Vintage
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Edit: I never used one of these, I'm just as old as one. First computers I used were a Macintosh 128k and an Apple ]|[, unless you count the TI 91-a as a computer and not a console, but that machine is older than me
I had a VIC-20, the predecessor to the C64...
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Oh yeah? I raise you stacks of perforated pages and tractor feed accordions
I worked at a place using a dot matrix printer… in 2013.
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I'm using a ps2 keyboard because the usb one died.
I'm using PS/2 because USBHID requires a driver in the kernel and I don't have the RAM for that shit.
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I’ll see your raise, and up it:
We had one of those in school. One per classroom. We had one educational game on it. Since there was only one, they would sit us down at it in pairs and we'd get 5m to play on it. I think I got to use it maybe three times in a given year.
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So is this a more classic case of Apple's usual tactic making their things needlessly different to move more product?
wrote last edited by [email protected]ADB slightly predated (and is arguably technically superior to) the PS/2 mouse and keyboard interfaces, but Apple patented it and the only companies that licensed it were those making Mac peripherals.
edit: i forgot, NeXT also used it.
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So is this a more classic case of Apple's usual tactic making their things needlessly different to move more product?
no it's a case of one set of ports being a decade or two older than the other
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Oh I first learned to type by typing "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs" over and over on a wireless keyboard.
Called a typewriter.
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Seems that way. Where are the serial and parallel ports?
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I just picked one up for $20. Missing the cable for the double disk drive though and it had a bad psu and I have no disks. Basically it's a money pit. But fun to mess with anyway.
I'd love to replace it but I'm not sure I could deal with CRT whine anymore.
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PS/2
No, not the PlayStation.....
Haha yeah I was hoping someone would make a PS/2 not PS2 joke!
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I'd love to replace it but I'm not sure I could deal with CRT whine anymore.
The video out is just an rca cable you can plug it into a more modern tv in the yellow video port. I'm using an lcd tv I have for older stuff.
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The video out is just an rca cable you can plug it into a more modern tv in the yellow video port. I'm using an lcd tv I have for older stuff.
Oh, shiny. That could do.
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It's a connector for an IBM 7000 series mainframe.
That’s so cool! Did you work on those back in the 60s?
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You had an A3000? Those are not cheap today. Hell, Amigas in general are expensive.
I think so, but I really can't remember exactly. I mostly remember playing shufflepuck cafe on it when I was young. The next computer we had was a Macintosh 7100. Before getting a gateway years later.
I'm pretty sure I still have some 3.5" floppies from them.
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if I remember correctly my first PC had the bigger DIN connector for the keyboard and a DSUB9 for the mouse. Guess I'm old
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I had a VIC-20, the predecessor to the C64...
Same here. I was so excited when we upgraded to a 128, and skipped the 64 entirely. That was some serious computing power.
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I got that reference. Fuck, I'm old.
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Look at you with your fancy ps/2 keyboard port. Where's my AT port and 9 pin serial mouse.
