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monolithburger posted:I gotchu, friend Oh, I can feel the particle board bending as I look at it.
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monolithburger posted:I gotchu, friend Very nice. No notes.
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monolithburger posted:I gotchu, friend
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Memories of mid/late 90s computer desks that inexplicably had a door on the front that killed the PC with overheating and the owners that had no concept that it wasn't normal to buy a new PC every 5 months.
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monolithburger posted:I gotchu, friend where's your flatbed scanner that you use once every couple of years taking up like 25% of the workspace??
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Humphreys posted:How to build something the most complicated way. Having the tape pre-threaded inside the cassette is actually a really clever way to avoid having to come up with a complex mechanism to do the threading inside the VCR itself. It's just kind of insane from our modern perspective because VHS and Betamax had that pretty handily solved just a few years later.
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Horace posted:where's your flatbed scanner that you use once every couple of years taking up like 25% of the workspace?? You also need the plastic mat to go under the desk to keep the wheels from leaving impressions.
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Dip Viscous posted:Memories of mid/late 90s computer desks that inexplicably had a door on the front that killed the PC with overheating and the owners that had no concept that it wasn't normal to buy a new PC every 5 months. My cousin has a huge soundproofed tower enclosure for his Chieftec full tower. It had a 240mm large-bladed exhaust fan. Really pro silencing poo poo for like 2002 
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Thomamelas posted:You also need the plastic mat to go under the desk to keep the wheels from leaving impressions. IKEA would still love to sell you one https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/kolon-floor-protector-44881100/
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r u ready to WALK posted:IKEA would still love to sell you one https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/kolon-floor-protector-44881100/ I use that, not to protect the floor per se but it makes for a smooth silent ride e: it becomes hideously dirty really fast though
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monolithburger posted:I gotchu, friend this is all any of us ever needed but we had to go further
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A flatscreen monitor and what appears to be a wifi dongle in the top right? This is some futuristic poo poo right here.
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There's also a 100-stack of blank CDs and probably the best major manufacturer keyboard from the early 2000s. 20 years ago that pic is pure envy.
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do they not know about the calculator app? He's got a 10key on that kb, what gives?
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Wizard of the Deep posted:There's also a 100-stack of blank CDs and probably the best major manufacturer keyboard from the early 2000s. 20 years ago that pic is pure envy. I still have several of those Dell keyboards, although at this point I've mostly moved over to wireless Logitech keyboards. Those Dells were my daily drivers for like 20 years before that, though. I used to cruise thrift shops and such and pick them up for $5 or less.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I still have several of those Dell keyboards, although at this point I've mostly moved over to wireless Logitech keyboards. Those Dells were my daily drivers for like 20 years before that, though. I used to cruise thrift shops and such and pick them up for $5 or less. For a good decade or so, those keyboards were a sign that you had gotten on the good side of the company IT department.
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F4rt5 posted:My cousin has a huge soundproofed tower enclosure for his Chieftec full tower. It had a 240mm large-bladed exhaust fan. Really pro silencing poo poo for like 2002 God I miss fans bigger than 140mm, they've pretty much vanished, outside of the rare case where a case might come with maybe one big, non standard fan.
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monolithburger posted:I gotchu, friend I feel like the little space below the printer needs something - maybe half a ream of paper with curly edges where people have put their feet on it, a power cable still sealed in the bag, and the beaten up box for a lovely ink cartridge refill kit. Sweevo has a new favorite as of 10:59 on Oct 7, 2022 |
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Powered Descent posted:For a good decade or so, those keyboards were a sign that you had gotten on the good side of the company IT department. I still have a couple in reserve, they felt so much better that all the other pack-in keyboards.
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SubNat posted:God I miss fans bigger than 140mm, they've pretty much vanished, outside of the rare case where a case might come with maybe one big, non standard fan. Noctua makes 200mm fans, but yeah, good luck finding a case with space for them.
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I've got a phanteks enthoo pro with a 200mm fan, but it's a full tower. Good case but takes up a lot of room if you're only putting an ATX board in there. I also have a Nanoxia Predator micro-atx case with a 200mm in the front, but they mounted the motherboard sideways so it's really just a chonker of a mid tower, extra wide. Also the original 200mm it came with failed after three years or so, wasn't the same quality as the phanteks stuff.
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Back when PCs looked like 24th century nuclear warheads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl7K14vdGJg
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Gonz posted:Back when PCs looked like 24th century nuclear warheads. Mods, please change my name to Luxury Brown
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monolithburger posted:Mods, please change my name to Luxury Brown Capability Brown's less famous brother?
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Gah! New Antikythera came out and I missed it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlN-QFkDkvE
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Wizard of the Deep posted:There's also a 100-stack of blank CDs and probably the best major manufacturer keyboard from the early 2000s. 20 years ago that pic is pure envy. The second best keyboard. The best keyboard ever made is the same model, but with multimedia keys and volume control.  I liked to use the optional palmrest, but I don't judge those who don't.
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evobatman posted:The second best keyboard. The best keyboard ever made is the same model, but with multimedia keys and volume control. I agree. Those are beasts. A few years ago I had rose tinted glasses for my old AVID video editing keyboard as I had it in my head it was the BEST board ever. I am much disappoint.
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evobatman posted:The second best keyboard. The best keyboard ever made is the same model, but with multimedia keys and volume control. Yeah, I had at least one or two of those over the years, too.
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Well, I started doing a little maintenance on my Canon Starwriter. The feed mechanism is too tight and feeds every sheet at once, or not at all. Still can't get that clearance just write for consistent feeding.   
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Your screwdriver bit storage situation is giving me anxiety That's how they come in the iFixIt kit. 
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Yeah, all laid in one direction, not every which way. Anyway, old word processors are pretty cool as the bridge between typewriters and computers. A lot of weird stuff went on there
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Yeah, all laid in one direction, not every which way. Terrifying
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Yeah, all laid in one direction, not every which way. I'm honestly much more partial to the thermals, they're quite a bit more useable and fill a better niche than the more dedicated word processors. https://i.imgur.com/Os5OVKX.mp4 Vile_Nihlist666 has a new favorite as of 19:47 on Oct 14, 2022 |
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Today I discovered one of the reasons it seems to have become a lot harder to get any tech relics in the UK/EU : Anything which counts as electronic waste and was manufactured before 2009 counts (since a rule change in 2019) as hazardous waste and registered WEEE handling companies have to send it for incineration :o
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Incineration? Are you sure it’s not shredding and melting for metal recovery? As mentioned, burning old electronics sounds worse for the environment than just dumping them in a landfill I work at an ewaste business and I absolutely grab all the good vintage stuff off the shred and melt pile for this specific reason. Something like a G4 Cube or an 8088 PC is worth more in the hands of someone who wants to actually restore it and use/display it than the couple bucks in recoverable metals it would provide. Beve Stuscemi has a new favorite as of 15:05 on Oct 15, 2022 |
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Incineration? Are you sure it’s not shredding and melting for metal recovery? every single person I know who works in electronics recycling is constantly racing to prevent rare and valuable gear from ending up in the scrap and for every piece they save there are dozens of others that get missed.
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