Old tech general
Old tech general
James Peterson
Jace Ward
a digital potato
Wyatt Rivera
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Caleb Ramirez
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Luis Lee
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Camden Flores
here's nine for you
Jaxon Davis
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Ryder Rogers
Digital Equipment PDP-11/70
Liam Scott
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Julian Mitchell
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Jack Martinez
what did they even use these toasters for
Tyler Ross
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Charles Long
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Jack Clark
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Jaxon Thompson
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Thomas Reed
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Joshua James
math
William Howard
I built an Altair 8800 just after they hit the market.
>yes I'm older than 99.999% of you punks
>deal with it
Zachary Murphy
you can't just post things like that without explaining what it does.
Jonathan Foster
some was just business bookkeeping stuff, some of it was number crunching, some by students and professors for programming and computer research
did you get a teletype or just sit and stare at the blinkelights?
Luis Torres
its the first digital camera, stored photos on the cassettes
Easton Howard
You could run CP/M on an altair 8800
business applications, games, program, etc
Robert Cooper
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Alexander Torres
A E S T H E T I C S
Andrew Moore
forgot pic
Hunter Walker
>tfw all those resistors were hand-soldered by American workers
Henry Johnson
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Luke Butler
Alan Sugar wouldn't know taste if it bit him in the ass.
Jacob Hall
Was looking at the labels above the number keys and trying to figure out how the fuck it makes sense to store your colors in G,R,B order. But then I realized this thing probably outputs to a TV.
Ryan White
I used one of those as a kid, you had to wait like an hour for the entire cassette tape to play through before the game would load
Hudson Reyes
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Adrian Parker
you will never live to buy a house in an age where energy supply is free and the last architectural fad featured integral replica antique computing appliances
Charles Sullivan
I here you
I'd love to live in one of those 'house of the future' concept homes of the 50s/60s where everything is automatic and blinking lights and switches are on every wall.
Gavin Anderson
>camera lens
>hooked up to storage medium
oh shit i wonder what it does
Matthew Perry
>average middle-class american home in the far off year of 2000
Lincoln Bell
great pic there. kindof what i want to build someday, a short and big quonset hut, but id go geodesic ends instead of verticle windows. will do integral shenanigans if i ever save the money to build
Andrew Nguyen
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Jace Diaz
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Connor Morris
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Ethan Myers
How do you even use this? Where does the keyboard go?
Jaxon Ortiz
You program it by flicking the switches on and on bit by bit, and then watch the lights output the result.
Parker Russell
This is a teletype right?
I hear them so much in shortwave but I've never actually seen one in action, thanks for posting user.
Jaxson Smith
Is this seriously an instructional/historical video about a fucking rotary phone?
Who hasn't used these?
FUCK YOU WORLD, I'M NOT OLD YET I'M ONLY THIRTY-FOUR DAMMIT
Benjamin Adams
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Blake Baker
lots of children have never even seen a "modern" house phone.
Brody Morris
>still have a landline
>people make fun of me for having "obsolete tech"
>one day mass cell tower blackout
>I can still call while they can't
>mfw
Matthew James
You need to stop posting on Sup Forums and get a wife. Have some children before you turn 40 you numale fagloid.
Thomas Cook
Hey I'm a 90s kid and I remember those from going to grandma's house
Grayson Stewart
>DAMAGE CONTROL
Juan Murphy
That's nice. But you're the one dude who has a land-line in an age where everybody has a cell phone.
So...
Owen Rivera
Except I have a cell phone and a landline
Christian Hall
who the hell are you gonna call if no one else has a landline
Benjamin Jackson
gee you sure showed them Mugi
Henry Baker
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Ayden Allen
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John James
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Ryan Robinson
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Camden Perez
>Early 50's style minicomputer
MUH
Michael Butler
Ryder Cook
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Luis Thompson
>tfw there's a semi operational one somewhere
youtube.com
>tfw this shitty flip phone video is all we have of it
Luke Morgan
>you will never have a comfy job in a datacenter
Luke Sullivan
Sometimes I just wish I had the experience to just go work for a computing museum restoring and displaying all the big iron there.
Ayden Gutierrez
>I will live to see modern day technology become as old as the stuff ITT is to me now
>I've already lived long enough for phones to become more powerful than laptops were when I was first old enough to use computers
Robert Brown
>implying this is a problem
>not relishing the opportunity to obtain the best of the best of today for next to fucking nothing in 10-20 years the same way you can obtain the best of the best of the '90s and '00s for next to nothing now
>with an unlimited supply of free software and support to accompany it thanks to the internet
Carson Diaz
I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad thing. It just makes me feel old, despite only being 21, that the first computer I ever owned is now $50 on eBay and YouTube videos about it are all 6-8 years old.
Chase Mitchell
>no internet
>no graphical interface
>every task tages ages
you'd be pissed at your job after two days
Robert Johnson
thats just how tech is at this point, imagine being someone who got their start on the school PDP-8
Kevin James
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Jeremiah Walker
you wouldn't have thought of a computer in terms of software and use cases from 40 years into the future
don't know if I'd have as much fun dealing with batch processing and card decks anyway though, development is so piss easy nowadays it's really incredible to imagine how we lived with ourselves before
youtu.be
William Rivera
top fukken kek
Jacob Brown
I really wish I could find a spinning mainframe tape drive just to use it as decor (kinda like how people have antique gas pumps in their mancave). Too bad they're only in museums.
Ayden Torres
Just buy a reel to reel, looks awesome too
Camden Bell
William Young
Sup gramps.
Hows that rocking chair?
Lincoln Howard
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Nolan Cook
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Benjamin Baker
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Easton Fisher
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Ryan Martin
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Joseph Peterson
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Juan James
Lets see... The altair 8800 was released in 1975, and you were probably around 20 when it came out
2017-(1975-20)=62
ur old faget
Jaxon Cox
bump
Carter Campbell
DELET THIS
Carter Morris
Clive? Aren't you supposed to be dead?
Isaac Johnson
What the fuck are you talking about, Sir Clive Marles Sinclair is doing fine, alive and well.
Charles Gonzalez
I used to think this was wrong, that building things smaller would always be more expensive than making things big. It's really clear that with the popularity of high powered cell phones it will just keep getting worse and worse until no one wants to create parts full sized PCs because the components are so radically different from cell phone parts
whatever processing and heat limitations exist in phone-sized devices will be the threshold of modern computing.
Caleb Price
>manual tape buttons
What was the point of these? Wouldn't it make more sense to control this in software?
Nathaniel Evans
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Dominic Morris
It's still controlled in software for some part, just that making it fully in software would have been counterintuitive, because the point was to keep the price low
Kevin Bailey
Xavier Fisher
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Chase Hernandez
I like the last 10 seconds of the video, so spot on.
Connor Bell
I suppose you're right, the actuators would have increased the cost.
What doesn't make sense is all the PCs with manual eject floppy buttons well into the Windows era when normies had started using computers, and they kept ejecting without unmounting and wondering why their files got corrupted.
Thomas Baker
You wouldn't normally eject a floppy when the light was still on and the device was making noises
What you are talking about was usually the deal when USB flash drives first came on the market
Josiah Phillips
>when she's handling the wax cylinder
youtube.com
Nicholas Jackson
kek, poor guy
but that probably wasn't really that rare
Zachary Reyes
bump
Colton Evans
>what is voip
Jaxon Peterson
BASED AMS1