ITT: Beautiful computers

ITT: Beautiful computers.

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It's tied to an era, if you lived at the time you would have hated it just like you hate todays computers. Nowadays you have more tools at your disposal to stylize one.

True, but its not just an aesthetic preference.
The whole mindset behind the hardware and software design was utterly different to the tripe we are served up now.

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Didn't these designs were served up just the same? These computers came like this and you were forced to be happy for how it looked. A couple of men is bussiness suit decided you to worship the machine.

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you're in the wrong thread bro. op said beautiful computers. also, trashcans aren't technology

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that's not a trashcan, pic below is

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the previous pic was a trashcan prototype

I still think the Atari ST line are among the most aesthetic computers ever built.

I like some of todays computers

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amiga 500 was my first computer and i loved it, design included. i want the form factor to be revived because it would be superior to laptops in performance and less hassle for people who don't need giant cases

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>Nowadays you have more tools at your disposal to stylize one.

You can make a modern computer look "retro", but it's still a modern computer.

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get out.

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This.

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this
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btfos everything

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gay 1366*768 (i had better res in 2000) 16:9 screen, gtfo

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you are just a kid, shut up

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> NeXT CUBE was mac pro prototype
Is there a name for what's wrong with you?

>you would have hated it
What is this projection bullshit?
There were some computers I disliked but most of them I found "cool" the same as I do with them decades later and I actually loved the 500 and the first 286 and 386 machines I owned.

I wish it had a bigger screen.

it goes up to 1920x1080 kek

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>goes up to 1920x1200
nothing personal

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say it with a new york accent
nuttan Poyssinal

I had this mess of a laptop but deep inside I still like it a lot.

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Computers now don't have a personality

Sharp X68000

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Wish I had money to get this working fully

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I still use my NB100, btw. Runs XP.

My first one from 1991. Amstrad 386SX, 80 MB HDD.

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Amigas are overhyped garbage
Have you ever used it for anything besides showing off
Terrible engineering

not that guy, but pretty much everyone had better resolution in 2000
Hell, my machine in 2000 was 1152x864.
I could have gone higher, but everything was getting kinda small, and high-DPI support was even worse than it is today.

There was a lot of variation in computer designs, although you did see a lot of cheap garbage beige box hardware too.
In modern times, everyone picks a target to copy (often Apple) and then copies it.

>Have you ever used it for anything besides showing off
half the fun of having an old machine is just showing off
a more modern one will just fucking smoke it if you really wanted to get shit done

But I don't hate today's computers and back then, I didn't really care how the computers looked. It was just cool to have one.

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any sgi computer from the early to late 90s. i own two sgi o2's, one is still in shrinkwrap. comes with box with manual, microphone, setup guide, cd, etc.

anything 90s down i love. i also like ibm aptivas.

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What screen size were the biggest CRT monitors available in the consumer market during the C64 era?

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>i own two sgi o2's, one is still in shrinkwrap. comes with box with manual, microphone, setup guide, cd, etc.
Jesus, I wonder what that would fetch for on ebay

Not counting outputing to a 24'' TV, monitors would have been 12'' (11.7'') in size

1366x768 was trash even then. I had 1600x1200.

Dunno why that's marked "Commodore 64" when it's clearly a 64C.