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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI Just recalling all the dumbshit of the 80's/90's/ early 00's of IT/Technology Remember when you had to blow out a VHS or N64, or even had to tune a UHF/VHF? When having 64MB of ram and a dual 56k connection was bad rear end? Or playing HL2 on an ATI x300 and P4 @ 1.6ghz with 512MB ram Man AOL 8.0 owns I can login to cartoonnetwork and play dexters labyrinth so much faster! This thread is to talk about all the BS you did when you got into IT in your early years (or as normies call it hipstering). Thread music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1UY7eDRXrs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRL5durPleI
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Remember when Zip Disks were a thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37rLJjP0kWk
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May 16, 2015 13:39
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IT BURNS posted:Remember when Zip Disks were a thing? I remember taking my Zip drive to work and attaching it to my work PC via parallel port, downloading game demos and patches, then taking them home to install on my home PC. We had a blazing fast T1 connection at work.
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May 16, 2015 17:15
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IPv6 is going to completely replace IPv4 within a few years!
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May 16, 2015 17:21
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Having to upgrade your 486 to a 486DX to play Duke Nukem was pretty dope when you're 8
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May 16, 2015 18:23
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I remember sourcing parts for the first computer I built with my dad. We were debating between, if memory serves, a 4gb, 6gb, and 10gb hard drive to purchase. I distinctly remember little me telling my dad we didn't need the largest drive because "there's no way we'll ever use that much space!"
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May 16, 2015 21:33
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When I first heard somebody had a gigabyte hard drive my mind was blown. That's a billion bytes! Also we'd unironically get a computer with matching speakers. I think people still do that.
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May 16, 2015 21:55
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Super Slash posted:Having to upgrade your 486 to a 486DX to play Duke Nukem was pretty dope when you're 8 fuckin' overdrive chips man those were the days
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May 16, 2015 23:30
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I remember those computers with the turbo buttons on the front. I don't think they actually did anything.
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May 16, 2015 23:44
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high six posted:I remember those computers with the turbo buttons on the front. I don't think they actually did anything. They actually did - "off" would slow down your computer from it's normal frequency for compatibility with old software. Although some buttons weren't even connected from the factory.
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May 17, 2015 00:19
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You can tell how long someone's been in computing in my city based on what people call things. Is it a datacenter or a computer room? Do they refer to it as data processing, computer services, or IT? Also, bus & tag cabling.
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May 17, 2015 00:41
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AOL 4.0 still works on Windows 8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA1tLxfdif4 The same guy has a bunch of videos about weird or obsolete technology that he has. For example, he has the Nvidia card that rendered everything in quads. It came with a Sega Saturn controller and 3 ported Saturn games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jChtlWNIAL4
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May 17, 2015 01:04
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IT BURNS posted:Remember when Zip Disks were a thing? I went to college in the days when students in certain fields routinely walked around with more than 1.44MB of work-related files, but before USB drives came on the scene. Though I'm pretty sure the internal drives (which pretty much every lab computer in my school had) didn't eject quite that hard. I also remember a number of other storage technologies attempting to help bridge that gap - Jaz disks, SuperDisk, CD burners with no buffer underrun protection burning blank CDs costing several dollars...
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May 17, 2015 02:44
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 Pfft I remember when this was first posted on Facepunch when I was 16. I hung out that IT forum WAAAY to much.
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May 17, 2015 02:50
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Most 90's case design?
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May 17, 2015 03:06
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:Most 90's case design? Where is the turbo button?
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May 17, 2015 03:16
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Turbo was too much for that case to handle man. That wide base was great though. You could give it a pretty decent kick and it'd still stay standing upright. Best door stop too.
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May 17, 2015 03:29
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Upgrading from 4 megs of RAM to 8 megs. Awesome, the last level of Doom II is playable now! Programmers doing godly stuff in only 64K. My first CD-ROM drive was single-speed, and set me back $250.
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May 17, 2015 04:35
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I remember spending my life posting to Icrontic, and before that when it was APUsHardware. Oh, and getting Bannited over at HardOCP during the Pentium 4 benchmark fiasco thing.
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May 17, 2015 06:33
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rockinricky posted:Programmers doing godly stuff in only 64K. My first CD-ROM drive was single-speed, and set me back $250. I had a double-speed drive that plugged into the end of an ISA Soundblaster card
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May 17, 2015 11:00
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config.sys and autoexec.bat shaving some KBs to get DOOM running with sound in 4MB RAM.  God I am glad those days are gone.
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May 17, 2015 17:26
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First machine I ever used was a 286 when I was five. First one I built was a pentium 90, I think. As a weird as it sounds, the only remaining picture of my family is a christmas picture of me unboxing an ATX motherboard and holding it on my lap next to a sister; other sisters and mom were on the floor. I still had hair, too! Now I really miss how easy it was to play pickup Descent/ D II pickup with bots or anarchy on minerva.
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May 17, 2015 17:53
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BlackMK4 posted:I remember spending my life posting to Icrontic, and before that when it was APUsHardware. Oh, and getting Bannited over at HardOCP during the Pentium 4 benchmark fiasco thing. I remember people getting banned from the HardOCP forums simply for mentioning that they used a non-Ratpadz mouse pad. I think Ratpadz was one of their sponsors at the time.
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May 17, 2015 17:54
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:Or playing HL2 on an ATI x300 and P4 @ 1.6ghz with 512MB ram This wasn't even that long ago OP is a phony.
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May 17, 2015 18:09
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rockinricky posted:I remember people getting banned from the HardOCP forums simply for mentioning that they used a non-Ratpadz mouse pad. I think Ratpadz was one of their sponsors at the time. Alereon fucked around with this message at 18:13 on May 17, 2015 |
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May 17, 2015 18:10
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Wish I still had the config.sys/autoexec.bat where I managed to pull this off:pre:Modules using memory below 1 MB: Name Total = Conventional + Upper Memory -------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- MSDOS 16,541 (16K) 16,541 (16K) 0 (0K) HIMEM 1,168 (1K) 1,168 (1K) 0 (0K) EMM386 4,144 (4K) 4,144 (4K) 0 (0K) COMMAND 2,928 (3K) 2,928 (3K) 0 (0K) TCPTSR 77,056 (75K) 272 (0K) 76,784 (75K) TINYRFC 18,496 (18K) 272 (0K) 18,224 (18K) NMTSR 6,160 (6K) 6,160 (6K) 0 (0K) ANSI 4,240 (4K) 0 (0K) 4,240 (4K) KEYB 7,856 (8K) 0 (0K) 7,856 (8K) DOSKEY 4,144 (4K) 0 (0K) 4,144 (4K) NEMM 672 (1K) 0 (0K) 672 (1K) UMB 688 (1K) 0 (0K) 688 (1K) SHSUCDX 5,808 (6K) 0 (0K) 5,808 (6K) CTMOUSE 3,328 (3K) 0 (0K) 3,328 (3K) OAKCDROM 28,912 (28K) 0 (0K) 28,912 (28K) IFSHLP 4,000 (4K) 0 (0K) 4,000 (4K) PROTMAN 400 (0K) 0 (0K) 400 (0K) RTSND 32,784 (32K) 0 (0K) 32,784 (32K) TCPDRV 1,328 (1K) 0 (0K) 1,328 (1K) Free 625,904 (611K) 623,744 (609K) 2,160 (2K) Memory Summary: Type of Memory Total = Used + Free ---------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Conventional 655,360 31,616 623,744 Upper 191,328 189,168 2,160 Reserved 0 0 0 Extended (XMS) 66,852,000 316,576 66,535,424 ---------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Total memory 67,698,688 537,360 67,161,328 Total under 1 MB 846,688 220,784 625,904 Largest executable program size 623,552 (609K) Largest free upper memory block 1,424 (1K) MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.
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May 17, 2015 19:57
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Talk poo poo to me on IRC and I'm going to WinNuke your rear end, buddy.
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Mitnick could whistle into a phone and launch ICBMs. True story.
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May 18, 2015 16:01
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My first computer as a kid was a Tandy 1000 with an 8 MHz 286 and 640k of RAM, running MS-DOS. When my parents replaced it with a 166 MHz Pentium running Windows 95 my mind was completely loving blown. I thrashed that thing to within an inch of its life playing whatever I could on it. What a great machine. I used it until 2002.
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May 18, 2015 20:17
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Finding out what a LAN was while attempting to play X-Wing Alliance online. Spending hours trying to figure out why I was crashing to desktop while playing Half Life 2. I think it was a driver conflict or something. Finding out that power supplies need upgrading after installing my new Nvidia GS7x00 and having the computer suddenly turn off with a puff of smoke out of the back of the case. Edit: Yes, I'm in my 20s. That was my first IT experience, breaking and then fixing my cheapo Dell. 22 Eargesplitten fucked around with this message at 21:45 on May 18, 2015 |
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Sometimes I miss the crazy off the wall antics of early electronics. The industry was in it's infancy and companies could spring up out of nowhere and throw something against the wall and see what would stick. I can remember back in the day when the tower case design became a selling point! Used to be you would use the desktop as a monitor stand, I can even remember some models that had the power and ups built into the monitor for some odd reason. I can even remember the crazy marketing bullshit of this guy:  Why yes I would like to take the extra effort to view more advertising!
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May 18, 2015 22:13
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Sometimes I miss the crazy off the wall antics of early electronics. The industry was in it's infancy and companies could spring up out of nowhere and throw something against the wall and see what would stick. I can remember back in the day when the tower case design became a selling point! Used to be you would use the desktop as a monitor stand, I can even remember some models that had the power and ups built into the monitor for some odd reason. Haha I remember my dad bringing home a handful of those from work, briefly trying it, seeing if he could use them for anything else, then throwing them all away.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Sometimes I miss the crazy off the wall antics of early electronics. The industry was in it's infancy and companies could spring up out of nowhere and throw something against the wall and see what would stick. I can remember back in the day when the tower case design became a selling point! Used to be you would use the desktop as a monitor stand, I can even remember some models that had the power and ups built into the monitor for some odd reason. CueCats . . . er, sorry, ":CueCats" were awesome if you used third-party software with them. I had a bunch of barcodes for automating poo poo.
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May 18, 2015 22:34
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What is that? I see an attempted cat-like but getting more phallic PS/2 to USB adapter?
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May 18, 2015 22:35
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I still have my SGI O2 with badass 21 inch Sony Trinitron monitor and I wish I had room to have it sit on display 
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May 18, 2015 22:36
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22 Eargesplitten posted:What is that? I see an attempted cat-like but getting more phallic PS/2 to USB adapter? It's a barcode reader. That particular one is an inline PS/2 model, but they also had a separate USB model that they released later. The idea was that you'd be sitting and reading a magazine in front of your computer (because that's where it's hooked up, of course), see an ad you want to know more about, and then scan a barcode on it which would take you to a site with more advertising. The company that made those spent millions on manufacturing the readers and giving them away for free with magazines and at Radio Shacks. Needless to say, they went bankrupt very quickly.
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May 18, 2015 22:52
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Makes sense to me. I'm used to pointing my dick at things to learn more about them. I still have my 21-inch Cornerstone P1500 monitor I got from a dumpster. I still use the 21-inch Cornerstone P1500 monitor I got from a dumpster.
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May 18, 2015 22:56
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ghostinmyshell posted:I still have my SGI O2 with badass 21 inch Sony Trinitron monitor and I wish I had room to have it sit on display Was that the wide screen Trini? I'd like to have that if I had the space too. I was once given the opportunity to have 2 of the wide Sonys but I passed. I want to make my office at work just like the Jurassic Park control room.
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The idea of a barcode reader isn't wholly bad, it came way too early and in a clumsy fashion. QR Codes are really useful but I only use them because my phone has the function built in. If I had to buy a device to use them I'd never do so. The modern init system for Linux actually renders a QR code during a kernel package instead of forcing you to scribble down stuff.
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