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Hard to keep up with this thread when I'm busy making a BOOT DISK for MAXIMUM conventional memory!
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EVIL Gibson posted:Do not break my mind canon please. Lol I remember when the Blue Man Group did ads for the Pentium III and people thought they were a marketing gimmick made up by Intel "Oh it's those Intel Blue Men"
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 23:07 |
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Data Graham posted:Lol I remember when the Blue Man Group did ads for the Pentium III and people thought they were a marketing gimmick made up by Intel I read "Intel" as "Israel" because of too much news recently and quickly became very very confused.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 23:21 |
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Please no Xeonism derails.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 23:28 |
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Dick Trauma posted:Please no Xeonism derails. Lmao
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 23:29 |
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Desert Bus posted:Thank God I own this: I just missed out on buying the first edition, I have had this second edition since new. Learnt so much from it as I was late to DOS (1992)
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# ? Oct 21, 2023 09:40 |
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I don't know where my copy of DOS For Dummies went, but I've got a second edition of the Indispensible PC Hardware Handbook somewhere in the giant box of irrelevant books, I know that for sure.
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# ? Oct 21, 2023 10:53 |
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Artist: "yeah i'm just going to draw my Beetlejuice Insane Clown Posse alopecia fetish art..."
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# ? Oct 21, 2023 11:32 |
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Sweevo posted:
This is Jack from Mass Effect 2 if the game came out in 2003.
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# ? Oct 21, 2023 11:47 |
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That face tells me she only speaks in Nintendo 64-era sound effects
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# ? Oct 21, 2023 18:15 |
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One of my favorite books in my teens was Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines. I spent the first ten years of my career trying to convince managers to try hypertext (I was a tech writer). Then, in 1993, Tim Berners-Lee finally got worldwide adoption.
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# ? Oct 21, 2023 18:39 |
That showboating narcissist
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# ? Oct 21, 2023 19:04 |
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Data Graham posted:That showboating narcissist Ted Nelson? Well, yeah, but SOMEDAY, just as soon as he finds somebody who'll write all of Xanadu for him and not run screaming after working with him for a couple weeks... (you'd think after trying to get something developed for 40 years you'd just break down and learn how to program yourself)
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# ? Oct 21, 2023 20:36 |
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Pham Nuwen posted:Ted Nelson? Well, yeah, but SOMEDAY, just as soon as he finds somebody who'll write all of Xanadu for him and not run screaming after working with him for a couple weeks...
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# ? Oct 21, 2023 21:10 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I think he's like Stallman: thanks for the early work, other people executed better. Stallman stole the only useful thing attributed to him (eMacs) from James Gosling.
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# ? Oct 21, 2023 21:49 |
Pham Nuwen posted:Ted Nelson? Well, yeah, but SOMEDAY, just as soon as he finds somebody who'll write all of Xanadu for him and not run screaming after working with him for a couple weeks... Lol I meant more like Tim Berners-Lee. Could have been emperor of the world if he'd played his cards right, apparently
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# ? Oct 21, 2023 21:56 |
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Grassy Knowles posted:Stallman stole the only useful thing attributed to him (eMacs) from James Gosling.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Speaking of, I think that growing up in the 80's and 90's, everyone knew SOME family (or maybe you were that family>) that had one of these kneeling chairs plopped in front of their OG Macintosh:
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# ? Oct 21, 2023 22:50 |
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Yeah the few times I’ve sat on those type of chairs I always thought they were pretty comfy
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 00:12 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Huh. He did? Yes, if you really push the definition of all parts of that statement well beyond what they usually mean. Wikipedia has a reasonable summary: quote:Gosling initially allowed Gosling Emacs to be redistributed with no formal restrictions, as required by the "Emacs commune" since the 1970s, only asking for a letter acknowledging his authorship. Later, wishing to move on, he sold his version of Emacs to UniPress. It also looks like they had their own lisp interpreter, and Stallman was involved in Emacs before Gosling wrote his implementation. E: I feel like I should mention that I'm a BSD guy who prefers vim to emacs, and I think the FSF and GNU should not let Stallman hold any form of employment position with them anymore. It still seemed like an annoyingly unfair throwaway comment. Computer viking has a new favorite as of 01:05 on Oct 22, 2023 |
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Computer viking posted:It still seemed like an annoyingly unfair throwaway comment. Crediting Stallman’s input as a technical effort whose shoulders we stand on is a comment of similar effort so i met kind in kind. And I’m not criticizing that comment for being low effort at all. I just wasn’t bothered to comprehensively describe the history because Stallman as an individual doesnt deserve more respect than a throwaway comment imho.
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 01:46 |
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Found (among other things) a Hewlett-Paskard Laserjet 6P in the closet under the stairs, and m'contemplating giving it a clean, drying it out in the apartment proper (the closet is on the veranda which is unheated) and seeing if it works. It has a parallel-to-USB cable which is kinda weird? Anyway it should work with my old vertical-CRT Macintosh so I could actually use that for something. The inside looked fine from what I could see without any disassembly, but there's some residue on the cartridge and just below it - didn't smell like mold. e: It's the exact same cable as here, so I guess it's not weird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9qI8txj_Yw 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 13:55 on Oct 22, 2023 |
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https://twitter.com/obsoletesony/status/1716348730306068851?s=46&t=GxZoSKgPzb_-zyUnvLFKvg
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# ? Oct 23, 2023 08:45 |
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Was that the machine you had the big guy on your crew take everywhere in case a dance off broke out? E: Heheh, In Krazy Ken's latest video he glosses over how 3.5 inch disks were briefly referred to as "stiffy" disks By popular demand has a new favorite as of 09:18 on Oct 23, 2023 |
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Gonz posted:https://twitter.com/obsoletesony/status/1716348730306068851?s=46&t=GxZoSKgPzb_-zyUnvLFKvg I have a quite similar Salora boombox. It's a Finnish brand. I bet the design took a lot of "inspiration" from that Sony. I used to have a tradition of taking it out to a nearby park once every summer and blast wicked tunes from my cassettes.
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# ? Oct 23, 2023 09:28 |
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I bought something highly similar on a flea market about 10 years ago. Clearly a cheap knock off. Many LED lights everywhere, power indicater, equalizer, the whole lot. Just no CD. I got it working but the quality of the potentiometers and switches was so bad that even after cleaning, everything was unreliable and sucky, and because of the way it was constructed it was too much work to try and remove them - and find new ones. Sold it to the next victim. It didn't sound all that bad. Cheap, but not bad.
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https://twitter.com/maxnichols/status/1716315408784085022?s=20
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# ? Oct 23, 2023 16:29 |
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EVIL Gibson posted:My brown Zune that turns green on the edges. With super dust mode on that will not change no matter what dust wipe I use on it. I miss my Zune
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# ? Oct 23, 2023 17:32 |
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What is the actual name of that rubbery coating that tons of turn of the century electronics used and always breaks down over the years into a sticky mess? Or do rubbery coatings still do that and I just don't have anything with it that's old enough?
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# ? Oct 23, 2023 18:10 |
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That’s just how rubber works, it wants to return to the ooze it came from.
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# ? Oct 23, 2023 18:12 |
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Gonz posted:https://twitter.com/obsoletesony/status/1716348730306068851?s=46&t=GxZoSKgPzb_-zyUnvLFKvg What is a "radio-cassette player", and what is "a 60W output"? gently caress how I hate AI generated poo poo!
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# ? Oct 23, 2023 18:20 |
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Dip Viscous posted:What is the actual name of that rubbery coating that tons of turn of the century electronics used and always breaks down over the years into a sticky mess? Or do rubbery coatings still do that and I just don't have anything with it that's old enough? There are many different versions. This is one: https://www.cromas.it/soft-touch-spray-paint.html I think they can be either silicone or urethane based.
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# ? Oct 23, 2023 18:32 |
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Dip Viscous posted:What is the actual name of that rubbery coating that tons of turn of the century electronics used and always breaks down over the years into a sticky mess? Or do rubbery coatings still do that and I just don't have anything with it that's old enough? Hard plastics go soft and soft plastics get rigid. I have no idea how that works but I'll just blame it on polymers.
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# ? Oct 23, 2023 18:37 |
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evobatman posted:What is a "radio-cassette player", and what is "a 60W output"? Are you sure that’s AI? I mean, fair enough if it is but I think it’s a pretty good description. Stuff used to say AM/FM-cassette all the time back in the day
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# ? Oct 23, 2023 18:37 |
Square speakers. What
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# ? Oct 23, 2023 18:46 |
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namlosh posted:Are you sure that’s AI? I mean, fair enough if it is but I think it’s a pretty good description. Stuff used to say AM/FM-cassette all the time back in the day It's real
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# ? Oct 23, 2023 18:51 |
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evobatman posted:What is a "radio-cassette player", and what is "a 60W output"?
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# ? Oct 23, 2023 19:17 |
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evobatman posted:What is a "radio-cassette player", and what is "a 60W output"? The output of the internal amplifier is 60 watts
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Audio poo poo is still rated in Watts even, this is a weird thing to think is AI lol
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