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Could we get a tech-porn thread? Anything beautiful related to technology, from this century or previous ones...
Ill get us started with a few older beauties
>>53649487
Obligatory.
I get so wet over this setup
>>53649738
Speak N Spell drooler?
>>53649487
Muh IIsi
>>53649487
>>53649837
Fucking hideous.
>>53649881
Get off of 4chan, Eric
>>53649837
>Trinitron CRT
Nice.
>>53650968
>tfw my >>>/vr/ Trinitron CRT is dying low-end shit but all good replacements are like $100 on Craigslist
>>53651179
>tfw would gladly pay $100 for a good Trinitron PC monitor but haven't come across one locally in about a decade of looking
>tfw plenty of Trinitron TVs but no room for a TV and not much use for one anyway
Is this thread meant to be ironic?
>>53650806
No you Gary!
>>53649500
>>53649650
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg
>>53651285
>CRT picture slightly rotated
>even part of the taskbar cut off
Please don't do these things.
>>53651285
Please don't have the mouse cord pulling it backwards like that it is triggering me.
>>53650859
>shitbox thread
oh boy
>>53649837
>tfw I snagged one of these a while ago with a 68882/64k cache upgrade
They seem like they'd make a nice A/UX box.
>>53649487
>grayscale paint program
>>53652197
in those days grayscale displays had higher resolutions.
>>53652177
Glorious Trinitrons.
In those days my Amiga had a palette of 4096 simultaneous colors out of 16.8 million.
>>53652197
It's actually 1-bit B&W. Gray can only be simulated by dithering.
But...it evolved from the original Mac 128K with had a bitmapped display long before most personal computer systems did.
>>53649650
>beat me to it
>>53649650
>>53652635
NeXTstations need love to.
>Tech Porn
sorry, all 10k units already gone.
badoinkvr.com
>>53649650
>>53651323
>>53652635
>>53652675
Stop making me want to blow $600 on a Cube, faggots.
>>53649837
those aesthetics are just marvelous, i love it, nostalgia galore.
>>53651323
>all without writing a single line of code
you what nigger? can you do this with ios development kit or android development kit? or do you really need to write a line of code?
I wish phone manufacturers were as bold with design changes as PDA makers used to be.
>>53650766
The comfy is unmatched
Damn it's pretty.
>>53652462
Glorious HAM mode built from 7400 series logic brother.
>>53652177
I like you. Are you running Mathematica on that quadra?
>>53653994
I wish it was still possible to get fully functional mainstream web pages to load on a 33MHz ARM processor.
>>53654592
It makes me sad, because it took a hell of a long time for phones to catch up with pdas. This is the Dell x50v. It had a 624MHz processor, 640x480 display, bluetooth, wifi, CF and SD card readers, and a dedicated GPU with hardware 3D acceleration...in 2004. Two thousand fucking four. I could play Quake 3 on a handheld in 2004.
Can we talk about SGI and Cray too?
>>53654583
You got it. It's my main use for it, aside from just experimenting and looking nice.
>>53654762
Shit's practically art. Too bad computers are so fast now that there's not enough motivation to design hardware so outlandishly fast as Cray did.
>>53654889
I recently goy back my powermac g3 from parents house. running system 9 on a 1680x1050 (been trying to get a multiscan 17sf or viewsonic but shipping is the achilles heel of these things) and I've been staggered how ridiculously good pre os x looks, the fonts are so fucking crisp and the os menus take so little screen real estate. sc2k an a-train on b&w look amazing. also running plain ftp on linux box so i can edit files with bbedit. these things were total crap but good they were gorgeous
>>53649628
so much faggotry in this photo.
fucking hipster.
Since we are on the topic of supercomputers, I fell in love with them after watching Jurassic Park.
>>53654889
wait, now I realised. are you running a/ux?
>>53655035
It's a pretty nice looking system, not to mention absolutely painless to use and set up. At least until you start running applications on it and get bombs out the ass.
>>53655074
Sour grapes.
>>53654700
I had the first Dell Axim, and used it to play SNES games in like...2002. Replaced it with a Treo 650, which left the iPhone rather unimpressive until at least the 3GS.
>>53649487
Aahh, the old Macintoshes were so beaut. Brings a tear to my eye
>>53655155
Not yet, but I'd like to. Probably going to demo it on the IIsi and then set it up on the Quadra if it plays nice with my extensions and applications.
>>53652197
>photoshop originated on a computer that had no color
http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/adobe-photoshop-source-code/
>>53649837
Good thing you don't have the Saratoga. Else that mouse would be halfway off the table too.
>>53650829
dat tower
>>53654700
The industries that relies on that sort of hand held are kinda stuck on what to do right now. There's a white paper from some giant that makes specific software for managing inventories and deliveries in it they were saying how Microsoft gave them all the finger for two reasons very specific no1 Windows Mobile apps were not compatible with new windows phone platform which also required the apps to be installed through the windows store, no2 they had a major wtf when they learned wp7 platform and devices are not compatible with wp8. They were saying how there really haven't been any developments on rugged devices since smartphone era and that the barriers to move away from Microsoft are much lower now they just don't know what devices to go with either iOS plus case or a rugged android. Basically handhelds have stalled since large smartphone adoption
>>53655175
To this day I still don't really know why the first gens of iphones ever caught on because you really couldn't do much with them, I think it's due to the interface and the fact that you had your iPod with you, the cover art thing is still beautiful I can't believe they done away with it.
>>53655636
For the vast majority of phone customers, it was an upgrade from their Motorola RAZRs, and had a built in iPod as a bonus.
Treos, PocketPCs, and Blackberries were for nerds and corporate drones. Totally uncool. They're not even designed in San Francisco.
>>53655636
iPhones didn't really catch on until the iPhone 4, when they actually started including decent specs.
Who has a workstation like this in the 90's... or had a dad that did? Coffee cups and cats optional.
>>53652958
$600???
I keep lusting over them on eBay and the ones in good condition with monitor/keyboard/mouse are like $1,200 - $1,500. (I couldn't bring myself to use an LCD instead of that sexy NeXT monitor.)
NeXTstations are cheaper and I'm sorely tempted, but I really want to hold out for a cube.
>>53655666
Didn't catch on?
With the original iPhone, Apple had to set up an inventory checker so you could see if your local Apple store had them in stock that day.
>>53655796
Particleboard computer table with the laminate worn away in spots, or surface bulging because you set cold drinks down without a coaster.
>>53653443
>in October, 1991...
Also
>not knowing that iOS evolved from NeXTstep
You know what I find weird about this old computers? The look of the OS seems to go well with the equipment.
I'm not sure how I can word that more clearly, but I always feel that modern computers lack that unity with the physical and the virtual.
Or maybe I just have a nostalgia for big off-white boxes and pixelated GUIs...
>>53651323
>Sun programmer "Oh that's the problem...let me write more code."
>NeXT programmer "I'm done, now where are the hookers and blow?"
>>53655131
>you'll never live in 1960's styled future where your home computer takes up the basement
Im working on it, okay?
>>53654700
It's just a market driven by people who don't need computers versus a market primarily driven by people who have work to get done
Tyranny of the majority. The minority suffers, especially when the ruling class the majority "chose" is in the business of screwing its subjects over to maximize profits, even to the point of making devices that are designed to fail or be unable to run secure, useful software before they hit five years.
>>53655889
>Particleboard...
Holy shit, too accurate.
>>53656098
But you can live in the 21st century where a more powerful Raspberry Pi can sit among your piss bottles.
>>53656201
>tfw you'll never have a FM Towns.
>>53656201
And then realize that only the only people who need "real" computers are the people who can afford giant computers anyways as you use it to do nothing but consume media, communicate without using a phone, and accomplish nothing of lasting worth
I always liked this style of computer, it just looks too damn cool, it's amazing to me that I didn't know it was a real computer until I saw first saw it on lain.
>>53654700
Damn. Comparable to the first iPhone, but half the price and 3 years earlier.
Why does iPhone get all the credit for "revolutionizing mobile computing"? I know that thing wasn't even the only PDA of its kind back then. Some of them even had phone functionality built in.
>>53649798
That's the Commodore Amiga, pretty much the first multimedia machine, and a good 10 years ahead of the PC and the Mac in its day.
Fucking underage.
>>53656201
I'd much rather have a work of art like that in my basement than a trendy microscopic piece of shit for "maker" hipsters that can barely out-perform a Pentium III, let alone a Cray.
>mfw want to buy an old case and stuff a modern system into it
>>53656321
>until I saw first saw it on lain.
>look up that computer
>it's a Mac
Kek, I remember having a feeling that if any company was to release a computer like that it would be Apple when I was watching SE Lain and thinking about how they would fit everything into that case. Looks like I guessed correctly.
>>53656321
thats a mac isn't it? one of the reasons why 90s apple was going to shit was products like that.
>>53656603
>yfw want to replace a silent and well made system with a noisy and bloated mess
I can't wait until the return to fanless and efficient computing takes hold again.
>>53656639
I can tell you that Sun sparcstation wasn't silent or cool mainly because of the scsi cheetah drive.
>>53649944
>go to replace one wire
>take apart everything
>>53656436
Because it was in the hands of more people, it was the only smartphone to be consumed on a massive scale, and one thing that Apple doesn't get credit for is they literally changed the cell phone providers landscape in the US, because they had the providers begging to carry the phone they were able to make some demands, lets not forget that before iphone came along data caps and data usages were a lot more expensive than what they are today so lots changed because a lot of people wanted that phone.
Also, one of the coolest things ever that the iphone did at the time was full html browser, unheard of even on blackberries.
>>53656639
That really depends on the system.
>>53656634
It was a vanity product, not some general consumer machine. Full PPC 603 Mac with LCD display (it was another 5 years before Jobs declared the CRT to be dead) flat panel design, and leather palm rests.
But if it gives your autism warm fuzzies, Jobs purportedly hated the thing and ordered the price of it slashed when he returned so they could get rid of it.
>>53649944
That's what I call cable management
>>53655666
it surprises me the amount of children on this board.
same thing with the amount of dumbasses who argue netflix didn't make it renting dvds
>>53656634
no, '90s Apple was going to shit for a lot of other reasons
>platform lost most of its edge barring ease of use as PCs started to get better and even inch into the high-end/workstation segment
>bewildering product line; company had 22 products for like 2 market segments
>nothing set them apart in the low end
>even though it could run most staple Windows applications and Apple shipped PC compatibility cards that could just straight up run Windows, it still wasn't a PC
>better than now but still pretty shitty enterprise support/networking compared to NT or UNIX
>speaking of which, not a viable server platform, or really a viable mission critical anything platform
>>53656647
cheetahs were 2-3 years after the SPARCstations
those just turned into volcanoes if you ran four processors instead
>>53656436
>>53656662
The key to the original iphone's success was the capacitive touchscreen. The vast majority of devices either used active digitizers that required styluses like tablet PCs or resistive screens that also required styluses, like PDAs. Resistive screens not only need a stylus but have to use an extremely easily-scratched flexible plastic layer on top of the screen for their digitizer. Drop an uncovered Palm into your pocket with your keys for a day and your screen would look like you tossed it in a blender. Those two little bits of inconvenience, stylus and delicacy, are what gave the capacitive iphone its big boost.
>>53661757
Older Palms had glass digitizers. My IIIc does and it's still in good shape, certainly with no scratches that show up in actual usage. Also, like all other Palms, it came with a cover so there was no reason to throw it in your pocket without a cover. Also it doesn't get covered in skin oil every time its used, which is nice.
>>53649944
zapstraps are certainly useful, but that's just retarded. one new cable and you have to snip all of them potentially cutting into the existing cables.
>>53652635
this is pure porn
>>53663717
Those glass digitizers were even worse in my opinion, I went through 3 VIIxes in my highschool years.
>>53649837
Bro get a larger table
guys..
where a the x68000 pics?
>>53656217
For anyone interested in a cool project to preserve some of a legendary computer: http://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/
"...I’ve spent the last year and a half or so constructing my own 1/10-scale, binary-compatible, cycle-accurate Cray-1."
They used a Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600 FPGA. So their FPGA is likely a reasonable approximation of some of the logic in the Cray-1. It only runs at 33 MHz though. The Cray-1 ran at 80 MHz.
I think the desktop model they made looks a little goofy though. I would build something more substantial if I was going to "clone" a Cray-1 using a FPGA.
>>53656280
>And then realize that only the only people who need "real" computers are the people who can afford giant computers anyways as you use it to do nothing but consume media, communicate without using a phone, and accomplish nothing of lasting worth
It bothers me to think that they used to simulate weather and thermonuclear detonations on early Crays, and I've got something vastly more powerful that I use for coding and web browsing. As a kid I dreamed that someday I would run global simulations or some shit on my own personal supercomputer.
>>53652635
This is the sort of computer that Patrick Bateman would have in his apartment as he checks his share prices while listening to Huey Lewis
>>53663717
Another thing that kept the PDA from being widely used was the sloppiness when it came to media support. Nearly every PDA had a 3.5mm headphone jack, but with no design care taken to keep massive amounts of hiss out of the output.
>>53656639
You should take a look at this thing.
>>53664886
The novel would also include a 5-page description of while a woman's face is being peeled off with a claw hammer.
>>53664967
Overpriced. You can piece together a mini-itx setup that is fanless, not that difficult.
>>53650783
Nice PC, too bad you need most of those addons to get stuff onto it
>>53665144
>>53650783
Thumb-oriented clitmice are a vastly underrated input method. I had one on my UX50 and it was easily as fast as any other laptop input method.
>>53665074
You'd need a giant heat sink for fanless though, if you wanted a PC with some balls.
Yeah, you can stick in one of those TDP 25W AMDs I forgot the name of, and a £5 heat sink and it will keep cool, but if you want any power or a GPU, then fanless isn't really safe for the hardware.
>>53656228
Saw one of those laying around in an import shop in London about 10 years ago, wish I'd bought it.
>>53665292
all of my cum
>>53664796
>http://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/
That looks nifty as shit, doing such a small model like that is kind of unnatural looking though, it might be better to go full sacrilege and build it into a boxier but cray-styled enclosure.
Would be kind of cool to set up one as a public display, hang some terminals off of it and show people how people actually worked with these things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-F7ZySfgZ0
Wonderful Tektronix equipment.
>>53649944
if thats the sort of shit you like you should play factorio.
>>53649944
Oh shit
>>53665714
Really depends on what you are trying to do, you do not need a powerful desktop in your office anymore. With modern streaming technology (like steam link) I have heard of people putting powerful gaming desktops in their cold garages or somewhere similar while having a small, quiet PC in their office they use for day to day tasks. When they want to game they simply link to their gaming rig and let that do the work. Same goes for compiling video or what have you.
>>53649944
And nobody but you will ever see it.
>>53655175
Holy shit i miss my treo 650. Kept that until I heard about the iPhone and thought to myself you know what anon? Apple has no business at all making phones and I'm sure whatever rim or palm answer with will be far superior. Well got the storm. Even pre ordered it. That was the worst phone I've ever owned. Ever.
>>53655796
RIP Doug ...
>>53667788
I'm still disappointed that Palm's answer to the iPhone was to stop releasing handhelds, roll over, and die.
>>53663777
Why would you need to replace a cable? They don't wear out.
>>53669467
You're talking with people who never stepped foot in a datacenter.
>>53651345
Moire it's called and can be adjusted in the settings unlike modern displays
lots of sexy in this thread, all a solid 7.5 if not more.
>>53655889
And a 50 count spindle of CD-ROMS, actually, probably several.
>>53656639
You can fit all your fans and cooling component inside, it would be no louder than the system in a modern case.
>>53669586
Moire has nothing to do with either of those things. Digital displays, like LCDs, are immune to moire. Rotation is indeed digitally adjustable on most modern PC CRT monitors, though.
>>53669838
Damn time to hand in my man card
>>53654109
Beautiful
