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can we have a retro technology thread?

i'm thinking of getting pic related, a libretto 50ct and dock for basically $50, i'd be trading some car parts i dont need for it.

what do you think? anyone here have some cool and odd vintage or retro stuff?
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Tell me ,what you will do with this piece of tech ? I AM really curious
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>>54347769
I have a 50ct and a 70ct. They are surprisingly useful and neat. The keyboard is very usable, despite the short keys.

The battery packs use commonly available li-ion cells so a rebuild is possible too. You will probably want to replace the motherboard battery on it.

A very useful upgrade would be a small CF / SD flash drive, replacing the internal hard drive. I want to do this, I bet it'd double the battery life which isn't that bad (2 hours?) as it is.
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>>54347769

I've got a 50ct and 100ct, they're pretty cool novelties but ultimately useless.
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>>54348332
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>>54348127
Nothing I really would have a use for, I already have an x220 for my daily tasks. I just love the look of the libretto, plus the nostalgia aspect of it. Its purely a collectors item, at least for me.

>>54348494
>>54348296
Dang, I didn't know so many people also have a libretto. How much did you get them for?

The only old tech I really have is an old thinkpad x60.
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>>54348494
Dat 100ct's juicy, with the bigger keys and screen. I could use that. There are very few neat tiny things like that left on the market that are high quality products.
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>>54347769
I've always thought those Librettos are absolutely beautiful...

I was just giving my late 80s VCR a test to make sure it still worked before boxing it up for our move. Found an old tape with some episodes of Pokémon on it. Had to play with the tracking a bit but got it playing great.
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>>54348597
>wood on electronics

Man, that's so 70s, but that's not from the 70s is it?
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>>54348666
Late 80s. It's not wood, just fake woodgrain on sheet metal.

This early 70s clock radio has real walnut veneer on top of plywood though.
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>>54348688
My early 1960s radio - actually solid chunks of walnut and not even veneer.

FM recently stopped working on this, pretty sure it just needs the FM oscillator tube replaced.
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>>54348707
>those tubes
>that wiring
JESUS FUCK
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>>54348739
welcome to mid century electronics
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>>54347769
Have a 110CT+replicator, it's a pretty alright little piece of kit, find the mouse/keyboard a little too odd for my liking however.

Posting 68k stash instead since I don't have any good pictures of it anymore, still need to find the AC adapter and hope to god the battery still works.
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>>54348850
man thats a cool collection.

think the 50ct with replicator is a good deal for $50?
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>>54348707
That bar antenna looks effective, do you DX?

Here's my comfy 1960's radio, made by the Swiss for the cold war. Shortwave, AM, FM, and also it can be plugged into the phone system to receive jam-proof messages.

These were in the Swiss bunkers from the 1960s until the 2000s. Mine was certified in 1999.
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>>54348296
holla @ your 200lx
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That Velectra E-606 has incredible sound, made to Swiss Military specs. Plus it's a looker.
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>>54348929
Don't expect multitasking miracles out of a Pentium-75 and 16-32MB of RAM but for such a unique system that isn't a bad going rate, would be more than fine for messing around and some offline productivity with Windows 95, 3.x or even NT.

At the very least, it will make a decent clock. That's what I used my 110CT as for a while.
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I wanted this fucker so badly in middle school
>tfw didn't have ds or psp
>tfw didn't have cool new flip phone yet
>ngage comes out
>it's in all my game informers
>tfw spiderman, call of duty,tony hawk, ghost recon
>literally god tier catalogue, even by todays standards
>it will forever be a dream in my memory
dont even tell me how shit it was, i dont want to hear it
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>>54348296
I have an HP Jornada 720 that I'm trying to decide what to do with.
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CompuAdd Express 425XL

gonna do a small dump of this very peculiar item
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Funniest part about luddite threads - all of the pictures are either old themselves or show the computer not on... because it's dead. Only use you can get out of it now is jerking off with other losers who held onto this dumpster dive garbage.

>>>/vr/

for non-working ironic luddite "tech"
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>>54349543
Did a libretto fuck your girlfriend or something? I can't think of anything less harmful than collecting and admiring computer history.
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>>54349564
Yes because everything made after 199x is harmful because some obscure IRC channel I go to says so, best to live in the past... with shit that doesn't even turn on anymore.

I'll be back at the end of the thread/circlejerk to take a tally of the non-working tech you're taking pictures of. Guarantee it will be in the high 80 percentage area.

Even ageism is accelerated by the internet, just post the same pic of something you found in the trash that isn't even working and probably hasn't for a decade, don't be in the picture obviously, and you too can pretend to be part of a secret elite club of pretending to be a 45 year old pretending to be an 80 year old. Literally every one of these threads are exactly the same because it's the same pictures over and over again of computers that no longer work.


>>>/vr/
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>>54347769
Here you go

>>54318263
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Hahaha here's another comfy machine I just got in the mail.

I will put Windows POS 2009 on there.

Transmeta Crusoe processor. Maybe it deserves a Linux instead?
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>>54349770
i hear puppy linux runs well on older hardware
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>>54349789
I was just reading that the wifi card can be upgraded to a more modern spec, so that's nice.

I do keep my Powerbook G4 around for providing wifi to older hardware.
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>>54349723
>>54349543

You, have autism. You may not notice, but you do. I bet you don't even wear underwear under your trousers. I'm gonna kiss your dog, and make love to your sister. There's only one way to cure yourself, delete system32, and hang yourself. You fucking autistic cunt.
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>>54349138
It was a piece of shit
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>>54349789
i think puppy needs like 128MB, thats a bit too much
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>>54349543
hey post some more android homescreen threads
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>>54348977
>do you DX?
Once in a while I try to find something interesting on the shortwave bands. I don't know much about it, but I've heard some strange stuff and picked up some very distant stations.
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>>54348296
I will love to have one of these to play doom on the go.
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>>54348707
JUST
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>>54349933
The Lifebook p1120 has 240mb ram.

It was a pretty high-spec, expensive machine when it came out.

>touchscreen
>high quality metal case
>9 hour battery life
>has trackpoint
>processor made by IBM, with no extra spyware
>accessible expansion slot

It's perfect for the discerning memester. I plan to refresh my battery pack with new lithium cells, put in a more modern wifi card, and put an SSD in there.
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>>54349473
Specs? I like it, it looks rugged and generic.
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>>54349882
i'm pretty sure it's bait. same type of person cant understand why people collect old collector cars.
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>>54349739
Honestly, I can't feel any sympathy for that guy.

After living with your parents for 20 years, you should be able to get a feel for what kind of people they are and how likely they are to throw away your shit, especially something like a museum relic.
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>>54347769
I wanted one of these so badly as a kid. My neighbor had one, and his dad had a laptop with a trackball (I forget the name) which I was also super jealous of.
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>>54349723
I'm happy you're here anon. It's not right to have one of these nostalgiafag collector threads without someone to lay down the law.
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>>54349739
So fucking angry
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I'll get a better picture of the entire pending housefire while turned on when I get home.
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>eking s515
>slide-tilt touchscreen
>makes phone calls
>can play some old games like RCT, diablo, etc.

such a fun device
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>>54350000
Fairly impressive


for '93
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>>54349951
>tfw my dad had one of these

When my dad passed away my brother got this. (In fairness he's older then me and it was the family stereo when he was growing up.)

But then he sold it on eBay :-(

>>54348850

I need to take some photos, but my retro computing stash currently consists of:

Power Mac 6100/66 DOS
Performa 6300CD (learned to code on this one)
PowerBook G3 PDQ
Titanium PowerBook G4 1 GHz.
Power Mac MDD Dual 1.42 GHz G4
Power Mac Dual 2.5 GHz G5
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>>54351756
Thanks, doc.
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>>54351378
WHAT THE FUCK
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>>54352074
Behold! The bomb the resides inside your laptop.

This is before replacing the cells.
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Does anyone else have a dual monitor setup with a crt?

I have been the comfiest I've ever been ever since I bought this little tv.
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>>54347769
now that is just simply kawaii
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>>54352379
>Linytron
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I enjoy my retro things. Only have a BST photo on my comp right now but been trying to decide what else to get for the 660lx.
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>>54348296
>>54348982
Neat Hp's been trying to get stuff for my hp but damn its hard.
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>>54353187
whoa, that thing on the left in the middle photo is really cool. what is it?
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I used to have a Libretto L5, found it at a thrift store for $8. Pretty neat, but sloooooow. I don't know if more RAM would've helped, (had 384MB,) but it would cost $$$ to max out the ram (512MB I think,) so finally made the decision to sell it last year.
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>>54353302
Its an HP 660LX. I think its basically the first HP Jornada style palmtop along with the 620LX. Its actually quite functional just need to pick up some more things for the PCMCIA slot.
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>>54353357
that thing looks huge compared to the older librettos.

>vista

that's why it was slow.
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>>54353388
oops, i meant the right... that thing is still cool though.
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>>54353187
Show me your snake skills.

>>54353396
Not my pic. I couldn't readily find any I took of my own. I think I was running Lubuntu on it.
I think it was about the size of most netbooks, just a little shorter in depth but extra wide.
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>>54353410
Thats called a Diamond Mako. If I remember correctly it is a Psion Revo under the Diamond name. No clue how to replace the batteries so far but other than that it works fine with sending files and receiving files to my HP using IR sensor.
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>>54353450
Made the cube and turtle. Dont have pics but the asain woman was nice enough to show me how to impress myself with it atleast.
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Is it blasphemy to replace some of the guts on these machines to make them more powerful?
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I'm planning on recreating an apple 1 board
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>>54353574
forgot the pic
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>>54351648
>macshit
Get out.
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>>54348739
good old days of no PCB's
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>>54353541
If they're still functional, absolutely. The more time passes, the more important it is that we have functional historical landmarks of human technological progression.

Broken? Gut 'em, old computers looked better anyways, giving them some modern gigahertz will be doing their creators justice by keeping their designs alive.
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>>54352379
for some reason I thought you said dual CRT setup at first but I'll blog anyway, whatever

going to probably put this setup in storage soon though and swap it out for a single 20'' SGI trinitron + the matching Indigo2
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>>54353541
Only if it's working or a really rare piece, if it's dead, whatever, just keep/sell the working components to someone who will use them to keep their other working boxes running.

I was personally never much for case mods anyway, the whole thing that made these old systems so nice is that they felt so well put together and actually "engineered", compared to all but high-end modern hardware that's just a bunch of cheapo off-the-shelf parts lazily bolted into a generic frame with some branded plastics.

Not to mention most of them end up looking like failed abortions in the end anyway for some reason, I've maybe only seen one or two conversions that don't look like a horrifying half-ass.
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>>54351498
>486SLC
Eugh, I wouldn't call that an "impressive" system as far as specs go, the 486DX/2-66 had already lost its crown by then, and that thing was a 486 in name only; a 386SX with an on-chip 1K cache and 486 instructions, and almost as sluggish.

Still, autism aside, that's a damn pristine and nice looking example of what are probably some of the earliest affordable consumer laptops worth a shit for any kind of meaningful work beyond simple information processing, plus every PC collector should have at least one example of a chip like the SLC, the x86 market in the 486 era really was a strange beast.
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>>54353968
Oh man nice vintage Mac ssetup, are they all networked?

I used to have a whole room full of Quadra 700s and we'd play Bolo and Marathon.
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>>54347769
>>54348296
>>54348332
>>54348494
>>54349473
>>54349514
>>54349529
>>54349484
>>54349569
>>54349583
>>54349770
do these old laptops suck a lot power?
would be cool te keep up an irc bot on those
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>>54353574
aren't there already Apple I clones?
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>>54354576
>do these old laptops suck a lot power?
Actually it's quite the opposite, they merely sip energy.

One of these older units is probably quite powerful enough to accomplish most or all of your server tasks.
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>>54353968
best keyoard
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>>54354593
Yeah
But I wanna solder my own board
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>>54354617
I should invest in one of these.
I see them go for 15/30 euros sometimes
thank you for the answer
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>>54349723
Relax man, someday you'll accept you love huge cocks in your ass and youll find happiness
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>>54347769
If that actually had good battery life and ran linux, I might want one.
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Posted this in a battle-station thread a while back
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>>54348597
that zenith logo next to that woodgrain feels so cosy
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>>54349473
I have one of these with different branding! Couldn't find anything on the net about it. Mines called a Renard X-TRA pro or some crap and has a purple bar instead of a red one. found it on the side of the road as a kid and found 3.11 on it
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nyesssss
IBM TP 600E 1998, Compaq Armada 7750MT 1996 and Aristo FT4000 1993
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>>54355852
Telefunken Jubilate 5 1953 (work in progress)
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>>54355852
Why are thinkfags and old hardware enthusiasts such mlp autists?
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>>54355891
Loewe Opta Apollo Stereo 1963
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>>54348707
>>54355891
>>54355917
Lemmie know if you need some tubes checked.
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>>54352379
>Dual monitor w/ CRT
Ayy
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>>54356307
Also, have a look at my retro stash.
Pic is only lacking my Fujitsu LifeBook B2610 that I had in uni.
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>>54356365
>amiga
aw maaaaaan luckyyyyyy
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damn this thread is some vaporware shit
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>>54352379
Taking the whole vaporwave meme a bit far there.
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Prove the freetards wrong.

Windows is much better than Linux for old hardware.
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Um, i have the front panel to a Performa 640cd for some reason...

Literally no idea where it came from.
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I found a neat IBM 5150 in a box behind some homeless shelter.
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>>54359104
The day I find one of those to pick up man.
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>>54352379
idk why but CRTs give me the comfy vibes of all the hot summer holidays that I spent back here on /b/

2006 good times
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>>54347769
I want that wallpaper
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>>54360180
>>54347769
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Lot of old electronics pt.1
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>>54360263
And pt.2
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>>54360263
were you just a little kid when the phantom menace came out?
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>>54360306
Yes, I was. Why?
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>>54360325
Only possible explanation for displaying a Darth Maul figure.
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>>54360341
I just got it from my friends as birthday gift.
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I figure this is the thread to ask, but does anyone know where i can find a disc image of Bugdom for OS9? None of the abandonware sites ive found have it and i want to put it on my G4 powerbook once it gets here.
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>>54354617
>>54354576
The first time I saw a 386 desktop in person I was kind of dumbstruck to see a power supply labeled "50 watts"

I didn't know about computers at the time but my own first rig, a lovely little IBM Pentium 3, turned out to have a 165 watt power supply under the hood. Kinda surprised me because the GeForce 2 in that baby would MURDER Quake 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and GTA3.
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>>54359391
Pls no
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witness my creation
GeForce 6200 LE
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>>54361414
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>>54361433
old setup
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>>54354499
The Quadra is, makes a pretty nice terminal box even with the low resolution.

I can't figure out where the hell my SCSI ethernet adapter went for the PB 170 though.

>>54359075
It depends on your use case, if you're going for a more "practical" networked job like web serving or you just want to develop software on the architecture, GNU/Linux is a pretty solid choice.

If you're going for a more "general use" system, display piece or just want the whole experience, always use the software the system was built to run.

>>54354576
Hardly. Back when that CompuAdd box was brand new people were flinging shit at the Pentium for its 16 watt TDP, what a housefire.

The "power consumption increases with age" shit that's regurgitated all over /g/ is a lot of bullshit and FUD, with a little truth only when you hit the recent past.

>>54360461
The developer seems to offer the Mac version on their site:
http://www.pangeasoft.net/bug/downloads.html
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>>54361186
post rares
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>>54361575
>devilgochi
I wanted to get one while I was in Japan but they are like 200$ fuuuuck
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>>54361575
>>54361186
I remember there was a certain hardware mod you could do on the newer ones to get into a 'dev mode' where you could select from all the different characters available on the device
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>>54361483
Thanks. Unfortunately the code I found online for it doesn't work. I've since gotten sidetracked digging through my 14 year old self's excuse for file organization. And yes, that is tiger themed to look like leopard. I spent hours doing that.
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>>54353606
>i'm an edgy teenager: the post
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>>54347769
If Everything works as expected then Pic Related will be Retro this Year.
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>>54347769
IBM Transnote FTW
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>>54351378
christ almighty

take that thing through airport security
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>>54349583
Beauty.
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>>54362756
shame the Pyra has pants-on-head pricing and parts.
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>>54348597
That VCR is actually kinda cute, cause it looks so small.
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>>54360395
>family knows i am star wars nerd
>am original trilogy purist

teenage years plagued with prequel trilogy gifts
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>>54352307
there are a whole bunch of different LiIon chemistries that operate on different voltage and current curves. The prefix on the battery does mean something. You *are* replacing like with like, right?
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>>54356365
An Amstrad but no Sinclair? You are my sworn enemy.
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>>54360988
You need https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/thinkpad/led-kit.shtml
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I just saw this link over on the Verge. Relevant to this thread. http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/3/11576032/mclaren-f1-compaq-laptop-maintenance
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>>54362877
Well it's only a bit bigger than our other VCR which is about a decade newer, but the old Zenith is probably 3x the weight.
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>>54349988
>Transmeta Crusoe CPU
>"IBM"
lel
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>>54364094
Transmeta was fabless and IBM made their chips you doofus.
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>>54348565
>How much did you get them for?
I think I paid about $18 for the two of them.

Windows 95 baby.
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>>54348332
>useless

I installed freebsd on my 50CT like 14+ years ago.. With the dock for serial plus pcmcia networking. Even has an RDP client. How is that useless?
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>>54356365
Mirin' that Hitbit
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>>54353968
CRT setups are always so comfy would have a modern pc hidden away somewhere with a monitor vga switch
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>>54348739
Ahaha, you should see the Russian counterpart of a radio of that time.
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>>54349739
AHAH, how fucking lame. How could this even happen? Is he a retard for hes parents?
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I think keeping shit on the wall is safer then in a box.
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>>54360245
Why does it have "key" scribbled across the keyboard?
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>>54367024

It's a developer which makes visual novels, including the one the image on the display is from (Kanon).
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>>54347769
This thing is sexy. Question. How impossible is it to buy one of these, gut it and put an RPi in it?
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>>54368135
>gutting a rare, iconic ultraportable for some throwaway hipster SBC "project"
just buy a phablet with a keyboard case
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>>54368165
Nah. But do portable keyboards as sexy as that and as small as that exist?
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>>54368216
>it's a keyboard hipster
who knew
but yeah there are keyboard flip cases for tablets and phones depending on what you have
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>>54368135
Do us all a favor and just don't, or at least use a dead one.

Even if you can somehow figure out how to connect the display and peripherals and fit it in to the extremely cramped form factor, whatever you come up with will look god awful and totally miss the point and not really be much of an improvement over the original for anything other than dicking around, you're better off just buying a newer ultraportable or using it as is, a stock PMMX Libretto with a wireless card and NT4/Linux will be just fine for local offline productivity and remote access to something a little beefier for development work.
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>tfw no modern keyboard computers at reasonable price points
>tfw no modern UMPCs at reasonable price points
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>>54368421
I won't. I didn't actually realize that they were valuable. They're really cute though.
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>>54352379
I'd rather have something like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkuh3pqbn9o

I'm going to try it in a early 90s Sony Trinitron
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>>54353451
i had one of these when I was a kid. It was a psion labelled, though. I played solitaire for hours some days on it.
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>>54369538
Yup the bubble popping thing is fun too.
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>>54369486
That guy has a sweet audio setup.
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>>54362807
now this is interesting. That's a sexy machine - would it be welcomed in the /tpg/ threads?
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GX gaming TV by Samsung. This isn't my picture, but this was my tv during my teen years. It's at my folks now, display was so-so but the sound was great.
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>>54349988

extreme qt
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>>54348577

Is that iOS on the left?
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>>54369860
>>54369860

Nvm, I just realized that's an iPad.
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>>54348597

I have a bunch of industrial VCRs at work sitting around that we used for asset protection before we switched to DVR storage. There's a few different models lying around, but they're all fucking tanks. I think I'll bring one home to tinker with. There are also some multiplexers that they wouldn't miss, which was really cool technology for its time.
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>>54369277
Totally, they're pretty neat.

They still carried on making them for a time from the older Pentium-based models frequently posted here, I think the last available in the US was the U100, based on a Pentium M. Still plenty for a basic internet access/SSH device and offline productivity system.
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>>54356307
back in 2008 I had a choice to get that Samsung or the Sony F520 Trinitron (non-widescreen FW900)

ended up with the Samsung because most tech forums were pushing the LCD meme so hard

2ms response and 8-bit color my fucking ass
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>>54347769
That looks so fucking comfy
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>>54349723
Oh for the love of god shut the fuck up ypu're so annoying
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>>54353628
there are two PCBs visible on the left, they just cheaped out
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>>54366227
cute cat
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>>54361433
>no scanlines
what is going on here?
or are you emulating?
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>>54371960
Thats a PC crt (no scanlines at higher than 240p)
Yeah hes emulating or playing a 480p console.
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>>54372317
It's the laptop from Aliens which controls the auto-guns they put in the main access tunnel there.

Bitchin.
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>>54362875
I know /g/ always bitches about the price of stuff but whats wrong with the parts?
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>>54349543
Of the nine computers shown eight are powered up you memester you.
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>>54352379
I used to do this back in about 2001-2003, I had my Powerbook G4 Titanium sitting directly under my Gateway CRT monitor, and the screen widths matched perfectly. I had an extra-tall screen, it was amazing.

LCD usually had a terminal up and web browsing or code on the CRT. Nice as fuck.
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>>54353219
Just be patient, the retro-computer game is a game of patience more than money.
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>>54372332
I've still got my 170. Still works!
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Oh sheeeit anons, another comfy ass laptop has come my way.

Fujitsu Lifebook U810, I will receive it by Friday!
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>>54362977
not him but thanks, I didn't know about this.
my x61s screen is too dim.
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A selection of my comfy ass scraptops. These are the smaller ones. I have some giga-Thinkpad action here too.
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>>54373028
Sorry forgot pic.
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>>54372946
Love that frog design.
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>>54373037
What's the silver one at the bottom of the pic?
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Centrino M.

Picture is old (too lazy to do a new one) but it has a XP SP3/Xubuntu dualboot setup,because fuck Arch and Gentoo.
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>>54374101
Oh,and forgot to mention the laptop:Acer Travelmate 800.

I'll also get a second laptop,a ECS G733. Yes,ECS made laptops as well.
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>>54348296
How long does a new battery hold a charge for in one of these things? 4 hours?
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>>54374195
cute
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>>54374195
The HP 200LX gets 20 hours on a pair of AA Alkaline batteries.
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>>54374224
How about the Libertto?
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>>54375045
3-4 hours sounds about right.
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>>54371836
Thanks.
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>>54348494
>>Shodan and GitS desktop wallpapers

you alright
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>>54369655
>>>>>>>>>>>would a thinkpad be welcome in thinkpad general

die
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>>54372940
Yup its just hard to weed through it all
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>>54353357
>vista
>384MB RAM

There's your problem.
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>>54347769
Need to take some pics, but I do have some retro computers laying around.

IBM Aptiva 2176 (Pentium I 133MHz)
Compaq Armada M700 (Pentium II 366MHz)
Apple iBook G4 12" 1.33GHz
Apple PowerBook G4 15" 1.67GHz DLSD

RIP:

Toshiba Satellite 4070 CDT (Celeron 366MHz) - backlight inverter broke, and had a nasty habit of freezing. Bought the Compaq as a replacement.
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>>54361473
MY FELLOW TF2 BRO
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>>54378533
>5 disc cd rom mini changer

WHUT
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>>54379017
It's pretty nice to have when you need to always keep OS media on hand.
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>>54379316
>going through all the trouble of grabbing a picture from a review and never postting it
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>>54348814
thats a bomb lmao
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>>54356365

>That CPC464

Fucking hell, my childhood boiled down into one little box. The amount of time I spent reading the manual to that thing, especially the back section while was all about how to render letters a pixel at a time.

Fucking loved that machine, rubber sinclairs can go suck a dick.
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>>54374014
Fujitsu Lifebook P1120. No Intel botnet!
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>>54360988
Where did you get that USB SATA dongle?
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>mfw leopard on 512mb of ram
Laptop is clean, but the power connector area gets hot as balls. Havent taken it apart yet, but i probably should.
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>>54349138
i owned one, it was a piece of shit except for how easy it was to pirate its games.
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>>54352379
Is that a clock from steins;Gate?
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>>54372880
An underpowered, overpriced OMAP chip that costs more than an entire RPi but is notably weaker, kneecapping sensors unless you spring for the notably more expensive GSM version, and the fact that everything is at a preorder price of 400 Euros.
I honestly wish they would just sell an odroid-compatible shell. It would've reduced R&D cost and time, and in turn, cut the price of the finished product, with the bonus of far and away superior hardware.
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>>54351498
when I read "120 MB" hard drive I can't help but picture these stupid gimp screenshots with outrageous file sizes. back then a gigabyte was unthinkable and now people do it for shitposting on an imageboard.
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>>54352379
>junk piled on desk
>old bulky crt
>minimalism
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>>54380934
Thats TB not GB
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>>54380467

Nixie tubes, look them up.
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>>54375072
3 hours if you're lucky, but once I put an IDE SSD in there I'm sure the battery life will improve a LOT.
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>>54374224
For me it lasts about a month or two of regular usage. I turn off the serial port in MS-DOS though, to save power when I'm not using it.
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>>54360988
>Our War Game
My nigger.
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>>54348739
We hams still use point to point wiring when making one-off radios, mods, and other gear ourselves.
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>>54380148
Only 512mb, you probably aren't even running an SSD in there.
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>>54374224
>>54382144

glad some of you /g/ dorks gettin' on the dos palmtop train
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>>54382251
No, she is all original. I literally just got it today.
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>>54352379
Got one on my Quadra 950
Multi-monitor Simant anyone?
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I have a Libretto 70ct. I replaced the HDD with a 32GB Compact Flash card and now it's 100% silent. Battery still holds more than half an hour of charge.
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>>54382529
it has this extension at the back which gives it more ports
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>>54382566
size comparison against a vhs tape and its case
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>>54382478
Posting a shot of the machine itself.
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>>54374224
enjoy your shit-tier keyboards (not my pic, can't be bothered to take one)
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>>54382675
Wonderful.

I want the shit out of a 900/950 so I can have a real A/UX system.
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>>54382700
>I can't be bothered to tap my phone twice
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>>54382700
the keyboard's not amazing, but at least it's got the old HP calculator build, and you do learn a few tricks to speed up typing. if there was a DOS palmtop with a good keyboard and a proper PCMCIA type II slot that accepted more than SRAM cards, I'd love to get it.
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>>54382850
Yea that's my next trick cause now that I have a compatible Apple CD drive, I can now install A/UX on it. I'm going to be loading it on an external scsi drive though.
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WHATS IN THE BOX
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>>54384428
60mm mortar system sights
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>>54384449
no
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>>54384459
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>>54384471
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>>54384490
yeah but can that go on 4chan dot com though
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>>54384511
Don't currently have a means to connect it to my router but there's not reason I can't. It runs off windows 95.
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>>54356365

Sega SC3000? I don't think I've ever, ever seen one of those.
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>>54349138
fuck the haters it was awesome for its time. Pathway to glory and Rifts was the shit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPC_512
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>>54380148
Oh, and it came with the user manuals. The PowerBook one shows how to replace parts which I thought interesting.
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>>54352379
Comfy as fuck. I use the CRT as a primary, though.
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