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Laptop chat: I used to toy with a Mac for a while, but my real love are Thinkpads. I've got a 1993 486 Thinkpad up in storage which I boot up every now and then just to get a feel of the keys, the typing action is so good. The thing is encased in jet-black unobtanium made to last through a nuclear war and I occasionally toy with the idea of setting it up as a distraction-free writing machine, I even managed to hook it up to the Net through an old PCCard ethernet adapter. My current workhorse is a X230 from 2012, the last of a dying breed - the new small Thinkpads have unfortunately given up the classic design and traded in processing power for battery life, meaning that this beast is still the most stylish and powerful there is. You can reach every component by just taking off a few screws, and a SSD and a RAM update later I believe I can keep using this machine for years to come if nothing critical misfires. Macs might be sleek and beautiful, but nothing can beat the classic Thinkpad aesthetic. e: what did you use to call the trackpoint? I don't remember ever not calling it the 'nipple mouse'. barbecue at the folks has a new favorite as of 22:56 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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Mar 22, 2016 22:19
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I just spent an evening installing Windows 95 into Dosbox and fiddling with the proper drivers just felt so right. Couldn't get the NE2000 emulated networking to function yet, couldn't figure out the proper TCP/IP settings. Can't wait to get shitposting on some old version of IE like it was year 2000 
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Apr 21, 2016 23:01
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Stick Insect posted:Probably the first PC game I was able to do multiplayer with, as it had a two-player mode where each player got to use one side of the keyboard. There was this whole genre of obscure Finnish multiplayer DOS games back in the mid-1990s. Most of them were 'cave shooters' like AUTS or Wings or V-Wing, in which you flew a V shape ina a cave and tried to murder your friend doing the same thing. It looked like this:  Actually, you can try out AUTS online right now: http://playdosgamesonline.com/auts-the-ultimate-stress-relief-game.html There were also racers like Slick'n'Slide and then there was Mine Bombers. Oh, sweet Mine Bombers. With the best MOD title music in any crappy shareware game ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCnUH5gqBb8 I wasted my entire childhood with a couple of friends on these, back then multiplayer meant being cramped over the same keyboard. poo poo got nasty when at the same time keyboard manufacturers started to cheap out on parts and you could only only press like three keys at the time, leading to frantic yelling and shoving. Good times
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Apr 28, 2016 20:20
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Geirskogul posted:Along with solving the GIF mystery, reply all has you covered on this one, too. I didn't even know that the fate of JennyCam had been bugging me a bit for all these years! Thanks for this.
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May 3, 2016 07:19
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I've got a 1970s Technics stereo receiver that once belonged to my father. I am perfectly willing to believe I will die before that beast does, the only maintenance it has required is airing out the dust every now and then and cleaning the knobs with electric cleaner every two decades or so. poo poo was built to last back then.
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Jul 14, 2016 11:50
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Well this is really something. Is there anything south? I got bored.
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Jul 28, 2016 01:19
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I was the only person I knew who liked SonyEricsson phones, something about the tight jewel-like design appealed to me over the then-ubiquitous Nokias. I had my T300 for years because I liked the responsive buttons and the shimmering glass-like front design - now it of course just looks like an expensive bar of soap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFS1vPGaIoo
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Aug 4, 2016 11:47
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The PS2 reading head actually went out of alignment after a couple of years which probably caused most of the reading issues people had. The drive had to be recalibrated by hand, which meant just taking the thing almost completely apart and fiddling with a little screw inside the drive assembly until you hit the sweet spot where stuff would, you know, actually load. Mine worked fine for years after that, but yeah, quite a hassle.
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Aug 5, 2016 14:08
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mrwuss posted:and now thats the way it is with data I'll never understand why you Americans have to suffer this, I just updated my unlimited 3G for 20 bucks a a month to a plan for unlimited 4G net, calls and texts for 22,90€ per month. I haven't had a separate broadband connection for years since my phone functions so well as a wifi hotspot for all my needs in my tiny apartment.
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Aug 8, 2016 09:14
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LaserDisc really was where it was at, bonus-wise. I think someone posted this already, but yeah, you wasn't getting stuff like this with videotapes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOrn2hBsYKE
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Aug 11, 2016 18:21
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freeranger posted:And this was another item I found during the same move, it's a real shame we couldn't find the ISA cards that went with them. Hahahaha, I picked up a google cardboard kit for five bucks yesterday for laughs and the first thing that came to mind when trying it out was "holy poo poo, this piece of cardboard with plastic lenses has way better optics than those crappy 3D helmets in the 1990s!" Those things made your eyes bleed within seconds. I really should figure out if some kind of mockulus setup could be rigged to play Descent, the holy grail of VR gaming
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Aug 13, 2016 10:42
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error1 posted:Hot drat Techmoan always finds the best hifi junk This is awesome, looking at the mechanism go and realizing it's just an insane Rube Goldberg machine for playing tapes, cooked up by some batshit Japanese engineer 
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Aug 14, 2016 13:44
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WebDog posted:VHS board games. Have you EXPERIENCED BIJ? EXPERIENCE BIJ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3N91VDtWL0
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Aug 14, 2016 16:52
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nigga crab pollock posted:i found an old mod called navy seals that itself is a very radical quake mod. but with the limitations of the hardware ends up working, kind of well actually, as an oddly paced high stress cover shooter? its not like anything i've ever played. it's like a bunch of seemingly bad things working together in unison to make something good or at least i see some potential. ive made a bunch of lovely test maps to see what the 3ds is capable of and i mean its still janky but at the same time its like some alternate timeline ps1 era shooter (jank and all) so i wanna make a little campaign. half to just say 'i made a first person shooter for the 3ds' Oh poo poo, I remember Navy Seals from 18 years ago You're doing the Lord's work.
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Aug 31, 2016 22:40
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This was mentioned in the SA sagas thread. The schadenfreude is off the loving charts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTqhyHuKVKA
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Sep 13, 2016 20:36
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TechMoan's doing Commodore SX-64 fixes this time, this is some of the most  material in a while: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXlblGvNtOs
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Oct 11, 2016 21:23
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I've only seen black and white pictures of the SX-64 - the quality of design really surprised me (I always keep forgetting that Commodore was a) American and b) not only about mass-market designs like VIC-20/C64). That keyboard design is tasty as all hell and oh my god those blue highlights I guess I know without asking that someone has already turned one of these into a regular old PC with a small LCD screen and gotta say, the prospect does intrigue me.
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Oct 12, 2016 12:30
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Thank you for introducing me to this wonderful little corner of God's creation.
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Oct 16, 2016 15:58
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What they said.
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Oct 19, 2016 21:13
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TI Calc talk reminded of this little gem from way back when I actually attended demo parties. (I was one of those kiddies who came for the Counter-Strike and  before broadband at home was a thing.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTdBZffnqfs I remember the crowd going pretty wild when everyone realized you could get sampled sound out of those things.
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Nov 7, 2016 16:46
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Speaking of retro calculators, here's some watch porn for all y'all courtesy of Techmoan who keeps showcasing the most amazing stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGQrsSEaZkI
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Nov 18, 2016 12:09
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The Sausages posted:More box art, courtesy of psygnosis: Holy hell, picking up any one of these from the shelves and lugging home must've been the most amazing feeling. Too bad I wasn't an Amiga kid.
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Nov 23, 2016 21:05
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Due to a work-related thing I just had to use an old-style Nokia phone to text for the first time in, like, 10 years. Without thinking, I just began to smash out text like it was 2001 and I had my old 3210 at my fingertips. Some things really are like riding a bicycle.
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Dec 16, 2016 23:01
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VideoTapir posted:There are Android flip phones.  Jesus that is a sexy phone. If there was a Marshmallow update available, I would be setting up a little import business right as I write this.
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Dec 21, 2016 09:15
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prom candy posted:I was lucky enough to grow up with a cool dad and therefore lots of 70s and 80s hifi gear but just about every one of my friends had one of these systems in high school. My one friend used to run his MiniDisc player through his, it was like being in the future! I always had a pile of old cannibalized Technics hifi with proper speakers because yeah, cool dad, but all my friends had a system exactly like the one above. Piping a Playstation through one to blast the Tony Hawk soundtrack at a proper volume while doing them nollies and grinds and what have you 
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Feb 4, 2017 11:27
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Techmoan keeps on finding the greatest old weird tech I would've murdered for back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdObeF9VHiA That engineering with all the tiny buttons, we'll never see stuff like this again
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Jul 23, 2017 15:34
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I love the Techmoan dude for being just an ordinary British person with a weird (and probably financially ruining) obsession for old AV tech, acting like all British men with boring odd hobbies do: with a serene ironic detachment from the outside world and wry irony towards everyone who happens to think what they do is stupid. For most Americans it seems to come off as contempt, for me it's a soothing balm after the forced positiveness and feigned excitement and OH LOL WACKINESS of American youtubers.
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Jul 26, 2017 09:09
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I always preferred Megadrive/Genesis sound to SNES as a kid. SPC never had anything on that sweet pumping shredding 1980s Yamaha synth action, that's the Future you're hearing 
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Sep 8, 2017 08:49
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boar guy posted:NOW YOU'RE PLAYING WITH POWER PORTABLE POWER in Game Boy ads.
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Jan 5, 2018 12:07
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That thing works on Android, too! It... really whips the llamas rear end.
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Feb 8, 2018 19:04
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I think this guy was featured in the thread already, he's done some nice videos about how Sonic 3D Blast was coded and optimized to fit in a Genesis cartridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV9x1KY_XWI Now he's ready to teach you all to code a game for the Genesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSYhSmXBgIw If I had any computer toucher in me I would probably give it a go, sounds like a fun [insanely frustrating] project to gently caress around with.
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Mar 3, 2018 19:57
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I always thought that Quake's single player was more of an afterthought, even back in 1996 everyone knew that online gaming was the whole point. Playing TF on a 36,6k modem was mind blowing. It feels weird to think that Half-Life came out only two years later, and Counterstrike a year after that.
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Apr 12, 2018 17:26
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I just found out about Minitel and I find this stuff just so dang fascinating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOhK9bgQo8g In Finland we got one way Teletext but having an interactive system like this in an average home in the 1980s must've been pretty amazing.
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Apr 29, 2018 15:10
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We have all the keys you have and lots more, it's exactly like liberty or socialized medicine.
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May 2, 2018 15:26
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My trusty Lenovo X230 with 12 gigs of ram and an SSD is still serving me as my daily work machine just fine. The thing is built like a loving tank and I actually love the aesthetic, everything Lenovo has put out after it just doesn't do it for me. (Also X230 is still driven by an i5 Intel so it often outperforms more power conscious models today.) Best of all worlds really, unless you hate chiclet keyboards.
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May 22, 2018 15:25
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Finns do WhatsApp a lot for some reason, it's the app of choice for those who don't do Facebook and it makes multinational chat groups a breeze. The irony is, of course, that Zuckerberg gets to read through your messages anyway.
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Jun 15, 2018 06:48
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Horace posted:I love SMS box art. I love how that grid, font choice and clipart style make every game look like it's a PC program for collating tax invoices. I love how the grid background is too heavy and messes up text. I really love examples like the Ghostbusters game art, which is so devoid of any creativity at all I think it might be a genuine masterpiece. It's interesting how they thought that the way to beat Nintendo was to appear more "adult", calm and stylish and collected, it reminds me of Apple vs. other PCs in the early 1980s. Unfortunately 8 year olds aren't known for appreciating uniform monochrome style languages with serif fonts and grids everywhere instead of colorful box art and explosions.
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Jun 16, 2018 06:38
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Some techies were trying to push electronic voting from home in Finland, too, but the recent problems with election interference from some unnamed parties have put that particular discussion to bed for now. You can't forge paper slips as easily as you can break into a badly secured voting system, and we all know that they're gonna have some "unforeseen" security flaws in them. Nordic countries having perfect residential rolls from 17th century onwards of course plays a role, too.
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0toShifty posted:I also have a handycam - a Digital8 with a flip-out LCD and firewire. It's all new in the bag. It was used only one time. I have no idea why I still keep them. I just realized that is been 14 years or so since I last used a video camera and edited stuff on a PC with a crappy Athlon processor in the school computer lab. Firewire was basically magic technology back then, you could just shoot stuff and them edit it ON A PC! Before that I had only used oldschool video editing decks. I have no idea if people even use handycams these days.
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