to 512k which allowed me to display thousands of colors on my 640x480 apple rgb display (which was a sony trinitron tube that weighed the same as a small elephant). Speaking of old games, and forgive me if I've brought this up before, but I would kill for a remake of the old Maxis game Robosport. It was a robot fighting game where you had a map that you and your opponent would plot your robots' moves on for each turn and then generate the turn. Each turn was 30 seconds of action or something, and moving from one square to the next would take 3 seconds or whatever (probably depended on the robot type), or you could set it to monitor an area and shoot at anything it saw, or just shoot a predetermined spot. It was a simple interface that seemed like it would be ideal for an asynchronous multiplayer phone game. Once both opponents have programmed their turns, send notifications to them and let them watch the action unfold.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I miss Circuit City. I don't miss the commission-based sales staff though. When the best buy opened, that was the primary difference.
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Jul 8, 2020 19:12
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When I bought a stereo the salesman at BB seemed only interested in selling the protection plan.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I upgraded the poo poo out of that lc. Oh, that's the one that we used to make Hypercard projects. I remember the b/w graphics in the clipart blowing my mind.
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colas posted:Oh, that's the one that we used to make Hypercard projects. I remember the b/w graphics in the clipart blowing my mind. The guy that sold me my computer showed me how, with the hypercard demo stack that came with it, you could type MAGIC on this one particular card and it would unlock all the editing features and let you make your own poo poo without buying the retail product.
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colas posted:Oh, that's the one that we used to make Hypercard projects. I remember the b/w graphics in the clipart blowing my mind. I loved hypercard because you could make little animations and stories with it. I made some kind of story about a killer whale.
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colas posted:When I bought a stereo the salesman at BB seemed only interested in selling the protection plan. I probably came off that way too when I worked as a cashier for a winter at Sports Authority, trying to sell protection plans no one wanted.
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Star Man posted:I probably came off that way too when I worked as a cashier for a winter at Sports Authority, trying to sell protection plans no one wanted. "Ah, I see Sir has chosen the Purple-Dome badminton set. Congratulations, that is our premium offering! Would Sir like to purchase the Silver Sheath protection plan for his shuttlecocks? Hey, wait. Where are you going? DON'T YOU WANT TO PROTECT YOUR SHUTTLECOCKS!? WHAT WILL YOUR WIFE SAY?!"
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colas posted: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. My family ordered a Gateway 2000 (lmao pbuh) pentium 75 with a 1gb hard drive and the gateway sales rep said we would literally never be able to fill it 
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madeintaipei posted:"Ah, I see Sir has chosen the Purple-Dome badminton set. Congratulations, that is our premium offering! Would Sir like to purchase the Silver Sheath protection plan for his shuttlecocks? Hey, wait. Where are you going? DON'T YOU WANT TO PROTECT YOUR SHUTTLECOCKS!? WHAT WILL YOUR WIFE SAY?!" They really did have a protection plan for almost everything there. I just performed the stupid loving dance to keep management off my rear end about it. The monkey at Best Buy or Walmart asking you if you want the protection plan or extended warranty probably feels the same way.
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Star Man posted:They really did have a protection plan for almost everything there. I just performed the stupid loving dance to keep management off my rear end about it. The monkey at Best Buy or Walmart asking you if you want the protection plan or extended warranty probably feels the same way. I worked at Best Buy in college and I swear that the only job task for the Sales Manager was to wander around the store all day vaguely threatening employees who didn't sell the extended warranties. They even had the LP guys taking notes on products that left without those plans and submitting cashier IDs of people who failed to sell them.
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I was driving today and realized Ontario is probably a tech relic. Was probably cool in like 2002: subscription service with a concierge you could dial into and be like "Hey what's a good steak place / where can I get gas" and an operator would talk to you via the little rearview mirror mic. It would also provide tracking if the vehicle was lost, had an SOS button in case of accidents or emergencies, and could save a bank of numbers to call people. Now, uh, do it on your phone with BluTooth? VvV Aggressive autocorrect is *not* a tech relic. FilthyImp has a new favorite as of 03:49 on Jul 9, 2020 |
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Jul 9, 2020 03:43
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I read Ontario and refuse to believe it was a mistake. Ontario has SOS buttons, those Canadians thought of everything.
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I must acquire one of these! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4o9tp-B5ys
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I can already feel how sticky those controllers are
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Man, those demo stations in stores was the coolest poo poo back in the day. Last I saw them was when the 3DS was still new and that's actually my only experience seeing how the 3D effect worked in-person. Back in the PS2 days they were basically everywhere and always had some crappy game nobody wanted on rather than something actually good you'd actually want to try out. Also the controllers were dirty and beat to poo poo every time. e: After looking over this post I've come to the realization they actually sucked even when I was a kid and in retrospect suck more actually
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Ruflux posted:Man, those demo stations in stores was the coolest poo poo back in the day. Last I saw them was when the 3DS was still new and that's actually my only experience seeing how the 3D effect worked in-person. Back in the PS2 days they were basically everywhere and always had some crappy game nobody wanted on rather than something actually good you'd actually want to try out. Also the controllers were dirty and beat to poo poo every time. I first played Sonic on one of these in a UK store:  The controller was actually fixed to the cabinet so you couldn't pick it up and had to play it like a keyboard. Also as like a 7-8 year old I couldn't see the screen properly as it was too high.
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I remember thinking the Genesis controller was really fat, especially compared to NES and SMS controllers.  I CRUSHED the competition (children) on the SNES demo machine when SF2 came out.
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Jul 10, 2020 14:49
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 played a little of this when I worked at blockbuster, Snap was not very fun imo.
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My first time ever seeing (outside of pics in gaming mags), touching or playing a Sega Genesis was at a demo kiosk in Sams club. It has Sonic 1 in it and I knew I had to have one. Same story for SNES and SMW actually at the local Walmart.
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My local McDonalds still had one of these puppies until they renovated four years ago
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RandomFerret posted:My local McDonalds still had one of these puppies until they renovated four years ago Mine had one with a ps2 and some garbage ps-eye game in it up until at least coronavirus time. I think they went ps eye because it didn’t need controllers
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I had a voucher to get a free Happy Meal the other week, and I got a Toy Story 4 toy. I'm not surprised in the slightest about these game stations still being there. I just hope the burger wasn't from the same period.
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RandomFerret posted:My local McDonalds still had one of these puppies until they renovated four years ago stomach's turning thinking of those greasy as hell controllers
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Must be in someone's private collection, the joysticks haven't been gnawed off by a toddler and swallowed.
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Techmoan episode today is great. What an awesome piece of kit, not sure why he didn’t say how much he paid or where he got it unless I missed that part. https://youtu.be/WVDCxTtn4OQ Celebrating his ~1m subscriber too.
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The ones I found on eBay went for $900 or more, I wouldn’t admit to spending that on dead tech either 
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EL BROMANCE posted:Techmoan episode today is great. What an awesome piece of kit, not sure why he didn’t say how much he paid or where he got it unless I missed that part. I haven’t watched the video, but my bet is 1) a lot and 2) Japan.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Techmoan episode today is great. What an awesome piece of kit, not sure why he didn’t say how much he paid or where he got it unless I missed that part. It might have been borrowed, he seemed reluctant to take it apart very far.
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Kazy posted:It might have been borrowed, he seemed reluctant to take it apart very far. I'm guessing he didn't want to take it apart because it was working, and taking it apart would risk breaking it.
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From what little he showed of the insides I'd rather service a 60s mainframe tape drive - so I can absolutely not blame him for leaving well enough alone.
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Horace posted:I haven’t watched the video, but my bet is 1) a lot and 2) Japan. Yeah he loves those Japanese auctions for sure. I like that he obviously makes enough money from his videos to fund picking up stuff like this, because there’s no chance that was a charity shop find.
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He doesn't say a price, but he does mention it being in his collection. I'm going to assume it's just because it's packed so tightly in there that he doesn't think he'd be able to get it back together and it already works as intended. No sense fixing something that isn't broken.
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Especially since it would be just a VHS mechanism and a bunch of mystery boards on the inside -- not much interesting to gawk at, in my opinion.
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Kazy posted:It might have been borrowed, he seemed reluctant to take it apart very far. He definitely bought it. He's reluctant to take apart because he probably saw the service manual and it's an incredibly involved and risky process. Afaik Techmoan doesn't really borrow anything unless it's super rare, and even then he'll very clearly say who he's borrowing it from.
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More like Blecchgroan.
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drat, that was hilarious. Did you used to work for mad magazine?
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Time for another fershlugginer Yecchzone update! Edit: Potrzebie Edit again: Also I got the sense he has had it for ages and might not even really remember what he paid for it. Though I imagine he knows where he got it
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