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Humbug Scoolbus posted:
First home PC was a 286 with a 20mb hard drive in the early 1990s. Managed to design and produce an A5 music fanzine with whatever cheap DTP package was available and scanned art & photos with one of these: 
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spookygonk posted:First home PC was a 286 with a 20mb hard drive in the early 1990s. Managed to design and produce an A5 music fanzine with whatever cheap DTP package was available and scanned art & photos with one of these: Why would you post a picture of such concentrated evil?
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Sep 22, 2022 09:56
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I have some old computer magazines from the late 80s tucked away, and I remember one of them talking about the first PC-compatible 1GB hard drive hitting the market. The notice mentioned something along the lines of "no home user will ever need this much storage, it's being developed for large companies with immense storage requirements." 
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Sep 22, 2022 11:27
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https://mobile.twitter.com/PrinceVogel/status/1571594177712103424
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Sep 22, 2022 12:41
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Jesus, get some motorcycle helmets.
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Sep 22, 2022 12:47
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No need for protective gear on the INTERNET SUPERHIGHWAY.
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Sep 22, 2022 13:02
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That's why olds always get viruses. No protection.
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Sep 22, 2022 14:30
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Drive carefully, I almost spilled my goldfish!
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I feel like my storage story is even dumber because I bought a 1TB drive for media in 2008 and thought “this will last me a very long time because I think DVD rips still look great.”
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Sep 23, 2022 01:26
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I'm cry when I remember paying $500 for a 1GB MemoryStick Duo Pro
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holefoods posted:I feel like my storage story is even dumber because I bought a 1TB drive for media in 2008 and thought “this will last me a very long time because I think DVD rips still look great.” "Ahh, finally time to watch these films I downloaded in college.... OH NO DVD RIPS ON A 65" 4K OLED MY EYES NOOOOOO" 
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FilthyImp posted:This year when I finally made a plex server * Locates HD rip on a piratically-inclined torrent site * Download complete in nine minutes  "Huh. I guess there are advantages to being here in the future."
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Sep 23, 2022 05:07
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Why so slow? 
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Sep 23, 2022 05:58
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My wife found this at a neighbor's garage sale... Gonna pick it up tomorrow. According to the neighbor it's not working. I'd like to hear it play one day but I'm fine with having it as a beautiful piece of furniture. I also have this one...  A friend's mom picked it up at an auction. Now that I've basically started a collection I think I should learn how to repair them.
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Sep 23, 2022 06:25
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Well ... I guess it's off to Mr Carlson's Lab for you!
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Sep 23, 2022 06:42
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You could honestly just find a RadioShack crystal radio kit and that should work. It's not like the internals would be particularly reliable and I'd worry about random fires. Changing out the bulbs for warm LEDs would also likely be a good idea.
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FilthyImp posted:This year when I finally made a plex server Mine were VCD Rips. Have a mate who is quite particular go through and tell me which of EVERYTHING from the past 20 years I've downloaded needs a 1080 or 4k update. That took some time.
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Humphreys posted:I'm cry when I remember paying $500 for a 1GB MemoryStick Duo Pro  e: Adjusted for inflation that would be about $550 now. Collateral Damage has a new favorite as of 12:44 on Sep 23, 2022 |
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Collateral Damage posted:I paid something like $250 in early 1990s money for a 4MB RAM stick to upgrade my 486 from 4 to 8MB. I bought two 256meg sticks of RDRAM when it was king poo poo and it cost me a fortune, I want to say $275, at a time when SDRAM was $40 a stick. Did I mention I was unemployed at the time? Not one of my smarter decisions 😀
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Humphreys posted:I'm cry when I remember paying $500 for a 1GB MemoryStick Duo Pro When I got my first PC in 1988 - Leading Edge Model D - I had to settle for dual 5.25" floppy drives because I couldn't afford the 10Mb harddrive for $500 (about $1280 today).
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I do remember splurging on the 16MB CF card for our 2MP Ixus digital camera after living with an 8MB card for a bit.
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:My wife found this at a neighbor's garage sale... Do not just plug them in. Chances are a capacitor is shorted, or will short out soon even if it works. This will turn a usually trivial repair into an expensive and somewhat challenging ordeal. Otherwise, it's often just a matter of replacing all paper/wax capacitors, and the power supply electrolytics. If you can solder it's about one evening's worth of work and 25 bucks in parts. To make it play your own music, either get a tiny AM transmitter, or use the gramophone input. The gramophone input is line level, any aux device will play on it. No gramophone input? Solder some screened wire to the volume potentiometer and mount an input socket somewhere on a bracket. If someone burnt out the transformers already (easy to spot - they'll look and smell burnt) you can try and source a suitable replacement, or you can disconnect the loudspeaker (sometimes they'll need a low voltage supply for the speaker electromagnet), leave all electronics in place, and hide a tiny bluetooth speaker amplifier in there. Those old beasts only needed about 5 watts of amplifier power to fill a room with music. This is also the best way to go if you want to leave the thing playing background music all day long, all year long. If you start a thread about fixing them in the hobbys/whatever, i can help with more detailed info LimaBiker has a new favorite as of 13:43 on Sep 23, 2022 |
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:A friend's mom picked it up at an auction. Now that I've basically started a collection I think I should learn how to repair them. Watch a bunch of the videos at https://www.youtube.com/user/glasslinger. Marvel at someone getting those things to play well and look great, and also enjoy his cat and pretty dresses.
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Collateral Damage posted:I paid something like $250 in early 1990s money for a 4MB RAM stick to upgrade my 486 from 4 to 8MB. Hah! I've told the story before, but my dad upgraded our 486 from 4mb to 8mb (8 slots on the huge-rear end mobo) and he got each stick for $50, because they were on sale buy-one/get-one. Imagine the poor guy who paid $400 for that 4mb upgrade a few weeks earlier...
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LimaBiker posted:Do not just plug them in. Chances are a capacitor is shorted, or will short out soon even if it works. This will turn a usually trivial repair into an expensive and somewhat challenging ordeal. Thanks! I was already warned about plugging them in. I'm afraid the neighbor may have already through. I considered just wiring a little Bluetooth device to the speaker and adding some LED lamps to the dials. I kind of like the idea of having them working with the original components so that's most likely what I'll do with them.
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Nocheez posted:Hah! I've told the story before, but my dad upgraded our 486 from 4mb to 8mb (8 slots on the huge-rear end mobo) and he got each stick for $50, because they were on sale buy-one/get-one. Imagine the poor guy who paid $400 for that 4mb upgrade a few weeks earlier... And then there was the Settlers 2 - Gold Edition which turned off harbour building on Free Play due to "memory issues". I don't really understand too much about DOS, DOS-Extenders and their memory to write an effort post. Those extenders were a different kind of black magick allowing 32 bit programs and their flat memory model to run under a 16 bit OS and it's segmented memory. It's a good thing that those times are gone for longer than they've lasted.
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One of my favorite books as a kid was Managing Memory Under DOS 6.2 or something. I can't find any trace of it online now.
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If you get a mister and try to run things on the 486 core, it comes back up. I just downloaded a VHD that has all that already configured, because jeez.
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A buddy got hold of an old Pentium 3-era Celeron, and wanted it configured for Windows 98 and DOS. I wrote him some excellent config.sys and autoexec.bat pretty much from muscle memory from over 20 years ago. Amazed that all that stuff was still in my brain and fingers so many years later.
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:My wife found this at a neighbor's garage sale...
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Mister Kingdom posted:When I got my first PC in 1988 - Leading Edge Model D - I had to settle for dual 5.25" floppy drives because I couldn't afford the 10Mb harddrive for $500 (about $1280 today). I have one of those, also without a hard drive. Must have been a fairly popular model.
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The finest in nuclear submarine interior design! https://twitter.com/MikiAV8BHarrier/status/1462385711743647747?s=20&t=7hMUVz6q0vDmWFubVoV9dQ
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That is some real life star trek right there
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drat I am tryin' got get in that room to smoke weed
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<insert French seamen joke here>
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Dick Trauma posted:The finest in nuclear submarine interior design! Taking a long drag on my unfiltered Gauloises cigarette before starting the countdown to end all life on Earth. As the clock ticks, I call my mistress, then my wife.
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These forum friends are racing to see who can call the police on granos first
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Wayne Knight posted:That is some real life star trek right there I know Trek is basically littoral combat but to think the Enterprise-D was basically retro-future French Submarine poo poo makes the warp drive hum in the show make more sense.
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Serperoth posted:Taking a long drag on my unfiltered Gauloises cigarette before starting the countdown to end all life on Earth. As the clock ticks, I call my mistress, then my wife. Get outta my head. Where are all the ashtrays?
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