Sup Jow Forums what do I do with this? retro thread

sup Jow Forums what do I do with this? retro thread

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how much you selling it for

Make an oscilloscope

Who's the grill in the background?

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Seconding she looks familiar.

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Watch television.

>MS Works 2.0
>no Space Quest anywhere
Aw man.

Does that have a hard card perchance? Most normal XT hard disks would occupy one of the drive bays and be externally visible.

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are those special arcade versions,
or did they just put a timer in when it turns off again?

Yep, no pics tho.

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It belonged to an old man so I assume he didn't play too many games. RIP in piece whoever he was, he had the largest horde of retro tech I've ever seen and part of me feels guilty for picking through it like a vulture.

I've never seen a Compaq Portable IRL, but I saw an IBM Portable 5155 at a flea market. It had some wicked screen burn.

I just missed out tonight on a working Commodore SX-64 for $50 jkwWFpjoiawfjopifrJOPW RJOP Fwe oji

didn't really think I would be able to, how much could I sell it for if I can't find anything cool to do with it besides white noise? also can get my hands on pic related, should I cop it?

name's savannah

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how do?

Usually old guys/baby boomers/whatever just play MS Flight Simulator or something.

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Microsoft Multiplan was an earlier M$ spreadsheet prior to Excel. Ported to multiple platforms via a proprietary scripting engine similar to the one used by Infocom to write adventure games, it was not a huge success as a Visicalc/Lotus 123 competitor which led to its being replaced by Excel in 1985.

This is the C64 port. Although C64s are not a platform known for spreadsheets, it was described in a contemporary review as "excellent and full-featured, the 40 column display being the biggest drawback".

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Where can I find a copy?

planetemu.net/roms/commodore-c64-applications-d64

You can download it here.

My dad had Fleet Writer on his C64. He said that using application software on a 40 column display bit the big one.

The meter thing to show you how much free memory is left is a nice touch. Lotus 123 never had that.

Honestly it's kind of sad that C64 application software has been better preserved and archived than a lot of IBM compatible software from the 80s even though there was a fuckton more of the latter around.

More dedicated/obsessed community and Commodore machines were mostly home computers where the user was more likely to have preserved his software copies. A load of IBM compatibles were used by the corporate world or the government and they just threw everything out when they upgraded.

Multiplan was hardly a loser with around 1 million copies sold, but it was not able to mount an effective challenge to Lotus 123, one possible reason being the excessive amount of ports. Bill Gates seemed to think so--he said that "We'd made a mistake with all those 8-bit versions when we should have been focusing on IBM compatibles. Instead we set our sights higher. We figured 'Let them (Lotus) have their character-mode software. We'll focus instead on releasing a worksheet that runs in graphical mode."

Neither are really true. Both are excelently archived when you know where to look and I highly doubt one had more software then the other.

>excelently

OP here, pic related is on craigslist near me for 120 USD, powers on, no software to boot/test, model 4P, what do you guys think?

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The Model 4P was a portable TRS-80 Model 4 sans the external floppy connector and cassette port. It works in a similar manner to the Apple IIc in that you can't go straight into BASIC on power-up, you will need an OS disk. Until the standard Model 4, it also required a separate disk for Model III emulation mode--this disk contained the Model III BIOS and Level II BASIC which was loaded into RAM rather than being present in ROM on the system board.

Where do you find all those deals?

>trolled softly

>Apple IIc in that you can't go straight into BASIC on power-up, you will need an OS disk.
You press Control+Reset after turning it on and you're instantly in a BASIC prompt.

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Pic is the guts of my bull Micral 9050. It's a 1983, non IBM compatible x86-based microcomputer made by the team formed by former R2E employees, the company that basically invented microcomputers, that bull bought years before. It sports a 8086@8MHz and has 256kB of RAM. You can see an empty socket on the board, it's for a 8087 FPU. On the back, there's a parallel printer port, a SASI bus (one external port and one internal port), and 4 RS232c ports. No keyboard or monitor ports. It also has 2 96tpi 5"1/4 floppy drives. To use this machine you need a serial terminal (I have the bull one that comes with it, but no pics).
Fun thing is that it was manufactured in my hometown.
At least you can find old IBM softwares easily, good luck finding softwares or even consistent documentation on pic related.

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It's weird how they use NES carts rather than Famicom carts.

Watch retro porn

use it as a monitor for a consumer 8-bit shitbox

Grab that shit then mail it to me

>the company that basically invented microcomputers
Oh boy do I have bad news for you.

no video inputs besides coax, would have already got that hooked up otherwise, unless I'm a complete brainlet and theres some way to locally put video into a tv that only has coax, but as far as I can tell it seems pretty difficult nearing impossible

where do you live? wanna check out what the shipping cost will be like. I'm heading there right now I'll grab it probably tonight or tomorrow

>pic unrelated

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he could buy an old vcr at goodwill for 3 bucks and play lots of 80s movies

Craigslist. I got this at an estate sale a year ago and the SX-64 was on there last night but I found the ad too late as it had been sold (in four hours). I get email alerts using their search tool but I too often ignore them, as was the case last night.

comfy

>nobody noticed
Topkek, a well-deserved (You).

Ah I see, well as an eurofag Craigslist is not an option sadly.

>Ah I see, well as an eurofag Craigslist is not an option sadly.
As in not very active? I don't suppose europeans have yard sales, do they? I've found stuff in all kinds of places. Schools in particular have a lot of old stuff hidden in them. I also go to thrift shops (least popular are usually best) and word-of-mouth. It takes time and work but you'll find something eventually.

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What is with the package of 9mm bullets user? You going to school.

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Those aren't assault bullets, stupid fuck.

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>you can only shoot up a school with "assault bullets"
If Jow Forums sees you wrote that they are going find you.

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Practically dead. Well at least in my region. No yard sales really, just flea markets ~4h drive with traffic and they usually just sell clothing barbies you know it. I'll look into thrift shops, thanks user.

>implying anything I said was wrong
Better hurry up and stockpile those assault bullets. Common Sense Gun Reform is going to ban them soon and finally end gun violence.

Forgot about flea markets, those are great too as they're usually people just buying random shit to sell for a slightly higher price. Most of the time they have no idea what the value of their products are. I've found vintage software sealed as well as a nice antique radio (didn't buy it unfortunately) at a local market. Make a day trip out of it if you can afford it and the town is interesting.

Yeah I guess I'll take that route, there should be big electronic ones in Hannover if I remember correctly. Buying of people who have no clue is probably for the best as you can save a ton of money.

>>implying anything I said was wrong
Well using the term "assault" is wrong. And using the term to describe a type of bullet is also wrong. Just say 556 or something.

> Common Sense Gun Reform is going to ban them soon and finally end gun violence.
I see that you are joking but your lack of knowledge on guns is confusing.

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It's an assault bullet. It was designed by the military to kill as many people as possible. Jesus, pick up a fucking book.

>Hannover
I've heard Hannover is a very nice tourist-friendly city so if you enjoy traveling maybe it's a good choice. Just drive a large enough vehicle and hope for a good haul :^)

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Glorious. I want that setup so bad I'd give my right foot for it.

if your vintage computer has internet access and a browser, goto wiby.me and inform of your findings.

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>LCD monitor

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Not him but Apple greentext monitors are expensive and not too common.

You sure you don't mean the color monitors? Because the monochrome ones sold in vastly bigger numbers. I've seen them myself a bunch of times but I've never seen a color Apple II display.

plug it into a crt tv or a commodore monitor nigger

You definitely wouldn't want to use a TV with 80 column text.

not unless it's a b/w tv

A B&W TV wouldn't be a major improvement, TVs never have as sharp of a display as a proper composite monitor and I doubt you'd find a B&W TV anywhere unless it's some shitty portable from the 70s with tuner dials.

yea, can't imagine it's be terribly easy to find a b/w tv in good shape nowadays, unless it's a more recent portable thing with like, a 6" screen

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>yea, can't imagine it's be terribly easy to find a b/w tv in good shape nowadays

I once found a 5" portable in a Goodwill with a 1977 date of manufacture sticker on the back. The CRT was almost dead though.

The TRS-80 Model I used a hacked-up RCA TV for a monitor and it was shit. For one thing, having too much white on screen would cause the picture to roll. On later TRS-80s, they included a proper composite monitor.

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you could get little 5" b/w crt tv's as late as the mid-2000's

So you don't steal them to play at home.

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You need an RF modulator. You can still get them at Walmart for $15.

I actually once connected the CGA composite out on an IBM XT up to a Sears color portable from the 70s (not this exact model but similar). Don't even ask what 80 column text looked like. I'll leave it to the imagination.

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From the AppleWorks User's Manual:

"In order to use AppleWorks, a composite monitor display is required. A television set cannot make sharp enough letters for 80 column text."

I'm not sure if the very early DOS 1.x versions of Lotus 123 and Wordperfect are archived anywhere.

It was not a major success being an 8-bit machine at a time when 16-bit machines were rapidly taking over.

Use it to play cs:s at 1570000fps on.

op here, I work at goodwill that's where I got it

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its 32 acp for ortgies pistol, couldn't kill anybody if I wanted to, but I could very accurately wound them all day

who bought these things? do you know what they were used for? presumably they'd be hooked up to a line printer a lot of the time, maybe with some kind of custom input hardware... maybe data logging? would love to know more.

Which phone and which thinkpad it's driving me crazy. Is it a nokie 8110?

actually I just remembered we're gonna shoot a dull run of the mill black crt tv like pic related, the one that's we're planning on shooting has strictly coax in and it just not really worth the effort to get working, it was free and so I called my buddy and he said he'd love to shoot it and that we're gonna hook it up to a generator and have it on when it dies, will post video later for anybody that gives a shit

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Nice microwave

Motorola Star Tac

God damn, looks like a rendering of my bedroom in 1987.

Leisure Suit Larry's "boss screen" strikes again.

Bro turn it into a fish tank

most glorious thing I've seen

Yes, post it. Just promise to recycle the TV afterwards.

Yes, what model Thinkpad? I can’t make it out from the pic.

Olivetti's programma 101 is more like a glorified desk calculator. R2E did make what is aknowledged as the first micro computer, the mical N.
From what i've read it was mostly universities and the likes that bought these computer. The 4 serial lines are used for terminals. It was supposed to run Prologue, a multi-user & multitasking OS made for the micral line of computers. What they used it for? Programming classes and stuff i guess.

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