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DrBouvenstein posted:Does the lock keep it from being removed from the bay, or keep it from being accessed by the software? We used to have a computer with that, I had a drive and my parents had a drive. The key locked the drive in place so it couldn't be removed.
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Powered Descent posted:Beautiful, but loses points for the buttons not continuing the surrounding wood grain pattern. real power would be to route out actual wood panels like a lunatic
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Goddamn, I need people to stop highlighting weird poo poo like this and giving me project ideas  Although doing this in actual walnut burl would be eye-wateringly, devastatingly expensive.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Does the lock keep it from being removed from the bay, or keep it from being accessed by the software? My brother's first "modern" computer circa 1993-94 ish the lock was to lock the key board. Like you could turn the poo poo on, but the key board wouldn't work if you locked it. E: I didn't see the lock up top by the hard drive. Just the one down by the turbo buttons.
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Trabant posted:Although doing this in actual walnut burl would be eye-wateringly, devastatingly expensive. just buy a fractal north case, they have real walnut front panels that don't inhibit the cooling requirements of modern hardware
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Trabant posted:Goddamn, I need people to stop highlighting weird poo poo like this and giving me project ideas at that point you better be doing each drive cover as well. Carefully drilling out the buttons, compact disk logo and everything, using some sorta foil leaf spring on the back. Actually maybe for the buttons and maybe ex the inner part of the disk slot covers, volume control dial, hard disk handle, you want something like patinated bronze. You already need some metal on the front for the lock plates. You could do the 486 badge in this too, that way it's not a drat sticker on there. The labels like power and etc you just gotta have like intaglio or w/e the term is, having those raised off the surface would be insane  Butterfly Valley posted:just buy a fractal north case, they have real walnut front panels that don't inhibit the cooling requirements of modern hardware but is it BURLLLLL
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I mean its loving wood, just offer some kind of skeleton case and people can build their own wood panel around it. Stain and finish in your own prefer color.
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Back in college they had HDD caddies on all the desktop PCs and everyone had their own harddisk. You had to select the right config in the boot menu as some machines were different from others. No lock though, just a switch on the front to turn the HD on and off, and it was quite neat turning it off and seeing Windows 98 freeze until you turned it back on. Ended up creating a universal default image that covered all hardware configurations that required some registry editing due to different network card positions and Windows 98 hitting its different hardware configuration limits. We were also reminded to make regular backups of our programming projects on floppies in case a drive happened to fail. I made multiple backups of mine as I'd already dealt with floppies randomly dying on me. Getting a USB drive pretty much solved that though. I als ran NeoRageX to play Neo Geo games on those machines with permission from the teacher as I was way ahead in assignments.
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wesleywillis posted:My brother's first "modern" computer circa 1993-94 ish the lock was to lock the key board. Like you could turn the poo poo on, but the key board wouldn't work if you locked it. Yeah, my family's first "real" PC (Gateway 2000 circa 1992/3, a 3x86, 4 MB RAM, Windows 3.0. Yeah, 3.0, not 3.1) had a physical lock on it, but it was just a fancy power switch that needed a key in series with the main power switch. It broke pretty early on (I think one of the springs in the tumbler broke so the pin wouldn't retract) so my dad had to just open the case and physically move it to the 'on' position internally. He was actually using the lock to attempt to lock me and my brother out of the computer so we wouldn't play too many games, but, welp, having to bypass the lock put an end to that, lol.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:at that point you better be doing each drive cover as well. Carefully drilling out the buttons, compact disk logo and everything, using some sorta foil leaf spring on the back. Actually maybe for the buttons and maybe ex the inner part of the disk slot covers, volume control dial, hard disk handle, you want something like patinated bronze. You already need some metal on the front for the lock plates. You could do the 486 badge in this too, that way it's not a drat sticker on there. The labels like power and etc you just gotta have like intaglio or w/e the term is, having those raised off the surface would be insane  muttering to myself to finish one project first.
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Butterfly Valley posted:just buy a fractal north case, they have real walnut front panels that don't inhibit the cooling requirements of modern hardware It even has a little leather pulltab on the back to pull off the upper fan cover. It's a neat little detail that you never see or use! It's a cool case. Good to build in and looks great.
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Finally checking out The Sopranos.
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My dad still pays for earthlink email. That way the email on his 30 years of business cards still works, an email for some local podunk dialup ISP that got boughtout who got boughtout who got boughtout by Earthlink.
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stephenthinkpad posted:I mean its loving wood, just offer some kind of skeleton case and people can build their own wood panel around it. Stain and finish in your own prefer color. No you must carefully hand engrave it like a Swiss watchmaker &/or make as much off the youtube project vids as selling it Be like "I carefully prepared this resin from south American wax bugs and illegally home distilled ethanol last episode, now it will take 8000 coats to bring out the natural sheen, which must all be dried and buffed" Then play some synth-classical music and slow mo footage with like a 3d printed bust of idk davinci, display your logo which is some obscure transistor & like draftsman compass Meanwhile you just do the poo poo but make it look preposterous as humanly possible "486 made in year 1486" w/e
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I won't have you speak ill of clickspring in this house
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credburn posted:Finally checking out The Sopranos. I watched it for the first time last year or so, and drat it was so intense/good.
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I am not 100% sure that this isn't a Photoshop... https://twitter.com/ObsoleteSony/status/1765286194416336947?s=20
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Dick Trauma posted:I am not 100% sure that this isn't a Photoshop... i mean it's trivially verifiable e.g. https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/09/sound-mug-sonys-tumbler-shaped-speaker-for-your-car-or-home-video/
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My time is too valuable to validate my posts, but not so valuable so as to stop posting.
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I love weird sony poo poo. Like surfing the web on your handycam!  
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Dick Trauma posted:I am not 100% sure that this isn't a Photoshop... I got one on Ebay four years ago and used pretty much as a walkman charger for my pretty broken but still useable walkman. 
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https://i.imgur.com/6WIGZjf.mp4
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Holy poo poo I'm old
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used to set that poo poo to download overnight, I could got a whole cd in 6 hours, unless something went wrong...ugh.
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"56k no" disappeared from image heavy thread titles so gradually, I never noticed.
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56k, luxury! I started out with a 2400bps modem. Downloading at a whopping 0.25 kb/s
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tribbledirigible posted:"56k no" disappeared from image heavy thread titles so gradually, I never noticed. There actually was a forum rule from Tax himself, IIRC, that said to quit doing that poo poo because anyone browsing a photoshop or PYF thread already knows.
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Nocheez posted:There actually was a forum rule from Tax himself, IIRC, that said to quit doing that poo poo because anyone browsing a photoshop or PYF thread already knows. I can't say for sure but I believe another important reason was that 56k NO! was a bit of a catchphrase and Lowtax absolutely detested them.
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I'm old enough that I used my C64 to connect to Quantum Link using a VICmodem I borrowed from a friend.
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Ruflux posted:I can't say for sure but I believe another important reason was that 56k NO! was a bit of a catchphrase and Lowtax absolutely detested them. Rightfully so. All catchphrases get worn out and annoying in a very short amount of time.
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Anybody browsed porn on the old WebTV? All these 56k talk got me nostalgic. I can't remember whether my Philip WebTV box had that modem tearing dial up sound. It must had. The alt newsgroup landspace back in the day was wild.
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Using a teletype machine to receive artisanally produced ascii dick pics. Hmm, I wonder what the word would be for ascii art before the invention of ascii. Probably teletype art, thinking about it.
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stephenthinkpad posted:Anybody browsed porn on the old WebTV? All these 56k talk got me nostalgic. I can't remember whether my Philip WebTV box had that modem tearing dial up sound. It must had. Another Tax memory! He pulled a report showing what browsers were being used in like 2003 or 4. Then he banned the only person using WebTV because "wtf" It was mean, but oh did I find it funny at the time.
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Nocheez posted:Rightfully so. All catchphrases get worn out and annoying in a very short amount of time. gently caress you, my catchphrase is new, cool, and has the rizz.
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OwlFancier posted:Using a teletype machine to receive artisanally produced ascii dick pics.
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Nocheez posted:Another Tax memory! He pulled a report showing what browsers were being used in like 2003 or 4. Then he banned the only person using WebTV because "wtf" I think about this one all the time. I wish we could hear from that user.
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stephenthinkpad posted:Anybody browsed porn on the old WebTV? Yes, the weird dude with a backpack who used to come into the Best Buy I worked at in the 90s and pull up boobs on the demo. Took a few times getting chased out before we could ban him.
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