/retro/ - retro, vintage, old computer

I love restoring old computers, don't you?

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It's fun

Always!

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They remind me of the 90s when everyone was playing outside except me and I was in our garage typing code nobody understood, except me while wearing pedo-glasses

good times.

>except me while wearing pedo-glasses
Wat

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weeb pcs the best pcs

The X68000 and it's newer models where only good for arcade conversions, because they had similar hardware and graphics then many arcades of the time.
As a computer and workhorse it was below other popular systems of the time.

They are sexy though.

Id fug a FM Towns

Who wouldn't!

BBC Micro, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum!

How much for the C64? I really want one...

Think it was around $50 from eBay

>imagining the sound that on/off switch makes

Yes, the switch is boner material.

Haven't you seen LGR's video on this particular PC? That switch sounds majestic.
The rest sounds like a muffled vacuum cleaner though

Yeah, in the US, I'd have to pay more for the shipping then the C64 itself is actually worth....
I'm actively looking for one in the EU.

I'm still using that keyboard on my current PC but had to buy an active ps/2 to usb converter to make it work.

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Enjoy.

C64s were sold all over the world. I'm sure you could find someone local who has one.

A lot of people do apparently.

UK has them by th- oh. Right. EU.

Yeah, there ain't any local ad's right now, looking at the history of a local sales site, some lucky dude got one for 3€ last year, on eBay I haven't found anything overpriced that's inside the EU.

Postage from the UK is still the same as before the brexit, I order shit from there all the time.

I'm more surprised over people getting them to work on modern pcs without mods or adapters, since PS/2 voltages have varied over the years.

How about Spain? They were super into Commodore, as was Italy.

It's still 5V, but more modern stuff usually outputs lower amperage, that can be a problem on some systems.

I think I'll try to find some local sites of various EU countries and search there.
I guess retro forums would be overpriced?

Yes, that's what I meant. Nothing some pull up resistors on CLK and DAT can't fix, however.

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So, anybody picked up some Macs or is going to?

Interesting, I didn't know the Compact Mac could be used as building blocks, looks fairly solid

Too bad I don't live near Denver, or in the US....

That iMac stack in the fourth photo both impresses and scares me.

That's a fairly good use for those machines, a cluster of Macs that serves as a couch.

Are they broken?! Who would do something like that!?

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I got these two old Travelmates recently, the one on the left need a new cmos battery and the arrow keys seem to be sticking, the one on the right only needs a new battery.

Real cute.

>Jade
That's my fav brand!

Holy shit, at last a use for the machines

>that mid-00s "black with silver, hurr" aesthetics

That's hardly retro though, just old junk noone cares about.

OP's picture looks like it's some exhibition in a museum or something. It has that artificially set up, "don't touch anything" vibe to it.

same, but my motherboard still has ps/2 so i just plug it in directly

i'm going to go to the flea market in 30 minutes, wish me luck guys

The user this setup belong set it up at his workplace, everybody can play with it. Of course it's set up nicely for a picture.

Good luck! Don't forget to share if you find anything awesome!

that's what people said about beigeboxes

now we're here

That crap won't be retro even in 50 years

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>he doesn't understand the retro cycle

You're way to naive to think that those thing will be retro one day, maybe someone will be slightly nostalgic for them.

My dad's Atari 800XL is sleeping in a box. Awesome times.

Wake it up and let it enjoy retirement by doing it's job.

why are there like 5 of these threads... theres even a few on /vr/

shit people get it together

I tend to agree with you, they are way too much mass produced and don't have enough of unique quirky features to set them apart.

yeah man its taking up space that could be used for another phone thread

What are you talking about? Theres one retro thread on Sup Forums right now and a gaming related 70's to early 90's computer thread on /vr/.

GPU and Maki threads are far more important.

Installing Win98 on CF card for this old fucker right now. Man it was a fuzz getting the BIOS to work with a 4GB CF.

He's right though. Even the most objectively god awful micro computers from the 80s now have nostalgic value for people.
Even generic 90s desktops, so I can see early 00s computers being retro and collectible in the 20s

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>40 year olds collect 70s tech
>30 year olds collect 80s tech
>20 year olds collect 90s tech

I'm starting to see a trend

did you ever figure what you're gonna do with them?

I have to wonder though at what point does the "magic" of older hardware fall away to be replaced by the "samey-ness" of newer "old" computers? You can replace caps all day on an SE/30 but how many people are going to mess with the smaller less generalized components in junky P4 Dells with the same enthusiasm?

I'd take a nice beige box anytime over the mid-00s black & silver shit. Especially the late-era CRTs with silver bezels, might have been cool and all back then, but it's just kitsch now.

So you're implying one collects tech of one's own age?

Why no love for the Amiga 2000 to the right?

Whatever tries too hard to come off as "modern" in its own era (which those black/silver designs from a decade ago are arguably an example of) tends to end up being looked down at as kitschy in later years. The beige boxes didn't try-hard anything, they were just what they were (and if anything, it was equipments components what counted rather than looks).

The black NeXT stuff was pretty badass though, it looked classy back then and still does, kinda like classic Thinkpads. This is design that stands out done right.

Holy fuck OP. Stop making this same fucking thread.

OMG. That is beautiful, but that's Nolan Bushnell's isn't it.

man have some soul these retro threads are like the only ones on Sup Forums where people dont tiredly slapfight over which recent consumer product is the be-all end-all and everything else is for fags

Gotta adjust geometry a bit, that top right corner on the CRT doesn't look quite right.

Btw, where are monitor configuration settings stored, is it some kind of NVRAM backed up by a battery as with motherboards? That'd suck any battery is bound to deplete eventually and may not be easily replacable at all, and the monitor will keep losing settings if unplugged from mains power.

Because there's a far cooler NeXTstation and an O2 right next to it.

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Maybe it's because old computers are different, be it because of OS or use case. From Windows 95 onwards everything is kinda the same, except with new bells and whistles.

This is the same as vintage cars. People enjoy driving cars they saw when they were children.

I love these threads.

Can't wait to get started on my collection.

Anyone reading any good books? I'm thinking of picking up 'The Soul of a New Machine' when I finish up my current reading.

Look around. This can be a surprisingly cheap hobby to get into.

I've got a few spotted, my office needs a little moving-around to get the area I'm going to put them in ready. I don't want them just piled up/clutter.

it can be, but only with commodity hardware like c64 and ti99/4a.

unless you get lucky and find someone totally oblivious, the older and rare stuff are just insanely inflated right now.

Windoze fag

I am 18 and collect 80s tech

I'm in my 20s and collect mostly 60s-70s stuff.

I'm 40 and I just kept all my old shit when I upgraded.

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I'm 21 and I collect everything from the 50s to the present

I am 23 and the only old tech I've collected is the c64 which as you probably know is from the 80s. I'm mostly interested in computers, and I don't see much of a difference between 90s computers and modern computers, ignoring computation power. On the other hand, 80s computers actually have unique designs which are interesting, after the 80s computers seem to have become more uniform.

seems to be the case with most people I buy from. I just wish more people had done this over the years instead of tossing 'em out.

Most people I knew back then would sell off the old machine to finance the new one. One of my friends went through a C64, Apple][, GS, and Amiga 500 over about three years.

I bought an XT today. It was 40$ and well that might be too much, these things are more or less non existent here. I've wanted one for years and years now, and this is the first I've found.

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filter it you worthless faggot

I'm a fucking idiot I forgot the photo.

nah, 40 is good for a working one in that shape. they go for 100+ on ebay these days. or 200 with monitor/XT keyboard.

Where did you find it?

Reporting in.

Bought something from a guy off Kijiji and it was in his basement.

Filter it at the source.

Kek, nice to see you are still butthurt, too ashamed to call the doctor, uh?

Did the Optiplex GX1 come bundled?