Retro Geek
Cloudscout
– December 23, 2007 08:49AM
I know I'm not the only one here to dabble in old toys and technology. What retro entertainment do other people enjoy?
Commodore
Atari
Coleco
Intellivison
Pong
Merlin
Simon
Betamax
LaserDisc
CD-i
8 Track
Windows XP
Etc.
Jeff Cooper
– October 20, 2010 08:01AM
A Pismo that I keep in my office saved my behind the other day. I realized about ten minutes before class that I had left my MacBook Air's Mini Displayport-to-VGA adapter at home and so wouldn't be able to use it for Powerpoint. A quick resave of the file into Office 97-04 format, save to USB key, start up the Pismo (this was easily the longest part of the process), transfer the file from the USB key, launch Office 2001, everything's in place, plug the projector's VGA connecter into the back of the Pismo, and I'm in business. Jag-wire, baby!
Cloudscout
– October 20, 2010 09:51AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
I'm bidding on a complete IIgs system right now on eBay. Wish me luck.
bahamut
– October 20, 2010 06:06PM
Bizarre. So they non-marketed it? Brilliant.
Dr Phred
(Moderator)
– October 21, 2010 09:11AM
-Swine Flu free since...cough, cough...
I remember demoing that gus card to the local Apple ii sig back in the day. We had the lc under wraps. Demoed it as the newest apple ii. Then pulled off the wraps and said it also ran Mac software.
Cloudscout
– October 21, 2010 02:40PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
The LC card wasn't Gus. Gus was a software Apple IIgs emulator that Apple only distributed on a limited basis under NDA.
tliet
– October 23, 2010 06:14AM
A friend send me a text this morning, his father in law died and now they need to clean out the house and garage that's next to it. Since it housed his collection of 90+ Apple computers, he is asking to pick up the stuff that I gave him years ago. So, I'll be receiving one dead Lisa/Mac XL and one (more or less) complete NeXT slab.
The wife is happy with me. Not.
ddt
– October 23, 2010 07:12AM
Johnny, have you booked your ticket yet?
ddt
John Willoughby
– October 23, 2010 10:08AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Maybe tliet's friend's father-in-law WAS Johnny K!
tliet
– October 23, 2010 10:59PM
I'd like to resurrect the Lisa. I remember when I first got a Lisa. I must have been in 1990 or so. My mom was doing her thesis on it, in Lisa Office. It was magic at the time, Windows 3.1 3.0(!) hadn't been released even. So to see a machine doing all these magic things like opening/restoring documents after being turned on and cleaning things up while turning off.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/23/2010 11:00PM by tliet.
ddt
– November 12, 2010 08:44AM
tliet
– November 14, 2010 08:36PM
Got this back from a friend I gave it to 6 years ago:
Sadly, the harddisk seems shot; if anyone has a SCSI disk laying around, I'll gladly take it off your hands.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/14/2010 08:38PM by tliet.
bahamut
– November 15, 2010 06:03PM
SCSI! Bane of my existence for many a year…
dharlow
– November 15, 2010 08:38PM
I might have one in my box of drives, not sure if they are any good though.
Daniel
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– November 15, 2010 11:26PM
Showing my non-retro cred: Um, what is that, tliet?
John Willoughby
– November 16, 2010 07:50AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Looks like a NeXT machine.
tliet
– November 16, 2010 11:48AM
Yep, NeXT ColorStation. 18 years old and still going strong! (although the disk only works when it's deep frozen)
ddt
– November 16, 2010 11:55AM
That shouldn't be a problem during your Hans Brinker winters.
ddt
John Willoughby
– November 16, 2010 01:04PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
What was the story about Dutch winters? That the water in the port froze and Dutch warships were captured by French cavalry?
[EDIT]
This was it:
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/16/2010 01:08PM by John Willoughby.
John Willoughby
– November 16, 2010 01:09PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
And, yes, this is directly related to the SCSI drive on Tliet's NeXT.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– November 16, 2010 04:55PM
There's frozen water in its port?
