Let's say that, for one reason or another, hardware hid a brick wall sometime in the 1980s...

Let's say that, for one reason or another, hardware hid a brick wall sometime in the 1980s. What do you think technology would look like today, and would you still be interested in computers?

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Probably. I'm not interested in computers because of their current status of technology, I'm interested in computers because they provide an escape and an alternative form of communication.

This destroys the bloatfags.

if they worked and looked like the ones in the first alien movie, probably yes

Radio and Analogue computers would have gotten really sophisticated

Let's say mid eighties?

386 with math coprocessor.

Not bad at all,we would browse Jow Forums in a probably refined windows interface, html only, no java shit.

Decent games too.
I can just imagine 3d dedicated video cards with mid eighties tech... probably around virtua fighter level of detail

And also no smartphones,at least not that advanced without li ion batteries or ultra low power components. No social networks.

It would be a fucking paradise.

And i would probably work as a computer repairman

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Computers would look about the same as in the 80's if the silicon tech couldn't improve?

Hopefully something similar to x68000 or Amiga.

"Jow Forums" would just be BBSs. Maybe some sort of sharing protocol like FidoNet.

Except you'll have the Jow Forums of this world arguing whether color is bloat, or ANSI is bloat.

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Maybe heavily limiting posts and image size, it would be possible to host Jow Forums as we know it even on a 386 server

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Imagine an imageboard limited to 50kb GIF files

well, actually color IS bloat.

I'd want to experience the phreaking scene.

More like 5 or 10 kb limit

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Pretty much everything about that time sounded totally awesome. The BBS Documentary really sold it.

I remember downloading 3mb mp3s over dialup it just took a while. Images would be 100-200k.

>waiting 25-50 seconds per image
Nope.

wouldn't that be weird, haha

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What makes you think that radio isn't sophisticated now?
Radio is what makes our super fast LTE networks possible.

>Let's say mid eighties?
>386 with math coprocessor.
Yeah, literally one of the least popular platforms at the time, good pick.

You can already host Jow Forums on a 386. Sure the 2-3MB pictures will take 10 seconds to load and it wouldn't scale well when the clients are modern computers, otherwise the limitations of the hardware would set the picture size and format limits themselves already.

go away faggot
this is strictly a wintel board

He means broadcast radio.

>radioshack
damn didnt knew they were so old.

We've got DAB+ which could be really cool, but the broadcasters are fagits and cut the bitrate down to nothing so they can shove in 34 substations that all sound like they're being played over the telephone.

Possibly b8 but Tandy/Radioshack used to be one of, if not the largest producer of home computers.

Hardware would probably still consolidate around PCs and a few other known good and compatible platforms and appliance-ify as normal.

Any semblance of an internet would be quite limited and on the consumer side probably consolidated even more consolidated due to prohibitive hosting expenses.

Many things we take for granted today existed at this time but only in very expensive and high-end systems, and without process improvements to bring the costs down that's likely where they will remain.

More tangible innovation might occur due to not just being able to rely on specification bumps anymore, but eventually that would run out.

Overall you could miss me with this shit.

>80s
>386+387
even IBM couldn't get one out until 1987 and it started at $5,000, best we'd get is maybe a cheap 68000 or 286 system

Please explain to me why you're running a monitor capable of 1600x1200 @ 85Hz or 2048x1536 @ 75Hz at what looks like 800x600. There's no fucking excuse for this. Wait a second
>Windows
You're doing it so you can play child's games at muh 120Hz, aren't you?

It's easier to read.

Lets be real, if you guys could get your hands on this tech you'd jizz yourselves.

I've taken up searching ebay, facebook market, offer up, letgo, etc... for these relics.

the predecessor to Jow Forums (and mass html) was bbs over telnet.

I've already got shitloads of it and love it, that's why I don't worship it because I've actually experienced it and understand the strengths and weaknesses.

I'll pass on paying upwards of five grand for anything worth a damn, thanks.

I'd recommend you go to the doctor if reading text at 1600x1200 on such a big monitor with such a fine dot pitch isn't as easy as at 800x600.
I have the 19" version and no issues reading stuff on it at 1600x1200. No noticeable flicker at 85Hz, either.
>unironically thinking BBSs used telnet before the web was already a thing
Imagine being this much of a zoomer

not him but my 21'' sun displays are pretty so-so at 16x12, especially as they get older and start to dim

that is nifty thanks for sharing

afaik Sun used mostly (if not exclusively) Trinitrons, which didn't have as fine an aperture grille as the DiamondTron tubes used in the ElectronBlue II line.
>especially as they get older and start to dim
If they're noticeably dimming and you don't have them on 24/7, they probably have capacitor issues and can be fixed. Trinitron tubes take very long to noticeably dim, some even outlast CCFL LCDs.

font scaling is so fucked in windows that i'd rather change resolution than zoom in.

Just disable all kinds of antialiasing and font smoothing. It's a CRT, that kind of crap only hurts the quality of the text.

You mean kinda like it's hitting a wall now?

doctors can't fix old age, haha.

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top looks better unironically, what the fuck is that faded garbage

radioshack was never big in my country, only recently im seeing stores on my city.

Considering the first games I ever played and loved and the first computing experience I had was an 80’s computer, yes I think I’d still be interested. They would never have gone for the gay ass neon bullshit they have these days that’s for sure, maybe at most the more metallic looking PC’s of like late 90’s Dell

Raid Habitat and shitpost on the Jow Forums BBS.

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Nice 9s

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I wish I could peek in to this reality for a moment in order to see the Z80 vs 6502 shitpost wars.

Why do you think there would be wars when the 6502 is so clearly superior?

Probably would look like Fallout.

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Everyone would use UNIX or things trying to clone it. Lets remember that those guys were the ones that acted like it was more important for a program to be simple than to be correct.
So we'd eventually take their ideas to the next level to try and make everything ultra small.

For context - I hate UNIX.

>tfw fell for the 1.6MB RAM meme

kek

Were macs with m68k any good?

Hey
Can we at least bring the date forward to when Voodoo cards were popular, please?
I fucking hated games until Voodoo came out, that made the difference between pc games and all the crap that looked like it was made for Spectrum and Commodore.
I wouldnt mind to get stuck in the P200MMX and Voodoo 1 era for life.

>muh gaymes

I don't see UNIX making its way to the home users in this world unless it's via dialling in to a public access system.

Based

>would you still be interested in computers?
>he didn't get into computers /because/ of 80's technology
if anything i'm less interested now

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it's not the byte size that would be limited (much), but the resolution.
why? thumbnailing. to make a thumbnail, you must decompress the image, the amount of memory needed to do this scales with the image dimentions, not the source byte size
putting up a 500k image is no problem, but if it's say 7860x4320... that decodes to 97MiB (assuming RGB24), so unless you have that much ram, you're not going to have a fun time

i had a second hand performa 580cd at one point
it was ok, i didn't do much with it since i was only really familiar with dos and windows 95/98, it was getting old even at the time
the thing that made me use it was that it was the only machine i personally owned that supported 16bit colour (over 256 colour), which made it my go-to porn machine
it also had a 3D star wars game on it which it ran well, i forget what it was called

Why is it gray?