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an acer netbook from the late 2000s that isn’t being used because I pillaged the ssd from it a while ago, and it’s small enough that it can sit in my box of old electronics in my closet so I haven’t thrown it away yet
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i still have my 15" powerbook from 2005
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Sweevo posted:1983 Cool computer
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:i still have my 15" powerbook from 2005 i still have my mbp rev. a from 2006, which has the same design. i liked those round but boxy corners and the pulsing sleep button
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oldest is probably a nuc from 2019. I give away or sell my old hardware because I’m not living in a junkyard
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Agile Vector posted:i still have my mbp rev. a from 2006, which has the same design. i liked those round but boxy corners and the pulsing sleep button one of the more joyful discoveries i made about that computer was when i realized the pulsing sleep light dimmed in the dark, using the same ambient light sensor for the keyboard lights and display backlight
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:one of the more joyful discoveries i made about that computer was when i realized the pulsing sleep light dimmed in the dark, using the same ambient light sensor for the keyboard lights and display backlight that effect is called breathing. the engineering design called for an 8-bit DAC on that light to give 256 intensity levels. but the industrial design team thought that wasn’t enough and demanded a 10-bit dac. which they got, even though it costs much more. Apple is not afraid to spend money on details like that. subsequent tests proved that no one can tell an 8-bit breathing gradient from a 10-bit one.
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The Management posted:I give away or sell my old hardware because I’m not living in a junkyard i just took a bunch of old systems and gear from 2002-2012 to the city electronics recycling day last month, because that stuff was just old and slow, not interesting at all from a retro perspective, and cluttering up the shelves this is where i learn that there are weirdos who yearn for period-correct xp or vista machines
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windows xp was the zenith of home computing so it makes sense people would be nostalgic for it.
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The_Franz posted:i just took a bunch of old systems and gear from 2002-2012 to the city electronics recycling day last month, because that stuff was just old and slow, not interesting at all from a retro perspective, and cluttering up the shelves I think there's more win 98 than xp period correct people.
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The Management posted:oldest is probably a nuc from 2019. you don't develop a deep and loving relationship with you're computer ?
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The_Franz posted:i just took a bunch of old systems and gear from 2002-2012 to the city electronics recycling day last month, because that stuff was just old and slow, not interesting at all from a retro perspective, and cluttering up the shelves i think by the late 00s computers were too reliant on the internet to be any fun as retro things. like, an old win3.1/95 or classic os mac can run old stuff, and that can be fun. but something from like 2008 is too slow to run newer stuff, and the older stuff can't always reliably connect to the services it needs to run right, so they're not really fun anymore. a few weeks ago i wiped my 2009 mbp and put the original OS (snow leopard) on it and it was basically a paperweight in that state.
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Silver Alicorn posted:you don't develop a deep and loving relationship with you're computer ? we keep it casual
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well i prefer my commitment between me and my old LED
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The_Franz posted:i just took a bunch of old systems and gear from 2002-2012 to the city electronics recycling day last month, because that stuff was just old and slow, not interesting at all from a retro perspective, and cluttering up the shelves p-p-p-p-powerbook also, the athlon xp was a great chip for its time and remember how big of a splash the core2 made when it came out? revolutionary
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Raluek posted:p-p-p-p-powerbook athalon*
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lol
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in fact, the 12" pbg4 from that era is one of my favorite computers ever, now that i think about it
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a vtech branded 486 that was the original first family computer, which has had some improvements: - upgraded the 486sx-25 to a 486dx2-66 - maxed out the ram to 32mb - got a bios isa card and put xtide on it, so that i could use... - a cf ide adapter to replace the hard drive - a real sound blaster brand sound card rather than a clone - an isa ethernet card - an ide cdrom that's kinda noisy and that i want to replace - l2 cache memory chips bought from mouser after lots of digging to figure out what the motherboard wanted/supported - an atx power supply connected to the motherboard using an at adapter, with a hole dremeled into the back of the case to run a new power switch for it - a usb optical mouse connected to a spare raspberry pi 1 running this software to emulate a serial mouse over a usb-serial adapter runs tie fighter like a dream
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Raluek posted:in fact, the 12" pbg4 from that era is one of my favorite computers ever, now that i think about it They're great. I have one that still gets 4-5 hours from its battery. The iBooks can run morphOS though.
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I haven’t tried to power it on in quite some time but I still have our og 512k Mac in my basement back home
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Abacus. This baby counts all the way up to 9,999,999,999. Try doing 2,147,483,647 + 1 on your pos 32 bit computer lmao
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Buck Turgidson posted:Abacus. This baby counts all the way up to 9,999,999,999. Try doing 2,147,483,647 + 1 on your pos 32 bit computer lmao My 8 bit computers can perform that calculation just fine. 1 digit per nibble in BCD.
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Elder Postsman posted:update: it still works jealous of your working unit
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got an old terminal in storage, hope it works.
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bad news, I discovered an old Mac mini in my office. it’s about 15 years old and hasn’t been booted in a decade. I need to give it away promptly.
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in college, departments would put scrubbed machines on palettes for recycling and students would strip them for parts like vultures. i got a lot of old cpus and spare case screws that way and i hope the tradition continues
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probably my dad's old atari 520STFM planning on getting it connected to the internet at some point so i can use it to call BBSes n poo poo
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Agile Vector posted:in college, departments would put scrubbed machines on palettes for recycling and students would strip them for parts like vultures. i got a lot of old cpus and spare case screws that way and i hope the tradition continues we did that too. well, they put all the old crap in a locked room in the basement of one of the engineering buildings but we students would learn from the older students where the room was and how to jimmy the lock. and wed go in at night and strip anything that still looked like it might work. i graduated with a huge pile of low capacity old hard drives and optical drives and my roommate scored an almost working flat screen lcd monitor that we were able to repair back when the rest of us were using crts
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hbag posted:probably my dad's old atari 520STFM You could hook it up to a phone a call a BBS
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not a "computer" per se but I've got a 2 bay synology nas from 2008 still happily serving files to my plex server but it's mostly been replaced by a much newer 4 bay model. also have a 10 year old dell laptop with a dead battery running win 7 to play nice with Volvo's VIDA and Honda's HCS software.
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leper khan posted:You could hook it up to a phone a call a BBS im sure my parents would appreciate all those long-distance charges
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Arson Daily posted:not a "computer" per se but I've got a 2 bay synology nas from 2008 found one of these in a broom closet at work, amazingly itll run the newest dsm. thanks synology
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hbag posted:im sure my parents would appreciate all those long-distance charges The internet used to work by dialing into a local copy of a BBS which would sync daily. No long distance charges.
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well it aint how they work anymore pal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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leper khan posted:The internet used to work by dialing into a local copy of a BBS which would sync daily. No long distance charges. someone paid long distance charges
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graph posted:found one of these in a broom closet at work, amazingly itll run the newest dsm. thanks synology Mine doesn't any more but it does get security updates from time to time. Pretty wild for a 15 year old piece of hardware
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I miss dialing into networked Citadel BBSes.
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akadajet posted:someone paid long distance charges yeah, whoever had the access number that you managed to brute-force guess that month
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i have a pc of theseus right here op, it’s probably 15 years old but none of the components are more than 2 years old 
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