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Until around 2008 one of the local Walmarts still had a WebTV in the electronics department with a $189.99 clearance price tag
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Until around 2008 one of the local Walmarts still had a WebTV in the electronics department with a $189.99 clearance price tag Holy poo poo. Edit: It was a thing until 2013?!? I have no recollection of it lasting that long AT ALL.
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Nov 26, 2022 04:41
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I was a webdev for the mouse, and emulating webtv to make sure the site was legible was one of the test suites. IE6 was also considered the gold standard browser long after 8 was released, so imagine trying to make some of the layouts with 6's bullshit css and limited-at-best support for png alpha channels
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Nov 26, 2022 08:29
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Just won a Dell XPS Pro 200n on eBay. I normally avoid OEM systems but this is a Socket 8 machine with a Pentium Pro 200mhz / 256kb cache  Also it came with a Number Nine video card with all the cool Beatles stuff on the PCB
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Nov 26, 2022 17:52
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 Finally got around to buying some Ikea shelving for my computer collection and setting it up in the wardrobe. I'm happy to have a place to put the Commodore and Apple CRTs without them getting damaged or being used to stack other stuff on. The Nike box contains my two Atari Lynx IIs and games
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Nov 27, 2022 09:46
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You definitely have a thing for integrated keyboard PCs, is that five or six there?
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Nov 27, 2022 10:06
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Six. There's the Amiga 1200 and C64C on shelf under the CRTs. Under those are an Atari 800XL and 1040STe. Under that is an Amiga 500 sitting on top of a Commodore IBM PC clone and at the bottom is an Apple //e Platinum. Missing from that collection is my C128
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Nov 27, 2022 10:09
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A neat use of a relic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDkJeqvbM9A Details here: https://www.instructables.com/Termi2-a-Typewriter-That-Answers-Your-Questions/ Trabant has a new favorite as of 19:17 on Nov 27, 2022 |
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Nov 27, 2022 17:16
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an actual frog posted:
I followed these plans: https://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/instructions/uno It was pretty straightforward, I had some old drives to try it with, it worked on the first try with an old Mitsumi drive. Once it's running you can access the drives directly to make images or load em in WinUAE via floppybridge. Also the guy behind the plans, Rob Smith, has a pretty active Discord server https://discord.gg/hyEMPA5s
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Nov 30, 2022 15:44
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 1983 Toys 'R' Us Christmas flyer Tag yourself, I'm the ADAM computer whose price was too low to be advertised (lol)
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Dec 1, 2022 02:48
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I'm 2+4=?
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Dec 1, 2022 09:13
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all stores open til midnight? holy poo poo department stores here are lucky to be open past 7
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Dec 1, 2022 09:46
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Toys R Us used to make a big deal out of being open late because the idea was parents could go toy shopping after work.
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Dec 1, 2022 10:01
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I like how they promise not to gouge you until Dec 26
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I was digging around in my SE/30 installing an SD2SCSI to replace the loud and very flaky hard drive, and I noticed that the HV Coil has a busted part on it. The weird thing is that the screen still looks and works fine. Is that just a strap that holds it down to the board, or does it actually perform some manner of grounding or electrical purpose?
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Dec 1, 2022 16:38
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The core of the transformer is made in two U-shaped pieces. That's just a sprung clip that holds them together.
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Dec 1, 2022 17:55
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Surely the core of any transformer is the universal spark!
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That one rich kid everyone knew back in the day He could play triple monitor quake but didn’t know to use mouselook
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Hhhooottt
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The apparently custom home made side displays and xbox controller makes it even cooler, must have been a ton of work to get them looking just right
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Here's the video of the hot wheels triple monitor PC for context. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLGfeiMdi1Q
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COMPUTERS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukyHECjKDoQ So many great sounds.
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Mister Kingdom posted:COMPUTERS! This feels like a film a substitute teacher would play to avoid doing any work. Its awesome.
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Dec 8, 2022 09:32
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Problem: Ex-Rental VHS tapes that were crossed out with permanent marker after their used by date to help prevent reselling.  Solution: Whiteboard Pen:   
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Dec 8, 2022 14:03
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Oh yeah, that works wonders on old whiteboards that water and soap can't clean too.
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Dec 8, 2022 14:29
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By popular demand posted:Oh yeah, that works wonders on old whiteboards that water and soap can't clean too. Yeah, I literally use this everyday at work, and never thought it would work on 20 year old marker. Well happy it does!
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Dec 8, 2022 14:50
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Any alcohol will work
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Flipperwaldt posted:Any alcohol will work Getting drunk is the cause of and solution to all life's problems
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Dec 8, 2022 15:05
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Flipperwaldt posted:Any alcohol will work hell yeah
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Dec 8, 2022 15:10
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Humphreys posted:Yeah, I literally use this everyday at work, and never thought it would work on 20 year old marker. Well happy it does! So will this work where someone has written on old game cartridges, or will that be too embedded into the plastic to everb clean off?
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Dec 8, 2022 15:32
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legooolas posted:So will this work where someone has written on old game cartridges, or will that be too embedded into the plastic to everb clean off? Someone I knew in middle school wrote "OBOE JOE" on all of my NES cartridges. I never even played the oboe
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Fuckin great username though
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Look at this old monster. A Dell Poweredge 6400 with 4 (four!) Pentium 3’s in it, and hot swappable PCI
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Look at this old monster. A Dell Poweredge 6400 with 4 (four!) Pentium 3’s in it, and hot swappable PCI Wow. I used to admin a whole rack of dual PIII machines but didn't realize that anyone had ever gotten up to four CPUs in one chassis. That must have been ridiculously expensive and the bus contention was probably pretty rough if it was running flat out.
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strtj posted:Wow. I used to admin a whole rack of dual PIII machines but didn't realize that anyone had ever gotten up to four CPUs in one chassis. That must have been ridiculously expensive and the bus contention was probably pretty rough if it was running flat out. 4way servers still exists for niche purposes(like business software licensed per server rather than socket or core). https://youtu.be/xLsMlVpF2ao
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SlowBloke posted:4way servers still exists for niche purposes(like business software licensed per server rather than socket or core). I should have been more clear, I just meant PIIIs. There have been 4-way designs for a long, long time but generally they were running on much more high-end bus architectures where they actually had a chance of being able to serve a normal workload.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Look at this old monster. A Dell Poweredge 6400 with 4 (four!) Pentium 3’s in it, and hot swappable PCI I bet that runs Doom like a beast
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Love that PSU fan cowl
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legooolas posted:So will this work where someone has written on old game cartridges, or will that be too embedded into the plastic to everb clean off? Well my goon, I did an A B comparison for you!  One wipe with Iso and it's gone.  One application of Dry-Erase  Nope, not enough  Scrubbed the text with the dry-erase  Done 
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