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Humphreys posted:Well my goon, I did an A B comparison for you! Do you intend to replace the sticker? also: Tech Relics - a cartridge we got from the local Donkey Kong Sanctuary
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Humphreys posted:Well my goon, I did an A B comparison for you! Ace, thanks! Now to find the carts I've hidden somewhere...
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Desert Bus posted:I bet that runs Doom like a beast Other than Windows NT/2000/Whatever, and Linux, is there any software that would actually take advantage of four whole-rear end pentium 3's? I'm sure enterprise stuff would like SQL or Citrix or whatever, but anything a normal human would want to use?
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By popular demand posted:Do you intend to replace the sticker? I have a 'thing' about leaving period-time stickers on my stuff. All my ex-rental tapes keep them, and my games too. Even my sub $10 PS4 games I get each week keep the current EB sales stickers for the fun of what they are worth in the future.
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Humphreys posted:I have a 'thing' about leaving period-time stickers on my stuff. All my ex-rental tapes keep them, and my games too. Even my sub $10 PS4 games I get each week keep the current EB sales stickers for the fun of what they are worth in the future. I was able to pick up a book (limited run, it's now like $70) of photos of VHS stickers from rental place around the country called Stuck on VHS. NGL, it's a nostalgic read.
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Neito posted:I was able to pick up a book (limited run, it's now like $70) of photos of VHS stickers from rental place around the country called Stuck on VHS. NGL, it's a nostalgic read. Ive got reels of real old stock stickers 
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Other than Windows NT/2000/Whatever, and Linux, is there any software that would actually take advantage of four whole-rear end pentium 3's? I'm sure enterprise stuff would like SQL or Citrix or whatever, but anything a normal human would want to use? Multi-CPU rigs were and are very popular for CGI, since rendering is Embarrassingly Parallel.
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  Anyone got any Acorn kit? Here's my A5000 and Master Compact. Probably responsible for the phone in your pocket if it's ARM
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Other than Windows NT/2000/Whatever, and Linux, is there any software that would actually take advantage of four whole-rear end pentium 3's? I'm sure enterprise stuff would like SQL or Citrix or whatever, but anything a normal human would want to use? Multiboxing MMOs. Oh you said normal human, nevermind.
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SamDabbers posted:Multiboxing MMOs.
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an actual frog posted:
They have batteries soldered straight onto their motherboards, so lots of death... And really, they were only ever big in the UK.
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They also slipped completely through the cracks as far as retro computing goes. Every Amiga game ever is available online, but Acorn software was maybe put on one person's personal geocities site 25 years ago and if nobody archived it then it's gone.
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c0burn posted:Acorn kit  The conspiracy goes even further than Republicans imagined!
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an actual frog posted:
I've been promised a huge box of Acorn stuff for a few years by one of my clients. I really don't want to push him cos he is a bit of a hoarder, and his father passed away and I really don't wanna trigger him when going through old stuff in the house.
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My grandfather had a Model B that I really wanted, but it was lost in the extremely quick turnaround after he was moved to a care home. His children - dad and my uncle and aunt - really, really wanted to sell the place as quickly as possible, and were not especially sentimental about what went in the dumpster; by the time my dad called and asked if I wanted anything, they'd already completely emptied out his computer room. Oh well, it was only things. (He was, I gather, not an especially nice parent - or husband. Mellowed out massively when he retired and mostly stopped drinking, though.)
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In the late 80s or so, we managed to pick up a BBC Model B for £5 second hand somehow. Spent a fair amount of cash on peripherals afterwards but drat, that was a hell of a pickup. My first SNES cost me £4 in the late 90s, an equally rad pickup for teen me.
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I still have BBC Model B I grew up with, I love that thing. Apart from having to replace a couple capacitors in the power supply I don’t think anything will ever break on them.
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I love these old computer TV programs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukyHECjKDoQ
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I'd love to get my hands on an A series Acorn. I have seen a few earlier Acorns, including the Electron, but that stuff is rare down here
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You Am I posted:Hey, nice Commodore 108- huh. I can't remember the model but they're all rebadged Philips CM something or other.
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EL BROMANCE posted:In the late 80s or so, we managed to pick up a BBC Model B for £5 second hand somehow. Spent a fair amount of cash on peripherals afterwards but drat, that was a hell of a pickup. Used to be great in the 90s and early 2000s when you could get some great stuff just by looking around on rubbish pickup days. I got a G3 iMac and quite a lot of PC clone stuff that way. I also got a Commodore 64 C that was still brand new in its packaging and has the warranty sticker still intact for $20 back then.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Would. 
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 And here I am thinking the term 'hackintosh' was meant to be a nod to clever software workarounds, not the builder's assembly methods.
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I built one a couple years ago and tried(fairly successfully) to keep all the cool features that made the cheesegrater Mac case unique, like separate fan and cooling zones for the GPU, CPU, etc. Came out pretty good, has a 9900K and Radeon VII in it.
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JnnyThndrs posted:I built one a couple years ago and tried(fairly successfully) to keep all the cool features that made the cheesegrater Mac case unique, like separate fan and cooling zones for the GPU, CPU, etc. Came out pretty good, has a 9900K and Radeon VII in it. That is a thing of terrible beauty. Nicely done!
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can anyone explain why frag is spelled with two g's? ive never seen that before, except in this pic... this is some mandela effect type of poo poo
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Because they spelled it wrong OP
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It’s like how there was a time when “nerd” was frequently spelled “nurd”
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Data Graham posted:It’s like how there was a time when “nerd” was frequently spelled “nurd” there was not
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JnnyThndrs posted:I built one a couple years ago and tried(fairly successfully) to keep all the cool features that made the cheesegrater Mac case unique, like separate fan and cooling zones for the GPU, CPU, etc. Came out pretty good, has a 9900K and Radeon VII in it. This I can get behind. Cutting a trapezoid into the back with a circular saw, I cannot.
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thathonkey posted:there was not There was a comic called Eyebeam in which this was the case
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thathonkey posted:can anyone explain why frag is spelled with two g's? ive never seen that before, except in this pic... this is some mandela effect type of poo poo See, before Bronies there were people really into Fraggle Rock.
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