Old pics of computers

Also /retro/ thread, I guess

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obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/faq_nvram.html
gigawa.lt/gigawa.lt/Sun_NVRAM.html
youtube.com/user/DextersLab2013
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

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>tfw you will never be a Japanese game Dev in the late 90s

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How did they give tifa so much breast with such basic tools

>PVMs are basic tools
fight me

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>SGI
>Sun
>Quantel
>Basic tools

you know that's a fake right

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my dads old atari 800, really nice 8 bit machine

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I didn't know those three machines were owned by the same person

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There's like four regular retroposters here on Jow Forums, and I'm one of them.
I also own the Sun Ultra Enterprise 250 that gets posted here every now and then, though most of the time I'm not the one posting it.

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Wow, that's pretty high end.

comfy desu

I have a few retro systems. I don't post on Jow Forums as much as I use too. Don't have any pictures but I got 2 SGI Indys, Power Mac G4 (400MHz), Power Mac G5, and a few PCs. I use to have a shit ton of all different systems and hardware but moving around a lot I had to let go most of the stuff. I'm starting back up again since I got more room now and plan on living in this apartment for a few years.

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>Quadra 950

Get A/UX running on that sucker

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ebin

Pulled the G4 out a school before it was picked up as trash. Have a 8500 and blue and white G3 at my parents, along with some random x86 stuff, and a 286?

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vintage

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who designed that insane pos and who would buy it

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compared to BVMs?
yup, base trash

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That's not a real SGI

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no, but it is the comfiest BigSur rebadge

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Itanic was a crap CPU and it's a shame better CPU architectures got killed in favor of that (literal) hot, steaming garbage.

hey gligar13vids

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it failed at doing what Intel wanted it to do but it still found a niche as just another boringly average enterprise architecture with great floating-point performance and RAS features and shit everything else

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anyone else here old enough to remember using dynix terminals at public libraries?

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Yep! Was to young to know what they were when they were around.

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macfags and macfags

>underages
The G4 was easily the best AIO. Adjustable monitor arm, superior cooling, easy upgrading and decent appearance all in pretty much the same overall footprint. And it used desktop parts internally rather than just being a shitty bloated laptop that needed official service just to perform a memory upgrade.

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wat?

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iMac G3 was a beautiful device

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zoomer

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Is that a digitizer a wacom tablet or something? Looks enormous.

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I have a Sun Ultra II creator 3D that I'm restoring.
The crt monitor doesn't want to sync so I have to use an lcd but I've been looking for an original period correct sun crt with a 13w3 connector.
I think the PROM might be fucked but it seems to have a mac address in open/netbsd in solaris 7 it's all 0's though.
I've sourced the original part for cheap unflashed all I need to do is get the hardware to flash it.

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Sounds like the NVRAM chip battery is just dead, shouldn't need any special hardware to re-program a new one.

I don't have any hardware to flash.
Can I just drop a new one in and flash it that way? I was assuming I'd at least need a serial flasher since the cheap dip's from china/taiwan are completely blank.

Yeah, all of the actual firmware is stored in ROM, the NVRAM chips are just battery-backed SRAM for storing system configuration, no flash involved. Sun should have used flash though, fuck those things.

obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/faq_nvram.html
This is useful for getting an idea of what you'll be doing with the replacement chip.

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Probably. I know SEGA had a digitizer system they used to trace freehand doodles on paper into pixel art via a puck control like a mouse with a windowed crosshair on it. I wouldn't doubt Square didn't have something similar.

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This design is splendid, I have to pick one of these up someday

absolutely based

>The crt monitor doesn't want to sync
Does it have sync-on-green? Sun's 13w3 doesn't use a separate sync signal, so you'll need a monitor with that, or a sync separator on the VGA converter.
My E250 had a dead IDPROM too.
As that user said, there's no need for an external programmer. Plus, you don't even need a new chip, you can just use a dremel or a hacksaw to remove the battery off the old one and add a coin cell holder. That's what I did with the NVRAM chip on my E250, and it's been working great for almost three years now.
gigawa.lt/gigawa.lt/Sun_NVRAM.html
Judging by the UI on the PVM, it's most likely a Quantel machine. Probably a Henry or a Henry Infinity.

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viddy this droogies

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Off-brand Dana Scully?

i like that at one time, in technology, when you needed more power/ space/ memory you literelaly just bolted more boxes to your box

Moar.

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As , Quantel box - check out DextersLab on youtube, more getting the tech running again than actual use tho:
youtube.com/user/DextersLab2013

looks like dragon dilldo

A time when sending messages over the net meant something.

These were awesome when I was a kid. My middle school music program had one of these set up as a midi station with a synthesizer. It was the coolest thing ever. Had a lot of fun with it.

check out my ia64 shitbox

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holy shit :D
what am i even looking at here?

my uni has an old mac in one of the EE labs. I am not a macfag by any stretch of the imagination, but it looks so cute I just want to go in and steal it. Can your University revoke your degree/diploma for something like that?

HP ZX6000, mine's beat to shit but I'm gonna turn it on for the first time in years later today.

It's not cool to laugh. The japs are still dealing with the effects of the bomb.

it booted but I need to install an OS

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>Can your University revoke your degree/diploma
no, but degree ain't much use to you in jail. Bubba don care, what u paper says

Are those DEC disk drive descriptors?
Did they really carry them over from the VAX, to the Alpha, to Compaq and then to the Itanium(HP)?
So much for being legacy-free.

Any recommended YouTube channels on retro computing? Especially ones that discuss both hardware and software.

Lana Tulley

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>HP ZX6000

I disarmed one of those once, almost broke everything trying to figure out how the architecture works, and the mobo was half the size

Do the Jow Forums text boards even still exist?

>WinVHS

I get that it was a powerful machine, SiliconGraphics and all, but the design looks retarded.

Oh. I thought that package was the dragon dildo OP's mom ordered.

those poor tables.

Time to spice things up a bit with an OS I've never tried on Itanium.

Yep, that's what VMS does.

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Ah, they were taken down 4 years ago.

>SiliconGraphics and all, but looks retarded
yeah, and heres an Applel Design Classic from same year. Bear in mind, ROTW was at the time beige boxes (also avail in beige). O2's also suffer a bit in comparison to their larger kin Octane which appeared shortly after, but they were at $5k or so, a quarter of the price. Now, just looks like a baby Octane, but if you limited in space, (no Onyx 4 u), they still nice enough

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