Retrocomputing thread

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don't think I have any of these in my collection
Good Shit

I'd just like to interject for a moment.
What you're referring to as "Retrocomputing thread" is actually a vintage computing thread.

>tfw you will never play the flute to a butterfly on an HP minicomputer

I never liked calling it that, it sounds kind of pretentious

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wtf do these fuckin nerds even do

I'm going to Seattle this summer, does anyone know if there's any really good surplus shops for picking up shit? In particular I'm looking for rarer Unix gear like SGI and Sun stuff.

Re-PC sounds pretty cool but I don't know much about their inventory.

calculate the density of your mom's ass lmao

His love of ethno has always being super disturbing to me.
Such "intelligence" but falling for ethno.

It's called /retro/....

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Liking traditional stuff like that is top tier taste, user.

this isn't a subreddit

>reddit invented subs
pls newfag

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Post some interesting shit, like things you own and stuff you have done with them instead of bumping the thread with pictures we have seen a million times.

>In particular I'm looking for rarer Unix gear like SGI and Sun stuff.
SGI and Sun are not rare, they are the most widespread Unix workstations

>What you're referring to as "Retrocomputing thread" is actually a vintage computing thread.
People use the word vintage wrong, so did you.
Retrocomputing is the correct term, using something like "60's-90's vintage computing" is not needed.

You've seen most of that already if you regularly browse these kinds of threads, there's not much to do while the weather is shit and I'm preoccupied with other tasks anyway. I'd rather join in the dump than beat a dead horse.

Why don't you post something new and different yourself so I can discuss someone else's nice things instead?

Not among Unix workstations, but Unix workstations themselves are not common in general.

>Why don't you post something new and different yourself so I can discuss someone else's nice things instead?
You are the OP, you made the thread, you want to get the interest of others, you must have a valid topic of discussion first, but you don't show anything for yourself.

>Not among Unix workstations, but Unix workstations themselves are not common in general.
SGI and Sun are common as fuck. You just don't like to pay for them.

I used to own a Armada when I was young, found a Contura, outside they are the same, but it's a 486DX4, recently again got my hands on a Armada with a Pentium chip, but it was lacking a few things, like battery and memory cover, but I took those from the Contura and now I have a perfect little Armada again like in the old days.

The old thread hit the bump limit and there seemed to still be some interest in continuing, so I made a thread. Someone else started dumping pictures so I joined them figuring it would pass the time and keep the thread alive until usual activity resumed.
Not here, they're not. The biggest buyers of them pretty much purged their fleets years ago and what little is left trickles down mostly to recyclers and other organizations that don't sell to the public unless you have more money than sense to sway them, the only semi-reliable source I had that would maybe get such systems every six or so months isn't really a viable option anymore, and the only consistent source I've got is almost exclusively consumer and small business, maybe you'll see a shitty base-spec Ultra 5 with a dead NVRAM chip once a year. If you're lucky.
>You just don't like to pay for them.
...Does anyone really "like" to pay hundreds of dollars for old, poorly maintained and untested surplus equipment online? I sure don't, so yeah, the prospect of getting them cheaper through surplus shops is really appealing.

>Not here, they're not.
At any given moment you could get several of them online without a problem, so no, they are not uncommon.
Most of them even are confirmed for working.

So yeah, you just don't like paying for them.

>old, poorly maintained and untested surplus equipment
Like all retro?

>the prospect of getting them cheaper through surplus shops is really appealing.
You are a decade too late.

>The old thread hit the bump limit and there seemed to still be some interest in continuing, so I made a thread. Someone else started dumping pictures so I joined them figuring it would pass the time and keep the thread alive until usual activity resumed.
You don't have to bump it every 5 minutes... only when it's reaching the last pages.

>At any given moment you could get several of them online without a problem, so no, they are not uncommon.
If 5-10 examples worldwide of a broader model range often in various states of disrepair or shitty cosmetic condition is your idea of "common" you really revisit your understanding of the word.
>Most of them even are confirmed for working.
Yeah, to power on. Maybe if the seller thinks he's sitting on pure gold he'll keep it going long enough to see if it boots, too.
>Like all retro?
In person you can be the judge of that yourself, being able to see more of it than the four or five shitty pictures at terrible angles and fill in all of the blanks inevitably left out of the description. You're right, I really don't like paying for things even the seller thinks is garbage.
Of course, but it's not like these threads are at the mercy of the image limit, so there's no harm.

>If 5-10 examples worldwide of a broader model range often in various states of disrepair or shitty cosmetic condition is your idea of "common" you really revisit your understanding of the word.
Give me some NeXT machines or some old Z80 machines, as far as "retro" computers go, they are one of the more common.
Heck, they are even more easier to obtain than Amigas these days, I'd say they are pretty common.
>5-10
More like 50, you probably only look on JewBay, many counties have their own local sites.

>In person you can be the judge of that yourself, being able to see more of it than the four or five shitty pictures at terrible angles and fill in all of the blanks inevitably left out of the description. You're right, I really don't like paying for things even the seller thinks is garbage.
You are again, a decade too late.

This isn't a poor man's hobby anymore, hipsters and resellers have raised the price of things, the changes of running into something actually valuable or finding something you need locally or in a shop, is near bust. You either pay for them online, or don't at all.

>Heck, they are even more easier to obtain than Amigas these days, I'd say they are pretty common.
Pretty understandable if you're stateside, since they sold like shit here and probably even make five-figure Unix kit look like Packard Bells.
>More like 50, you probably only look on JewBay, many counties have their own local sites.
Yeah, I'm not really going spend my off hours constantly digging through local auctioneers and classifieds in another state and deal with the fucking annoyance of shipping shit on top of it.
>You are again, a decade too late.
>This isn't a poor man's hobby anymore, hipsters and resellers have raised the price of things, the changes of running into something actually valuable or finding something you need locally or in a shop, is near bust. You either pay for them online, or don't at all.
Have you ever even tried hitting a bigger surplus outlet or networking with thrift stores and recyclers? What you're saying isn't true at all, I've had great luck hitting places like WeirdStuff in the bay area and coming out with shit that I would have to pay ten times as much for plus shipping otherwise, that I got to test and examine myself before purchasing. Even at home, I'm swimming in PeeCees and PPC/68k Macs at $5-$25 a box, but some things are just difficult to come by through those channels.

The fact that you and others like you have resigned yourselves to paying hundreds of dollars for absolute trash while telling yourselves "I'm a decade too late" is part of the reason things are that way. It's understandable and fully justifiable if you have no other options and it's worth it to you, but don't act like you haven't ruined the market just as much as the "hipsters" and resellers you hate with that shitty attitude. You don't have to pay out the ass for everything.

>I'm swimming in PeeCees and PPC/68k Macs at $5-$25 a box
Those aren't rare either.

>The fact that you and others like you have resigned yourselves to paying hundreds of dollars for absolute trash while telling yourselves "I'm a decade too late" is part of the reason things are that way. It's understandable and fully justifiable if you have no other options and it's worth it to you, but don't act like you haven't ruined the market just as much as the "hipsters" and resellers you hate with that shitty attitude. You don't have to pay out the ass for everything.
>t. I wish I could find X for cheap in a local X (protip: he knows it won't happen)

...When did I say they were? I thought even "common" hardware was supposed to be expensive according to the last few posts of lecturing you've been doing, and those systems are certainly expensive online outside of local classifieds, depending on what you're looking for.
>I'm really bitter and want to hear myself complain
Yeah, like everyone else I do like the idea of finding something nice while I'm in a place where those things are likely to be plentiful.

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Hey /retro/, other than a few IBM Aptivas, what are some beige boxes that have drive bay doors? I love the clean look they give no matter what drives you are using.

Any Aussies know where I can find some older computers in Sydney? Lifeline is a cunt and doesn't accept any pcs.

my school had those

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How about some Windows 98 love?
Installing 98SE on that old Presario currently.

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Power Glove, the early years?

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Just realized that most 90s futurist vidya were developers copying and extending their workplace's buildings.

The new system Z machines that IBM makes are reverse compatible with these

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IBM's PC 350, 365, 750, 300XL and HP's Vectra 500 is all I can think of in that department.

The 20 was weird, though, with smaller 16-bit registers and it only supported a subset of mainline S/360 instructions.

Wish I could mess with one, they're cute.

Do 10+ year old PCs count as retro? Just wondering.

If you say 10+ years, it could be a 30 year old PeePee too.

But I know you mean around 10, but generally I won't say it's retro. Just older.

>10 years
The age of the laptop I'm posting from right now.
Definitely not retro.

10 years is almost Core2, so no. It's very modern.

It's not modern, it's old.
1997-2007 is all just old shit. Most machines from the time already struggle with YouTube.

my 2005 laptop plays 720p30 yt fine

sure thing bro

Same with me

My 1.6 GHz Pentium M not only plays youtube at 720p but netflix at 720p as well, which is really fucking surprising

it does
it's an hp compaq nx6120
1.6GHz Pentium M, single core
512M ram
intel i915 graphics (iirc)
arch linux

If you play it in a video player then an old processor can easily play that.

>missing the point

What's the point? That web browsers are shitty at playing media?

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>Most machines from the time already struggle with YouTube.
Nobody was talking about playing it in a player, but the webpage, the whole point of it that it's getting harder and harder for those machines to play it because of the bloated site, obviously they could play them at one point.

nobody mentioned playing it in a browser, either
you can browse youtube and stream their videos just fine on older machines
so what if i'm not using their in-browser player? it's shit regardless, i don't use it on my main desktop, either

Stop being an autistic fuck then.
It was said, YouTube, obviously nobody said YouTube+MVP or related but the browser portal.

The whole point of it, is that it's shit and old machines struggle more and more with it after it gets more and more bloated.

>nobody mentioned playing it in a browser, either
he said youtube and not youtube videos, didnt he? pleb

>thinkpad fags getting buttblasted because someone called hardware of the time period their dear laptops are from "old"
it's like I'm really in /tpg/

youtube besides the video is...
well what is youtube besides the video? it's a video site, there's really no reason to go there besides to play/upload video

Forced meme. Summer came early this year.

exactly

so what's the problem with me focusing on video playback ability, then?

nothing, as long as it's in youtube, the portal and not a video player

Post /retro/ and stop shitposting!

Retro is in the eye of the beholder, by definition, if it brings out nostalgic feelings for you and it's something from the past, it's retro.
But don't start posting Core2 Duos pls.

it the same thing
i visit the youtube website, find a video i want to watch, then open it in mpv to watch it
if i had to use something like mps-yt, an alternate frontend that doesn't involve a browser at all, then maybe you'd have an argument, since there's things that can't do
but this machine isn't so old that that is needed

your argument is invalid because it's not the point that's being discussed, keep posting if you like and derail the thread

I'm back and what the fuck just happened here?

DESU, it looks like one of those 50's/60's custom cars.

His argument isn't invalid

Watching youtube is watching youtube. Smartphone users use a separate video player to watch youtube, you know.

So does that mean Athlon 64/Pentium 4 or older?

is youtube literally all 80+% of Sup Forums uses their computers for
it's a core talking point in like every single one of these posts as if these faggots would probably literally kill themselves without a constant stream of trashy e-celeb garbage bombarding them at all times
???

seriously man, browsers just suck at video playback, they always have, really
early on, video in browsers was just an embedded native player, it's still possible to do that, you can embed mpv or something else right in the same spot videos normally play in youtube, if you like
webm related, this is on my main desktop, mostly 2012 hardware

>youtube, reddit, and e621

Shut up, tryhard

>seriously man, browsers just suck at video playback, they always have, really
Not him, but I think that's the whole point of the example.

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