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old tech thread.
post pics of old, aestheic technology

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I want one.

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neat

I think those CD caddies are really neat, and it's a shame they went away.

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Have some fresh shit I scraped from the Chilton archives last week

Still need to get my VMS shell login on the LCM's 785

I see these at the recycler from time to time, didn't know they were all that desirable. I tend to go for VAIO all-in-ones instead.

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thats how they used to to sandwiches?

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Gandalf boxes, in an age before telnet-over-ethernet turned them into giant six-figure doorstops.

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How often to you see a Burroughs posted in /gee/?

I kind of remember those weird-ass things, thought I saved some pictures.

Here's a Sun-3, though. I think.

And a VAXstation, I really want to pick up some kind of MicroVAX shitbox lately

I've got a lot of caddy-loaded boxes, their implementation could have been better. The caddies broke too easily or got lost, DVD-RAM had a better idea of it.

I'd love to collect old computers but I live in a tiny 35sqm studio apartment. My retro gaming setup with a massive 21" TV already takes too much space.

I wish i could afford some old warehouse to set up my own lab/hackerspace/computing museum/autism retreat.

Not super old, but I found this recently at a thrift store, and it's pretty sweet.

Has anyone here ever considered painting a newer computer case white/beige? I've had black computer cases for so long that I somewhat miss the older white/beige ones that my family had when I was younger.

Same here, I've contemplated renting a cheap workshop-type building when I have more money, maybe even starting a museum, I've always liked the idea of interactive exhibits/programming courses using old big iron.

I personally don't really think old and new should mix, beige just wouldn't look right with modern case design.

Not to say that black isn't drab and boring, not really much for the fake brushed metal trend going on either.

Forgot to post some more shit

>beige just wouldn't look right with modern case design
I figured you'd still have to be somewhat selective about what case to do it with. I've seen some cases that I think might work. The mesh fronts on most cases now days is a bit of a problem though.

Yeah, mesh abuse is one of the biggest things about newer cases.

I'd personally go more for white or even more colorful cases when looking at newer designs.

>that SGI 'fuel' case

want

What are those, user?

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I wish Fuels didn't still cost like a grand unless you spend forever combing ebay/nekochan for a good deal.

IRIX is such a nice platform, it's a shame that it's so difficult to get good hardware for it without sucking dick.

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Forget gay computer shit, post /old/ radios

Itanium-based HP systems are not HP 9000s, which are only PA-RISC based. The zx6000 is basically a pedestal Integrity rx2600 series with an AGP card in it.

I fucking hate the IBM circlejerk but I want one of these anyway.

on the picture is a "HP9000 ZX6000 Itanium2 Workstation 11"

The submitter must have mislabeled it.

Not that it matters for shit, I just wanted to be atuistic.

Hunter Hackers are 2aesthetic

guess op has pic right from wikipedia:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HP-HP9000-ZX6000-Itanium2-Workstation_11.jpg

>256 colour screen
This is how a full screen image would look at the specs of that display.

is there nothing comfier than reduced bit depth images?
reminds me of the whole multimedia cd-rom era

Glad I'm not crazy in thinking that too. Also, I've recently picked up an IBM 5150, although regretfully I'm still missing an MDA monitor for it

Doesn't look bad at all, would have looked fucking great in '92 when the average laptop was using some shit passive-matrix grayscale display.

Funnily enough, that image really works when dithered.
Reminds me of the sort of pre-rendered but 8bit color used in Age of Empires.

Did anyone say Multimedia CD-ROM?
u.pomf.is/aqkdhw.AVI

This is my best impersonation of video from that era.
Just imagine it being something like
D:\VIDEO\BOYLE.AVI
and being presented via some fullscreen interface's 'cinema' mode like pic-related (although maybe without the 3D Movie Maker guy).

>itanium logo isn't straight

"so.. whaddya wanna do?"

I always wondered whether you could use modern RAM sticks in a vintage box if you built an adapter for the socket and did something to downtune the voltage to 1.5V or whatever the modern stuff uses. You'd also only be using like one quarter or less of the stick's capacity.

It'd be a funny experiment.

I love them

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What is that material in the background?

And why is that 3.5 inch floppy next to a computer with a 5.25 inch drive?

Dual C 809 Made in Japan from 1979 to 1981

found the underteenage b&: virtua girlfriend

Okay I'm stumped, what the fuck is that from?

What a gutsy advertisement. In today's world, it would probably be called sexist.
>implying you have control over your autism
No, it wanted you.

Nice face collection. Were did you get the green ones?

Can't have a thread about aesthetic old tech without a sexy Marantz.

This, I'm genuinely curious too.
It was referred as "Sweet-OS" in another post

bump

It's a pic from a /vr/ thread. The computer was a 286 motherboard in a generic case with an MFM hard disk and 360k floppy drive. We suspected there was an 8086 board in there originally and it got replaced at some point with a 286 board (upgrade? original mobo died?), but they kept the original disk drives.

90s laptops in decent condition are hard af find.

youtube.com/watch?v=VL0oGct1S4Q

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My grandparents' Zenith Z150. I really ought to dust it off and see if it still works some time.

>Fujitsu
My nigga

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:')

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Do it now

I miss plastic. Why is so much technology all metal now? Is it because of muh premium feel?

whats the keyboard? and the phone? looks so damn comfy

IBM Model F and its a Bang & Olufsen Beocom 2000

how come we never used cartridges for DVD's?

AESTHETIC

I haven't had a terribly hard time finding shitboxes, but the nice stuff is definitely hard to find just because of the rarity of it. I couldn't imagine it was easy to justify dishing out $4,500 for a loaded 700C with a tweaked 386SX and a tiny hard drive in the pre-wireless networking age when the same money would get you a nice upper mid-range 486DX/2-66 that would destroy it in every way but portability (and looks)

>Sun
But Hillary's email server was a Windows/Exchange box.

>tfw I want one of these useless things

>quadputer
>ISA
make it PCI or i won't buy.

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Ok, i can change diskimages via hxc floppy emulator and FlashAir SD Card. Ethernet runs via xircom PE3. Only thing I miss now is a joystick. Any ideas?

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SGI Fuels ave the sexiest cases ever designed.

That is EISA you pleb

Oh, ok.

astetics

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youtube.com/watch?v=Rsk4c6xdgJU

>bread maker
>e-machines
>sanitary bin
>kitchen bin

Matra Alice
It's a french rebranded Tandy MC10.

Not much memory on this machine, but good enough for simple BASIC programs, or even decent games if you code in asm.
There was also a cute little matching red thermal printer you could buy for it.

The front of the box and the user's manual had a nice drawing by comic book artist Moebius.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Giraud

so this is my baby atm

here is the /guts/

here's some good porn

That's my ~2005 battlestation, it's not that /old/
But now i feel old because there are probably people on this board who consider it ancient and have never heard of a Athlon MP.

Also, how the hell did it end up here?

I've got a shitbox 486SLC build in one of those cases, top cozy desu

OC? Digging the Xerox rebadged Olivetti controller.

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