Retro tech thread
Old one died, let's see what you've all got.
Unfortunately, cannot connect the PLUS/4 due to a lack of having a monitor.
2 metal things at the top are Sears 9 transistor walkie talkies. Was really fun walking out in public with a 4ft antenna looking like a total autist.
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I should mention the walkie talkies work great with zero battery damage whatsoever. Produced in 1966.
Also have an old Toshiba t3100. Boots just fine. It's not here though. Was really scared when I first turned it on because I forgot what old dust smells like.
Yeah I love these threads, how about my retro headfoams?
Pretty comfy desu.
Pretty nice. I bet the only reason they've been around for so damn long is because they're made out of metal. Had so many plastic headphones break on me.
I have others too, even some quadraphonics.
Hello everybody...
How do these compare to newer headphones? I have some of these and they sound surprisingly good still.
I havet a PDP 8e with OS/8
>How do these compare to newer headphones?
Let's see:
>bigger drivers
>thicker cables with real woven fabric covers over the rubber
>multi-way adjustments that actually stay adjusted
>built to allow servicing instead of being glued together
I will always go vintage over modern for stuff like headphones. There has been literally no advancement whatsoever beyond rare earth drivers, which can easily be installed in older phones if you wish.
Oh I forgot:
>real leather instead of pleather
>real metal headband covered with real leather
It's not really "retro", but I have an iBook g3 that has both OS9.2.2 and osx 10.1 on it. I also have an IBM 5150, but that's not really in the best condition right now, since I don't have the boot floppy or a working xt compatible keyboard.
Forgot pic.
People gave no shits when I posted this thing last thread. I'm going to put a 120gb in it and clone 10.4/9.22 onto it off my g4 tower.
I went to a video game """museum""" with my friend the other day and they had a couple of Atari 800's my Dad had when I was a kid. They had a pretty neat personal computer section with Commodores, TRS-80, Some TI computer, an Amiga, Apple II, and an Adam? I wanna say there were some Sharps as well, but they were behind glass. They had console development boxes as well behind glass. The Dreamcast one looked like a mini PC. I don't know that it would be worth driving any more than a few hours to see, but here's a link if anyone in the north Texas area is interested.
I found this the other day
Somebody does something similar every year at E3, down in Kentia Hall.
The Plus/4 was my first computer that I bought with my own money user. I spent a couple grand on it for accessories and software and it got me through college in the early 90's/
Good little piece of hardware if you were willing to put in the time to learn it's quirks.
All I saw were the manuals, I really want an aluminum G4 or late-model TiBook to dual boot 10.2/10.3 and OS 9 on. I like my flagship Sawtooth but a laptop form factor is so much more convenient.
I-it's a tv?
Or TV audio only?
Holy shit nvm it's a beta deck.
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yeah
This will supposedly be open year round. DESU the most interesting stuff to me was behind glass. I can sort of understand why as the 8 key on that Atari 800 was bent and some of the upright arcade games were out of order. I wondered to myself what sort of problems they have with theft as SMS NES SNES MD PCEngine Dreamcast and PS1 carts and disks weren't really secure. They sure as shit didn't leave a NEOGEO AES unattended. The early PC systems had carts tapes and floppies kinda laying around too. All of the freerange games were no doubt very popular and abundant therefore cheap to replace.
There was a 1ghz that went for $32 last week. I got this for $10 ($30 shipping). Also, i need a better photo of my gigabit tower. Dual 450 is beast, but this 550mhz powerbook feels way faster.
that's because the dual 450 is sharing the CPU bus and doesn't make much of a difference in everyday tasks, sort of like how the Pentium D's worked before the bus was refined in the Core 2 era stuff.
if and when I get a CPU upgrade card for my Cube, it's going to be a single-core for this reason. there is just not enough juice in the bus to satisfy more than one CPU, much less more than one at 1+GHz.
I think really the only application that could take advantage of SMP in OS 9 was Photoshop and some other professional software, still want a dual 500 though. Mystics are some good shit.
>but this 550mhz powerbook feels way faster.
It's amazing what on-die L2 can do for you. I think the RAM is probably faster too, I can't remember if they used PC-100 or not.
Interesting way to look at it, one day if I ever get my hands on a DP model I'll have to compare it to my single 500.
It was way faster than my 800mhz eMac (rip).
>cube
Lucky fuck. Ive always wanted one but i dont even want to look up what a decent one goes for because its probably as ridiculously expensive as the clamshells are.
Yeah, the PB takes 133 vs the G4's 100.
If you're running OS X you should get the dual-core variant. It will use it.
For Mac OS 9 forget it, single core is fine.
OP here
I like that it has a built in monitor, that's one of the reasons I got it. I'll have to get used to using the directional pad for arrow keys though -- not looking too forward to that.
Very nice.
I recognize this computer, you posted it elsewhere.
and for those that don't know, I'm talking about a monitor for examining memory and writing assembly, not a physical display.
>tfw there was a full Cube setup at the recycler forever ago that I never asked about
I regret it so hard, probably could have gotten it for under $50 too.
This is what I will use to write the note.
>the note
Dare I ask user?
>went to my dad's ancient office's storage floor hoping to find old tech
>tfw it just had old furniture as far as I could see
They do have an old typewriter, though, don't know the model.
I have OLPC, it's pretty OK actually. Keyboard's too small though.
When the bus was refined more in later motherboard revisions, and DDR RAM was added into the equation, especially late into the G4's models (MDD) the difference was definitely noticeable. but with PC100/PC133? good luck.
the difference was even more noticeable when they popped DDR2 in the HR Powerbook G4s, just for a single-core CPU, it brought the performance almost up to the base single-core G5 levels. those are fun since there's known hardware overclocks that can be done to the board to up the CPU speed to 1.8 or 1.9GHz (and if you're lucky, 2GHz) with no noticeable change in thermal output, to an extent, and bring it even closer to G5 performance on a 32-bit level.
I had the desire once to do this to mine, but dropping in a faster hard drive is so much easier to accomplish some bottleneck relief in a 10 year-old laptop sometimes.
It may be more of a manifesto by then, idk.
My Sony Sports 11 is retro as fuck, and my Icom IC-R3 is about there too. Video scanner, one of the only ones ever made.
Of?
>There has been literally no advancement whatsoever beyond rare earth drivers, which can easily be installed in older phones if you wish.
Where can you get these drivers?
Declarations of friendship and happiness towards entities I love. :3
mouser.com, you might need to build a mount out of sheet brass or something but usually not.
thermal issues too, even with a fan installed, is the other problem.
I used to have one way back when my family owned a multi-million dollar printing company. pic related, pics of some of the computers in the digital pre-press area. there was also an eMac.
when it went under in the early-00s recession, I got the cube and used it until 2005 when the GeForce 2 MX? crapped out. I have the hard drive someplace, I'm going to see if it's still bootable and swap it into the cube I have now.
I blame my interactions at that place the reason I got interested in computers in general, and vintage ones moreso, having to fix all the shitty win95 internet access boxes since my dad was Mr. Strict Boss and mandated they be in each office instead of letting the workstations have access to a web browser, which was disabled through group policies and the like. yay Windows 2000.
>Quality Control is the KEY to Success!
here, also some servers by some of the more expensive hardware (platesetter, I think). I'm in posession of one of these, they were outfitted with dual PIII Xeon 933s with 1GB of RAM in each. I sort of want to mod a newer machine into the case, but it's an intel 5000 or 6000 series server, so some things are going to be weird.
Two of them lived on to become webservers for a porn site run by my uncle's neighbor. I got both with no drives, scrapped the worse off of the two and kept any of the good parts.
What's that blurred out shit?
dat bezel man. so thin, not even the new macbooks have bezels that thin.
weeb stuff he is ashamed of owning
anything identifiable about the company, even if it's long gone, there are some things I like to keep private.
here's a picture of some Agfa machine in the back room of the prepress area. it was either this one that ran that PolaProof or the other one the picture was taken behind which was newer than used a Linux box to control, because that's just how it was done.
old copy of redhat too, if you can believe it.
I remember wanting the shit out of one of those when they started getting publicity, tiny laptops were so expensive and the idea of something I could travel with so cheaply was just neat.
SDRAM really fucks those old boxes over. I daily drove a flagship first-generation iMac G4 at work for most of last summer and it was just unnecessarily slow, meanwhile a P4 box with RDRAM from the same era will just fly, at least as far as what you'd expect from nearly fifteen year old hardware.
>I'm in posession of one of these, they were outfitted with dual PIII Xeon 933s with 1GB of RAM in each. I sort of want to mod a newer machine into the case, but it's an intel 5000 or 6000 series server, so some things are going to be weird.
Your mods are probably some of the less triggering ones I've seen, but I'd keep that shit as-is. In the decade or so since I started collecting old gear and the thousands of systems I've perused over, I've maybe only seen two or three slotted Xeon systems.
I'd fit it with a pair of 900 MHz Cascades-2M chips if I could though, that thing would make a bitchin' 2K (or something like SCO OpenServer or Solaris) terminal server.
nice find
I'm in posession of a first-gen P4 box with a 1.8GHz S423 chip and 2GB of RDRAM, so I understand completely.
it certainly would make for a decent terminal server indeed, but with no purpose. it's a power sucker all the same, but I see what you're talking about. first thing's first would be to replace all the fans though, they're all shot, then fix the CMOS battery issue, and I'd have to find caddies and drives for the thing.
>I remember wanting the shit out of one of those when they started getting publicity, tiny laptops were so expensive and the idea of something I could travel with so cheaply was just neat.
Yeah, it's IP45 rated so that's nice, you could leave it out in the rain and it'd work fine as long as you had the port covers / "wifi ears" in place.
It has plenty of ram unlike the 1.0 version yet takes all the same wacky accessories and has the ability to charge both NiCad and Li-Ion batteries, as well as running (and charging!) off 12v power. It's my actual SHTF EOTWAWKI laptop. Number crunching is a bit lame but I have the Pi for that now, together they are an amazing small low-power SHTF computing backup solution.
I'm a ham.
Guess what they are.
This is way better, the original MacBook.
I still wonder if this works. I have to find the case sides and the front bezel and get it running again. this thing was fun to play with, especially with dual 750s and 2GB of RAM to flop around with on Debian.
The bottom one is a Siamese cat
Only 50% Siamese.
neo geo boards
entirely random fucking guess
dumb tripfag cancer
That fucker has a USB port? 1.1?
the card it had was 1.1, later upgraded it to 2.0 when parts allowed for it.
>actual rust
>still chugging away
I love older hardware, that shit is already worth its weight in cheese.
Yeah, with all those drives and fans it would probably suck up a little more than you'd like. I'd think an Intel box would be generic enough you could find caddies for it though.
I'm planning to put one of my sausage boxes to work eventually as an NT/2K file server since they natively support AFP, no more dealing with ass-backwards OS 9 file serving or shitty flash drives.
As far as terminal servers go, it seems like a pretty attractive option for getting a system on the JS web without going full sacrilege on the OS choice.
Amiga 500 mainboard and an OEM 386SX board, the really deep green coloring makes me want to say it's an IBM board.
Shit, USB started appearing on OEM systems as early as the late Pentium era.
Almost, but not a 386SX but a 486SX and not IBM but Olivetti.
they're not metal, sadly (well, the headband is). The cups are just nylon with an aluminum layer plated on.
Toshibaaaaaa... HR40 or HR40x?
I collect vintage cans, here are the first 100 or so...
All quads sound awful. It was the era's audiophoolery meme that was total bull. Sorry.
The fuck, I wanted to guess that but it looks way too small, QFP 486 chips always look so big. Olivetti makes sense for the manufacturer though, at least they both made Microchannel systems.
Don't knock them till you try them. They still sound pretty good. Clear, not muddy like you would get from a Logitech z623. It doesn't have a 200W sub, sure, but it's clear, which is what you want when you don't listen to crap.
>Don't knock them till you try them
I collect them. I own about 500 different models made between 1965 and 1979.
(and I specialize in the quads. They have no surround localization whatsoever, and they all sound worse than stereo due to comb filtering.)
I thought you were talking about the 2.1 I posted, not the other convo. Drunk posting, my bad.
No worries. A lot of those unpretentious looking 2.1s do in fact sound really good.
I hope I'm not the only one who sees a face here.
not even that bad. there was one fo these that was run for years in a shipyard. it collected so much dust and moisture that mushrooms started growing between the hard drives.
the entire system board is devoid of electrolytic caps save for a few coming off by the PSU leads I'd have to assume are some sort of decoupling or just basic filtering for a specific rail.
dumb tripfag cancer
Used to have a plus/4 (found in a thrift.) Unfortunately I couldn't do anything with it. Had no software for it, and being incompatible with the C64 and such, there were no magazine programs I could type in.
That sounds absolutely cozy.
All I've got is this rusted to shit UE1, I wonder how it got that way, seems to have been just part of some leased Cisco lab setup or even from Cisco itself, can't imagine even in storage how it could have gotten so fucked up.
Katrina.
I think we need to do change a thing for a bit
> post your retro shit
>try to open Sup Forums page with that shit
you act like that's a hard thing to do
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>that AlphaServer
here I thought you were just some dumb desktop thread faggot
is there much you can do with Tru64 these days? it doesn't seem like it would have as much hobbyist support as Solaris or IRIX.
This ain't mine, I just thought it was both comfy and retro
fair enough family
I'll find an answer to my autistic question some day ;_;
...dad?
Op that PLUS/4 has an RF out port on the side, just hook it up to the yellow input jack on an old TV and you're in business.
dumb tripfag cancer
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Huh, apparently i cant just connect my powerbook to my g4 tower and have it just werk (after turning on internet sharing) like i can on my linux box.
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that fucked aspect ratio is triggering me
my nigga
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/LInux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
I'm terribly sorry for interjecting another moment, but what I just told you is GNU/Linux is, in fact, just Linux, or as I've just now taken to calling it, Just.Linux. Linux apparently does happen to be a whole operating system unto itself and comprises a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Most computer users who run the entire Linux system every day already realize it. Through a peculiar turn of events, I was misled into calling the system "GNU/Linux", and until now, I was unaware that it is basically the Linux system, developed by the Linux project.
There really isn't a GNU/Linux, and I really wasn't using it; it is an extraneous misrepresentation of the system that's being used. Linux is the operating system: the entire system made useful by its included corelibs, shell utilities, and other vital system components. The kernel is already an integral part of the Linux operating system, never confined useless by itself; it functions coherently within the context of the complete Linux operating system. Linux is never used in combination with GNU accessories: the whole system is basically Linux without any GNU added, or Just.Linux. All the so-called "GNU/Linux" distributions are really distributions of Linux.
holy shit, that's a cool collection.
>tfw I'll never get my Kaypro II working
You shoved a keyboard into a printer?
Wow, what pair would you take with you on a deserted island?
The Koss are rugged as heck...
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