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Powered Descent posted:The space helmet aesthetic was undeniably cool looking, but I think its actual function was to obscure how small and crappy the black-and-white screen actually was. Well it's working, cause I would trade my 4k for it in a heartbeat
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Powered Descent posted:We had one of these when I was a kid, and it was a throwback even then. My dad picked it up at a garage sale and put it in his basement workshop so he could watch the game while he was working on something. Same, except it was this one, and we watched This Old House on PBS with it: ...at least until the day I got curious with a magnet and permanently magnetized the aperture grille. Didn't have a degaussing wand to fix that one.
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Bargearse posted:Finally got a more period-accurate monitor and speakers for the Amiga 1200. I do have a Commodore 1084S, but I'm saving that for... something else Do not gently caress the 1084S.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Do not gently caress the 1084S. you can't tell me what to do you're not my real dad Steve I've got a breadbin C64 in really good condition, having been kept for years in a hoarder's house under a literal pile of garbage that kept it remarkably well preserved. Worked last time I used it but I'm not going to risk powering it on with the original power supply
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I'm cracking up at the idea of a C64 preserved in a hoarder house's bathtub lasagna like a bog mummy
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Humphreys posted:Wooden pipes! If your city has a good public GIS system have a poke around it and see what you can find. My city has more redwood segments than I'd have expected still extant, though I think most of them are no longer in service, just a concern if you're digging.
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Data Graham posted:I'm cracking up at the idea of a C64 preserved in a hoarder house's bathtub lasagna like a bog mummy "hoarder house archeologist" has a nice ring to it as a username
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Bargearse posted:Finally got a more period-accurate monitor and speakers for the Amiga 1200. I do have a Commodore 1084S, but I'm saving that for... something else The Star Trek adventure game! As a kid I could never figure out how to get past the blast door of like the fifth or sixth mission or whatever. Something about a pass code and the civilization used base 9 or something?
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This was interesting! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KBb2lx-_8o
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neat i was curious how noahs ark did that water transparency effect so well
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Robobot posted:The Star Trek adventure game! As a kid I could never figure out how to get past the blast door of like the fifth or sixth mission or whatever. Something about a pass code and the civilization used base 9 or something? I don’t think I ever got that far as a kid, I was always stuck trying to get full points on the Harry Mudd mission. I never could figure out how to stop him accidentally smashing the alien computer.
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Bargearse posted:I don’t think I ever got that far as a kid, I was always stuck trying to get full points on the Harry Mudd mission. I never could figure out how to stop him accidentally smashing the alien computer. My cousin and I got stuck on Klingon Aztec Planet and never got past it.
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I'm a member of a retro-computing flea market group on Facebook and it amazes me how many members will just straight-up list things like old tools, separators, potatoes, lovely bicycles, etc on there. Is this a common occurrence? e: I mean common other than in that particular group.
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That's most groups, even outside of Facebook or computing stuff. Every group also has that one guy that shows up to trades and is genuinely confused at a person preferring $200 in cash to $200 worth of silver bars.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I'm a member of a retro-computing flea market group on Facebook and it amazes me how many members will just straight-up list things like old tools, separators, potatoes, lovely bicycles, etc on there. Is this a common occurrence? e: I mean common other than in that particular group. Like everything in the internet, private, well moderated groups are good. Pubbie groups are bad. I rarely log in to FB these days but I'm in two closed retro computer sales groups and they are well moderated and on topic. I've also bought and sold in both.
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lobsterminator posted:Like everything in the internet, private, well moderated groups are good. Pubbie groups are bad. It is private. The listings get removed eventually but it's not like there's 24/7 moderation. I'm just baffled by the attempt. Anyway I'm glad I'm destitute because otherwise I'd have all the computers. And a separator, and potato. Facebook sales are a drug.
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I admin a Swedish entomology fb group, and in the summer people just post birds, slugs, earthworms and houseplants asking for an id. 'I know this isn't an insect but,' People are lazy and bad at posting. I know my monitor is off, thank you.
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axolotl farmer posted:I admin a Swedish entomology fb group, and in the summer people just post birds, slugs, earthworms and houseplants asking for an id. 'I know this isn't an insect but,' I post my Laserdisc finds in a VHS group on FB just because I am an rear end in a top hat and I know the admins hate it (also my friends)
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lobsterminator posted:Like everything in the internet, private, well moderated groups are good. Pubbie groups are bad. I follow a Calvin and hobbes shitposting group and after the 472nd white noise hot take post in a one week span using this template:  The admins finally said "hey if you want to post something using that template, use this dedicated thread for it because you're drowning out interesting content" and some posters unironically started comparing it to 1984 So it's good to see that even if privately moderated forums are going the way of the dodo, your average idiot's response to wrist slap moderation hasn't changed since 1999
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pretty soft girl posted:I follow a Calvin and hobbes shitposting group and after the 472nd white noise hot take post in a one week span using this template: I mod on /r/anime and regularly get called a nazi because I removed someone's post about their waifu or whatever. The lesson is people are terrible and humanity was a mistake.
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Here's a proper tech relic, from a more civilized age. Thread: https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/1444134722938892293
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barbecue at the folks posted:Here's a proper tech relic, from a more civilized age. Thread: Similar old capture stuff. Prince of Persia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKgLfqOVHco 9 Fingers Amiga demo by Spaceballs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4M7e79XTYk Making of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgriMuXZ3QY The low poly vector video compression they used makes it still look cool today. A unique style instead of just being bad fuzzy video.
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I still use this one on my Windows 98 SE retro PC:
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Found this at my aunt's house: Found a few reels with it too. Based on the labels, she mainly used it to record radio broadcasts of The Monkees concerts. It needs a deep clean (she was a heavy smoker) but it should work fine after.
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Here's a thing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UXmDuiqMW0 I love how CRD is working his way through retrotech youtuber ranks to get the recognition his videos deserve 
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barbecue at the folks posted:Here's a thing!  He's so bright and personable, I'm glad that we don't have to sit through 25 G4-channel personalities to find the gold these days. E: granted you gotta find the diamonds in the shitpool of idiots on youtube, but well that's a thing the thread does for me lol spookykid has a new favorite as of 09:03 on Oct 9, 2021 |
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CRD is really good at making you relate to the sometimes really weird features and quirks of devices, plus his own discovery of them and musings on why the hell those design choices were made. Tech Tangents is another really good retrotech tuber, he dives deeper into the technical underpinnings, but also has that chill personable dude vibe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5exFKr-JJtg
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[LOUD NU METAL PLAYS]
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A totem to ward off Linux.
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You Am I posted:I still use this one on my Windows 98 SE retro PC: HA! I still use this when users dont lock their workstations.
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