philscomputerlab wrote:

Hehe so good 🤣

Sometimes they use old PC components to build a bomb or something else. That also always grabs my attention.

I remember in a common action movie (Executive Decision?) there was a "hi-tech" bomb in an airplane which should be defused, and one of the prominent parts of it was a hard drive without the cover, so you can see the plates spinning and heads moving. 🤣

tayyare wrote:

I remember in a common action movie (Executive decision?) there was a "hi-tech" bomb in an airplane which should be defused, and one of the prominent parts of it was a hard drive without the cover, so you can see the plates spinning and heads moving. 🤣

Yeah that's Executive Decision. 🤣

...you see a cardboard box while walking on the street and go take a closer look...it just might be a computer case! (antistatic bags always in my backpack 🤣 )

Tetrium wrote:

(antistatic bags always in my backpack 🤣 )

Tetrium wins the thread!

Tetrium wrote:

...you see a cardboard box while walking on the street and go take a closer look...it just might be a computer case! (antistatic bags always in my backpack 🤣 )

🤣 Another winner!! 🤣

Scali wrote:

Tetrium wins the thread!

Most definitely! +1 😁

Laughed my ass off hard! Seems I still have a deep enough chasm of geekiness to fall into!

....When you are a metal-head, and accidentially hear modern pop created on modern computers. And start thinking about how they came about the idea of using a C64 somewhere in the muzak. (wich of course is blasphemic to the demo-scene)

... when you try to find a use for an old Optiplex GXi at work. :\

... when at work you hear up a conversation about hardware getting scrapped and the next second you run to the specified location with your eyes wide open.
... when you have dreams about finding an insane amount of great hardware and can still name models of stuff you've seen when you wake up.
... when you spend insane amount of time perfecting a build and end up thinking how to make it even better.

RacoonRider wrote:

... when at work you hear up a conversation about hardware getting scrapped and the next second you run to the specified location with your eyes wide open.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING? We could use that for..... well I dunno! Something!

AidanExamineer wrote:

RacoonRider wrote:

... when at work you hear up a conversation about hardware getting scrapped and the next second you run to the specified location with your eyes wide open.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING? We could use that for..... well I dunno! Something!

Seriously? I'm not allowed to take anything out of the territory, but I have a permission to drive in. So I gently disassemble the computers and stash the parts I like to smuggle them out later when I'm on a vehicle. The cases are off limits: they are dirty, beaten, cheap and very hard to smuggle out. The CRTs are also cheap and often in bad shape. However, all the other stuff is no problem. I'm not stealing anything - the parts I take are waiting for the truck to the nearest dumpster, but there are risks.

🤣 Yeah basically every time someone asks me why I have so many old computers I'm like "Uhh err... well... ... it's... they're cool! I don't know!".

Also @RacoonRider I've also had dreams about finding old computers 🤣. Most of the time they are weird mish moshes of different models that are usually quite neat looking but unfortunately just a product of my unconscious mind. 😜

I have however dreamt about trying to get a PCI soundcard working in Windows 98SE when irl I was having a particularly hard time getting a SB Live! card to work. 🤣

RacoonRider wrote:

Seriously? I'm not allowed to take anything out of the territory, but I have a permission to drive in. So I gently disassemble the computers and stash the parts I like to smuggle them out later when I'm on a vehicle. The cases are off limits: they are dirty, beaten, cheap and very hard to smuggle out. The CRTs are also cheap and often in bad shape. However, all the other stuff is no problem. I'm not stealing anything - the parts I take are waiting for the truck to the nearest dumpster, but there are risks.

I wish every Russian secret factory had its own RacoonRider to smuggle out retro computer parts!

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DracoNihil wrote:

Wasn't there a "somewhat old" Macintosh computer in the sitcom Seinfield? I remember seeing it in various apartment scenes in that show, it was like the only thing that popped out to me in that show even though it was supposed to be just the usual props.

Jerry had a multitude of Macs in his apartment over the course of the series.

Apple Macintosh SE
PowerBook Duo + Duo Dock
Power Macintosh 6100
Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh

Perhaps as a joke, there was also a Windows 95 box on his desk.

There were DOS/Windows emulators in both hardware and software available for Macs.

" You Know You're a Hopeless Retro Geek When..."

you find videos of musical floppy drives entertaining.

Doom E1M1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a7-5WYOKxE

sliderider wrote:

" You Know You're a Hopeless Retro Geek When..."

you find videos of musical floppy drives entertaining.

Doom E1M1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a7-5WYOKxE

I love floppy drive music too, in a weird way. Here's a couple of my favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOA9PGYeP3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoJHjuHrthI

And then there's music made with dot matrix printers.