ITT: 00s tech nostalgia (2000-2005/6ish only, anything after that was Bieber iPhone Facebook shit)
>>52403510
>tfw its 2016 and you still cant build a rig as cool looking as that imac.
>>52403510
>a-am i kawaii?~~
>>52403510
first laptop I ever saw thought it was a some alien tech
>>52403550
i agree
>>52403550
>tfw it's 2016 and mactoddlers still can't use google and wait patiently by apple's asshole with their hands open
>>52403510
The best way to enjoy Gameboy.
>>52405231
My AGS-101s battery only lasts 30 minutes on a full charge now. It's also beat to shit because I dropped it so many times
>>52405327
got two when they first came out, still hold a charge for literally fucking ever. I hadn't turned one on in over a year and it still kept it's charge
Sitting in a box in the other room. Not sure what to do. Don't really have the space to keep it out, and it's probably worth $50 now if I try to sell it.
>>52403633
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRaD8MM7gQw
>>52405393
Use it for its intended purpose.
i remember programming lego mindstorms on these in elementary school
>>52405475
That's rad, dude.
Can I sit at your table at lunch?
>>52405579
No queers allowed faggot.
>>52405515
ha ha, i can remember just loading those things up with uncompressed paint images of random shit with my buddies.
>>52403510
>2000-2005
>nostalgia
lel
Very first PC I ever saw when I was around 10 in 2001, in some office I believe
The startup jingle was very cool and that was really the only thing I can remember from that time
>>52405231
Taco advance best advance.
>>52405393
Aren't you the guy who kitted his out with the 2 GB maximum RAM and everything else and it still ran slower than shit?
>>52403510
Facebook came out in 2006 though, you millennial.
>>52403550
I have one, it works fine, but I don't use it. Cool decoration I guess. Thinking about gutting it and making it into a modern computer.
>>52408422
That case is a fucking nightmare, even if you could fit something in there at all, it would have to be a facebook machine.
>>52408422
>>52408434
You could probably stick a nuc in the case. Somehow hook it up to the display, and hey presto!
>>52408524
Probably could actually, he'd need to find ways to plug the empty ports the NUC won't have though, not to mention he'd have to adapt it to the internal VGA cable.
Doesn't seem worth it, he'd be better off installing Linux on it or getting a proper X server and just running resource-heavy applications remotely if he wants to use it as something other than an offline productivity system/gaming shitbox/clock
>>52407803
Unless you're under 20 or over 30, you're also a millennial
Holy shit my school library still has those computers. They are slow as fucking shit.
>>52407803
Also Facebook came out in 2004, though it didn't surpass Myspace until 2008 I believe
>>52409554
Ready, get set, were riding on the internet!
>>52403550
This why god
>>52406088
Is dat some 95 nigga nostalgia bomb
>(2000-2005/6ish only,
I noticed that this particular time happens to be also when you were a teenager. Why do you think that is?
>anything after the iphone was shit
usenet turds would like a word
nostalgia is a lie that can turn physical abuse into a positive memory, let alone garbage technology from not even 10 years ago
>>52405231
:^)
>>52403510
I had one of these. I was really upset that you couldn't install 10.5 on it. It was slow as shit, but I'll be damned if it isn't a good looking machine.
>>52409554
I set my mom's shop with a high-end config early 2002 G4, figured whatever, it would be absolutely fine for spreadsheeting and P4 boxes from the same era have no problem with ebay/wiki surfing.
Replaced it after a few months, customers absolutely loved it but god PPC hardware aged like shit, could handle multi-tab workloads and it was stables as fuck but damn, loading pages was slow. It made a great clock and spreadsheet box but if you had to research a new consignment, forget about it.
>>52411735
>G4
kek
>>52411473
Go back to your room, Justin.
>>52405231
if you don't mind emulating, I've got a better way
>>52406657
No, I'm some guy who ordered it with 512MB because he thought 256 wouldn't be enough. Edited a bunch of films for school. *Then* maxed out the RAM to 2GB.
>>52411759
>windows shill site shitting on other platforms
Color me surprised.
Made me curious anyway, last time I used a G5 regularly in 2010 it was pretty nice.
http://barefeats.com/pentium4.html
http://www.anandtech.com/show/1702
According to these the performance seemed about on-par with what Intel had at the time, there's also this one http://www.infoworld.com/article/2679339/operating-systems/power-mac-g5-is-apple-s-best-work-yet.html totally sucking its dick about memory bandwidth, I'll have to go dig mine out and test that myself.
My main PC is nostalgia tier enough
>>52411920
>ide
>>52405393
The innards of the 1st gen rev A and rev B iMac G5s were laid out beautifully and it was easily serviceable (just pop off the back panel). It's clear that a lot of thought was put into it.
Sadly every iMac since they added in the iSight and made it thinner (third gen I think) has been a nightmare to work on, requiring you to take out the screen to do anything to them.
>>52411735
>damn, loading pages was slow
The problem is that the internet has become needlessly heavy. In the realm of things people do with computers, nothing save for 3D games and maybe DAWs+NLEs has had a resource usage curve anywhere near as drastic as the web has. Javascript and web devs treating browsers as operating systems are the fucking scourge. If it weren't for that the usefulness range of computers would easily reach back another 5 years from where it is now.
>>52412026
Sweet little company called IBM invented this thing called the "AT" standard in around 1985, you may know it as ATX since the late 90s. nowadays... they still have ATX
>>52412146
>you may know it as ATX since the late 90s.
ATX doesn't really have that much in common with the AT form factor.
Also, "standards" is the last place where I would jump on /g/'s retarded IBM worship bandwagon by far.
>>52411841
>>52411480
nothing wrong with emulating but if you still have the physical carts, the gba-sp is still the best option.
I play all of my gb and gbc by injecting the rom into vc on 3ds.
>>52403510
>Bieber iPhone
Did you take that meme from /co/?
>>52408676
>>52408524
>>52408434
>>52408422
>>52403550
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZhRwj3CvJ0
Guy is kind of a tool but he has a whole website dedicated to modding the iMac G4 with modern hardware
>>52412260
>putting this much effort into eating shit from your hands
>>52412268
i bet he made you feel and look rly dum 3 minutes into the video xD
>>52411948
Not noticing the PC-2000 RAM
>>52412268
Curry break is over, Apu.
>>52412268
>hating on modders
Fuck you, man. Apple stuff is consumershit, sure, but nodding appleshit into goodshit is a good thing. Shit.
>>52412457
>perfectly good x86 hardware
>osx
>a good thing
>>52403510
Aside from the occasional Apple product, I don't think there was an era where tech design had worse taste.
At least in the 90s everything looked very business like, in the early 00s things tried to look slightly cool but just looked cheap and garish.
People would do horrible case mod ricing at the time, and it actually would be an improvement, so what does that say about the default?
>>52412457
>boring, cheap facebook machine shitbox
>"goodshit"
At least PPC Macs have an interesting architecture, history and extant community of collectors and developers, in contrast to a random hipster with a dremel who ruins a piece of high-end RISC hardware because he can't play gaymes on it.
>>52413144
>boring, overpriced facebook machine shitbox
>"goodshit"
At least x86 has an interesting architecture, history and extant community of collectors and developers, in contrast to a random hipster with a dremel who ruins a marvel of miniaturization in hardware by stuffing it in a doorstop because he can't see a faggy apple in the top left corner.
Been thinking about getting a top of the line 2004 vintage dual 1.0 ghz, 2gb PPC G4 system and installing debian, how shit would it be?-
>>52413175
>x86
>interesting
It's a patch-on-patch frankenstein kludge that only exists for legacy compatibility, nobody ever used it in a system based on its own merits.
>>52411444
Windows 98 son.
Got that warm an fuzzy feel so hard rn
>>52413190
>PPC
>G4
>>52413190
>top of the line
>2004
>shit
>>52407803
February 04. I was on it by September, it opened to all .edus around early 05 iirc
Then they did global groups in 05, let kids on in 06, got rid of the classic wall around mid 06 too, etc etc. By 06 it was already a thing and had already begun to shapeshift
>>52413190
You won't get fantastic loading times on the internet and HD media playback will probably be limp (maybe, never tried it), but other than that you'll be alright. Unless you want to use it for development or server use you'd probably be better off just keeping OS X on it since you'd have access to a larger library of software/abandonware actually contemporary to the system and get more use out of it that way. Plus better browser support with TFF.
>>52413190
2004 had 2.5GHz dual G5s, 1 Ghz G4s had already been around since 2002
>>52409428
More like 18-36. The Gen-Xers are pushing 40 hard (and aging hilariously and without any grace). Whatever the next generation will be called, they're starting to bleed into the under-21 cohort and they're a different generation that frightens and confuses me
>tfw age 29
>tfw come of age when economy collapsed
>>52413190
I had a $2500 2003 dual GPU G4 workstation.
It went up in literal smoke and I thought it would catch fire. Thank god Adobe came to their senses and ported their tools to Windows.
Macintrash, never again.
>>52411920
>low end consumer trash
better off forgotten
>>52403633
iSuwako
>>52412087
> The problem is that the internet
> has become needlessly heavy.
> In the realm of things people
> do with computers, nothing save
> for 3D games and maybe DAWs+NLEs
> has had a resource usage curve
> anywhere near as drastic as the
> web has. Javascript and web devs
> treating browsers as operating
> systems are the fucking scourge.
> If it weren't for that the usefulness
> range of computers would easily
> reach back another 5 years from
> where it is now.
This.
This this this this this
Fuck apps fuck the cloud fuck webgl fuck asm.js fuck jquery fuck json fuck ajax burn it all get me out of this nightmare
"Gmail was a mistake" -Miyazaki
>>52412026
Holy FUCK do I hate the Intel revision that came out after the G5's, you have to crack them open with a credit card, which always takes me either 2 seconds, or 10 minutes.. it's never straightforward.
Somehow, working on the new slimlines is easier.
>>52405393
I'm modding mine to be a DVI monitor then I'm going to use keep the G5 logic board inside and use it as a headless OpenBSD server
>>52412146
Intel developed the ATX standard, retard
>>52412146
Yes because AT and ATX form factor motherboards sound like a great idea for all-in-one computers.
>>52413305
Pretty cool idea.
I always thought these looked really cool.
>>52413351
It's funny to go and look at old magazines and see the weird-ass ways engineers tried to use to fit CD-ROM drives into laptops when they first started out.
Thank g-d IBM, Apple and friends won in the end.
Why encourage the consumption of your own shit fammo
>>52413381
t. wintelpleb piss-showerer
>>52413381
A better question is why push shit memes?
>>52413395
The only shit here is the shit you're eating from your own hands, my friend.
>>52413351
>put wrist on laptop
>scratches disk
thanks a lot
>>52413381
>>52412268
Is a single autist who spent a few months ago relentlessly spamming his epic hands meme in every thread that mentioned apple.
It wasn't funny then, and it wasn't funny now.
>>52405393
I'd be glad to buy it off you, is there a way we can contact one another?
>>52413351
You know Panasonic still makes a similar model with this, right?
I need to get either an airport card or a 300ft Ethernet cable
>>52413298
I used to own a first-gen 27" iMac (quad 2.66 Core i5 750) and that thing was a nightmare to work on. Not because it was hard to open mind you, no... that was simple. Just grab a suction cup, pull off the front glass, and then unscrew the display panel.
The hard part was disconnecting the two display ribbons after tilting up the display, because they were stupidly short (like 2-3" max) and fragile. Even for a guy like me who has medium sized hands with spindly fingers unplugging those safely was damn near impossible given the space I had to work in.
And then of course once you were done replacing your spinning rust or whatever you had to reconnect those stupid tapes under the same working conditions that they were unplugged in, which is even harder.
That machine was a workhorse and its display is beautiful but I can't stress how happy I am that I'll never have to maintain any of that model ever again. Glad to hear the newer ones are better.
>>52413380
>typing while listening to an audio CD
>have to time keystrokes so corresponding audio skips aren't as noticeable
>>52413420
This was cool 10+ years ago. Wouldn't want one now.
>>52413422
That CRT case design is beautiful, always wanted one back before I had an LCD.
How is the display quality?
/thread
G4s are comfy.
>>52413497
How does yours run on 4chan? My old iMac G4 with 768MB PC133 worked but it was kind of painful sometimes, I hear JS-heavy shit is no better even on loaded G5s.
>>52413455
It's OK, mine is fucked up, (you can kinda see the scratchfest in the pic) but 1600x1200 on a 17in display isn't total shit. It's 2 USB ports still work too.
>mfw dual 450mhz but only 512mb of ram.
>>52413517
512 is pretty good size for that era system desu
single 500 with 1GB here, I want to upgrade to a dual 500 but they're rare as fuck
>>52413455
Not him but it's a pretty good display, 1600x1200 Diamondtron CRT with an ADC connection
>>52413508
My 1.5GHz PowerBook G4 handles everything but extremely JS intense sites fine, NoScript helps a lot. As for my dp 2GHz G5 it has no issues with the Internet.
>>52413540
Nice.
I want to start using my G5 again, I wish I had a higher-end model though, I just have a 2 GHz DC.
>>52413538
Tiger is laggy shit on 512. Mac os9 works well though
>>52413562
it's kind of minimal especially for web use, if you can work with it it's alright but it is kind of annoying, before I got my hands on this box I was using an overclocked G3/400 with 512 and it went pretty good
>>52413597
that bullshit destroyed so many SATA drives
RIP raptors ;_;
>>52413508
Not bad, Camino is nice and smooth for browsing, but the Javascript implementation isn't perfect, so annoyingly Quick Reply doesn't work. TenFourFox is much more compatible, can even run various versions of 4chan X without issues, but is a little slower for reasons unknown.
>>52413497
>Camino
MUH NIGGA
>>52413608
That's weird, I can't remember if Camino fucked up like that for me or not, I remember being able to shitpost effectively, though
>>52413605
>>52403633
no you're autistic
>>52413395
A better question is why push shit into your oral orifice?
>>52406088
This is comfy as fuck.
>>52413422 here, apparently not even classilla can shitpost. So much for being the only anon shitposting from OS9.
>>52403510
these fucking xbox hueg bezels are destroying everything
>>52413298
>crack them open with a credit card
Worst part is this is they took this out on the smaller size intel ones that had a black back, so stacking them on a palet to ship out from work was a bitch and a half
>>52413290
The browser has replaced the shell and the JavaScript has replaced the C.
How's the WiFi on your PowerBooks? Mine wouldn't work if I was any more than three feet away from the source. Had to use my phone as a hotspot all the time.
>>52414145
I get about the same range as the stock antennas in my other laptops
>>52414145
Works fine for me, about the same as my other laptops.
here's your typical early 00s gaming case
2008 reporting in but i'm posting because the design was released at the end of 2006.
>>52414006
yeah it can, you just have to turn JS off entirely and quote manually
t. shit lover who practically DD'd an OS 9 shitbox for 3 months last year to fuck around in desktop threads
>>52414476
well, 2004 if you count the PowerBook G4
test
>>52414568
it works! thanks anon.
>>52414673
noice
if only Classilla was SMP optimized, that thing would kick ass
>>52413408
Okay
Anyone ITT know anything about old GPUs? I've got a Geforce 3 Ti 500 that won't work. Fan turns on, but the monitor doesn't. No beep codes, no error messages. Just doesn't work in any system I try it with. Is the card dead or can I fix it somehow? I'd like to put it in my retro gaming PC since it'd be a nice upgrade over the 3 Ti 200 currently serving in there. Pic related.
>>52415289
Senpai its so cheap you may aswell buy a new one
>>52415441
Nah, if I can't fix it for free I'll just keep using my 200. It works well enough as it is, I just wanted to see if I could give it a little boost.
>tfw you will never use Tiger as your main OS again
>>52403510
I might have to buy one of those before they become ridiculously expensive. Can it play 720p animu without stuttering?
>>52415882
If you get one of the more powerful ones probably.
>>52415959
Even the dual G5s have trouble with youtube videos. There's no way it's going to play 720p anime
>>52415619
>tfw 9th grade you made it look like leopard in a shitty way and you can't be fucked to fix it all these years later.
I have a dead emac and I want to turn it into a stealth gaymer all in one... What is wrong with me.
>>52413298
Is that a bbishoppcm video?
>>52416930
>one stick? that'll be $10 000 sir + tip
>>52416930
I lost one of these once and had to retire the pc because of it.
>>52411444
Checked.
>>52405393
My college (CIT) still uses those
>>52416309
You can't even find those themes anymore. All the old mac sites are long gone and dead.
>>52414771
>OS 9 SMP
You make programmers cry.
>>52415619
Daily reminder that emulation is cheating.
>>52417601
If I had an old Mac I'd use it, but there's no way I'm going to spend $50 on an iBook or $400 on a G5 system.
Not to mention it was annoying to even get it working on a VM in the first place.
>>52413497
>openttd
Noice
>>52413422
Not gonna lie that CRT is sexy ass fugg
>>52403510
How about a U2 iPod?
Oh the good times.
>>52418289
Dropped two of those from waist height. They broke instantly.
Check out this weapons grade supercomputer!!!
>>52418289
>song skipping with every little bump against it
Fucking unbearable
>>52413290
what is wrong with json
xml can go choke on a dik
>>52411841
My psp borked so I just use a gba flashcart inside my gameboy micro. Its called easy flash 4 or something
>>52414042
>better
They are fucking glued
>>52419790
Meant to quote >>52413433
