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Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

maybe u should just throw this thing in the swamp

# ? Nov 30, 2014 00:18

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# ? Jun 8, 2024 16:15

pram: Jun 10, 2001

nice garbage pile mate, would be a shame if someone knicked it oi oi oi

# ? Nov 30, 2014 00:20

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

# ? Nov 30, 2014 00:21

Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

pram posted:

nice garbage pile mate, would be a shame if someone knicked it oi oi oi

I paid 3000 real dollars for that thing

# ? Nov 30, 2014 00:48

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

the worst old computer?

retina imac

# ? Nov 30, 2014 00:51

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

I paid 3000 real dollars for that thing

if you paid 3000 of them they weren't real dollars

:911:

# ? Nov 30, 2014 00:51

Relyssa: Jul 29, 2012

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

maybe u should just throw this thing in the swamp

wish youd throw your posts in the swamp

# ? Nov 30, 2014 01:32

Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

eschaton posted:

if you paid 3000 of them they weren't real dollars

3000 real 1999 dollars.

I could have bought a car with that money. but I was happy with my 1987 Honda Civic

# ? Nov 30, 2014 01:50

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

is that sage (the best imac color)?

# ? Nov 30, 2014 01:57

pram: Jun 10, 2001

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

I paid 3000 real dollars for that thing

well it still owns dont throw it in the swamp

# ? Nov 30, 2014 02:35

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Twas the last all in one mac you could upgrade vram on.

# ? Nov 30, 2014 02:36

Peanut and the Gang: Aug 24, 2009; by exmarx

Old computers run really slow and their memory is bad. And also they're all wrinkly.

# ? Nov 30, 2014 02:54

Space-Pope: Aug 13, 2003; by zen death robot

# ? Nov 30, 2014 03:41

Egan Yardley: Jun 11, 2010

Don Lapre posted:

http://www.jakeharms.com/ tw: <frame> website

# ? Nov 30, 2014 03:53

pram: Jun 10, 2001

Egan Yardley posted:

http://www.jakeharms.com/ tw: <frame> website

lol i forgot how lovely iweb sites were

# ? Nov 30, 2014 03:56

Last Chance: Dec 31, 2004

i like that the site just hosted in a frame from dropbox. very innovative. very cool.

# ? Nov 30, 2014 04:07

pram: Jun 10, 2001

can do the same from s3 it isnt that innovative

# ? Nov 30, 2014 04:11

Last Chance: Dec 31, 2004

yea its just something i hadnt seen since godaddy or some cheap website hosting i had in the 90s offered a "frame" as an option when buying a domain

# ? Nov 30, 2014 04:17

pram: Jun 10, 2001

hows yr swamp holding up op

# ? Nov 30, 2014 07:03

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012; ERM... Actually I have stellar scores on the surveys, and every year students tell me that my classes are the best ones they’ve ever taken.

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

is that sage (the best imac color)?

no it's
lime but thanks for the compliment and i totally agree w/ u

# ? Nov 30, 2014 07:20

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012; ERM... Actually I have stellar scores on the surveys, and every year students tell me that my classes are the best ones they’ve ever taken.

sage imac, the proest

poor choice of music for the ad but included here for completeness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOFYeFR6Y8w

# ? Nov 30, 2014 07:22

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012; ERM... Actually I have stellar scores on the surveys, and every year students tell me that my classes are the best ones they’ve ever taken.

proest imac ad otoh, and second proest imac color, snow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od71i4m3woY

# ? Nov 30, 2014 07:23

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012; ERM... Actually I have stellar scores on the surveys, and every year students tell me that my classes are the best ones they’ve ever taken.

remember when cd burning was something people gave a shat about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXp1x6S3Chk

# ? Nov 30, 2014 07:25

pram: Jun 10, 2001

it was actually graphite

# ? Nov 30, 2014 07:26

Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

pram posted:

hows yr swamp holding up op

fukin sweet as

# ? Nov 30, 2014 08:06

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

taken thru a king edward op??

# ? Nov 30, 2014 08:19

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

echinopsis posted:

the worst old computer?

retina imac

u seem to have misspelt best and ultimate echi

# ? Nov 30, 2014 08:19

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

Sagebrush posted:

no it's
lime but thanks for the compliment and i totally agree w/ u

lime is darker than i remember then

# ? Nov 30, 2014 13:39

A Pinball Wizard: Mar 23, 2005; I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands; College Slice

my high school biology lab had an iMac on every bench

our teacher got real mad at us for playing popcap games and that beetle racing game

# ? Nov 30, 2014 14:18

Binary Badger: Oct 11, 2005; Trolling Link for a decade

man you guys don't know what old is

i still have an old apple //e with a three position firmware switch that doesn't buy me anything except another bunch of lovely graphics mapped to pre-Unicode byte codes

it plays a mean game of wings of fury with the Hayes joystick i still have to calibrate every two weeks

plus an old CP/M Z80 coprocessor and a 132 column card and a novation apple cat whose only function these days is to decode touch tones

Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Nov 30, 2014

# ? Nov 30, 2014 20:13

Binary Badger: Oct 11, 2005; Trolling Link for a decade

one of my old yobs was to help convert paper tape to some modern format for a local branch of the US Passport office

wound up settling for comma / tab delimited text files because it was the most 'future-proof' (not my decision)

# ? Nov 30, 2014 20:22

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
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Binary Badger posted:

one of my old yobs was to help convert paper tape to some modern format for a local branch of the US Passport office

wound up settling for comma / tab delimited text files because it was the most 'future-proof' (not my decision)

in retrospect this seems like not the worst option

# ? Nov 30, 2014 20:44

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012; ERM... Actually I have stellar scores on the surveys, and every year students tell me that my classes are the best ones they’ve ever taken.

Binary Badger posted:

one of my old yobs was to help convert paper tape to some modern format for a local branch of the US Passport office

wound up settling for comma / tab delimited text files because it was the most 'future-proof' (not my decision)

yeah tbh any human-readable format is going to be the most future-proof, and ascii is about as universal as it gets. this sounds like the right decision

it's not like the passport office is bottlenecking because their computers can't process the data fast enough

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

lime is darker than i remember then

there was also a "key lime" that was more fluorescent but only the ibooks came in that color. the photo is pretty dark fwiw

# ? Nov 30, 2014 22:52

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

old? my granddads wiener is old

# ? Dec 1, 2014 01:26

bobbilljim: May 29, 2013; this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me

hopwd u guys get your hands on rotors computers???

# ? Dec 1, 2014 01:26

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.