A thread dedicated to old, obscure and weird tech.
Old Thread Here. BUmp Limit Reached: >>>51609513
Ill start by dumping my few items
Pictured: Lloyds Accumatic 303 calculator with VFD Tube display. Circa 1970
Dell AT101-102 Mechanical Keyboard with Salmon Alps switches. Circa 1992?
Procom PT-650 Stereo Tuner circa 1970-1975?
SMith Corona Profile 100 Manual Typetwiter curca 1960?
>>51642876
>>51644280
what is this? some sort of stationary mouse?
>>51644398
remember mice with balls? This mice had feet.
>>51644523
some sort of PAN/LAN mini hub thing?
>>51644541
DIY bombshell?
>>51642912
Wow, the exterior design on that thing has really held up nicely. Aside from the frequency and tuning indicators that looks like it could be part of a modern entertainment center setup.
>>51644593
It's held up extremely good, i do agree. It would look bettre once i clean off those stains. wood is still in perfect shape too. the tuning indicator is a little slanted to the left but i wont fix it because that part is a pain in the ass to get to.
![DSC_0030[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/GTsppCK.jpg "DSC_0030[1].jpg")
Small Nixie Clock using IN-12B soviet tubes. The clock components are modern but the tubes are circa oct 1969
/irrelevant luddite garbage gen #832/
![DSC_0024[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/URuamKc.jpg "DSC_0024[1].jpg")
Last Contribution to the thread. My collection if old iPods. Circa 2001-2005
1st gen classic 10gb
3rd gen classic 15gb
4th gen classic photo 20gb
4th gen classic photo 60GB HP edition
shuffle 1st gen 1gb
4th gen classic U2 edition 20gb
5th gen classic 30GB U2 edition
>>51645715
that looks epic
>>51645715
I can swell the sweaty aroma of the owner just looking at the pic.
>>51644657
sheiit, that's pretty cool, would totally use that to create cool alarm clock
>>51645747
>>51644657
Here's pics of it on
>>51645818
Found this at my great-uncle’s house: a mechanical calculator!
>>51645894
POST THE GUTS
>>51645901
Nope, sorry, I already tried to open something of this kind and I completely fucked it up. I’m pretty sure it’d happen again if I try, and I want to keep it working, sorry.
>>51645915
understandable, but usually the casing should come off fairly easy since they needed to be oiled up and repaired often
>>51645745
I see no stains, empty bottles, or ashtray spillover, so I would wager not the case.
>>51644692
mac shill confirmed
sup bono
>>51645826
>10/10
Those tubes are going on my Christmas wish list.
Also, underrated as fuck .
>>51646163
the only mac computer i own is a powermac G5. I got 70% of the ones pictured for free from my workplace.
>>51646181
I got mine for about 65, but the seller i bought it from doesnt seem to be making any more of them. theyre normally around 80-150 but can go as high as 1000. You can find single tube clocks for like 50 bucks. The ones in the 150-250 range are gorgeous.
Protip: clocks with model IN-18 tubes look the best. THeyre bis tubes about half the size of a redbull and the font will make your dick diamonds.
>>51644657
>>51645818
>>51645826
Oh wow, holy fuck they look awesome!
>>51645826
niice anon
>>51646222
>65
Per tube?
Jesus.
>>51646644
65 for the entire clock, in maplebucks. Tubes arent very expensive.
>>51646664
Okay fair enough.
I initially did a quick search for IN-18 on eBay which corroborated my assumption they were that expensive. Thanks for clarifying.
Nixie stuff in general looks amazing and that clock is no exception. If I knew where to begin with HV electronics I'd consider making my own.
>>51646724
Theres lots of guides about it. Just get some sort of microcontroller(atmel chips, arduino, rasPI, etc), program it to run a basic clock then build around that. You can even do neat shit like transcition effects, different features for the tubes , etc. SInce these parts cant handle 80+ volts of power going through them, im assuming you'd have to use some sort of relay/transcistor system where the microcontroller decides which pins on the tube to connect to power and/or ground(i think the cathodes on mine are always connected to the power curcuit and the transistors/controller control which anode to let the power run through).
Take my advice with a grain of salt. I've done a bit of electronics work but not enough to fully understand this shit.
>>51646724
Get a nixie watch and you can be badass like Woz.
>nixie
>vfd
muh dick
>>51642876
Here comes a new challenger
>>51645826
Nice dude. I personally prefer 6 tube setups though.
>>51642936
>tfw your computer doesn't have an error control button
or power space
>>51648686
WHOAH now that vertical CD drive
>niggas mirin hard
>>51644541
nice clock ahmad
TI-1200 Spirit of '76
Still works great.
>>51642876
>tfw i scrapped one of those calculators about 5 years ago
do you think the display is still usable, i have it in a box somewhere?
>>51645826
Cool clock Ahmed
![DSC_0031[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/v50CFvf.jpg "DSC_0031[1].jpg")
>>51653232
absolutely. It's pretty easy to reuse in another circuit since its just 1 giant tube.
>>51653173
damn son
>>51649162
nice one dude. If i had a choice i'd get a 6 tube IN-18 tube setup.
>>51648652
pic related
Can anyone recommend an old display terminal. I am looking at making a small project using one.
Heathkit robots from the 1980s. They were pretty dumb but were often used in budget movies and tv shows as props.
>>51645894
>Buttons
I bet that thing was the shit back in the day, no more fiddly levers.
>>51645901
It's probably fairly similar to this.
>>51654840
And with the casing on. My apologies for the previous photo being rotated. Circa 1960s Muldivo Mentor, made in Germany.
>>51644466
That's actually ingenious.
>>51654972
I love the ingenuity these kinds of devices have.
>>51654972
>Loosing a paper clip in the middle of this little mechanical mess.
>>51655056
>accidentally dropping a coin into it when counting money
>machine breaks
>have fun getting it out
ifixit should make a teardown of this thing
>>51654770
I think i saw the one on the left in flight of the navigator.
>>51655939
Possibly. There were several robots in that movie. The one I remember was the mail/food robot that followed Sara Jessica Parker around before she was infused with horse DNA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Ij_Z5Z9iI
DDR3
>>51656448
>DDR3
>Old/weird/obscure
Pick one
>>51648686
cool
>>51648686
God damn the FM Towns was such cool hardware.
>>51645715
lmao when you need to look at all dates on the calendar at once
>>51656474
LED number panel.
>>51656786
where would you possibly need to use a LED display this small?
>>51656849
Some gaymen motherboards even have them for status codes.
>>51656849
Cool clock amed.
>>51656883
the one pictured looks much much smaller than yours and its got 3 of them on that tiny IC
>>51642912
my dad had one of those
>>51642936
I remember the guy from Almost Famous saying he typed on a Smith Corona something. Crazy.
>>51644677
>Hi there! My name's faggot. I have no taste in vintage or otherwise forgotten goods, regardless of their aesthetic value or functionality. I also like to ram dildos up my anal cavity. Have a nice day!
>>51648686
That keyboard gives me a hard-on.
>>51657119
WarGames made that design popular even though by that time it was legal to hook a modem up directly to the phone jack. Pic was my first modem. 300 bits per second. You could read faster than it could receive data. If you picked up the phone and typed on your computer's keyboard, you could actually hear each keypress being transmitted.
Intel 286 CPU. 10mHz model
>>51657347
Underside of it
Who /itanic/ here?
I actually find it kind of weird that I'm thus far the only one on /g/ that has reached this level of pretentious, space-heating hipsterism.
>>51657703
OP here. PowerHeater G5 reporting
I pulled two of these GRASS stimulators out of a hospital dumpster. They produce high voltage square waves and are supposed to be hooked up to body electrodes to make someone's muscles twitch. They're all vacuum tubes on the inside and make a good sound when connected to speakers.
>>51657813
w...would it be possible to record that sound for us? im quite curious.
>>51656849
Early calculators used tiny 7-segment displays like those. LCDs hadn't been invented yet.
>>51657366
whoa
is this some form of primitive lga?
>>51657839
that...makes sense actually, but what are some modern uses for tiny 7-segs?
>>51657840
not him but kind of, it was a pretty rare packaging and I've only ever seen it once in the wild, most 286s looked like pic related
>>51657840
googled it and it's lcc
>>51657913
286 guy here. It's LCC and its basically a much older LGA.
i found it while dumpster diving once. There was a bunch of 286/386/486 parts thrown out. Mostly mobos, ram and CPU. I just pulled one CPU as a token but in hindsight i shouldve just taken it all home.
>>51657872
Industrial temperature controllers are the only new equipment I ever see tiny 7-segment LEDs on . They've got the TI-83 thing going on; the design has remained the same for decades because people keep buying it.
>>51657924
lccc*
>>51658056
wrong picture.
>>51658073
>>51658056
interesting. i doubt many people use one that small for anything
Also thats en epic loiking plank of wood. 10/10 would use as a case for my nixie clock
>>51658056
>>51658073
is this now a quest? find the smallest 7seg still in manufacturing today
oh man you guys should see the computer cabinets for my NATO missile systems on my ship. It's got fucking nixie tubes on it. Shit's badass, too bad the system in and of itself sucks
>>51658188
pics
>>51658175
link pls. i'd buy that
>>51658188
>you guys should see
you know this is an imageboard, right?
I apologize for toaster quality of the next three images.
My heathkid hw101 transceiver, speaker and power supply
working on finding an oscilloscope in that same nasty 70's blue
>>51658243
the face of it, things still in mint condition inside and out
>>51658210
>taking pictures of a nato missile system
>implying he can actually do that
I almost got arrested for taking a picture of a submarine in Norfolk and got my sd card seized
>>51658262
glows in the dark, like all radios should, i love "muh toobs"
>>51658203
i got it on ebay from hong kong for $4 w/free shipping. it's USB to USB Micro and has a switch for power/power+data.
>>51657949
I always at least pull CPUs when I'm faced with something like that, they don't take up much space and other than the whole history preservation thing they just look cool.
>>51658156
Hot damn, I never thought I'd see one of those on /g/. Hold on to that, I doubt there's many around anymore, and it looks like it's in fantastic shape.
Did you get much software with it?
>>51658243
>>51658262
>>51658278
noice
>>51642890
Wendel, is that you?
>>51658262
>got my sd card seized
sounds like the OOD wanted an sd card.
>>51658312
thats exactly what i did. took the cpu because i didnt want to carry the rest
>>51658312
I have zero software for it. Trying to figure a way to write to 5 1/4 floppies.
It has moonlander and rogue on it though. As well as a pretty dank jive translator.
>>51658382
OK. Threads closed
>>51658382
Current gen flagship phones come with IR. How is this old/obscure?
>>51658425
theyre tiny 7 segment displays fuccboi
>>51658441
sorry, I saw the transparent/red and jumped to conclusions.
>>51658441
here
>>51658408
If you have access to XP-era hardware you can probably fit a 5.25'' drive into a P4 shitbox, though you'd probably have the most luck with something like a Slot 1/Super 7 system.
AFAIK even Windows 10 is still compatible with 5.25'' drives, but BIOS compatibility is another thing.
>>51658441
rude desu
>>51642876
I have one of those Lloyd's calculators. Belonged to gramps.
On the left is an EL digi designer from the late 70s that I pulled out of the dumpster at uni, and on the right is my trusty fluke 8010a multimeter.
>>51642876
>tfw calculator from many years ago has held up better than remote from 2 years ago
>>51659365
peel that shit off
>>51645894
>I read the brand as "Fagit"
>>51659563
What is that DEC shitbox?
>>51658056
If it aint broke, then why fix it? If it just needs to display specific information, replacing it with a modern display and the software to drive it just adds unnecessary complexity to something that works just fine and probably more efficiently.
>>51659365
That your remote? Looks like it just has the original protective plastic sheet still attached
>>51659647
Well, they're made in Sweden.
>>51659365
ffffffucking PEEL IT
found a fucking 100mb Zip Disk tucked into a back pocket of a nice combination-lock briefcase i got for $5 from goodwill, anybody remember these horrible goddamn things? no idea what was on it but i sure hope it wasn't anything "Walt Disney Attractions" couldn't live without!
>>51660418
zip disks are pretty nice tbqh, light years ahead of any other transfer method available for systems unable to use USB mass storage devices
grab a cheap parallel port drive and dump what's on that shit, I want to know
>>51659101
weird connectors for each of the functions (+5, binding posts, lamps, etc). never saw those before.
>>51660418
>Disney attractions
>Property of Walt
Oh shit son
>>51660418
They were fairly high capacity rewritable disks in a time before USB flash drives, and your primary options were either the 1.44MB floppy, or CDRs which still cost around $10 a coaster. And if you weren't part of the PC Parallel Port Peasantry, Zips were fukkenfast.
Problem was Zips were so wildly successful that iomega started to cut corners to meet the demand, leading to the click of death problem.
>>51660446
They made USB models too, even bus powered.
>>51660750
Yeah, the parallel ones are common and cheap as dirt though, I've wanted a USB one forever but they're always overpriced when I come across them.
>>51644657
How did you get the power amplification to drive those nixies? Or do they have a low ignite voltage?
Finally found a 10MB flash card for it today lads
>tfw they removed the 3.x terminal emulator so I can't use it as a serial console OOTB
>>51660446
>grab a cheap parallel port drive and dump what's on that shit, I want to know
actually, I just found an IDE one rooting around in my closet! No ribbon cable yet though. Also not sure if modern BIOSes remember what Zip drives were.
>>51657040
Interesting, usually 7 segment displays like that would have many on a single board. Do you still have the magnifying lens?
>>51656929
What does the hex represent?
>>51645715
I want to know how much that was and how much heat it dissipated
>>51660886
how many minutes did it take you to type that
>>51660856
The tubes themselves use somewhere between 80-120 volts, but the circuitry is powered off of a 12V 1A adapter. I read somewhere that nixie tubes are high voltage, but low amperage. If you touch the leads for the tubes then you get an unpleassant shock similar to that of wall sockets. Here's a basic idea of what it is: http://www.instructables.com/id/High-Voltage-Switch-Mode-Power-Supply-SMPSBoost/
>>51660898
If it supports IDE, it should support a Zip drive.
g-dspeed
>>51648652
>tfw no vfd/tube digital dash for muh car
digital dashboards with lcd's are shit
>>51660915
It's only a little smaller than an X200 and has a full-sized keyboard.
The mouse took getting used to though.
>>51660924
Nice, no voltage stepping required, I know the larger ones ignite at 180V or so
>>51660898
found a cable... ooooh shit, we got a pulse! green light's blinking, it's making a noise like a electric nosehair trimmer but it's not the Click Of Death. windows is installing device driver...
Who need's a DVR?
>>51661159
Does this hook up to compliant VCRs and make them easier to program?
>>51657343
That's pretty fucking cool dude.
>>51645864
Do you think Bill Cosby waits for computers to go to sleep before he starts fingering the keyboard?
>>51658102
Some of the early sous vide setups looked like that but most have moved on the LCDs.
>>51661152
.... aaand there's nothing on the disk but one 73kb RealMedia file. October 2000, dang.
MPC can't seem to play it. just opens as a split second of silence. dammit am i seriously going to have to install fucking Realplayer now.
>>51661282
You better return that shit to Walt ASAP!
>>51661245
You program it to the VCR like a universal remote. Then you set the timers and place it on a table, pointed at the VCR's IR receiver. When the time comes it sends an IR signal to the VCR to start/stop recording.
>>51661282
>duckjob
>>51653148
Kek
>>51661292
huh, pretty neat. Might have come in handy when I was a kid. For a long time my mom would have me program everything she wanted to record for the week. Shit was so tedious.
Then we got a TiVo. That shit was a life changer.
>>51661282
>duckjob
probably donand duck giving head with his ugly ass beak, or deepthroating a duck and then sucking its corkscrew dick
>>51661282
try this
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/play-real-media-audio-using-vlc/
>>51660911
http://www.etcwiki.org/wiki/Motherboard_2_Digit_BIOS_POST_codes_in_hex
(this is for 2 digit codes, but you get it)
>>51661282
Jesus it's rare to see files that old nowadays. Would be curious to see what some of the oldest files that /g/ can find in their home are.
>>51661391
>some smartass posts a file from Jan 1, 1970
>>51660418
if this is real, you should buy a zip drive off ebay and download that shit. it could be lost little mermaid porn
>>51657703
I only rock a Xeon for my desktop machine, but dayum bro
>>51660458
They're basically little pins with holes made to fit 22awg solid core wire. They're extruded so you can hook probes to them, I suppose.
Here's the inside
>>51661422
>hasn't been reading the thread
>>51661391
I have a few hard drives from when I was in college that are in my 'to be destroyed someday' pile. The files on them must be late 90s.
I picked up pic related off eBay the other day. Wanted to use it to pretty up my tech room. The anon who posted that pretty JVC graphic equalizer a few weeks ago inspired me.
Anyone here /hifi/? I want to know can I run an audio signal from a PC through this thing and have the green LED bars light up. A 3.5mm to RCA signal into the back of it gave me nothing, when routed out to a sound bar.
>In b4 ghetto setup
>>51661391
This semen demon has non-OS files going back to '86 or even '85, I've got way older software disks as well.
Oldest files I've got that aren't from my collection of old shit are Zip disks full of family photos and audio recordings from around '98 or '97.
We had a tube type tv when I was a kid. When a tube would go out, you usually didn't know which one, so you'd pull them all, take them down to the drug store, and test them on the machine shown.
>>51661465
This might work.
>>51661492
jesus fucking christ thats cool as shit anon
>>51661510
> a 3.5mm to RCA cable didn't work
>posts a 3.5mm to RCA cable
>>51661346
>vlc
oh sweet, it's opening
oh for fuck sake lmao
here
http://www.mediafire.com/download/mv35wfww3zigg04/duckjob.ram
>>51661465
post pics of the back of it so we can see its connectors
PDP-11's actually look like the 1970s
>>51661519
I'm an idiot. I read that you plugged into a 3.5mm on the back. Time for bed.
>>51657813
Here's another hospital dumpster find. Giant galvanometer PH meter. It's about 1.5' wide.
>>51661465
Fuck with the settings, my EQ always worked fine with 3.5mm-->RCA
>>51661492
>tfw have a near mint condition B&W tube TV in my bedroom
>finally got a digital converter box for it, tried to power it on the other day and it wouldn't even try
;_;
>>51661521
I FUCKING KNEW IT. FUCKING DUCK PORN GOD DAMNIT
>>51661541
Saw one of those in Seattle. The Living Computer museum is fucking amazing.
>>51661492
There's an electronic components shop in my city that's had one of those in their window since the 70s.
>>51661549
Damn, I need to start surfing hospitals more often.
>>51661521
kek this is great. You did some digital archaeology so you could recover this.
>>51661554
>>51661521
I DONT'T KNOW IF THIS IS LEGIT BUT I WANT IT TO BE SO BADLY
>>51661577
it's legit. get VLC and open it.
>>51661597
I know, but I don't know if this is the actual file from the zipdisk. Or if it was actually from Disney.
Typing on one of these for the first time was a bit of SF magic. Holy shit it's the future I'm actually controlling a computer.
>>51661552
What channel does the tv go up to? Don't know if it is still true but used to be that the channels in the 70s and 80s could pick up analog voice signals.
>>51657313
You may notice that these threads are always the same 30 pictures over and over again, or at best, it's just new angles of the same non-working luddite tech. The reason why it's the same pictures, is because when you live in the past, things don't change. Therefore every single one of these luddite threads is exactly the same. I challenge you to not just jerk off to nostalgia and actually start it up and realize how shit it was.
>>51661521
Looks like this has been seen in the wild already
http://www.chicagolandsportbikes.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-21982.html
>>51660418
>>51661282
>>51661521
>>51660886
What's this beauty called and where do I get one
>>51661391
I have files on this computer that hopped from machine to machine going back to my //e in the 80s.
>>51661649
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I92oHt1-550
>>51661649
i know i heard it before, yeah. waaaay back in dialup days, on like stileproject or TOTSE or somewhere.
>>51661615
Just the regular 13 VHF channels, with a digital converter box it has a whole shitload though, don't even remember how many there were.
>>51661632
>luddite
I know you just bait these threads every time they show up to take advantage of the phone fanboy-tier hobby insecurity of the average poster in these threads but come on, at least use a correct term, none of us are really posting from this shit, and fuck most of us probably are running newer hardware than your pathetic NEET ass.
>>51661549
>>51657813
>pulling shit out of a dumpster
It was in there for a reason. Because everyone in there thought it was garbage.
>>51658704
>referring to supporting your old luddite tech as "shitbox"
/k/ doesn't have black powder threads except once every month or so and /o/ doesn't have classic car threads every week or so and in that case it can still drive you there.
Why is /g/ soooo horny for old deprecated tech that they don't even use? we have two of these threads a day. just have it on a table and look at it for hours trying to inherit someone else's nostalgia.
I know an audiofag that is obsessed with old audio equipment but again at least you can hook it up to something new and use it. What can you possibly do with this besides pretend to be old?
>>51661751
>Why is /g/ soooo horny for old deprecated tech that they don't even use?
it's fun to bring some old stuff back to life. One lazy afternoon last year I surfed the web on an 8MHz 286. Why? Interesting diversion. to see if I could. (I did, arachne worked, and loaded google.com (no JS) in about 45 seconds)
if you don't understand why anyone might find that entertaining you're free to go back to arguing in the "guis wat phone is gud?" threads.
>>51661799
don't bother up(You)ing that guy, he probably got kicked out of the /vr/ threads for shitposting and now just stalks the /g/ catalog to bait these threads like anyone wants to read his long winded strawmen about shit nobody cares about
>>51661751
> everyone in there thought it was garbage.
I've checked eBay and could get around $500 for the three units, but I'm having fun playing with them right now. One man's trash...
>>51661674
It's an OmniBook 300, one of HP's first real laptops. Pretty fascinating system, specs rival a desktop from about 2 years before it came out and high-end options are entirely solid state, the display's a little shitty but honestly I see a ton of actually useful potential in it with an ethernet card and a good telnet client, damn thing gets like 4-9 hours from storebought AAs and has full versions of Word and Excel, as well as a calculator and phone book.
>>51645715
>This kills the floppy disk holder
>>51661278
kek'd anon
>>51661751
>Because everyone in there thought it was garbage.
It's like you've never heard one man's trash is another man's treasure before.
>everyone
It only takes one person to throw something away, anon.
>>51658210
>pictures
>military equipment on military property
Yeah that doesn't always go too well anon
>>51661521
hahahaha oh my god I'm dying with laughter
>>51654972
Oh god that looks like a nightmare.
The Casio SL-800.
A calculator, released in 1983, that has the exact width, length, and thickness of a credit card.
This calculator put an end to the race to make the thinnest and smallest calculator that raged on through the much of the 70's and early 80's and paved the way for manufacturers to start focusing on expanding the features of their calculators rather than focusing on size.
It took me over a year of searching to get my hands on this bad boy.
>>51662737
neat
I picked this up a while ago, I think it's even older than yours, maybe not as thin though.
>>51662737
>>51663017
We posting thin calcs now?
>>51663151
>Appleshit
Fuck off faggot.
>>51663190
12 year old detected
>>51663196
>eating shit out of your hands
>talking down to anyone else
Nice try, faggot.
>>51663204
I stand by my previous post.
>>51663196
>>51663206
Not everyone has to be underaged, you idiot!
Think of the manchildren!
>>51663229
Be it mentally 12 or physically 12, he's still 12
>>51661612
Beautiful!
I found this recently
>>51663315
sorry for potato quality oh the picture
>>51663204
Curry Break is over, Apu.
Get back to your call station.
>>51659776
>>51659660
>>51659635
That's tape since the actual plastic started falling off. I'm not dumb.
>>51662737
>>51663315
>>51660886
>>51648686
That 80-90's design really remains stylish, it's clean or has some vibe I really enjoy, something that's sadly lost since over a decade, between fussed shit and absurd miniamlism.
>>51642876
this by example, has lovely colors. brown, orange, beige and black. and the Microgramma font just screams TECH.
