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Itt old and obsolete technology that make you moist.

I'll start with Nakamichi casette deck.
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>>45469581
Xbox one
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>>45469581
>tfw I haven't used mine in years
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Dumb terminals. I have several, but wouldn't turn down more.

Used my tape deck just the other day to load software to my Apple IIe.
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Oh hai :3
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>tfw no more analog over-the-air TV stations

>>45470022
Absolutely beautiful.
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The 8920, I use it at work.
Not actually obsolete though, but that phosphor tube display sure is
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Recently I've really wanted a Amiga for some reason.

It kinda seems like the perfect pre-modern computer.
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Apple II series.

Borked something? Just remove the disk and reboot, back to factory default. Try again.

I'm currently setting up an ADT server so I can load all my disk images.
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>>45470135
>pre-modern computer.
But an Amiga is a modern computer anon
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sure is nostalgia samefag in here
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>>45470135
I have one of them Amiga 500s
but the built-in floppy disk drive seems to have broken, can't get anything to start on that thing anymore
was a pretty nice machine though
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>>45470152
MOTHERFUCKING BATTLE CHESS!
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Complete Sony home entertainment center from 1976. TV, video player, recorder, turntable, radio etc
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>>45470200
That's god damn right anon. It's been playing computer vs computer for a few hours now.

I'll be taking bets on who wins, red or blue.
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>>45470176
Oh you know what I mean.

>>45470181
Shame. Can't you replace it?
It just seems like it has a nice balance between old and modern.

Though price, logistics and it being way, way before my time kinda keeps me from getting one. I wish I lived close to some type of Goodwill store.
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>>45470208
Correction: no turntable, but I think it had a cassette deck.
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The Cheshire Catalyst at HOPE 2006 with his TRS-80 Model 100 hooked up to HAM radio station reading telemetry data off the International Space Station.

Like a boss.
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>>45470208
>>45470243
It's just a TV (19" Trinitron) and VCR (Betamax) combination. There are no audio components. The primitive VCR is just that huge and top loading.
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Some cold hard facts over here.

Sent from my iPad
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I've got a thing for old film cameras. Too bad film is becoming harder and harder to obtain in my area, and even more difficult to develop c41.
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>>45470283
>that flip clock
>them dual analog VHF/UHF tuners
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>>45470081
Nice Trinitron, how old is it?
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Vt520 terminal
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>>45470414
Wtf. I thought only icrap flipped photos.
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>>45470387
1974 or 1975, I believe. At some point they revised the KV-9200 and replaced the old optional "Quick Start" system (basically just a standby cathode heater) with the newer "Econoquick" system which allowed for quicker starting without the standby cathode heater. Mine is the earlier version. Takes about a minute to warm up from a cold start.

>nearly $400 for a 9" TV back in 1974
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>>45470229
haven't found a (reasonably priced) replacement drive yet
might just try to grab some non-working A500s on ebay or w/e and hope that one of them has a working floppy drive

would be kinda cool, that thing was my second computer, after the Commodore C116
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still got some (working!) Video 2000 VCRs in the attic
I remember watching Star Wars for the very first time on a Video 2000 cassette back in the late 80s
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>>45470508
Just get GOTEK USB FDD emulator for 20$, flash it with 2$ TTL cable and enjoy loading everything on first try.

https://cortexamigafloppydrive.wordpress.com/
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Fucking Nixie Tubes.
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Diora MDS 4421
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My dick is reserved for black faced, LED display chocked '80s stereo systems.
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>>45470834
heard about that from steingates rofl
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>>45469949
Where do you find them? I've been keeping my eyes open for a while now, still haven't found any that were reasonably priced.
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>>45470874
>TFW you'll never play 80's classics in your rich luxury appartment next to your rich banking job office using a 80's high end HIFI.

Take me soon lord.
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They don't make these anymore afaik, and I'd love to get my hands on some DPDT models to switch my audio inputs, but at like $15 a piece on ebay or wherever that isn't gonna happen. Shame.
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>>45470093
Gotta love old HP equipment. I have a 3580A spectrum analyzer.
Mine is from the early 70's and still works perfectly.
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>>45470208
Heh, that brings me back. My parents had one of those in the living room when I was a kid. When VHS won the format war, my dad ripped out the built-in betamax player and replaced it with a VHS machine.
I kinda wish I still had it. I always liked it.
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>>45469581
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>>45470022
Hey I'm using one of those right now
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I wanted a quad receiver so badly, but they are insanely expensive these days
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Data tape recorders.
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I'm a sucker for 60s tech
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Bookshelf receivers
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>>45471063
Also reel to reel audio recorders. I have absolutely no use for them, but I still desire one simply because of how cool they look with the spinning reels and softly glowing VU meters and stuff.
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>>45471082
Mid century design is delicious.
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>Bubble memory is a type of non-volatile computer memory that uses a thin film of a magnetic material to hold small magnetized areas, known as bubbles or domains, each storing one bit of data. The material is arranged to form a series of parallel tracks that the bubbles can move along under the action of an external magnetic field. The bubbles are read by moving them to the edge of the material where they can be read by a conventional magnetic pickup, and then rewritten on the far edge to keep the memory cycling through the material.

This shit is just too fucking nuts. Storing data as magnetically charged bubbles that you can move around. Not only that, but apart from industry applications they actually put this kind of memory into two pioneer consumer laptops in the early 80s -and- into a few Konami arcade cabinets in the mid 80s, including the original release of the iconic Gradius.
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>>45471130

Mid century is my favorite. All I got is a lamp and a radio to go with it though..
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>>45471202
Glorious mid century
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>>45469581
I love it. My fave is the marantz deck
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>>45471257
Looks like those handfuls of bugs that Timon and Pumbaa love to stuff their faces with.
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>>45471257
I dig it. How did you get it?
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>>45471287
Found it in a local thrift store.

That was a few years ago. It seems much harder to find good stuff nowadays.
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My favorite piece. My dad's VX player from 1976. For some reason he had bad luck with VTR formats and picked the one machine that failed in the marketplace. They only made one VX player. The Quasar VR 1000
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>>45471325
I'd never even heard of that format before.

Are the machines worth anything? I imagine they're quite rare but probably don't have much demand for them.
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>>45471321
It's because everyone "knows" about it. I've noticed it here too. Back in 2008 when I started I was finding tube radios etc for pennies on the dollar. Now its near impossible PLUS Goodwill and other stores now price check EVERYTHING and anything that looks "vintage" gets marked up. Not so "thrifty" anymore.

For example. I was at a Volunteers of America once, and saw a decent looking tape deck from mid 70s or so. I look inside, and BOTH plastic capstan/reel grippers were broken. aka the whole thing was literally useless. I look at the price. $39.99 bullshit.

Lastly, this stereo console is probably the best find I'll ever have. Near mint condition, it had a blown left channel transistor when I bought it. They only wanted $25 for it. I've used it ever since and it sounds great.
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All vacuum tube amplifiers. They still get used though, maybe enough to not be considered obsolete.
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>>45471353

Maybe to an extreme collector, but to most people no. Unfortunely, it was in a flooded basement about 15 years ago, and the motor which spins the head burned out. I've vowed to personally restore it someday no matter what it takes.
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>>45471374
Yeah. I started in 2008 and thrifting was already getting tough, and it just keeps getting gradually worse.

Unlike Goodwill, my local Salvation Army and Habitat for Humanity don't tend to overprice things. Habitat for Humanity also discounts things very quickly when they aren't selling, and even just gives the stuff away after a while.

I still find some good stuff for cheap once in a while, even at Goodwill, but the finds are very few and far between. I managed to score these Ace Staplers for a buck a piece at Goodwill this year.
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>>45471476
My mom has the bigger one of those, but with tan plastic. solid.

yeah, anything that isnt "vintage tech" tends to be plentiful. Tools, calculators and smaller misc. things that are retro are in a different section, at the place I go to and are mostly untouched.
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I don't know why, but nothing is more cyberpunk to me than Minidiscs. I wish small optical discs in caddys would make a comeback, maybe with the same capacity as a Bluray.
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>>45471545
yeah, it's always been kinda a central element of cyberpunk fiction for people to exchange data on tiny optical discs.
Definitely never going to make a comeback, just because of how fast and easy it is to host and transfer data over the internet now.
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>>45471569
Yeah, that and you could just walk to your local Best Buy and get a 32gb flash drive for $10.
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>>45471569
But muh sneakernet.
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>>45471592
Flash memory is cheap. Optical media is deprecated.
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>>45471508
I've actually been getting into tools recently and haven't found much worth buying locally yet. The Flea markets were full of nothing but piles of junky and/or overpriced tools.

I've seen a lot of nice vintage adding machines at thrift stores, but don't have much use or space for those.

Unfortunately I have to resort to eBay for a lot of the stuff I want.
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>>45471597
BadUSB
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Very very old ...

I restored it !
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X-Ray Fitting Flouroscopes.
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>>45471606

When I started, records at my place were 20 cents for anything, new condition or not. 45s were 10 cents. Now they are 1.50 and $1.00 respectively.
Ha, I know that feeling. For me, ebay is like defeat. I know I could find what I want on there in seconds and have it ordered and shipped, but theres something about the thrill of hunting for it at the store and finding it for a good price. at least for me
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Sega Wondermega
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>>45472099
What is this TV? Something European?
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>>45472154

Yea its European,I restored it myself,how did you know ??
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>>45470081
Hey I just found one at my dads, is it possible to hook up cable to it?
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>>45470081
I also sort of collect old televisions
but i only have 5 right now
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old cheap black and white tv my parents bought in the early 80s
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RussiaN vacuum tube TV
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>>45472232

look at them guts
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my tvs
>shit 80's tv
>bentely b&w portable
>muh watchman ive had since 2002
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my favorite one
color dual tv/radio by em3erson
i also have a 70's solid state sony tv but i dont wanna take a pic

to run it all I have an agile modulator that hooks up to an x201
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>>45472389
to be honest I kind of want to gut it and put a mini itx system inside, replace the crt with anlcd screen, and use it as a more energy efficient desktop
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I had this little guy for a few months, pretty average audio quality but i LOVED the look of it. the glassbowl FM/AM lighted dials were awesome. I ended up selling it back in march because I had no room in my apartment..
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>>45472349
I have that exact same Bently portable. Back in the day I used to watch it when the power went out. DTV transision ruined that, though.
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>>45472413
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>>45472434

Sexy as fuck.
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>>45472434

Some fraternity guy and his roomate came and bought it. I hope they treated her well. I gave it a full scrub down and de-oxit.
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the insides of this >>45471202 radio
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>>45470834
>>45470887
you jelly niggers? this guy should be coming in between tomorrow and the 16th
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>>45472389
>>45472400
can't finds my tape measure, but it's footprint is slightly larger than that of an x201

I tihnk I will make this into a pc case
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An early 70's Claricon that had the option for matrixed 4channel audio. Didnt have any 4ch 8tracks or LPs so I'll never know
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Never cared much for 80s plastic tech, but some of it I liked
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>>45470317
I was cleaning out my attic a few months back, and I threw out three large boxes of film, probably thousands of rolls.
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Not really audio, but my grandmother gave me her 1973 Hammond Organ before she passed away. It's nothing close to professional, but really fun to play around on.
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old item 1/3

my vintage harman kardon tuner. circa 1973
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>>45471130
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item 2/3

vintage ipod collection:
1st gen 10gb
3rd gen 15gb
4th gen 20gb u2 edition
4th gen photo hp edition 60gb
shuffle 1st gen 1gb
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>>45472660
Does Harman Kardon still make decent stuff? I've always liked the looks of their (modern) receivers but I don't really know anything about them.
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>>45472703
they're pleb tier now, but they still have some marks in the audiophile world. some are ok but there are better and cheaper shit out there
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>>45471374
I've got one of these stereo consoles, picked it up a few years ago for five dollars. Everything on it works, and it's in near perfect shape.
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item 3/3

dell at101 mechanical keyboard with salmon alps switches. circa 1992
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>>45470924
It's just a relay whats the big deal?
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>>45472058
In the US we only had this.
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>>45472799
the american version of wondermega is called the JVC X'eye
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>>45472187
If you have analog cable, then you can connect to it directly and receive a handful of channels. You are supposed to use an adapter (still available at Radio Shack and maybe some other stores) to go from the 75 ohm coax cable cable to the 300 ohm twin terminals.

The best way to do it is to use a VCR because any relatively modern VCR will be able to tune all the analog cable channels.

If you have digital cable, you could also connect a provider cable box to receive all your digital channels.

>>45472181
It just has that look about it. American and European TVs tend to look different.

>>45472232
>>45472255
Beautiful.

>>45472355
That yoke desperately needs a turn. That's quite a rotation.

>>45472519
Doesn't get much simpler than that.
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>>45472773
>longboard
>Keyboard that's either ancient or, even worse, is made to look ancient
Hipster detected. Beard and plug earrings to confirm? Do you work at Best Buy and are you Canadian?
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>>45472857
Keyboard is legit. Its from 1992 according to the date code on the plastic.

>hipster
fuck them
>beard
nope
>plugs
would rather be gay than have facial anuses
>best buy
nope
>canadian
yes

protip: theres actually 3 longboards there(1 is handcrafted)
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>>45472602
>>45470874
>>45470840
I wish I had a use for all this cool audio equipment
All I do is play digital files on my computer straight into my headphones, am I a pleb, or is all this neat shit useless and unnecessary today?
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Hand held radio I got at a thrift store for a dollar.
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>>45472906
and the outside
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>>45472894
Deciding question: Do you bomb the shit out of hills?
If you're riding longboard you'd best be using it right.
>inb4 >>>/asp/
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>>45472947
no hills in my area. I prefer to use it for distance travelling rather than bombing hills. The long deck is very useful for carrying items around on it.
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>>45472895
As a guy who owns/ owned
>>45471112
>>45471082
>>45471202
>>45471325
>>45471374
>>45472217
>>45472413
>>45472560

For me, its mostly obsolete. I tend to buy it for the aesthetics. Each era has its own charm.
I use the receiver for radio and tv/movie watching, but honestly I have a 5.1 receiver in the closet that I pop out for serious movie watching.
However, I do occassionally make cassette tapes for my car, since it's older and has a tape slot. I have a batch of Type II and Type IV cassettes just for that purpose.
Most of the records I have are just pure fun/basic stuff. classic rock and etc. I do have some rare releases and alternate mixes that never made it out of vinyl, those are fun to listen to.
As for the Reel to Reel. its mostly useless to me, but If I come across tape at stores I'll pick it up for fun.
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>>45469581
where does the Hot Pocket go?
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>>45473043
Not him, but that reminded me, I did a project for a photo class where I mixed different era's of technology. It was cheesy and awful.
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>>45473012
>I do occassionally make cassette tapes for my car, since it's older and has a tape slot. I have a batch of Type II and Type IV cassettes just for that purpose.
I used to do that with my Akai, but my car's cassette deck failed and I figured I'd install an FM Modulator and make the transition to digital music in the car.

>still haven't got around to it after several years
>now one of the woofers in the car has a voice coil rub and I've been putting off replacing that for months

The TDK SA tapes were always my favorite.
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>>45472697
how is the iphone supposed to work with such a small screen??
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item 4/3

nit really tech related, but still cool. Vintage skateboard from circa 1975
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>>45473156
are you a master ruseman?
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>>45472840
I was the guy asking about the Triniton TV, thank you for your response
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>>45473093
coil rub? is that like a ripped surround? my car had that and I had to buy a new piece of foam to glue in.

I've been finding random XL-IIs around. TDK SAs are great. My dad was a (pseudo)audiophile in the 70s and 80s or so he tells me, and he always went for TDKs and Maxell XLs
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>>45473162
Banana board? I got a pair of those from my grandmother when I was younger. I remember them rolling extremely fast.
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>>45473215
banana board. California free former to be exact. They dont roll fast. at all. you can bomb a hill and the board will slow you down.
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>>45473192
You're welcome. Here's a picture of the thing you'll need for connecting modern coax cables to those old style antenna connectors. That will be your starting point for connecting various things. A VCR is the next thing to have for the cable tuner and they can also serve as an RF modulator to connect game consoles and other devices to the TV.

>>45473202
The surround is fine because it's not foam. It makes a metal on metal vibrating sound whenever it's playing which from what I've read is due to a misaligned voice coil. As far as I know there's no way to fix it, at least nothing reasonable for a fairly low dollar speaker.

I had a stockpile of brand new TDK SAs, Maxell XLs, Sony Type IIs, etc. which I picked up cheap before they got rare, but I recently sold them all because I figured I'd never get back into recording. Might regret it someday, but I just don't have the space to keep stuff that I might never use. I still have to get rid of a lot of stuff.
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>>45473288
bummer man. it makes me sad when tech becomes terminally ill like that. I try not to keep too many tapes, but 1 or 2 of each kind is good enough for me. Still looking out for some rare Type IVs in the wild. some thrift stores mark it at 10cents and toss it with the rest of the cassettes..
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>>45473320
I kept a handful which I had previously recorded on so I'll always have some for testing and playing around with, and I'm still holding on to my Akai deck for now. I should probably get it out and run it since it's been sitting unused for a while.

The only Type IV I ever found was a Denon which I got at Goodwill for a buck. I sold it along with the whole lot, but I think that one was worth about $15-20 by itself.

I rarely see any cassette tapes at all these days. There used to be dozens (mostly pre-recorded stuff, but occasional sealed recording tapes thrown in) there at all times. I think there will be always some enthusiasts who keep the old technology alive. Someone was happy to buy all my blank tapes and I hope they're making some use of them.
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>>45473451
Good on you man. When I sold one of my tape decks the guy that came to get it was trying to tell me there was about to be a huge cassette revival. He said he bought 10 different decks in the past month and boxes of tapes from liquidated stores. That was 2 years ago. Revival? haha Maybe..
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>>45473451
i need that to stick in my wifes butt. she can take the 2c one pretty well and i need to upgrade
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>>45469581

Goddamn.
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>>45473509
I'm not sure if you're serious... Kind of sounds like it.
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>>45470247
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>>45473569
why wouldn't i be serious?
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>>45470874

Mother of fuck, that's a nice Technics setup.
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>>45473589
Maybe you could just go for a 4C. They're still produced and rather cheap. The 6C and 5C are discontinued and would make rather expensive diloos (plus they're rare and I hate the thought of one being subjected to that).
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>>45471063
When I was a student computer operator in the early 90s, we used those reels for backups. And of course I had a few of my own to store my pron collection. 100mb per reel, and I had 2-3 of them. I wonder when they got erased/recycled.
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>>45470899
I always found them dumpster diving places that have/had older big iron. University is where that one came from.
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>>45472615
If it got hot, it may have gone bad. There are some hipsters who might buy some for lomography.
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>>45473766
It was pretty consistent temperature as the whole house has air conditioning. I really didn't give it a second thought, becuase photography was my dad's thing, and I'll never have a film camera. Once digital cameras came out I chucked my film cameras and never looked back.
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>>45473947
i came
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>dat yay vee cee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4iw8Ppo1o
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>>45472534
Not just building one yourself
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>>45474158
i will later on. but itll cost almost just as much in parts so why the fuck not
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>tfw it's hard to find a good quality fingerbox any more unless you go to flea markets or garage sales
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>>45470834
those fucking numbers!
i have seen it on black ops
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>>45472647
Do you have a Leslie speaker with it?
They're fucking awesome.
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>>45473947

I used to own one of those. The whole BX/RX series of decks had an idler wheel that needed replacing every year, and I didn't listen to many tapes, so I just sold it and kept my Nak LX-3 as the tape deck for my system
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>>45474410
You know there IS such a thing as too much speaker, right?
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>>45474430
Prove it.
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>>45474430
>>45474410
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>>45474430

No, I don't.
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>>45474444
>>45474501
oops
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>>45472795
They're Mercury wetted relays. You can't get mercury thermometers anymore either.
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Digital dashboards, definitely.
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>>45474430
not at all you dumb faggot
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>>45475560
Unfortunately they're making a comeback, but as disgusting imitations of analog dashboards
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>>45475946
boner no please no
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>>45471545
I have disks for one but no player
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This thread is making me rock hard.
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>>45470317
You could always develop your own black and white film. It's relatively cheap and simple. I've been rolling my own for at least 3 years, been shooting for longer
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>>45470317
>harder and harder to obtain
BH Photo Video
>developing is difficult
Costco does rolls for $5, if you can find one with a C-41 scanner. Otherwise stick to B+W and do it in your bathroom.
Glorious home printed and scanned medium format.
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>>45469581
I use my Nakamichi BX on the daily
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>>45473947
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>>45470317

+1 for film cameras.
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>>45476134
loved this lil baby. that was the first time i learned to love recording, and if you got the remote you could add all these cute JP characters
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>>45471545
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yaXPx6xWEQ
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>>45470834
nixie tubes aren't very old, they've also pretty much always been niche "cool looking"things
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>>45470840
*wipes sweat off forehead*

w-whats that record?
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>>45476223
odd placement for a center... Not even angled...
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>>45476530
It's a turntable mat.
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>>45472534
Nyet.
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>>45469581
old trucks are technology
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>>45476538

It doesn't quite fit under the TV and I don't like that stand enough to fix it.
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SAE rack

Produces the best sound I've ever heard. Odac, Onkyo, whatever, can go fuck itself. SAE made the best geat.
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>>45470181
If you're set on replacing the floppy:
http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=13
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>>45474430
shut up bitch, that is fucking glorious
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>>45473451
>>45473589
mag lites have a knurled finish

I wouldn't exactly call that "ribbed for her pleasure"
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Found this on other retro thread. Someone's Amiga 1000 rig...
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>>45477017
And he also has Amiga 500 right underneath!
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>>45475946
>shit

>>45475956
>fucking cool
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>>45477005
you dont feel it though
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>>45475487
>Mercury wetted relays.
Is it a cool factor is there their some benefit for muh audio?
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>>45476550
do want buy where how
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>>45477756
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>>45478083
The contacts on mercury-free relays start to erode after ten thousand or so switches which makes the resistance go up. This was never a big issue for audio equipment since those circuits tend not to switch their relays every ten minutes or anything, and now we've got solid state components without that problem.
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>>45477756
I had that exact one
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>>45470309
I'll fall for your bait.

The day i can play Vidya (good vidya) on a tablet i'll believe you.
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>>45474208
Vintage 4chan maymay's will always have a warm spot on my heart.
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I just want to wear one without looking like subhuman trash ;_;
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>>45479885
then get one in english, you sick fuck
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>>45479924
Not because it's in omelette language you assfaggot, because wearing one in current public makes you look like a hipster.
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>>45479935
no, it's because it's in french

you're obviously a subhuman if you don't understand this
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>>45479935
>Worrying about what other people might think.

You're already a fat and ugly basement dweller, you can't go lower.
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>>45479967
Uh huh yeah so the ONLY reason wearing a mechanical pocket watch makes you look awkward is because it's in French.

>>45479980
You're gonna need bigger bait.
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>>45479967
no one knows french, unless you live in france or something
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>>45471257
Mid century consumer electronic guts are disgusting, though. Nothing is modular, everything is soldered in place.
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>>45480187
It's a hell of a lot easier to desolder and solder in a new component with hand wiring than it is to replace most components on a circuit board.

New electronics are only "modular" in the sense that you can easily replace a circuit board - which means you basically replace dozens, hundreds, or thousands of components at once just because one component failed.
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>>45480568
>It's a hell of a lot easier to desolder and solder in a new component with hand wiring than it is to replace most components on a circuit board.
Through hole is a piece of piss, even SMD is easier than some of the old shitwired things.

>New electronics are only "modular" in the sense that you can easily replace a circuit board
Or you can take the board out to work with on a proper surface without a rat's nest of wires and cardboard dividers getting in the way.
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>>45472058
>>45472799
I see your Segas and raise you a SG-1000 Mk III
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I miss my first anti skip CD player. I was 16 when I bought it.


Also, Accuphase and Luxman gear make me moist. One day I'll replace my McIntosh shit with Accuphase.
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>>45471117
I've always had insane urge to own r2r deck
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>>45481032
Nagra is master race of all master race.
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>>45477005
Have you ever pleasured yourself with a mag-lite?

Thought so. Don't judge before you try it.
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>>45481191
I did it once, it was fucking amazing
The interior of my anus has been sanded smooth so now when I go to take a shit, I don't even have to push, it just falls out
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awesome thread
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>>45472773
>oy vey note pad
10/10
Also, does you cookies contain illegal substances since they are in a zip lock bag?
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>>45474208
>>45479819
This. Good vintage stuff there.
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>>45476642
Sexy
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>>45470999
Hey! I recognize you!
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>>45477017
Amstrad Mega PC, 486 and Sega Megadrive all-in-one system (officially licensed)
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>>45484679
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Portable Sony CD-i player from 1991, technically this is Sony's first ever console and it was ridiculously expensive at the time
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>>45484679
That's pretty rad as it is, but it would be the coolest fucking thing ever if it united an Amiga AGA and a Sega 32X.
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>>45470317
+1 for makita
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Film me like one of your moon rocks.
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>>45485287
70s era Pioneer was amazing
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>>45476223
dat F5

Best camera I've ever used. Second only to the F100 with a grip
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when electronics were considered furniture
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Tandberg Huldra 10
Now this is what you call Norwegian Wood
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>>45473947
most based
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Not really sure if this counts. But ive got it kicking around and i thought someone might think its cool.
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>>45472099
павлеее !
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>>45486328
hnnnnnggggg
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>>45471130
Oh shit, that's a badass picture. It's my new desktop.
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>>45472691
Did you retouch that or was the original altered to look more vintage than it really was?
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>>45471202
I have the non clock radio version of that radio.
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still works
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>>45487481
I can't tell if this is a really good joke or what.
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if I don't have a some kind of DEC mini in my possession be it authentic or reproduction, that's just it guys
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My KVM switch
>dat analog dial
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>>45488323

my nigra
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>>45488402
hnnng, VAXes were fucking awful to work with but I'd like to have me one, maybe more so than a PDP, simply because PDP was a little before my time
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>>45488422
my nigra.

analog dial, dat serial/DIN/VGA trifecta
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>>45488402
It's a shame that minis died.

I remember seeing this website someone on /vr/ posted about the schematics to make your own authentic S/360, I mean no parts, it's not a kit, parts would have to be custom ordered, it would probably be like 50,000 but there are NONE left in existence and working condition. If someone made one and had it up and running for demos, that'd attract some people to his hackerspace or public collection or what ever if he wanted that.
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>>45488451
That is actually the configuration of my switch!
I'm only using it for monitors though
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>>45485287
My parents had one of these. What are the black slider pieces underneath the tuner apparatus?
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>>45488478
might even be the same brand lol mine got a heavy switch that makes a loud click when you turn it
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>>45488482
Channel preset markers, you slide them over to your favorite channels to mark where they are on the dial.
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>>45488541
Thanks for the info
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>>45488402
Is there a name for that blue that they always used on Mainframe cases? Its not quite IBM blue, but i've seen it pretty commonly in late 60s tech images
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12 G3's and 10 G4's.
As far as I can tell only major problem's 2 of the G3's have bad CRT's, everything else NetBoots just fine.
I've been playing with a G4 for the last couple days, they're a hard thing to master but once you've worked out their favorite little codecs they're fucking boss.
Have to wonder how well a G3'd fare with the video this thing's pumping.

Also, I don't know if it's just because it's been so long since I've used a ball mouse but I got my hands on a puck and it's the best bloody thing I've ever felt in my life.
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