why are old data centres so fucking / c o m f y /
ITT post retro-cool pics of old computers / data centres / whatever
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because it was the golden age of the all-american nerd
intellect, skill, creativity and problem solving were prized traits that made the digital revolution possible..
gone are these days, given way to an army of instagramming codegurlz, web-framework hipsters who don't understand the difference between javascript and the web framework du-jour, and poojeets working for 10 dollars an hour writing garbage code for middle-managers who couldn't possibly understand or give a shit anyway
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this guy looks like a real piece of shit tbhfam
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i miss those days - my dad was a bigwig at Control Data, and I grew up in the late 60s/early 70s around all those comfy mainframes and COBOL.
fuck i love those comfy beiges and pastels
what ever happened to c o l o u r a e s t h e t i c s
>ywn give sweetcheeks a congratulatory pat on the butt for getting all the punchcards organized on time and knock off early to meet the guys at eric's garage to listen to rush, do coke help set up his new space invaders machine
>comfy retro-computing: the show
the opening theme is now playing in your head
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Is this any good?
first season is great
second season is worse but still pretty cool
haven't watched third season
>Get Netflix for this
>It's not avalible in my country netflix
Great I guess I'm not paying after the free month.
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things deteriorated with the pc
things became scruffy
bill gates, with his black heart & his physical stench had replaced civilisation
at least it was still excitingly diverse
in that respect, commodity hardware was the biggest mistake of them all
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>my dad was a bigwig at Control Data
Nice. My grandather worked at Control Data :3
I stopped watching in the gay part.
Fucking jews they want us all gay for some reason.
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No it's really corny, Silicon Valley is a far better tech related show imo.
Best cray is obligatory
Still trying to find a large enough scanner to get this digitised for you guys.
>tfw father and son shitposting together on Sup Forums
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>but wymyn cant into tech
APOLOGIZE
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I'm making myself a bit of a retrostation. Any feedback? Sorry for the picture quality.
Because the people were groomed and looked presentable.
1985/10
I came
>why are old data centres so fucking / c o m f y /
Although it functioned as a customer data center (time rented out to customers) the main purpose of the DCS was to publicise computers in general and IBM's in particular.
The large machine on the left is a 1419 MICR check sorter/reader. Definitely a workhorse.
Why is there no retrocomputing thread? I nearly bought an Osborne 1 yesterday but it didn't boot when I tested it.
>tfw no T3200SX
Second season was how Mutiny was the equivalent of Facebook and Amazon in 1984 with real time chatrooms and electronic commerce. Ending claim they invented internet but Berners-Lee stole the idea.
Okay
Was in Japan the past 2 weeks and found this cool retro game shop called Beep! in akihabara
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Sorry for the file sizes
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>see price tag
>$98,000 yen
>"that must be like $20 in burgerdollars"
>convert to usd
>almost $900
>Hypercard introduced by Apple
Shit. All my nostalgia.
Theyre pretty rare and highly desirable
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invest in some shit with black bezels and at least a fuckin 5.25''->3.5'' mount goddamn nigger that thing looks like an abortion
>Sorry for the file sizes
vintage threads are pretty much the only case when huge photos are absolutely encouraged on Sup Forums.
40 years old and still sending back data
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Man, can't wait to hang one on my own wall.
>I nearly bought an Osborne 1 yesterday but it didn't boot when I tested it.
Explain? You need a boot floppy.
What did come up on the screen?
For some reason, this shit feels comfy and unnerving at the same time. Like Boards of Canada albums.
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>yfw today you get sent to HR for telling Stacey to send documents in pdf rather than docx format
>you go home and muck around tpb for an album because you're not a private tracker fag and you listen to shit that isn't on Sup Forums's archive
>drink shitty beer and shitpost on Sup Forums
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Holy shit. Why in the world all the old stuff form 90s and early 00s nobody (except me) wants is os fucking ridiculously priced. Socket 423 mobo - 40 USD, good Asus 440bx - 50 USD, SCSI adapters - 30 USD. What the fuck is going on?
>69
Hipsters.
Also JewBay I guess?
Actually shits pretty cheap if you bother looking and waiting.
more rare cykas for the collection
seem pretty run of the mill to me except $50 for a BX board fuck that
if you're going to go through the annoyance of listing something on ebay and then shipping it you might as well make it worth your while
Ugh, is so ugly it's awesome.
>shit is so ugly it's awesome
fixed
you can shit on centrally planned economies all you want but they were pretty good at autistic design
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That's the opposite of autistic design
Technically not a computer, but aesthetic as fuck tech. It's a Nagra SN reel-to-reel audio recorder, developed for spies during the cold war. Small enough to fit in a coat pocket.
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guess it depends on what 'autism' truly means to you deep down in your soul
What do i have to do to get one of those. I just want to stare at it forever.
God that crt is adoreable
thats a plasma screen.
can i get trip2.gif?
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Sorry, "God that screen is adoreable"
All better now.
>Alien movies
>All CRTs
>Prequel movies
>All flatscreens
wizards get a pass
More gay whites = less whites breeding