The Retrocomputing Thread

[Red-Machine]

Pick and choose.  Never buy a hoarde like that, too many potential pitfalls.

[Bella]

Unfortunately he won't piecemeal it. Otherwise I'd probably just try to take the working ][ setups, the DEC micro and the workstations, and maybe other micros and the Tandys. The dozen or so Classic Macs, for instance, have no appeal to me in this situation.

[Krizonar]

I'll take the dozen or so classic Macs o3o


In other news, I'm cleaning my Macintosh SE out a bit to make it more spify.

Armed with flashlight, cleaning wipes and an air compressor, I shall pierce the heavens in cleanliness.

[Krizonar]

all done!

The age really showed in the floppy drive, looked like it had been collecting dust for 25 years or something.

[Dr. Kraus]

I have an IBM screw driver like that with two sides (Long flat head one side the other short Phillips head)

Cleaned out my Macintosh G3 blue/white version and it was dusty as hell! (Also upgraded the ram a bit to 512MB and not 255MB or something like that)

[Bella]

I is writing from K8, my dying 2004 eMachines 6800 series running Mint right now...... cause my iMac's decided to be a bitch about going online.

*SO NOSTALGIC*

[Dr. Kraus]

My dad made me take a test on Windows ME, oh god it was terrible (Because the test was to virtual ME and do some data recovery and all that). I must of crashed close to 15 times in VB.

I is writing from K8, my dying 2004 eMachines 6800 series running Mint right now...... cause my iMac's decided to be a bitch about going online.


*SO NOSTALGIC*

Funny enough I'm using my old Emachine because my Gateway doesn't want to go on teh interwebz ether!

[Bella]

That's freaky Dr. K ><

Yeah, the eMachines decided to start spontaneously shutting down (as she usually does) so now I've been reduced to using the only other computer at my disposal that goes online: Dy, a 2005 HP. She's slow as fsck but surprisingly reliable. = =;;

Annnnnnnd now the iMac has a LinuxMint liveCD stuck inside the CDR drive, she won't boot off of it 'cause it's a 32-bit edition (WHY'D I THINK I DOWNLOADED THE 64-BIT ONE?!), I can't get it out and booted back into OSX. Damned Macs and their lack of manual CDR drive controls. ><

EDIT:

I got the CDR out of the drive. Fanks to the advice of the dudes at Rockingham Park Apple Store.

EDIT PART DEUX:

Huh, I got my iMac online using an old router that I used to use for my wireless network but its wireless transmitter quit and now it's just a wired router... weird.

[Krizonar]

Used the old paper clip method, did you?

[Bella]

*shutters at the thought of shoving paperclip into slot drive*

No, the old repeatedly click on mouse buttons at startup method.

[Krizonar]

You don't put it IN the slot drive, you shove it into a small hidden hole that manually pops the outdated disc thing out.

I had it happen to one of our old Macs at school once, so I promptly questioned them why they put the CD in backwards (this kept them busy for a little bit) as I popped it out with my paper clip.

[Dr. Kraus]

You don't put it IN the slot drive, you shove it into a small hidden hole that manually pops the outdated disc thing out.

I had it happen to one of our old Macs at school once, so I promptly questioned them why they put the CD in backwards (this kept them busy for a little bit) as I popped it out with my paper clip.

Old Slot imac's don't do that I think, from what I remember because my old green iMac dosen't do that 0.0

[Krizonar]

I believe it is hidden on the side of the old retro iMacs
(at least, I have one retro iMac and it's on the side)

[Bella]

Oh but I'm not talking about a retro iMac.... I'm talking about a 2009 24'' aluminum model. >>;;

[Krizonar]

Yesyes Xd mr dr professor Kraus was talking about an old iMac, but they are still on newer ones.
They're also on some very old machines, I found where you stick the paper clip to eject floppies from my SE.