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Computer viking posted:If I recall the article correctly, it was actually quite hard to do, to the point where they dumped so much heat into it that it'd have melted either way? Still a good read, no spoilers: https://simson.net/ref/1993/cubefire.html
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Laserjet 4P posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAHJVa4Gkm4 I'll never pay GUS money now and never had one back in the day, but once the new version is out I'm interested in the Picogus, that ISA card that uses a Rasberry Pi Pico to do the job of a GUS. A lot more affordable than the hardware clones since it's not reliant on difficult to source old components. Seems a good way to experience the old demos that need one, even if 90% of the time I'm satisfied with cheap old Soundblasters and their clones.
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Desert Bus posted:Still a good read, no spoilers: I've never read that before, thanks for sharing!
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The aptly-named magazine Tietokone ("Computer" or literally "Knowledge machine") back in the early 1980s had a piece (or maybe it was a series) about one of the writers wanting an actualy portable computer so he build one with a battery. It had a clear plexi-glass case and, of course, ran CP/M. Computer magazines nowadays? "Windows 11 still poo poo, read all about it! Also there's a new Adobe whateverwhocares!"
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Portable, noun: something that has a handle.
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ynohtna posted:Portable, noun: something that has a handle. No it's Spanish for "for table" i.e. a desktop system.
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Mustache Ride posted:This goes in this thread I guess We had an SX-64 when I was a kid, such a cool piece of kit.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:No it's Spanish for "for table" i.e. a desktop system. Back in the old days you would have a porter to carry it for you.
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Guy Axlerod posted:Back in the old days you would have a porter to carry it for you. Computer is derived from “Come, porter”
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People of education and refinement call that sort of machine "luggable".
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Mustache Ride posted:This goes in this thread I guess Yeah LMNC is great. His dual leslie speakers are dope as gently caress.
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Guy Axlerod posted:Seeing as Computer was a female dominated occupation, the term "laptop computer" might be problematic. Isn't this just moving the goal posts but instead of making it easier you set the goal posts out of the stadium into a festering pig poo poo pond? Now IDE Master/Slave ; that is problematic because they knew what that relationship meant when it was first decided
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Taking the plunge and recapping the power supply board on my EGA monitor. I replaced the paper safety capacitors when one of them failed right after I got it, but there's still some screen wobbliness that is apparently due to the electrolytics failing so I ordered some from China. Here's hoping. I've also been playing with a PS/2 30-286 I picked up. Build quality on these is still pretty nice, and it was well-kept, so the hardest part was getting the IDE-CF to work replacing its long-gone hard drive. Pity maxing out its RAM is virtually impossible due to non-standard SIMMs.
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Post pictures. I'm not certain I ever got to see an EGA monitor in person, things kinda moved from 'everybody has an old 80's machine with a CGA' to 'everyone is getting into the 90's VGA revolution' around here.
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I wish I lived somewhere where it was easy to fill up my apartment with vintage computers. Somehow even Vancouver of all places has a dearth of working/minor repairs needed early 80s machines.
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EVIL Gibson posted:Isn't this just moving the goal posts but instead of making it easier you set the goal posts out of the stadium into a festering pig poo poo pond? One thing I've wondered is when did people stop talking about daugtherboards. Everyone still calls the motherboard a motherboard but daughterboards have been just "cards" for a long time now.
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By popular demand posted:Post pictures. EGA is pretty neat since it can handle CGA too though obviously looks better at EGA resolution/color. By the time I got into PCs it was already outmoded though, and all of my current old machines have VGA even though I have a couple CGA/EGA cards. Here's the computer, the power board before I replaced the safety caps, and the screen as it looks now.   https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/3yrgcbmngk4.mp4 https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7mmcq29vq7.mp4 Kazinsal posted:I wish I lived somewhere where it was easy to fill up my apartment with vintage computers. Somehow even Vancouver of all places has a dearth of working/minor repairs needed early 80s machines. I have a fair amount of free space and an attic now, which sparked me to get back into the hobby, but the years I spent in a small apartment did a real number on making me clear out old systems that were worthless curiosities then but can be expensive to replace now.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:One thing I've wondered is when did people stop talking about daugtherboards. Everyone still calls the motherboard a motherboard but daughterboards have been just "cards" for a long time now. I remember seeing daughterboard term in the Amiga world, but in the DOS PC world it was just cards all the way. I don't know about the early IBM scene as much so I don't know if "card" was popular earlier in the 80s already. "Sound card" is a lot nicer term to market than "sound daughterboard"
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Killer robot posted:I have a fair amount of free space and an attic now, which sparked me to get back into the hobby, but the years I spent in a small apartment did a real number on making me clear out old systems that were worthless curiosities then but can be expensive to replace now. I've got a VAX under my desk that needs its power supply recapped and a Macintosh Classic II above it that... also needs a recap. I'd like to get an XT with MDA and compatible monitor, but I can't seem to find any around here and I'm not going to pay eBay inflated prices to have one shipped and probably break in transit. Most likely I'll end up finding one in Seattle next spring and do a road trip for it. I wanted to secure one this year so I could put out an april fools joke for the OS development community in the form of a brand new from scratch Fourth Edition Unix for the 8088 but that didn't go as planned.
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lobsterminator posted:Aww your monitor is just scared. Give it some time and gradually socialize with it and it should stop shivering. It really does have that feel. For a little while I was hopeful it just needed to warm up since it improved over a few minutes, but then I realized it was just an up and down cycle. Kazinsal posted:I've got a VAX under my desk that needs its power supply recapped and a Macintosh Classic II above it that... also needs a recap. I'm pretty new to recapping but around when I did the safety caps on the monitor a few months back I did some bulging caps on a still-working Super Socket 7 board I picked up in a cheap auction. Then I had to hot swap the BIOS to upgrade it to an version with a larger ROM size and better processor support. Now it's got a K6-2+ at 550MHz which is about as much as you can expect from that platform without dropping three digits on a K6-3+ with good overclocking. Added in an SB32 I got in a cheap bundle of sound cards back in spring and a GeForce 4MX I got in a video card bundle around the same time and just bought some RAM for it.
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lobsterminator posted:I remember seeing daughterboard term in the Amiga world, but in the DOS PC world it was just cards all the way. I don't know about the early IBM scene as much so I don't know if "card" was popular earlier in the 80s already. Cards could themselves have daughterboards e.g. the WaveBlaster add-on for the SoundBlaster 16.
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Doctor Bishop posted:Cards could themselves have daughterboards e.g. the WaveBlaster add-on for the SoundBlaster 16. The word daughterboard was occasionally used for boards adding more expansion slots to a PC motherboard. For example, “pizza box” style prebuilts often had a horizontal motherboard with a single slot, and you plugged a vertical daughterboard into that that actually provided ISA/PCI slots. (Something like this https://ithardwarehub.ca/products/61h2328-ibm-riser-card-pc300gl-pci-isa-daughter-board-refurbished.html)
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Me. It was made for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBs3Jic6g2U They made a pro version, I need this in my life.
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Hope you have a lot of money to waste, according to the video since they've been discontinued those command very high prices on Ebay.
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Yeah on second thought it would lose its novelty pretty quickly too since it looks like you are forced to use the limited number of proprietary cartridges. I miiiight have been willing to pay the arm and a leg if it had generic midi in support. I guess teenage engineering made the modern version of these with bluetooth but it sucks in comparison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCcWEmoTQI
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r u ready to WALK posted:Yeah on second thought it would lose its novelty pretty quickly too since it looks like you are forced to use the limited number of proprietary cartridges. It looked to me like it's using repurposed WonderSwan cartridges, I was surprised the video didn't say anything. I wonder if a person could use a flash cart to load custom song data into it.
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r u ready to WALK posted:Yeah on second thought it would lose its novelty pretty quickly too since it looks like you are forced to use the limited number of proprietary cartridges. Its too bad there are not a lot of the bands because imagine someone doing similar things as they do to Billy Bass https://youtube.com/watch?v=bRxhgxH6FUI&si=db02yHuHveP4K2ym https://youtube.com/watch?v=bgsQR1qECso&si=B91WEhrYfJMHj1R7 https://youtube.com/watch?v=0PysluVigHw&si=j7dg1lJG6NFMDfwU The last one is a banger from 14 years away
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