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flavor.flv posted:Suck my Xerox WorkCenter 4546 All in One Scanner Printer Fax Copier Same but Commodore MPS 801.
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May 27, 2023 01:13
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Mustek a lot of balls to stan for a scanner
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Now, about scanners We had a handheld scanner in the 1990s and it was awful. If you sped up or slowed down while moving your hand and the scanner, the scanned document would come out stretched. Something like this: 
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May 27, 2023 01:19
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That looks exactly like the scanner my friend had that produced endless hilarity when we all tried to scan our school photos so we could show people on IRC what we looked like, minus half our nose or the tops of our heads or similar
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May 27, 2023 02:41
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I have some tolerance for the "insert a USB stick, get a PDF" scanners in office-sized multifunction machines, not having to connect to it from a PC takes away most of the normal avenues for pain. Barcode scanners, too - but those just show up as USB keyboard anyway. At least the non-hateful ones.
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Chainclaw posted:We had a handheld scanner in the 1990s and it was awful. If you sped up or slowed down while moving your hand and the scanner, the scanned document would come out stretched. They were good enough. (And you could do cool effects!) But yeah no-one misses them.
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May 27, 2023 03:18
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They had some nice scanners at Xerox. One was 120 ppm simultaneous duplex (so I guess 240 ipm?). I think it might have been grayscale only. I only used it once, but it took me longer to walk over to the machine than to scan some 500 page doc.
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Computer viking posted:I have some tolerance for the "insert a USB stick, get a PDF" scanners in office-sized multifunction machines, not having to connect to it from a PC takes away most of the normal avenues for pain. My Bizhub C224e is a fucken tank and does stapling too which is really neat. to load staples its literally a big slab of straight staples and it bends them accordingly at time of printing. It's also the most painless to setup over the network I have ever had. The OINE thing I don't like is I never trust if it is still set to greyscale. I think this is due to Adobe and Microsoft fuckery but I always have to check.
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I have a Laserjet P1006 from 2012 inherited from my old workplace; the toner cartridge has never needed replacement. After concluding I would never find an affordable printer that printed directly on disc media, I lucked into this highly-regarded monstrosity on the yard sale table at work and bought it for $5. A box containing four generic cartridge refills for every single tank cost $22 and prints gorgeously. As a bonus, I can remove the electronics from inside and it will be a cozy little house for our family of 3.
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I brought my first classic compact Mac today - a 1989 Macintosh Classic. A dual high density floppy drives (not sure on their working condition) model with a 80MB SCSI HDD. It needs a good clean down. The seller said it used to be owned by his best friend who passed away. The seller had powered it up and said it works.  Dust and grime but seems pretty complete. It is missing the PDS plate on the rear of the case.  Thankfully no battery bomb damage. That was the main thing I was worried about, as the capacitors used on the SE were tantalum and didn't leak  That is one drat old PRAM battery Tomorrow's weather is going to be crap, so going to be giving this old thing a big clean down and install a new PRAM battery.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:They were good enough. (And you could do cool effects!) I once used a Logitech ScanMan to scan someone's tattoo, that was the only neat thing I ever did with a handheld scanner
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 Gave the Mac SE an interior clean down, including pulling the floppy drives out and cleaning and lubing the moving parts in them. Still haven't tested the drives.  Boots up! God it was a pain reassembling it, was always frightened of damaging the CRT in it (I had properly discharged it) while putting the hard drive back into it. Everything is so tight in it with the dual floppy drives. God only knows how Mac techs worked on these back in the day.  The 80MB SCSI drive still works, no errors or strange noises. Going to find a way to clone/image the drive so I can put in a Blue SCSI
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SCSI can be daisy chained, so just get a SCSI cable with 2 connectors, and stick a BlueSCSI in there with the hard drive, copy the contents on to the bluescsi and you’ll be all set. No need to clone it beforehand. Alternatively you could use an external bluescsi instead and do it that way. An alternative to the bluescsi is the PiSCSI (formerly known as rascsi) which is a raspberry pi hat that can act as an internal or external scsi emulator for all kinds of scsi devices beyond just hard drives. It can act as a cd rom or even a network card. I use a rascsi with all of my compact macs specifically because of its network card capabilities. PiSCSI is also pretty nice because if you ever want to manage what files are on there you can do it from a web browser instead of having to open the machine and pop out the SD card. With PiSCSI you can go to a web page, paste the url of any file (say from macintosh garden) and it will download that file straight to the PiSCSI and mount a virtual cd rom image containing that file directly on your mac. Edit: PiSCSI does have the unfortunate requirement of needing to have a raspberry pi on hand or being able to get one for a reasonable price somewhere. GutBomb has a new favorite as of 13:37 on May 28, 2023 |
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I got a BlueSCSI from a friend who didn't use it. Sadly all the SCSI cables I have had one connection on them, and I don't have an external SCSI drive enclosure. Managed to get some of the data across by connecting the drive to my G3 PowerMac that runs 9.2, as the G4 PowerMac I was going to use runs OSX 10.5 and it didn't want anything to do with the Mac SE's HDD. I did have to format an USB stick drive with HFS so the resource links wouldn't be broken when transferring from the G3 to the G4 After a couple of hours of playing around with Basilisk and System 7.1 VMs, I got the BlueSCSI running on the Mac SE. I misread somewhere that mentioned that Macs use SCSI ID 7, thinking that the drive had to be set to ID 7 for it to boot. But no, you can not set a SCSI drive to ID 7 full stop.   
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Remounted the floppy drives in the SE, so disks can go into the drives. Looks like both drives suffer from the disintegrating gear that plagues these drives. One day I might get around to buying the replacement gear for the drives, but I don't have any original software on floppy for this era of Mac so it is easier to do stuff via the SD card
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You Am I posted:I got a BlueSCSI from a friend who didn't use it. I love the look of the early 1-bit Mac UI. Nice and crisp and clean. That spreadsheet program looks like it would be easy to use even today.
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OMGGGGGGGGGGG I've never really felt the need to actually build the stuff LMNC makes but this time... In this video he mentions ReBirth RB338 can be controlled fully by MIDI-in. Now I wanna hardware emulate the software emulator of the official hardware. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRyP5YrfsIk
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snorch posted:If you really want a hardware rebirth clone you could also just grab the Behringer x0x clones: Cheers, but its not Rebirth. I spent a LOT of time with that program back in the day wishing for two mouses.
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Lately I've been having age shock thinking about these things that seem so vivid in my memory but are from 30 years ago. If I think about 30 years before this ad, it would be like being nostalgic about something from before the space race.
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Was Mega Bass, like, an actual thing that did something? Comparing it to my other cassette players at the time, it sounded normal when it was on and like the bass was intentionally dropped to nothing when it was off rather than actually making something mega.
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Dip Viscous posted:Was Mega Bass, like, an actual thing that did something? I think it was a sprite comic
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Oh dear. Umm. The SE/30 was being sold near me, so I couldn't say no. Really. Condition is unknown when I brought it, however cosmetically it is far far better than my SE. Like day and night. Opening up the SE/30 and its internals are also in far better condition. It's like it has barely any use.  Logic board is in great condition. No battery bomb and very little leakage from the surface mount caps. Gave the board a clean down with isopropyl alcohol around the cap areas. Not going to power on the SE/30 until all the caps are replaced.  It has this network card in it, from what I can gather from it, it is a SI St NIC BD-031 network card with BNC, Thicknet and RJ45 connectors on it. And I can't find anything about it on the Interwebs.
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Dip Viscous posted:Was Mega Bass, like, an actual thing that did something? Comparing it to my other cassette players at the time, it sounded normal when it was on and like the bass was intentionally dropped to nothing when it was off rather than actually making something mega. It would increase the bass response of the amplifier circuits. However - because in general the bass response of playback heads and headphones wasn't great in many portable cassette players, the effect would be that the 'normal' bass roll off would be compensated and the sound would be more neutral with the bass boost turned on. I don't think it was intentional - just a result of keeping the devices relatively cheap. Would you put such a system in a Sony WM-D6 (that super high quality professional thing) and use it with good quality over-ear headphones, you would have way too much bass.
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Mantle posted:Lately I've been having age shock thinking about these things that seem so vivid in my memory but are from 30 years ago. If I think about 30 years before this ad, it would be like being nostalgic about something from before the space race. For some things that feeling makes a lot of sense. Something like a desktop computer went from scifi via wild experimentation into settling in a shape that's basically still around. A tower setup from 1993 running windows 3.x is at heart the same idea as a completely new one, but feels completely different than anything from 1973. On the other hand, all these media players are probably going to feel ancient and weird to kids who grow up now and never use any portable electronics except their phone, so it is also just us being old and familiar with a certain style of stuff. I'm sure people who grew up with transistor radios and portable record players had similar feelings in the 80s about those feeling normal but the tube stuff from a few decades earlier feeling ancient.
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Mantle posted:Lately I've been having age shock thinking about these things that seem so vivid in my memory but are from 30 years ago. If I think about 30 years before this ad, it would be like being nostalgic about something from before the space race. I remember sitting at my little desk in the barracks ripping a Faith No More CD from my walkman to my Nokia 5510. My Section Commander couldn't imagine that my PHONE had internal storage for music/MP3s. He just thought I was all commed up with my wired handsfree. 2002. I also had a Gameboy Advance with Rainbow 6 in my map pocket.
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Dip Viscous posted:Was Mega Bass, like, an actual thing that did something? LimaBiker posted:It would increase the bass response of the amplifier circuits. However - because in general the bass response of playback heads and headphones wasn't great in many portable cassette players, the effect would be that the 'normal' bass roll off would be compensated and the sound would be more neutral with the bass boost turned on. I had a WM-EX102 which was a couple generations in and the Mega Bass switch was prominently on the front instead of the top like the AVLS and metal switches. Found this photo of it on eBay:
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Humphreys posted:I remember sitting at my little desk in the barracks ripping a Faith No More CD from my walkman to my Nokia 5510. My Section Commander couldn't imagine that my PHONE had internal storage for music/MP3s. He just thought I was all commed up with my wired handsfree.  Hell yeah! I loved my Nokia 3300 (US version with a full keyboard). https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=282
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You Am I posted:Oh dear. Umm. SE30s are fantastic pieces of hardware. Get one of the expansion video cards for it and chain it to one of the Apple Color CRTs.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:SE30s are fantastic pieces of hardware. Get one of the expansion video cards for it and chain it to one of the Apple Color CRTs. but then where will the ethernet card go??
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Pham Nuwen posted:but then where will the ethernet card go?? Use an Appletalk to Ethernet converter dongle. I have a bunch and they are super easy to find
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Use an Appletalk to Ethernet converter dongle. I have a bunch and they are super easy to find Not a bad idea, I'll look for one. Any recommended video cards? What do they usually cost?
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Pham Nuwen posted:Not a bad idea, I'll look for one. Any recommended video cards? What do they usually cost? https://lowendmac.com/video/pds/index.html
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You Am I posted:Oh dear. Umm. Congrats! The SE/30’s are, in my mind, some of the best macs ever made. I’ve had one since like 2002 that I just can’t let go of. Mine also has an Ethernet card that sounds a lot like yours. I should check what it actually is Any video cards for it are going to be rare as heck and $$$. My suggestion for things to get for it is to get a BMOW Mac Rominator 2. https://www.bigmessowires.com/mac-rom-inator-ii/ It fixes some issues with the stock rom and also has a copy of system 6 in rom so if (when) your hard drive dies or the scsi gets wonky, you can boot to the in-rom os to troubleshoot. Very worth the money. E: I just looked at the BMOW page and the new ones come with system 7.1, even better! Beve Stuscemi has a new favorite as of 23:18 on Jun 3, 2023 |
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