Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-05, 01:44

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debs3759 wrote on 2024-01-04, 21:50: Repo Man11 wrote on 2024-01-04, 21:15: Autism and computers go together like chocolate and peanut butter... I prefer fried eggs and strawberry jam, or cheese and Marmite. Not a real fan of peanut butter 😀 Actually, it shouldn't be called peanut butter because it …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-05, 01:41

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I don't see anything going downhill with LGR. The only "retro" channel I subscribed to. But you can only cover so much of something that have stopped production. But soon, Windows XP and 7 will be regarded as "retro" by the millennials, and there will be millennials doing the "retro" videos soon. …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2024-01-05, 01:31

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twiz11 wrote on 2024-01-04, 23:59: Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-01-04, 01:09: weedeewee wrote on 2024-01-03, 18:42: Why would anyone throw away an SGI Octane. Because Jurassic Park gave them nightmares as a kid? (-: was that the pc the girl was accessing unix on? Yeah. It had a bunch of SGI related …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-04, 21:29

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@Ensign Nemo What turns me off is when the content creators start putting themselves ahead of the content. People starting as a faceless voice making creative videos about stuff then at some point, face reveal then from that point all their videos are just them talking into the camera instead of …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-04, 20:51

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I rarely watch any of the big retro gaming channels anymore, but I don't think that this necessarily due to saturation or that there aren't enough topics remaining to be covered. I have noticed the same thing with channels dedicated to other stuff,such as movies, guitar, science, etc. I think that …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2024-01-04, 01:09

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weedeewee wrote on 2024-01-03, 18:42: Why would anyone throw away an SGI Octane. Because Jurassic Park gave them nightmares as a kid? (-:

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-04, 01:06

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100% Please tell me I wasn't the only one that got triggered? I know I'm classified as a neurodivergent by the current generation. But it's not just me, right? I'd bet that at a good number of people here are on the spectrum, as a lot of people here share traits that overlap with Asperger's and …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-01-03, 01:09

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Been caught up in the holiday grind one way or another since mid December, might get some free retro time now... Getting real excited that the office room is getting closer to reality, was on hold, now the relative's junk is gone and progress might happen. Needs some R&R doing to it while it's …

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Re: best windows 7 "retro" laptop

Posted on 2023-12-26, 03:17

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What is or isn't retro is pretty subjective and I wouldn't worry too much over definitions. Personally, I consider anything pre-XP as retro or vintage. That's an older cutoff than a lot of people here, but it works for me. For me, even Windows XP feels like it should be lumped in with modern gaming …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-12-25, 05:01

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pan069 wrote on 2023-12-25, 04:21: smtkr wrote on 2023-12-25, 03:21: You have an amazing set of external optical drives. A new pick up line? I would consider that an harassment comment... 😀 It's only harassment if you ask them if they'll take your 3½-inch floppy.

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Re: Merry Christmas everyone! :)

Posted on 2023-12-24, 20:54

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Merry Christmas to this wonderful community! https://youtu.be/_GGgWwVlnI8?si=nojh8soeHHJAx1EN Here's the same video with commentary by a couple of renown music critics: https://youtu.be/aE6UjhJ_n0E?si=XZSAsTm-Dnw2SI4w

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-12-24, 02:08

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This thread feels so nostalgic for me. Reminds me of the early days of the internet where we'd argue nonstop about the little details of our hobbies. It's actually refreshing compared to how most online arguments these days devolve into mudslinging over American politics. Lol.

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-12-22, 18:07

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Many Apple IIs were found in lab environments. Trs80s also. Mainframes were for business primarily. Sure they teached me FORTRAN om an IBM mini. But that was all they had. Cool! Do you know what exactly they were used for in the lab? Were they just used for similar things that they would be used …

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-12-22, 04:25

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You could make the argument that those home-ish computer features were there for use in the lab/scientific endeavor. Did you mention built in basic? The ibm was too expensive for most hobbyists. Who knows what theynwere thinking. Do you think there'd be many uses for an 80s pc for scientific …

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Re: I love big crt's

Posted on 2023-12-20, 16:21

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I'm the opposite. I've been into small CRTs lately. I'd probably think differently if I had the money and space for the big ones.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-12-20, 07:41

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Rippin' through my audio CD backlog (hope that's retro enough) As long as the music is from before 1995 it is :D A lot of it is . The soundtrack to Freejack (have not seen this since my last VHS rental of it) and a compilation of Erik Satie's most memorable works spring to mind. The latter was a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-12-19, 04:53

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Horun wrote on 2023-12-19, 03:10: darry wrote on 2023-12-18, 05:41: Rippin' through my audio CD backlog (hope that's retro enough) As long as the music is from before 1995 it is 😁 And only if it is one of those hybrid CDs with multimedia that can be viewed on an old PC (-:

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-12-17, 23:15

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BitWrangler wrote on 2023-12-17, 21:18: Turn of the millennium web design fail, not enough dancing hamsters, garish colors, comic sans headers and under construction signs, oh or frames for no reason. Just kidding. Don't forget the really bad midi music playing in the background and a hit counter …

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Re: best windows 7 "retro" laptop

Posted on 2023-12-17, 03:10

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I have a few Windows 7 games that won't run well on newer versions of Windows. These are typically military sims that are fairly niche genres. For example, there's a flight sim called Battle of Britain II Wings of Victory that only works up to Windows 7. While I did try a fan made Windows 10 patch, …

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Re: best windows 7 "retro" laptop

Posted on 2023-12-17, 00:22

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But they definitely will become eventually, people will be building win7 retro PCs one day, like they are building winXP and win98 retro PCs now. Wasnt that long ago winXP PCs werent considered retro either. Guess Im just trying to get what I need early while availabiliy is still not out the window …

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