lobsterminator posted:

Are these considered relics? I still regularly use them all and they are all connected to the internet via wifi. They also hold their value a lot better than the latest Ryzen will.

Collateral Damage posted:

My first PC was a 33Mhz Cyrix 486DLC that my parents paid way too much for in the early 90s.

The 486DLC was technically a 386DX with the 486 instruction set and a small L1 cache. The 33Mhz model had performance similar to a 25Mhz 486SX, but had the slight advantage of being able to use a 387 FPU.

Being a barely teenage brat at the time I insisted to my friends that it was at least as fast as their 486DX computers and in fact more letters after the CPU model was better!

Sweevo posted:

Only the 486 had doubled and tripled versions (DX2 and DX4). The 386 just came as the SX and DX, which also mean completely different things on the 386 vs the 486

Mantle posted:

I tried every imaginable way to manually manage my memory to get Dark Forces to run on my 386DX/20 with 6MB RAM, but it wouldn't run. I got Slackware to install on it though, 5 floppies!

3D Megadoodoo posted:

I said good. No flight simulator is good. (Unless you count Corncob 3D as a simulator.)

3D Megadoodoo posted:

OK you... ordered Corncob 3D based on the name???

I mean it's a great game but I only got it because of a review in a magazine.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

I'm a member of a retro-computing flea market group on Facebook and it amazes me how many members will just straight-up list things like old tools, separators, potatoes, lovely bicycles, etc on there. Is this a common occurrence? e: I mean common other than in that particular group.

barbecue at the folks posted:

Here's a proper tech relic, from a more civilized age. Thread:

https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/1444134722938892293

Bargearse posted:

I love seeing these weird text mode colour schemes from before everyone just kinda settled on blue and white.

Humphreys posted:

What a delightful old BIOS!:

Cat Hassler posted:

I found my 3rd gen iPod and was surprised it charged up. Then I thought it was busted because I tried touch scrolling on the display and nothing was happening

Pham Nuwen posted:

I wish mp3 player chat was on a slightly longer cycle...

(serif fonts are cool, I use Go Mono for programming: https://go.dev/blog/go-fonts)

Gonz posted:

You Am I posted:

Fired up my Commodore 486 for the first time since probably the start of the year (after spending half the afternoon searching for the PS/2 to AT keyboard adapter)

The BIOS battery still works! Quickly wrote down the HDD settings as the BIOS does not do a HDD auto detect

Still getting annoyed by the SB 16 that I have in it. It is a PnP model, and it seems half the time the PnP drivers will recognise it, the other half not. Perhaps I should look for a non-PnP one, but drat old expansion cards are getting pricy

Mak0rz posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw

Cartoon Man posted:

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

I couldn’t imagine watching movies and sports stuff exclusively on a computer screen. That stuff is so much better on bigger screens IMO.

longview posted:

As Cliff mentions in the video, the range was better indoors, so it's almost certainly due to cellular interference.
The density of cell towers using that frequency range now is insane compared to when that device came out so wouldn't have made sense to spend money on good RF front ends and good filters to reject cellular frequencies at the time.

These days SAW filters are typically used for devices operating in the 900 MHz range, but I think those were a lot more expensive at the time. They're used now since the performance without them is what he shows in the video.

Keep in mind this was back when GSM phones would consistently interfere with TVs and stereo systems, nothing in the 90s was designed around the idea that everyone would be carrying a 2 W pulsed RF transmitter everywhere they go.

Speaking of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BINQNedOxM8

Forget the 56k modem sound, that brings me back to visiting my grandma, leaving the phone by the TV, and hearing the tell-tale morse code like interference, and knowing that the phone would ring in about 1 second.

evobatman posted:

I have never understood private trackers. What exactly do you get there that you do not get on general open sites? I can see a use case for extremely niche and/or highly curated content, but for general TV shows and movies why bother?

Humphreys posted:

It's not really mod but TGV's KiloMix '98 that was built into Rebirth RB-338 was one of the first 'non commercial' tracks I put on my 32MB MP3 Player.

EDIT: Found it easily enough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfjmo451aGM

You Am I posted:

The parts I needed for giving the Plus/4 some preventative maintenance came in the past couple of days.

This included power adapters so I can use my newer C64 PSU with the Plus/4 (thanks Commodore for using different power connectors), a 9 pin to mini DIN joystick connector (thanks Commodore for using a different connector for joysticks on the 264 series of 8 bit computers), and heat sinks for the TED and CPU.


First off need to start with the Plus/4 itself

Blue Moonlight posted:

Hey, do you have PM? I’ve got some questions about this setup for something I’m doing for work relating to old browser support.

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Tech Relics: I ordered a brand new tech relic to help get my other tech relics going

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Also, weirdly, windows 10 appears to have not so great floppy drive support? Either that or my drive is flaky

When I put a disk in and open the a: drive, windows reads the disk. If I go up one level to Computer, swap the disk and then go back into a: it just shows me the contents of the old disk without re-reading the disk. I have to unplug the drive and plug it back in to get it to read the new disk

Is there a way to get windows to stop caching the drive contents and force it to reload every time I access the disk?

Also it’s entirely possible I’m doing this wrong since it’s been forever since I’ve had to think about floppies

Tech Relics: Getting floppies working correctly in windows 10

Kazy posted:

Is this BitlBee? Currently trying to get a Windows 98 machine online with something retro-y in addition to Browservice, so I've been looking for options.

George RR Fartin posted:

....you don't happen to have a github or something you might share with the rest of the class? (No pressure if you don't - I know I've done projects where the end product was fine but essentially irreproducible, or any one of a million other reasons you might not wish to make it public).

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Finally dug out my old 1541, that was stored in a cold chicken house for over a decade, then on my cold veranda for... maybe a decade. Opened it up to do a cursory bug cum mouse piss check and it seemed pretty clean - no rust or anything either!

So now it can sit in my heated spare room for a decade or so!

EL BROMANCE posted:

NFOs actually have to be laid out in a specific way, because sitescripts will use them to relay information into IRC. First time I laid one out I did not know this, and the channel bot was just '????'. Same with SFV, which was more for verification on sites with people racing the files than for end users.

EL BROMANCE posted:

e2: ah on further reflection, that screenshot isn't utilizing NFO files, but the smaller file_id.diz which were more compact for displaying in such a manner.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Way back in the day, the most used terminal program for home computers in Finland was Sypterm. It was given away for free on a diskette by the bank SYP, so people could use their on-line banking system. Fun times renting a modem from the Postal and Telecommjnications Facility and loading up Sypterm to access Rauma Mailbox RAMBO.

Man I know it's not tech but it's wild to remember there used to be like 20 banks, not two.

Doccers posted:

So I ran 3 iterations of a BBS.

The first was a HERMES board on a macintosh LC,
then I shifted to a 486 and WWIV.
Shortly after that, I switched to a multi-line VBBS board, running under OS/2 for multitasking.
I swear I still have that thing backed up to tape somewhere around here...
The friend I had who got me into BBSing... still runs theirs.
As in, not only as a TELNET bbs, but actual dialup. and ISDN.

r u ready to WALK posted:

i just bought one of those a couple months ago for $100
i have zero need for one, it was just too cool to pass up, i've been using it to bootleg philips cdi games
the OEM ink cartridges are really expensive but the model is old enough that you can just stab the empty ones with a syringe to fill it back up

Cartoon Man posted:

Is this a tech relic yet?