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Turns out it’s actually a place in Nebraska. The Nebraska Furniture Mega Mart Electronics & Appliances building. Extremely similar to Incredible Universe.   
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It's like Incredible Universe and Fry's had a child. 
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Feb 15, 2024 01:39
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The (now shuttered) Fry’s in Tempe was originally an Incredible Universe!
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Feb 15, 2024 01:47
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Mmmmmmm, this should be an entry in the Cari institute
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Feb 15, 2024 01:50
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Mmmmmmm, this should be an entry in the Cari institute Utopian Scholastic all day erry day. https://cari.institute/aesthetics/utopian-scholastic
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Feb 15, 2024 01:52
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Laserjet 4P posted:Truly, this page is enough for everybody. As I very vaguely recall, a combination of Help in DOS - the help browser in 6.22 was genuinely informative - and the manuals and readme files that came with your assorted hardware.
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Feb 15, 2024 02:08
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Gonz posted:Utopian Scholastic all day erry day. I've never heard of this before. Very interesting stuff.
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Feb 15, 2024 02:41
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I was in Seattle for a couple days and had to go check out Re-PC (ended up visiting both locations!) after seeing Gravis' video. My haul was mostly cables and an obihai box for the telephone I was hoping to bring back into service, but the whole place is just such a nostalgia trip in its own right that it's worth it for the museum factor alone. Some highlights: Teletypes!  Kindness aid  Early adopter  I was already excited to see a running NES and Genesis side by side, but what really blew me away was the dreamcast dev kit  This video still image capture device comes with FREE Kai's PowerGoo  This  phone was sadly not for sale. Not sure why Thrustmaster chose to design their pedals like this but it clearly never caught on.  This was labeled working except for the tape deck, almost bought it for $80  Minicomputers, in the museum section  I'll definitely be returning next year 
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Feb 15, 2024 05:04
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I don’t like his channel but I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out MetalJesusRocks has a video about re-pc receiving that dev kit and getting it going: https://youtu.be/56thyUlYBJA?si=Fgw-FljXzGnhYOYj
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Feb 15, 2024 07:55
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Recapped my SE/30 last night and the sound works on it for the first time in like 5 years Nice SE/30, good thing the recapping got audio to work, sometimes the cap goo from the leaking caps can damage the audio chips
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Feb 15, 2024 10:24
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snorch posted:
Love that orange and brown color scheme unironically. I wish I could have a 70s orange and brown kitchen.
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Feb 15, 2024 15:26
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EL BROMANCE posted:Memmaker and other tools was a help for sure. Having 5MB RAM over the regular 4 definitely was some nice breathing room and gave enough of a boost to sometimes run 8MB minimum games. Duke 3D required 8MB of RAM, but running it from a DOS prompt in Windows 95 meant it could take advantage of virtual memory, and I got it working on my crappy 4MB computer. Didn’t work with Quake, though, and ROTT took a veeeeery long time to load up.
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Feb 15, 2024 15:41
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My dad was a teletype operator! I need to send him that photo.
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Feb 15, 2024 17:14
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snorch posted:This video still image capture device comes with FREE Kai's PowerGoo In high school I was able to borrow a Snappy from work, and used it to capture stills from VHS camcorder footage of friends doing fighting moves in front of a sheet. Things did not work how I expected and I still had to use Photoshop 3.0 (which only had ONE layer of undo) to manually clean every frame. One live action character was implemented (i think using a magic wand select of black pixels?) , and the other was a robot I made in 3D Studio 4.0 for DOS: 
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Feb 15, 2024 17:48
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We had a Snappy. Break out that SCSI card!Snackmar posted:One live action character was implemented (i think using a magic wand select of black pixels?) , and the other was a robot I made in 3D Studio 4.0 for DOS: That's so rad, that's exactly the kind of poo poo I wanted to use it for.
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Feb 15, 2024 18:03
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credburn posted:We had a Snappy. Break out that SCSI card! Oh interesting, the one I used was a parallel port version - I don't think I've ever actually had a SCSI port on one of my own computers
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Feb 15, 2024 18:12
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snorch posted:Minicomputers, in the museum section Man, I'm in love with that Digital...thing. I don't know what it is, what it does (or did), but I love the look of it. I want it in my house and to somehow get it to control my Christmas lights, or something. You can see how stuff like that really inspired set design for shows like Loki and, to a lesser extent, Severance (Severance seems to pull mostly from a few years later, early to mid 80's home and office PC aesthetic.)
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Feb 15, 2024 18:17
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8/e I too am in love with the design work in Loki and Severance. The new Deadpool movie features the TVA so hopefully there will be more of that sort of thing.
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Feb 15, 2024 18:29
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The severance computers are actually real data terminals and are from 1977 https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Data_General_6053
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Feb 15, 2024 18:30
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snorch posted:
What's the thing above the main panel?
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Feb 15, 2024 18:31
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:What's the thing above the main panel? Tape Drive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECtape
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Feb 15, 2024 18:37
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Beve Stuscemi posted:The severance computers are actually real data terminals and are from 1977 Yeah I recognized them. I loved the weird graphics they created for them. They really captured the quality of a dream.
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Feb 15, 2024 18:40
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If anyone wants their own PDP-8 at home there's this, sadly no tape drive though: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8 First off, that rules. Also they did have an original boxed copy of Photoshop 3.0 if you're really craving the full godawful asset creation workflow of the 90s experience.
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Feb 15, 2024 20:18
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Gonz posted:The (now shuttered) Fry’s in Tempe was originally an Incredible Universe! My dad took me on opening day and I still have my member card somewhere
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Feb 15, 2024 22:02
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Snackmar posted:In high school I was able to borrow a Snappy from work, and used it to capture stills from VHS camcorder footage of friends doing fighting moves in front of a sheet. Things did not work how I expected and I still had to use Photoshop 3.0 (which only had ONE layer of undo) to manually clean every frame. lol that rules
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Feb 15, 2024 22:15
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DrBouvenstein posted:Man, I'm in love with that Digital...thing. I don't know what it is, what it does (or did), but I love the look of it. I want it in my house and to somehow get it to control my Christmas lights, or something. good news https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1MDYYvw0cY it's a minicomputer, basically a mainframe that didn't need an entire room any more just most of one.
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Feb 15, 2024 22:18
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I just noticed that it is now fully viable to run Impulse Tracker in DosBox on my 2022 mid powered laptop, where this wasn't true for my 2015 high powered one. I'm sure desktop parts have gotten there long ago, but it's novel to me. I've been waiting for this point since, idk, I skipped Windows ME for this (no true dos mode), so the point where XP got inevitable, I guess. A good twenty years. I know there were and are plenty of alternatives for software. I still have modules that don't play correctly otherwise. It's crazy how all my Fruityloops and Nuendo and Cubase and even current Reaper projects degrade to an unplayable state due to folders moving, plugins becoming unavailable and whatever, but those turds I made when I was 17 live on.
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Project Quasar has laid dormant but things are finally moving along: It's a combo TV/radio/phone thing from 1985 that I'm connecting to a mini PC and building a retro-styled base for, inspired by these posts after I first posted about it itt... two years ago  :spookykid posted:Take any and all Zoom calls on it with the handset to your head the entire time. Code Jockey posted:gently caress you could absolutely make that into a video phone Thanks for the inspiration! 
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Feb 16, 2024 01:32
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incredible lol o7
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Trabant posted:Project Quasar has laid dormant but things are finally moving along: I just saw a similar RCA TV/Radio/Flipclock popup in 2 weird Facebook groups I follow. I have never seen anything like it in person and have no use for one but if I ever find one I'm buying it and will figure out a use for it later..  
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Feb 16, 2024 03:24
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poo poo, that's awesome. I love the 70s/80s "cram things together" approach to product design 
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Feb 16, 2024 06:27
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the fry’s on Indianapolis was also an Incredible Universe. in the meantime it was a car dealership with the no-haggle model before CarMax made it cool
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Feb 16, 2024 15:50
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Came across a cuecat today, truly a Good Friday
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Feb 16, 2024 16:08
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Came across a cuecat today, truly a Good Friday you know, I never thought about how much those look like a dildo until just now.
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Came across a cuecat today, truly a Good Friday NEAT! Always loved those despite the dumbness of everything surrounding them.
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LifeSunDeath posted:you know, I never thought about how much those look like a dildo until just now. When you accidentally find out your girlfriend has a bar code on her cervix.
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Feb 16, 2024 17:57
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Cojawfee posted:When you accidentally find out your girlfriend has a bar code on her cervix. Accident? Motherfucker I’m honest about mine being a factory model from the sex change hospital in Montreal. Got a nice little “Brassard” badge on my clit hood and everything.
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Feb 16, 2024 18:33
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Accept no substitutes.
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I had a friend go black market and now their vagina squeaks like a rubber chicken.
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Desert Bus posted:I had a friend go black market and now their vagina squeaks like a rubber chicken. That's a feature, not a bug.
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