Retro PC thread...go!

Retro PC thread...go!

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We already have ThinkPad General, though...

>opening thread with Amiga pic
in the trash it goes.

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Why?

Not sure if this is exactly retro, but why not?
Hello from my PowerBook G4.

I need a cheaper alternative to a Atari STe for midi sequencing.

A old thinkpad running windows 98 and cubase 2.8 would be perfect but none have game/midi ports

pls halp

Didn't you make this same post yesterday and you were already offered solutions to a MIDI port?

Only solution offered were serial to midi converters but I couldnt find any to buy.

bump

Sony Vaio C1 series (Picture Book) and Accessories I own from my UMPC collection.

More on the link:
imgur.com/gallery/A8qux

It's not retro, you faggot.

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I have some respect for these old Amiga , they ran the prevue channel. Before they were able to integrate IPG directly into set top boxes we had to watch channels like this to find out what was on. Good times.

Is this retro enough for Sup Forums?

If we go by /vr/ rules, anything before 1999 is retro.

>tfw I'm borderline retro

Sony made some cool looking PCs back in the day, especially their late-2000's laptops.

Can you pipe a serial console to that screen? It seems like the best possible use for a screen on the box.

you shut your whore mouth

IDK, it's used for the built-in FM radio/MiniDisc player.

They do and I collect quite a few of Sony UMPC just for this reason. The tech is very beautiful and some are done quite well and it's ahead of it's time.

Here's a review page for a similar PC. It even has a built in amplifier.

pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/article/20001002/newpro.htm

Power is officially retro

I wish retro computers werent so expensive.

$200 for a beige mac is just too much.

i want pic related.

Oh hi there from my iBook

Back in the 90s you could find thrift stores stacked with the things for $5.

>Pop!
kek

nice! how's debian on PPC these days? I last tried it a few days ago, left a bad taste in my mouth

Why can't there be a simple OS like this that can also view images and video as well as browse the internet.

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not a pc but its retro

Got a Dell Dimension L800CXE sitting in my closet. 16 years old. Does that count? Used to have an IBM Aptiva (1997 model) and IBM 80286 ps2 system. But I don't got them anymore. Wish I did but I sold them before they were "collectors" items.

What is the dell laptop that is grey and has a blue trackpoint clit mouse?

because he knows Amiga evangelists will get triggered if he says that

There was. Called Windows 9x/2000. Sadly starting with XP the whole "oh lets add more flash" thing took over. Don't get me wrong XP & 7 are good (really good compared with Vista/Ten) but the plain, simple, just OS days were gone.

In my experience it's been exactly the same as on any other arch to be honest. But maybe it's because this thing has an ATi card, I've heard Nvidia is much much worse since KMS was implemented.
You described every Latitude from 2002 to 2007.

>NT
>simple
>praising 2000 while deriding 2000+Luna

Vista is not really too bad either. You can still keep it updated until 2020 by installing Server 2008 updates (none of them have telemetry).

thesun.co.uk/tech/2688277/man-buys-windows-98-era-laptop-for-4-and-discovers-it-has-a-star-trek-inspired-interface-and-glossary-of-hilarious-australian-slang/

Why was this newsworthy?

how's software support? is FF Quantum running on it?

>98-era
>1996

That's some quality shart right there.
Software support is exactly the same as on any other platform, as long as you compile it yourself. Don't know about Quantum, but FF52 ESR crashes whenever I try to download anything, for some reason.

>FF52 ESR crashes whenever I try to download anything, for some reason
Doesn't happen to me.

A PC and component stereo fucked for a long night and this was came out from it.

On 32 bit powerpc?

On Windows.

Then this doesn't exactly apply to you, does it, fuckface?

you can chose only 1

>90s thinkpad
>90s sony vaio
>90s powerbook

How did you get modern software running on NT 4.0 for PowerPC?

thinkpad

WHAT an aesthetic. The future used to look so cool.

That dock setup is so unbelievably fucking chill, 10/10

I never said I was running NT 4.0 nor did I say I was using PowerPC lol.

We were having a discussion about a PPC distro, you jumped into it randomly and chimed in with advice. Predictably, you're a fucking dimwit, and now it's /our/ fault that you can't fucking read.

Go find another thread, dumbass.

>90s thinkpad
>Modular, uses relatively standard parts which can be replaced with modern counterparts, can be maxed out cheaply

>90s sony vaio
>Slim and portable, but soldered everything and almost no upgradeability

>90s powerbook
>Modular but proprietary everything, fucking SCSI drives, brittle plastics, bad capacitors, upgrades cost an absolute fortune, can't communicate with anything in the modern world
I'll take the ThinkPad
Oh, but you did bump or at least helped me bump this thread you dislike so much ;)

I wasn't reading well, sorry.

>Oh, but you did bump or at least helped me bump this thread you dislike so much ;)
Never said that I disliked these types of threads.

Well...this is Sony and they tend to make very interesting stuff in the part.

@63490184
(You)

Some places I think still use the computers (mostly recent ones) and just run pop or maybe something local instead on the upper half.

To think that version used about 1MB of ram. Probably less actually.

they're glued on Pop! because it's mapped to the old Prevue/TV Guide/etc satellite transponder most likely, seeing as the cable system operators got their local equipment from pop's predecessor

Yeah I think though one time I was in myrtle beach and it was a local thing they put on the top.

>63490283
>63489631
Ok it used 172Kb of RAM. Fuck me.

OK, this 13" G4 has been ignored all summer. Time to check in.

I scored this 486 from ewaste last week. All it needed was a hard drive and a sound card.

specs:
486dx-50
16mb ram
128kb cache
210mb hdd
Trident 8900cl
Sound Blaster Pro 2.0

I also did a fresh install of MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1

I've been playing doom nonstop

What does /retro/ think?

closeup

It's a "PRO 486 system"

Apologies for potato photos taken with floppy disk mavica

>tfw you local recycler turns everyone away looking to repurpose and scaps everything

You aren't offering them enough cash.

Would Doom on.
Wonder what it was used for though. 16MB is a lot of RAM for a pre-DX2 system.

>tfw you'll never live the cyberpunk dream of hacking into the corp telenet through a direct connection interface on a Sony Vaio UMPC.

Why even live

Hell I offered them ebay prices. Still no go because of regulations/policies. No one else I know has gotten them to crack either.

>Wonder what it was used for though. 16MB is a lot of RAM for a pre-DX2 system.
I got it from the recycling center behind one of the engineering buildings at my university. When I got it, it was missing 2 blanking plates, so they must of removed the isa cards they were using. My guess is they were probably using it to run some ancient lab equipment.

I pulled the 210mb conner hard drive in it out of some rack equipment that was used to run a mass spectrometer or something.

They throw away some crazy things

Don't trash the first multitasking media pc before they even knew what it was

Some places have obligatory business arrangements with other recyclers. There are several nonprofits in my area that will not sell to the public.

Hell, I used to have trouble just getting empty bike boxes for shipping things because of "muh policies".
>tfw pallets full of thinkpads going to be burned in Africa by children to pull out the copper components

not to mention do it all with 8MB RAM

That would first require websites to not include a billion javascript libraries.

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nice

I have so many questions

Big deal. I knew a guy who "helped" himself to a Commodore PET at the city dump while he was dropping off trash. It turned out to be fully functional too aside from the keyboard (the keyboard PCB was snapped in half for some reason).

Flash needs to just die already.

Flash is already dead. I haven't come across a single website that uses it in the last two months.

I've had to click allow for flash half a dozen times today.

What websites do you go to?

porn sites mainly

As much as Flash needs to die I'm not sure I like multi-ton HTML5/Javascript pages any better.

Ahh, that explains it.
Same. At least Flash could be disabled or set to click-to-play. For a few years it was great having all video ads replaced with static images because I used a whitelist for Flash. Can't do that with HTML5 now, can you?

>thinkpad
>Modular, uses relatively standard parts
Do you niggers even own any of this shit you wank about? I've got tons of '90s ThinkPads ranging from the 750C up to the 600E and they're hardly more standard than any other laptop, maybe a little more modular if you get a brickpad that makes all of its proprietary as shit/caddy-loaded components more accessible. The best you're going to get as far as socketed CPUs go on any pre-Dixon PII is probably a shit TCP module but more than likely it will be a soldered QFP depending on how far back you go. I guarantee none of the pre-Pentium models are socketed.

I have a Sony Vaio desktop sitting in my closet, it's a pretty cool machine.

Laptops pre-21st century had nothing resembling any kind of standardization.

16 MB sounds about right for a DX-50, it wasn't a cheap chip.

50MHz motherboards weren't exactly cheap either.

hnnnngg

Worst Apple II, except the keyboard.

In my home, before we got DirecTV we had to use TV Guide magazine.

It's notable for being the inspiration for matrix decks. William Gibson's inspiration for Case's little Ono-Sendai was seeing an ad for a IIc.

Can't imagine it. I've still never seen a DX-50 in the flesh and I've pulled a lot of expensive shit over the years.

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