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Retelling the stories from early tech history... the glory of DOS, Windows 3.11/95 and the beauty of IRQs and Abort Retry Fail...

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Stop me from buying this... (tell me why I shouldn't)
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Oddware? 5.25" bay photo scanner :-)
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In 1987, Casio released the TM-100, a digital watch with FM broadcast ability
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Is this really too much to ask for??
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The most iconic CDROM in retro 😜
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Any love for late 90s CDROM style? 😂
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Please don't do this if you get the chance. There's so few good ones left :(
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I don't think I could stop myself from buying if these were for sale... especially if they were eInk with solar.
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Remember this game?
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Todays big find... 60lbs of RAM rescued from scrap.
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Windows XP announced 23 years ago today
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Who remembers TUCOWS?
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Just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you should...
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So now Microsoft is starting to force us to upgrade CPUs just to run a newer OS?! The nerve…
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Do you zip?
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This is my happy place 😂
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❤️❤️❤️
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If you were "cool" in the 80s, you had this...
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Remember to check your D:\ 😁
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Getting there with the "Lap-Top" 386
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P4 with ISA!
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So classic
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The legendary Compaq SystemPro
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Another nite at the test bench...
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I have a problem lol
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🤔 never tried DOS 4...
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Uh...oh...
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I don't think I'm this brave...
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Found this today in the back of an old (but still in biz) computer store
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Time to up my photography game!
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My life represented by software 😂
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I miss motherboard boxes like this...
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One of the most iconic motherboards ever made.
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"Digital Camera Port"
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Can't tell you how excited I am to have an OEM Pentium 60MHz!
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Happy to find this machine:
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Cleaned this guy up yesterday night:
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Don't see these everyday
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Brag pic 🤣
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Well, I'd buy that
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Sears store in 1992 ❤️
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Recently picked up this almost new IBM 20MB MFM :-)
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One of my finds at #VCFWest
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Anyone else have a little collection of under 1gb drives like this? Hehe
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Hard to believe some Socket 7 engineer loves ISA more than I do....
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Latest find... sealed too
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I'm kinda jealous of this setup
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Can't underestimate the power of a single PC speaker...
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One of these doesn't belong 🤣
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20 years ago this was rad to see.
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VLB, EISA, pentium socket... 486 with plenty of 30pin slots!
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Posted these on Archive dot org tonite... EISA config files and all... man that makes me feel old.
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You can’t be a minimalist AND love old comput…. Uh.. dang!
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I mean... it's unique... but no!
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This P3 has onboard SCSI ❤️
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Micron GoBook 233
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Got this 1960's Oscilloscope working today!
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Don't like thermal throttling? 😂
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Don’t see too many of these anymore… know what it is? If you do… tag a tech friend and see if they do! Hehe
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Brought this to the Retro meetup last nite... Sony Vaio w/ K6-3 550 :-)
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What's better than an athlon? Two!
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Remember when GPU fans looked rad?
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Speed... so much horsepower 🤣
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Hmm... Doctor Falken has his account banned 50 years ago, as of yesterday.
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A pentium board... with 30pin SIMMs?!
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Don't see CDROMs like this anymore
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As seen in the front of a motherboard manual, would you rock these on your case?
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Todays find:
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Picked up the same machine I had when I was 14! Zenith Z-150! (Yep, needs a cleaning)
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Late 80s socketed 286
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So much RAM 😮
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Worthy of restoration?
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Remember when laptops didn't always have built in mice?
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I wrote a thing: computer graphic card history. (Hard to find websites are listed)
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Nobody likes to talk about this it seems 😂
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Recent repair: 8088 clone :-)
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I feel this many years old
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And I've complained about loading windows from 27 diskettes
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Legendary to copyright law 😜
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5.25 floppy is odd... but, that case is huge!
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So beautiful
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