Re: If we were to accept 15 years ago as retro....

Posted on 2021-01-30, 05:01

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If I'm not mistaken, "retro" means something along the lines of "imitation". I.e. something that was popular in the past made a comeback. I guess fashion is the most obvious example. So, retro doesn't mean "old", it means it's new but mimicking something from the past. The example I learned in the …

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

Posted on 2021-01-30, 02:43

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Almost three years ago I found my way to this forum after saving a Compaq Prolinea 4/50 and a Compaq DeskPro EN SFF bound for the bin at work. On Monday I got back to the office to find this lot being readied for scrap: x3 Lenovo Thinkpad T430 (one already given away) HP Elitedesk 705 G3 SFF (only …

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Re: Let's talk about our hated trends

Posted on 2021-01-21, 20:45

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the issue is that they're getting too wide now x3 and often are not tall enough anymore for how wide they are. https://apple.slashdot.org/story/21/01/21/1532232/goodbye-and-good-riddance-to-the-169-aspect-ratio I'm clinging to my 16:10 Asus VK266H monitor I bought in 2009 despite the fact it's not …

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Re: All these interposers and hardware hacking of old chips. What about using new chips in old motherboards?

Posted on 2021-01-21, 19:32

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A socket 370 to 478 interposer would be pretty cool. Somehow make it all work?! That would be nice. I know this isn't what you meant - but if you consider the Celeron 400 series super-Tualatins, the ASRock 775i65G motherboard gives you DDR SDRAM and AGP 8x without having to suffer the guilt of …

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Re: All these interposers and hardware hacking of old chips. What about using new chips in old motherboards?

Posted on 2021-01-21, 16:45

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I’m still wondering about the post I found where a guy said he stuck a k6 into a socket 370 motherboard after clipping off a pin and said it worked but ran hot until he fried the mobo with a screw driver accidentally a few weeks later. Were it possible, you'd expect someone to have made a slocket- …

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Re: Let's talk about our hated trends

Posted on 2021-01-20, 21:31

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I've come home to Windows 10 bricking my at-home PC's no less than six times in 7 years through an automatic update. Security through bricking. It's our best weapon against the botnets :P Meanwhile they remove things, change settings specific to your home LAN (like one-way TCP 1.0 for my old boxes) …

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Re: Let's talk about our hated trends

Posted on 2021-01-19, 16:31

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I like to think that by the end of this century steampunk will have given way to 'bluepunk'. Just blue LEDs everywhere and on everything. So retro. Hopefully we'll get a remake of The Running Man soon in which Dynamo is festooned with incredibly bright blue LEDs. How the hell else are we supposed to …

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Re: Are there still any worthwhile uses for an Apple G3??

Posted on 2021-01-13, 17:18

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Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-01-13, 08:09: It'd make a pretty door stop. As it was in life, so shall it be in death. Designed by Apple in California™.

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Re: Searching for code wheels, The Games: Summer Challenge and The Games: Winter Challenge, both from Accolade

Posted on 2021-01-08, 23:31

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Please excuse the crudity of this model, I've got work in the morning and it's closing in on midnight. Hopefully someone can clean it up for better presentation.

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Re: Searching for code wheels, The Games: Summer Challenge and The Games: Winter Challenge, both from Accolade

Posted on 2021-01-07, 19:21

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I have both games and the requisite codewheels. If I have time I could take some photos that would allow you to reconstruct them.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-07, 19:06

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Managed to win this nice desktop/horizontal case on a certain well-known auction site. Since I got my 19" rack I've been looking for something to house my current PC that will sit on the rack shelf better than the old Fujitsu tower. Most desktop cases out there are full ATX and beige, while the ones …

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Re: Off topic for Vintage but FF just deleted some history.

Posted on 2020-12-31, 06:38

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Firefox stores history, bookmarks, etc in databases. It was probably writing to it when the crash happened and became corrupted.

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

Posted on 2020-12-26, 00:37

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I wanted to engage in some 90s Christmas nostalgia, but my parents don't have a CD player and I don't know where my old MP3 CD player from my teens is located. So made use of some period-correct spare parts I have lying around... Pinouts handily printed on the drive. Haven't tested the digital …

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Re: Let's talk about our hated trends

Posted on 2020-12-20, 15:21

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And talking about consoles... am I the only one that thinks that consoles has lost any appeal they had (compared to PC)? Many a January I've heard from colleagues about the hassle of setting-up a modern console for their children on Christmas Eve, since kids (rightfully) expect it to just work out …

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Re: Let's talk about our hated trends

Posted on 2020-12-18, 16:16

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OT, but I notice that the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) no longer allows download of its images. This is a return to its original policy, many years ago, but worse, because you can no longer bypass it by disabling JavaScript, and the source code doesn't contain any obvious image URLs. I'm …

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Re: Let's talk about our hated trends

Posted on 2020-12-17, 17:18

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My main worry on software as a service or DLC is how will the kids of today (whatever their actual age) relive their nostalgia in 20 years time? I'd like to think that maybe this would be the first generation to find themselves standing at the end of history and liberated from nostalgia... but the …

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Re: Let's talk about our hated trends

Posted on 2020-12-15, 17:42

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For a while blue LEDs were everywhere, because they were a new breakthrough technology and so everyone had to use them for everything. Blue LEDs aren't intrinsically blinding, it's just that they were made obnoxiously bright in order to draw attention to their breakthrough presence. I remember the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-14, 22:07

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When you want a house-warming P4, want to run 64-bit, but only have socket 478... DSCF4749x.jpg Took a gamble on the eBay listing - the seller's photo was atrocious and the price too cheap considering its rarity. I was fully prepared for it to be a misread sSpec number. I'll stick it in my ASRock …

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Re: Cpu models with built-in speakers?

Posted on 2020-12-10, 19:04

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Eh, all the processing is done in the chassis so it's a more understandable metonym in casual circles than calling it the hard drive (as my mother does).

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Re: Socket 370 VIA C3 Retro DOS PC

Posted on 2020-12-01, 16:41

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chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-12-01, 00:25: If you load up a glide game just move the monitors VGA cable to the output of the voodoo card. I was under the impression VGA is not hot-swappable. It might not damage it, but I personally wouldn't risk it having put money down on something with a 3Dfx logo.

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