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The cable connections suggest it had to be used with batteries. A is the filament voltage, B the plate voltage (multiple different ones) and C the negative grid bias voltage. Whenever possible, people used a battery replacer for the high voltage - but often kept using the battery for the filament voltage, because those were usually lead acid rechargeables while the plate battery wasn't. The grid bias battery could last a year or so, so that never was a big deal.
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Which tech relics did you use to consume the OJ Simpson trial?
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Cable television.
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I used to watch the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour on E! before the OJ trial, and then they switched to 100% daily coverage of that. I tuned in every day hoping the trial would be over so I could watch the Smothers Brothers again. When the trial finally ended, E! completely changed their schedule and the Smothers Brothers were no more. OJ Simpson killed the Smothers Brothers.
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c-band satellite tv. Back in the day if you had c-band your entire house could only watch one satellite channel at a time, as the dish had to physically move to point to different satellites (Meaning that changing channels could take minutes). My parents had two decoders in the house, one in the living room and one in their bedroom. Many arguments on who could watch satellite when were had, my dad usually winning out to watch cops, followed by my mom who would tape sitcoms to watch in the evening. When the chase happened dad of course tuned to it. I remember it interrupting a program I was watching but I can't for the life of me remember what.
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First of May posted:I used to watch the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour on E! before the OJ trial, and then they switched to 100% daily coverage of that. I tuned in every day hoping the trial would be over so I could watch the Smothers Brothers again. When the trial finally ended, E! completely changed their schedule and the Smothers Brothers were no more.  <- yo-yo man
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Which tech relics did you use to consume the OJ Simpson trial?
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What do you even play on a G3 mac? Quake and that’s it?
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snorch posted:What do you even play on a G3 mac? Quake and that’s it? Starcraft, Civ, Age of Empires II, Unreal Tournament...
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snorch posted:What do you even play on a G3 mac? Quake and that’s it? the doorstop
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My bad I forgot how many actual mac ports there actually were. You’d definitely be buying all your own games then.
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TLO rollcall
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Also pretty sure that's a G4, the G3 was light blue.
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Sweevo posted:TLO rollcall I'd like to point out that this photo was taken in Lee's Summit, MO circa 2003, so it's actually possible that this was a Something Awful Rollcall, like Lowtax was lurking just out of frame
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Data Graham posted:Also pretty sure that's a G4, the G3 was light blue. Yeah that's a G4, the G3 in that formfactor was from the like one year window where Apple made computers that were neither beige nor gray.  colorful iMacs, thought of graphite and died.Also from experience it wasn't uncommon in that era to have games ship with both the mac and PC versions on one CD (at least if you bought the mac version), so you might get lucky and somebody had one of those instead of a pure PC version rather than having to buy a dedicated mac copy. On the other hand if you (or your parents) could afford a mac you could probably afford to buy your own copy of Quake3 and UT99 anyway.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I'd like to point out that this photo was taken in Lee's Summit, MO circa 2003, so it's actually possible that this was a Something Awful Rollcall, like Lowtax was lurking just out of frame Lot of driftwood chains and transitions lenses in that photo
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I remember bringing a 33mhz performa 630 Mac to lan parties, it was not a great experience to be the odd man out while all my friends played duke3d, quake etc against each other. After several years of whining to my parents they eventually upgraded me to a pentium 2 333mhz
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That was not an upgrade!
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At some point after I upgraded from a 486 to a pretty decent Athlon XP setup, I wired the two computers (both running Linux) together via crossover cable and set up the 486 as an X terminal: you would log in on the 486 and your programs would run on the AMD box but display on the 486. This allowed us to play either Quake or Quake II against each other and was probably the peak of my l33t h4x0r achievements for some time.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Tried to find a thread for vintage stuff but didn't see one...so I'll post this 95 year old relic here This is quite cool! Definitely will need some capacitors replaced.
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Dr. Quarex posted:I thought the same thing, and the article mentioned Something Awful so the author, assuming he was part of that group, surely Is Here(tm) Merritt is a woman. Maybe is or has been here though.
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I feel obliged to point out that I spend the Easter weekend playing Europa Universalis IV well into the night with eight other guys. Full on "dragged our monitors and desktop cases and I borrowed a 16-port switch at work", though we've moved on to wine or craft beer and cooking dinner, instead of ordering pizza and drinking sixpacks of the cheapest beer in the store. Also, we've moved up in life - literally, since a few of us own houses now, we were in the living room instead of the basement
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Pham Nuwen posted:Starcraft, Civ, Age of Empires II, Unreal Tournament... Quake III Arena, Madden 2K, Age of Mythology, Myth II
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Hold on, I'm still downloading 15 Tribes 2 updates, 6 of which are rollbacks of some of the updates in the download queue VVV: holy crap, only a couple weeks ago? I legit had no idea, i thought i was just pulling a deep reference Sentient Data has a new favorite as of 02:38 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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Sentient Data posted:Hold on, I'm still downloading 15 Tribes 2 updates, 6 of which are rollbacks of some of the updates in the download queue There's a new Tribes game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HOTjiQNy8Q
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I was part of a LAN party group that ran from 2000 to 2014 or so. I was the semi-official photograph taker. One day (I forget when) I was looking that the front page and saw this: It's part of a picture I took at one event and is of a friend of mine. I have no idea how whomever wrote that article found it 
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who could forget this classic
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God I wish that were me
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Well I got some duct tape and teenage dorks hanging around, you'll need to supply the 'boxes' though.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:who could forget this classic There's even a story to go with this photo now
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Notice all lurkers: the username 'Drew from Mason, MI' is available and so is 'Duct tape gamer'
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Ah, sweet memories of The Gathering '98, using Norske Nerder's sound system (which outperformed the official one by plenty of dB lol), waking up the entire 4000-strong crowd at 10:00 with classics such as "Ranma no Baka" and Rammstein's "Du Hast" on full volume. The days of buying CD-R's on 100-disc spindles... F4rt5 has a new favorite as of 09:58 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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That's an incredible radio find. Thanks for sharing.
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I joined a TFC clan once, and lasted maybe two matches before getting laughed out of the group for having a Winmodem
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yes this happened
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F4rt5 posted:Ah, sweet memories of The Gathering '98, using Norske Nerder's sound system (which outperformed the official one by plenty of dB lol), waking up the entire 4000-strong crowd at 10:00 with classics such as "Ranma no Baka" and Rammstein's "Du Hast" on full volume. The days of buying CD-R's on 100-disc spindles... Aah, The Gathering.   
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One of my fondest memories of The Party in Aars was getting to nerd out about music with kb_ from Farbrausch in the year they released .the. product. Most of the other LAN parties I have been to have been much smaller affairs, but also usually involved lugging CRTs up stairs at Universities. I don't really miss that part.
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