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Barnyard Protein posted:I used an Ultra 60 on a daily basis for about 3 years, it was pretty loud. At the time however, everything was loud. You just kind of expected a computer to be a loud thing that helped you get work done, like a wood chipper. It wasn't uncomfortable to be around, it was actually nice in a way. the noise masked ambient conversation mumbles really well. i hear some offices pump in artificially created pink noise to produce the same effect. I had a SS20 and an Ultra 1, neither seemed especially loud to me at the time (2006-2007). My MicroVAX was quieter than my primary desktop at the time, too!
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vodkat posted:I really want to make a fanless computer because I think it would be cool. can't really justify dropping the $$$ on another expensive computer that I don't need just because it would be cool tho my 486/dx 33mhz didn't have a fan or even a heatsink the power supply was super loud, but at least it had this huge red toggle switch on it.
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faxlore posted:I have a SGI ATH-101 keyboard that I have no use or want for and I don't want to just throw it away, I'll send it to someone for shipping costs. i'd take it if it's ps/2 and nobody else is claiming it, as long as you're in the US so shipping is cheap sliderule chat i have one of these, a pickett aluminum slide rule:  and one of these, a k&e log-log duplex decitrig:  and two others that I can't remember at the moment. the pictures aren't mine because i don't think i've ever taken pictures of mine. the k&e has a sweet leather case that you can hang on your belt and be king of the nerds.
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Jan 14, 2016 18:14
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here's a weird old wearable computer that i found at work. pc-104 boards in a case that's apparently shaped to sit against your hip: it has these funky little adapters that plug into camcorder batteries for power, you can see i have it plugged into two in this picture. i got one running what i think was openbsd:  old picture of a microvax running netbsd:  alphastation running vms:  adm-3a terminal connected to my pc and playing some sort of mud iirc: 
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Jan 14, 2016 18:42
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Kazinsal posted:ADM-3A can do RS-232C or 20mA current loop. Yep, I used RS-232. The CRT in there was kind of hosed in that it gave off a really loud whine. After 30 minutes of use I'd get a headache and watery eyes. I gave it to an old guy who couldn't hear high frequencies anymore
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Jan 19, 2016 03:47
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i guess my question really is why did so many companies buy into itanium and then keep buying itanium even after the initial flop from what I remember of my computer architecture class and other sources, itanium's VLIW architecture was supposed to be super hot poo poo just as soon as they got optimized compilers written for it. the problem is that a VLIW compiler has to do some pretty intense poo poo and they never really got as good as everyone hoped. hp ported VMS to itanium though which is kind of cool, even though VMS is the finest metaphor for government bureaucracy ever made (counterpoint: VMS actually functions ok once you figure it out)
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Jan 21, 2016 17:58
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i installed vms on that alphastation i posted a while back. life's fun, you had to go to some hp site and request a license for the tcp/ip package iirc. then there were licenses for the compilers and poo poo like that. couldn't use the software until they'd emailed you the hobbyist license. they didn't seem very big on organization, the system directories were just huge piles of files. maybe it had something to do with using "set def" instead of something simpler like "cd" to change directories... if it's a pain in the rear end nobody wants to bother
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Jan 21, 2016 18:10
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eschaton posted:today Weird Stuff had a big rack outside saying "FREE SUN SOFTWARE" so I picked up a complete Sun Developer Essentials for Enterprise package that includes media for Solaris 8 for both SPARC and Intel, as well as the Sun developer tools with a license code that doesn't need to access Sun's old licensing server to be used weird stuff and halted are pretty much the only things i miss from the bay area. those, and easy international flights.
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Jan 24, 2016 05:23
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:what actually used R12k? somebody gave me an octane2 and it was R12k. at that time none of the free *nixes supported it (guess netbsd does now) and i couldn't find irix. didn't have the weirdo hard drive sled either so even if i found irix discs i couldn't have installed it on a hard drive.
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Feb 1, 2016 00:11
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There are 3 PDP-11 systems sitting in racks at my work's reapplication warehouse... Two 11/44's and what I think is an 11/73. Also a couple RX02s, a VT240 sans monitor, and I think a disk drive. Wanting to go fetch them.
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Feb 4, 2016 21:31
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:do it! problem is it'll forever be property of my employer, even though they're most likely going to be sold for pennies a pound to some chinese company. there's no corporate-approved process for transferring discarded company property to the ownership of an employee
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Feb 4, 2016 21:36
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Barnyard Protein posted:does anyone remember that guy that got sent to prison for stealing a some teletype consoles and other ancient equipment that he was obsessed with? iirc he blamed it on his room mate. his website was great i wish i could remember enough about it to search for it it was me
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Feb 4, 2016 22:01
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Sweevo posted:i'm still waiting for the update on his new apartment. His website is amazing. From the front page: quote:Preferring temperatures around 90 degrees.
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Feb 4, 2016 23:56
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i have literally never seen one of these my school's cs dept labs were largely ultra 45s, with some older SPARC boxes mixed in
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Feb 12, 2016 04:43
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found someone on Craigslist who has a trs-80 model 102 for sale. let's see if I can get it for a reasonable price, or if she goes on ebay, sees the dreamers asking $300, and gets stupid.
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Citizen Tayne posted:lmao why would you buy a TRS-80, they're the discarded used condoms of the computing world  owns
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