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I had one of those 90s computer desks until 2002, then I upgraded to one of these... It loving rules and the one I have can hold a 40" and a 43" monitor side by side
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Oh rad, the ShinBarker 9000™
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I had one of those 90s computer desks until 2002, then I upgraded to one of these... Shame you cant fit the giant air conditioner any more
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Jul 18, 2022 15:45
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Ah yes, the ol "industrial Soviet paper-pusher" aesthetic
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Jul 18, 2022 15:47
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Papers Please ARG desk
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Is there an easily printable guide that can help identify different cards by their connectors (ISA,PCI, PCI Express, AGP, etc as well as their various iterations?)? I just wound up with literal boxes of various cards and I need to sort them. Not sure about easily printable but there's some general reference stuff like this online: https://www.computerlanguage.com/results.php?definition=accessory+card  Probably would be good to do multiple passes like putting the same kinds together and then if you can't ID one right away leave it out for a second pass. Of the main variants you might see but weren't that common, PCI-X is a variant of PCI that was mostly seen in servers and can often be longer, kind of like vesa local bus for ISA which looks like an ISA card that's longer with an extra card edge connector at the end. https://connecttech.com/resource-center/kdb290-pci-x-bus-technology/  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_Local_Bus 
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The point of sliding trays is that you're supposed to type on a surface level with your elbows, which computer desks are generally not. Therefore the sliding tray puts the keyboard a whole shiny inch lower than the monitor, whee! I had special ergonomic trays that you could raise-lower-tilt because I had actual RSA. Nowadays we all type on laptops, so it's back to having the keyboards level with the monitor, progress is wonderful.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The point of sliding trays is that you're supposed to type on a surface level with your elbows, which computer desks are generally not. Therefore the sliding tray puts the keyboard a whole shiny inch lower than the monitor, whee! I had special ergonomic trays that you could raise-lower-tilt because I had actual RSA. I still use keyboard trays on my desks, and generally don't type on laptops unless I really have to (like I'm travelling really light or using someone else's laptop). I use wireless keyboards now, with my preferred model being switchable between 3 devices, so I don't have to hassle with cords and connecting to different machines with more than a button-press. The wireless mouse I use also connects to three different devices and switches between them with a button, which comes in really handy when I'm running my work laptop and personal desktop through the same monitor and jumping back and forth between them. Humbug Scoolbus posted:I had one of those 90s computer desks until 2002, then I upgraded to one of these... I had a desk along those lines at an old job and it was pretty much my favorite desk ever. I had both PC and Mac towers with their own monitors on top, and I used the right-side typing tray for my mouse. It was big enough I could scooch up close enough that the keyboard was not too far away, although I was younger and maybe that position would be worse for me now than it used to be.
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I actually had a computer desk with a modestly usable keyboard tray as recently as ... O.K. like 7 years ago. It was a corner desk with a metal tray under the place where the monitor went, and it actually slid out diagonally downward to be vaguely ergonomic and actually in roughly the right place to use it, as long as your chair could match the appropriate height. But I mean there is also a reason that desk did not survive my next moveCaptainSarcastic posted:I had a desk along those lines at an old job and it was pretty much my favorite desk ever. I had both PC and Mac towers with their own monitors on top, and I used the right-side typing tray for my mouse. It was big enough I could scooch up close enough that the keyboard was not too far away, although I was younger and maybe that position would be worse for me now than it used to be. History Comes Inside! posted:My friends’ mum scanned her boobs once and I know this because we were on the computer and opened the folder that said don’t open, because we were 11.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Is there an easily printable guide that can help identify different cards by their connectors (ISA,PCI, PCI Express, AGP, etc as well as their various iterations?)? I just wound up with literal boxes of various cards and I need to sort them. https://www.deviantart.com/sonic840/art/Computer-Hardware-Chart-2-0-587798335
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I actually have a photo of my desk from August of '99. Red Alert and Starcrafting that fucker UP. Bonus shot of the top shelf of my closet taken around 2002 for some reason, with tech relics in there 
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I actually have a photo of my desk from August of '99. Red Alert and Starcrafting that fucker UP. Is that a floor plan of your school on the board? Did you ever make a doom wad of your school?
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mlnhd posted:Is that a floor plan of your school on the board? Did you ever make a doom wad of your school? 1) worse: a Super K-Mart that opened locally in the mid-90s. It was the most expensive one ever built, and the second largest on earth 2) I actually did back in 1995. I gave up after doing one building because I realized that brutalist boxes criscrossed by two hallways made for a really really dull level.
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Jul 19, 2022 02:45
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I actually have a photo of my desk from August of '99. Red Alert and Starcrafting that fucker UP. HO LE poo poo Nice setup bro. Sick lava lamp.
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Jul 19, 2022 03:37
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I mean to be rude but that is the most boring-coloured lava lamp I've ever seen.
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I loving love ancient giant desks and would buy one in a second if I knew enough people to be able to move one into my home office.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I loving love ancient giant desks and would buy one in a second if I knew enough people to be able to move one into my home office. The one I had made me feel safe that in an earthquake I could just hide underneath it and the rest of the building could collapse but I would be safe. The thing was a tank.
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Jul 19, 2022 08:08
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I’d probably take the car or the money, even back then. Those VR units were so drat janky and cumbersome.
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Gonz posted:I’d probably take the car or the money, even back then. Those VR units were so drat janky and cumbersome. No purchase or phone call nessessary To Enter Call :
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I mean to be rude but that is the most boring-coloured lava lamp I've ever seen.
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FilthyImp posted:You should see it with the blacklight on, bro EWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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Gonz posted:I’d probably take the car or the money, even back then. Those VR units were so drat janky and cumbersome. Oh I'm taking the mazda sports car. Hope it's an RX7 and not just a miata, but I'd take the miata.
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I would take the money, wait five more years, and buy Apple when it dipped in June of 97 after steve jobs sold all his stock. Then I would let that build until 2012 and sell it at 10 million to buy into the facebook ipo, for an eventual profit of 800 million dollars
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I would go in the VR Torment Nexus, get dizzy, and SHIDD and FARDD.
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Found this in a box I was clearing out: and a pair of these beauties:  Creative Labs CT6670 3Dfx Voodoo 2 Graphics cards with a whopping 12MB
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SLI that poo poo
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I mean to be rude but that is the most boring-coloured lava lamp I've ever seen. the blue is nowhere near as dark as it looks in the photo, and I still have it. It occurs to me my desktop of the era is also a relic, but I also just want an excuse to post the NESticle icon. It's like an almanac of internet-poisoned teenager poo poo. Hey look, I had an ICQ message waiting! 
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The B in B-Wing stands for "best" because it's the best ship in the star wars universe
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It's pronounced "bwing".
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Armacham posted:The B in B-Wing stands for "best" because it's the best ship in the star wars universe 
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Armacham posted:The B in B-Wing stands for "best" because it's the best ship in the star wars universe You misspelled "TIE Interceptor" catastrophically
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:You misspelled "TIE Defender" catastrophically ftfy
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Jul 26, 2022 02:48
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The TIE Defender defender has logged in.
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What if tie fighter but three wings
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Armacham posted:What if tie fighter but three wings that's a tri fighter
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 It's just a tie advanced put together wrong. Somebody loving around at the shipyard and everybody has a good laugh about it until the grand admiral comes by for a surprise visit and the foreman has to think fast and next thing you know you're meeting with the emperor himself who's congratulating you on your brilliant new prototype design and talking about how it's going to be a key part of the next generation of galactic control along with his new droid trooper army and you're sweating bullets hoping you can hock the medal he just pinned to your chest for enough creds to get to the outer rim before anybody figures out that the solar panels are on inside out
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Found a picture of corner desk I built myself. Must have been around 2000. Dirty dishes included cause why would you move those before taking a picture!
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