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Beautiful machine! That reminds me that I tried having my modern Creative desktop speakers next my CRT monitor and they caused horrible distortion to the image. Speakers needed to be especially designed to work like that so that the magnets would not mess with the picture.
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A few months ago someone posted a 3d printer project wedge style case for MiSTer and raspberry pi. I bought it and printed it out and it was fine and all, but the keyboard they specified wasn't available in my region, and I didn't like the overall layout of the thing so eventually I just went ahead and designed my own. On the plus side it's free instead of $3 and i included the solidworks source files for anyone that wants to expand it. (mine is based on a Raspberry pi 3). Non affiliate amazon links are on the thingiverse page. Enjoy https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5028598 
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GutBomb posted:A few months ago someone posted a 3d printer project wedge style case for MiSTer and raspberry pi. I bought it and printed it out and it was fine and all, but the keyboard they specified wasn't available in my region, and I didn't like the overall layout of the thing so eventually I just went ahead and designed my own. On the plus side it's free instead of $3 and i included the solidworks source files for anyone that wants to expand it. (mine is based on a Raspberry pi 3). Non affiliate amazon links are on the thingiverse page. Thats superneat of you to do! Any Aussies that need it printed, let me know.
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Man, this takes me back. Our family had an Amiga 2000 with a 20meg hard drive and extra ram. When I last used it, I had a 14-inch Luxor tv as a monitor.
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Heh, the last pre-PC computer we had was made entirely by Luxor.
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 “What is best in life? To delete your enemies. See the RAM driven before you. And to hear the defragmentations of their CPU’s.” Gonz has a new favorite as of 11:54 on Oct 29, 2021 |
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Finally, that dope Atari machine they used in T2 to hack the ATM. This thing really inspired me as a kid, but mostly I just got an Atari Lynx and didn't hack any ATMs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQwJk8E_xKE
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Data Graham posted:Barbarian Operator From Hyboria
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LifeSunDeath posted:Finally, that dope Atari machine they used in T2 to hack the ATM. This thing really inspired me as a kid, but mostly I just got an Atari Lynx and didn't hack any ATMs. I had one of those, threw it out ages ago. It was neat, but also so severely limited in what you could do with it.
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KozmoNaut posted:It was neat, but also so severely limited in what you could do with it. techrelics.txt To contribute, I recently got and assembled a PiDP-11 (https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11-overview) and it's very cool. Basically, it's a scaled-down PDP-11/70 front panel with a socket on the back for a Raspberry Pi. The Pi runs simh, which has an extension to control the front panel via GPIO. The project creator maintains a distribution of a bunch of pre-configured operating systems; I'm running 2.11BSD because it's familiar to me. The back panel has cutouts so you can wire up serial ports, power, ethernet, etc. It's pricey (a bit over $300 shipped) but very cool, and a fun project (if you like soldering).
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Pham Nuwen posted:techrelics.txt  this looks incredible
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I just read this article and thought of you guys. Lots of data on old machines that really should have been wiped. Anyone got examples of interesting stuff? I've found data a few times but it's always very boring. quote:“I turned it on and the first thing I saw on the desktop was a file called ‘infectious diarrhoea’,” he says. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/vintage-computers-data The guy in the article has a pretty good looking YouTube channel that I think you'll dig. Here's part 1 of an olde Mac related thing he did, as an example. (I've not watched many so I hope he isn't some MRA fascist or some poo poo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9pAl5bJcUI
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I once curb picked an old IBM PC that was used by an accountant to keep track of billing for his clients. Guess what the unique value was that he used as a client number? That’s right, SSN Hundreds of them.  I also know this accountant was a he because the software was registered to him in name
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I once curb picked an old IBM PC that was used by an accountant to keep track of billing for his clients. When I was in college, in 99/00 the big required class to finish your programming degree was "Systems Project". You had to basically create and budget the system used, then write the software. The instructor liked my cult video store idea and inventory management system enough that she kept a copy to put among the examples she used every year. Guess what unique value *I* used as a client number, before using my own to create a customer file? Jokes on you subsequent students, I destroyed my credit before you ever had the chance.
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Mercifully this was in a time before identity theft was really a big problem and I wound up formatting and reusing the drive for my own purposes, but even back then, seeing hundreds of socials, names, addresses, birthdays, etc, set off my spidey senses
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I found a PC on the curb a few weeks ago and it had enough of the old owner's PII including scans of licenses and passports, right on his desktop, that a bad actor could have opened a crypto exchange account in the guy's name, or worse. I wiped it after I pulled with Windows 7 and Office 2003 key from it. The PC itself was a tech relic. An HP of some model that no longer had identification on the case, with a Pentium D 3.40 GHz, 2 GB of DDR2 667 MHz, Q965 chipset, dating the PC at around 2006 or so. I don't know if the PC as-built had a better video card or used the Intel GMA 3000 on-board graphics, but a newer (2010 or so) Radeon model that I forgot to take note of was installed. The PC would have been pretty decent in like 2006 or so if only it had a contemporary Core 2 Duo instead of the exceptionally mediocre Pentium D and a good video card instead of the onboard graphics. I pulled out the video card as a spare for my Linux CNC machine in case its graphics card fails, since that's not an application that really needs a good video card. The PC itself was also useful to me, even with its bad CPU and integrated graphics, as a Linux machine in my workshop. I have it and my Linux CNC machine sharing a workstation with a cheapo KVM switch, and am going to use it for reading PDFs, looking stuff up online, and its integrated serial and parallel port are also useful to me for hardware development. Not very exciting but saves me from having to clear space for a laptop.
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someone i lived with brought a drive their workplace was throwing out one time and i managed to find just a bigass database of names, ssns, all kinds of bullshit from employees including primary leadership staff!  good thing someone nefarious didn't find that, jeez.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Mercifully this was in a time before identity theft was really a big problem and I wound up formatting and reusing the drive for my own purposes, but even back then, seeing hundreds of socials, names, addresses, birthdays, etc, set off my spidey senses
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Here one A TTY Teletext typewriter Sort of like a SMS message machine for the Deaf Place the phone on the two pads and you can have a conversation via text between two machines
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I saw a pay phone with TTY stuff and a keyboard one time.
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Light Gun Man posted:someone i lived with brought a drive their workplace was throwing out one time and i managed to find just a bigass database of names, ssns, all kinds of bullshit from employees including primary leadership staff! I got 4 towers from a mining industry training company last week for $20. In 3 of them were still HDDs. They were only 500GB so drove back over and returned them and gave them a lesson in data security. If they were bigger I would have DBAN and kept.
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Adolf Glitter posted:The guy in the article has a pretty good looking YouTube channel that I think you'll dig. Here's part 1 of an olde Mac related thing he did, as an example. (I've not watched many so I hope he isn't some MRA fascist or some poo poo) I've been watching Action Retro for months. He's fine as far as I know, shows absolutely no signs of being a chud or anything like that.
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Arivia posted:I've been watching Action Retro for months. He's fine as far as I know, shows absolutely no signs of being a chud or anything like that. Same, he's fine from what I gather. Just a knowledgeable nerd having a good time.
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Light Gun Man posted:someone i lived with brought a drive their workplace was throwing out one time and i managed to find just a bigass database of names, ssns, all kinds of bullshit from employees including primary leadership staff! Sort of the opposite story of all these: 2 months ago I moved our shop/data center across six states, and tearing down the old one involved throwing out a whole lot of obsolete rack-mount gear and hard drives that we'd been lugging around for years thinking they'd one day be useful again. But now they're clearly past their usefulness, and my business partner doesn't even trust / we didn't want to spend money on a hard drive shredding service, so I ended up having to destroy ~150 hard drives with a sledgehammer and punch. Some of which were ridiculous beasts that cost thousands new like those 15K cheetahs and such. Those shits were well built. My right arm still feels awful two months later. That sucked.
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Should have used a power drill. One hole straight through, zero change of data recovery
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Yep, unfortunately all our tools (aside from the sledge) had already traveled a thousand miles away.
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Data Graham posted:Yep, unfortunately all our tools (aside from the sledge) had already traveled a thousand miles away. What you do is give them to me. I have a certain amount of luck with second hand drives that immediately gently caress themselves when I plug them in. Things I buy new never die though
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I drill press any disk I am junking.
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Would that have any chance of working in a busy area? I'm just barely old enough to have seen acoustic couplers, but from what I remember of them you could lose connection from something as minor as a neighbor slamming their car door a little too hard.
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Dip Viscous posted:Would that have any chance of working in a busy area? I'm just barely old enough to have seen acoustic couplers, but from what I remember of them you could lose connection from something as minor as a neighbor slamming their car door a little too hard. https://youtu.be/OmBLsKV7Sx0
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Fired up my Commodore 486 for the first time since probably the start of the year (after spending half the afternoon searching for the PS/2 to AT keyboard adapter) The BIOS battery still works! Quickly wrote down the HDD settings as the BIOS does not do a HDD auto detect Still getting annoyed by the SB 16 that I have in it. It is a PnP model, and it seems half the time the PnP drivers will recognise it, the other half not. Perhaps I should look for a non-PnP one, but drat old expansion cards are getting pricy
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You Am I posted:Fired up my Commodore 486 for the first time since probably the start of the year (after spending half the afternoon searching for the PS/2 to AT keyboard adapter) I have a first gen PnP Pentium 75MHz motherboard. It sucks for both PnP and non-PnP stuff. I was able to find a normal SB16 years ago and it's great. But every time I get something new it's a hassle because you need to set the IRQ stuff in cards via jumpers but also figure out how to get the PnP BIOS to accept the right IRQ for a card slot. It's not much of a problem anymore because it has everything I want now so I don't change things. Oh! And the BIOS also has the Y2K bug! If you try to set a year after 2000 it just resets to 1995 <3
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Lol how on earth do you write bios software that’s only good for a 5 year period?
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Manufacturer: "who gives a poo poo, they already bought it"
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Lol how on earth do you write bios software that’s only good for a 5 year period? Very cheaply.
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