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Flinger posted:This has to be a radiation hazard If you say so *flicks the "hazardous radiation" switch to "on"*
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Aug 29, 2022 09:38
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You Am I posted:Just rub a magnet against them, problem solved I could show up with a degaussing coil or something, and just dispose of them into the boot of my car.
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Aug 29, 2022 09:41
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look did they wire up a button to do a group degauss or not
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Light Gun Man posted:look did they wire up a button to do a group degauss or not This might actually solve two problems here
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Aug 29, 2022 10:29
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lobsterminator posted:Yeah. Even in 2010 486s were still very cheap and easily found in online marketplaces. Now they are pretty rare and pricey unless you are lucky and stumble upon one randomly like that poster above. For me it was notable for being the first computer that could run Doom 2 at full screen without slowdown.
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Aug 29, 2022 15:52
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I'm late as usual to the 'computers you grew up with' chat. I was born in '84 and grew up mostly with Apple II/IIe in elementary school, playing the typical games - Oregon Trail, Odell Lake. I don't think we ever had internet access until sometime in middle school. At home, my family used a 2 meg IBM PS/2 that my dad had bought in 1987. We didn't get an internet-capable computer until we finally made the jump in 1999, so I missed a lot of '90s computing.
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Aug 29, 2022 16:46
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Bargearse posted:I could show up with a degaussing coil or something, and just dispose of them into the boot of my car. You need a bulk eraser for that   Bear in mind that you have to re-format the disks in a special way because you also wipe out the way the disk has been divided into tracks and sectors. Those bulk erasers themselves are tech relics too.
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Aug 29, 2022 16:48
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My elementary school had something like this? but I don't think it was this attached to some sort of Apple computers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3p4-RJDob8 EDIT: this came out in 94 and it would have been more the 86-90? era.
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LimaBiker posted:Bear in mind that you have to re-format the disks in a special way because you also wipe out the way the disk has been divided into tracks and sectors. I forgot about that, I haven't had to low-level format anything in literal decades.
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Aug 29, 2022 17:08
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I'm late as usual to the 'computers you grew up with' chat. I was born in '84 and grew up mostly with Apple II/IIe in elementary school, playing the typical games - Oregon Trail, Odell Lake. I don't think we ever had internet access until sometime in middle school. I used the Internet on an IBM PC XT Model 286 so I think the PS/2 could.
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Aug 29, 2022 17:19
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I can’t remember a thing about the computers we had at school, other than one year someone figured out that someone had presumably misconfigured something somewhere so you could just go up a level in explorer from your personal network share a couple of times and find yourself at the root of all the school’s network storage with full read/write access. Then once a few more people found out about that, one of them went ahead and nuked the entire thing and there was no backup because the IT department was one teacher who apparently had little to no idea what he was doing.
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Aug 29, 2022 18:19
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LimaBiker posted:You need a bulk eraser for that I have this exact model and while I've never needed to bulk erase magnetic media I still plug it in and play with it sometimes because of the sound it makes.
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Aug 29, 2022 18:29
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I used the Internet on an IBM PC XT Model 286 so I think the PS/2 could. It could; I saw a video on Youtube where someone used a PS/2 to connect to an internet weather site. We didn't even have a modem, I don't think (my dad got a monochrome model that lacked a mouse).
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Aug 29, 2022 18:30
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Dip Viscous posted:I have this exact model and while I've never needed to bulk erase magnetic media I still plug it in and play with it sometimes because of the sound it makes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Gh4Fu7_G8&t=1962s
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Aug 29, 2022 20:40
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been looking for a Thinkpad i-series because my old one got sold a while back. ran pretty fluidly even tho the celeron chips were known for being dogshit. also loved the external cd player on the front
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Aug 29, 2022 22:55
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That’s a pretty big price point for a CRT TV with a built-in SNES. Still, pretty neat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_6PO3N8fig
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Just postin' this photo I saw on an eBay listing. The good old days when you needed a van to collect your new computer.  I think my Macbook came in a box smaller than that Photoshop upgrade box.
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https://i.imgur.com/iY6IwCe.mp4 Chonk Boy
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Horace posted:Just postin' this photo I saw on an eBay listing. The good old days when you needed a van to collect your new computer. I made the mistake of buying the Performa 6xx with a CD Rom because of that one infomercial and the box was a good 4.5' tall and there was no loving way my dad and I were going to take that + the printer box across loving LA so we had to call a cousin that had a truck.
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so choice
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Hmm never noticed Saitek made the BoosterBoy. I still use a Saitek mouse. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 09:33 on Sep 20, 2022 |
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More  MORE  I know, demo kiosks are an entirely different thing.
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Trabant posted:More i remember seeing these at toys 'r us and i thought they were so drat cool
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Sep 20, 2022 17:23
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I wonder what extra magic they have in there to make that work, because the gameboy definitely doesn't have any video output on board.
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snorch posted:I wonder what extra magic they have in there to make that work, because the gameboy definitely doesn't have any video output on board. There have always been special units like those sent to retailers and trade shows for display purposes. I don't know how it works, but that particular one has a scrunched up ribbon cable coming out of the link cable hole hollowed out for that purpose. I remember there are some rare PSP systems with built-in TV out that were made to be store display models
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if you can't play this by kneeling on the floor and mashing the giant buttons with your palms, somebody should have been fired.
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imagining playing tetris with the fury of a modern music game
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https://twitter.com/Apogee_Ent/status/1573009423387303938
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my buddy had this and I would ride my bike miles to stay over there and stay up all night playing it. the eyeball exploding across the screen blew my mind, what a time to be alive.
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Apogee shareware collections were always the best
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Quoting myself from the purchases thread because I think I finally got all the silly ancient talking pyramid clocks I was after:Trabant posted:Completism is a disease and I'm infected: The most recent one (silver) was complete with box, manual, and a 1-year warranty card. This ups the value of my collection by several dollars!
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Pham Nuwen posted:if you can't play this by kneeling on the floor and mashing the giant buttons with your palms, somebody should have been fired. First thing I tried when I saw it at the Toys R Us. Just hard plastic. Second thing I did was wave my hand in front of the screen to see if the camera I thought was pointed at it would show my hand. Strike two. (The TV even shows the Game Boy bezel!) I also recall the unit would play demos from other games on idle? Maybe it had a custom ROM or a special cartridge.
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Posting a ROTT clip without it containing dual wielded pistols, John Woo style? A shameful twitter.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Posting a ROTT clip without it containing dual wielded pistols, John Woo style? A shameful twitter. It's also showing a DOS game on an Amiga
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And no ludicrous gibs.
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Sentient Data posted:Apogee shareware collections were always the best Duke Nuke'm started as an Apogee game. You couldn't even lump them in as shovelware (which most free games morphed into) because they were well made and FUN. Did Apogee games get a full playable release collection? I would *gasp* pay for something like that.
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Robnoxious posted:I would *gasp* pay for something like that. Theres some on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/games?query=apogee&order=desc:score
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Must be an intentional rage bait image! Why would you have an Amiga 500 running RotT!
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Robnoxious posted:Did Apogee games get a full playable release collection? There was a compilation a few years back but it got pulled from distribution after not very long. https://3drealms.com/catalog/3d-realms-anthology_50/
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