>>21257761
Steve Jobs

>firewire
>USB 3.0
>AMD

>>21257761

That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die.

I'm running a BBS on my router.
Also implying usenet is dead.

You should check the definition of dead.
Steve Jobs is dead.

>CRT monitors
>Any sort of BSD besides OSX
>A non-Debian based Linux distribution
>Compiling from source
>Windows Phone 7

>>21257789
BBS, the old fashioned BBSs are still exists?

Also Usenet is still useful?

>>21257814
Yes to both. There are glorious shitstorms and a nice people to talk with on usenet still. And I just logged out from Eagle's Dare, the BBS.
"Not as popular as they used to be" would be a proper way to describe their state.

>>21257852
That's simply wow.

Could you recommend me software to use with these services?

>>21257852
>"Not as popular as they used to be" would be a proper way to describe their state.
Aka dead.

>>21257874
SeaMonkey has a nice usenet client, so does Thundarbird. For BBSing, I would recommend SyncTerm, but any ANSI-compatible terminal/telnet client will work.

>>21257880
Less people using it is not the same thing as no people using it (which would make it dead).

>>21257957
Thank you.

Linux is dead.

this thread is dead

>>21258306
ur moms ded!!!!!

>>21258316
ur dad is dead

sage

noko

>USENET
>Dead

hahaha tel me another way I can download the carlos trilogy in 1080p at 32gb while maxing out my 50/25 connection. Fuck torrents fuck seeding fucking combining a bajillion rar files from direct downloads

>>21260988
>still doesn't know what the usenet was about

I tried finding a forum to join, so I can make some friends online.

Gaia online was the only active one.
So now I'm a cute 15 year old girl.

>>21260988
>right click
>extract here
>OH THE HUMANITY!!!!

>>21261007
This.

Also BBS.

Who the hell uses telnet?
And why?

>Albino Black Sheep
>Windows 95
>Windows XP
>Internet Explorer

>>21261111
For BBSes. SSH wasn't cool yet.

BBS is deader than dead, it is pointless and good for nothing.

WHY IS THIS THREAD STILL ALIVE
DIE ALREADY
DIE DIE DIE

>>21261168
NOU!

>Those little red nubs that you would find in the middle of old laptops.
>The Simpsons

BBSes evolved into Web BBSes like 2channel which evolved into Futaba Channel which evolved into 4chan.

You're on a BBS right now, and I don't care what BluX says.

>>21257777

Trolololool

>>21261178
The clitnipple pointing dick is still on ThinkPads. Thank god.

>>21261194
uhuhuhhuhuhuhuh

clitnipple

>>21261141
:(

>the use of World Wide Web as a term for the internet.
>Internet Shopping Network

>>21261243
>>the use of World Wide Web as a term for the internet.
Nobody ever did that. They're two different things.

>>21261141
I lol'd. Hard.

>Linux
>Windows

Basically MAC OS will be the dominant operation system in the next 10 years.

Also Apple is developing the new series of power pc CPUs.

I can say that the PC will be dead in 10 years flat.
Intel, AMD all of them will be history.

>imageboards

>BonziBUDDY

>>21261286
Textboards are the future.

>>21261277
Keep dreaming, Macfag. If you spend too much time typing your propaganda bullshit you're gonna miss the Starbucks barista yelling out your name.

>>21261289
Quite a few have sprang up in the past couple of years. Maybe they are. EVERYONE COME TO 4-CH WE NEED MORE REGULARS.

>>21261288
He lives on in our hearts ;_;

>MySpace
>RealPlayer
>McAfee and Norton Internet Security
>AOL

>>21261326
>>McAfee and Norton Internet Security
I wish it was true.

QuantumLink
BBSes
Analog modems tied to plain old telephone lines.
CompuServe.

Yeah, I sad.

>>21261277
>because everyone would want to become failing scriptwriters living in lofty apartments in downtown seattle


also,
>Adobe Flash

Windows
Mac OS X
Linux Desktops
and all other old and busted Xerox-Parc-alikes.

The new hotness is iOS and the ripoff Android. So so hot.

No one writes programs for the traditional OSes anymore. It's all maintenance and upgrades at this point.

>Paying for Adobe Photoshop

>>21261305
>miss the Starbucks barista yelling out your name

>You're going to yell out the wrong name while working as a barista at starbucks
ftfy

>4chan

>Netscape Navigator

>Microsoft BOB

>>21261339
>QuantumLink
Google that stuff...

I am impressed.

itt: we state the obvious and some of us try to be clever but completely fail at it

I'm pretty sure that "Jane", a word processor for the Commodore 128 is dead. Pretty much dead. No one is writing new printer drivers for it anymore.

>>21257783
As a kid I felt so proud of myself when I "hacked" these.

>>21261422
Habbo Hotel or whatever it's called had nothing on the ultra-cool Avatars in Q-Link.
Also it was a secret club only for Commodore 64 users.
Yeah, totally cool.

Websites are dead. Everyone wants an App instead.

Microsoft Windows.

Seriously. People who use Windows are going to smart devices anyway, and those left using desktops are either richfags using Mac or common sense computer experts using GNU/Linux.

>>21261454
lol wut?

>Pressplay
>MusicNet
>Napster

Windows isn't dead but it isn't interesting anymore either.

It used to be the best GUI out there.
Now it's just dated.

>>21261461
>Implying useful CAD software is compatible with anything but windows.

>>21261471
aren't you using the Anonyma applet?
>plebian.jpg

>>21261450
Radical.

But the entire concept is rather amazing for the mid 80s.

That feel when I have missed the heroic age of the internet.

The Usenet, the BBSes etc.


>>21261481

/mu/?

>>21261481
Does that really work? There are only three reviews, and one guy says that it no longer works for 4chan.

Screenshot if you're on it now SVP.

>>21261478
>CAD
>useful
>2011
AHAHAnope.

>>21261531

>>21261531
0/10, no way you're this dense.

>>21261517
I see you

>softRAM

>>21261450
>Avatars in Q-Link.
It was called Habitat and it was basically the first MMO. It was also pay-per-minute. The guy who co-developed it has written some fascinating stuff about Habitate. Go read http://www.fudco.com/chip/lessons.html

>Something Awful Forums
>Web Comics
>Napster
>Bonzi Buddy
>Trapper Keepers
>Worlds (Game)

Usenet isn't dead. Maybe for warez but not for media.

>>21261545
>>21261549
Well fine, if you autists really need cad, I see tons available for OSX and GNU/Linux, so where is your argument now?

>>21261560
Awesome. Three Qs:
1. What's SoftRAM?
2. Is that the Anonyma applet?
3. Does it surf all boards on 4chan or are the new/rehashed ones broken, like /r9k/ or /int/?

>Steve Jobs
>iOS

>>21261578
USENET is dead for conversation but digital files seem to work just fine.

>>21261571
Fuck yeah history.

>>21261590

Computer Assisted Design = CAD

That is a concept bro. I though you said that computer assisted design is dead.

>>21261608
Autistic idiot. No way are you this stupid.

The "Sexy Losers" webcomic has been dead for years, much to my disappointment. Here was the origin of fap fap fap as a euphemism for something else.

>>21261590
I said useful, much of the software industry uses is Windows only.

>>21261624
Deal With It Sir.

>>21261608
CAD's alive. Just look at crazy crap like Solid Edge or EPLAN.

But DTP, aka Desktop Publishing, from the 1980s? Deader than dead. It's just gone. Do a google search for DTP software. It don't exist no more.

>>21261594
1. Faggot program that was said to double your ram, destroyed thousands of computers in the 90's
2. Yes
3. All 4chan boards (from /a/ to /x/), plus 7chan and 420chan. You have to add boards though, but it is easy as getting a virus from norton.

>>21261670
>crazy crap like Solid Edge
Emphasis on crap

>>21261647
Yeah, right, people actually want to use a buggy, shitty, crash every five minute, insecure pile of shit OS for real work.

All lies.

>>21261670
I said that.
I was replying to an fellow anon who said that it wasn't alive.

>>21261690
>implying that you are not a troll
>2011

>>21261690
>Apple Shill Detected

>>21261686
Thanks, fondleslab-bro. I'll pay the buck and give it a spin.

>the original meaning of this thread

moar dead shit!

>>21261689
Not a fan of SE? What do you use for 3D then?
You do know that Solid Edge is completely historyless, loads pretty much anything non-native you can throw at it, exports really nicely, and generally is pretty fast and friendly -- so long as you are sitting on a fat pipe near the CAD server.

>>21261715
Not a troll. Windows sucks and anyone with any intelligence knows it.
>>21261720
OSX is at least a slight improvement over Windows even though it is locked down Apple controlled garbage.

The best option is to run GNU/Linux and be truly free and in control of your computing lives.

>>21261571
Thanks. I'll give it a read.

>>21261802
>Linux

Oh_boy_here_we_go.bat

>implying that everybody has the ability to customize his or her OS.

I say if you can program you could turn it into a beast, but if you can't you only have a crappy windows like stuff without software.

>>21261784
Solidworks is much nicer to use and plays nicely with ANSYS. The part libraries in SW save you a tonne of time too.

That being said, I don't hate older SE I just really hate the synchronous technology they added.

>Gopher
>ddial
>windows direct cable connection

>>21261837
I still use V20 at work, so yeah, I have no clue how the SE ST versions work. I hear they're very different.

>>21261461
>never worked for a corporation

>>21261802
>locked down
Stop that.

>>21261637
>"Sexy Losers"
Yes! I loved it.

>>21261872
When it was WWW vs Gopher, I bet on the wrong one. So much my Mad Gopher Maintainer skills got me in the long run. Or any of my VAX VMS skills either, for that case.

POST;1

>God
>The Grateful Dead
>freedom
>cheap oil
>cyberpunk
>Atari

>>21261951
>gobher

Could you tell more?

>>21261938
I'm flipping through it now, but after years of /b/ (when /b/ really was horrible, not merely tits and dicks like it is now), it lacks the same punch. How about you?

>>21261979
Get your mind out of the gutter, sonny.

Gopher is alive and well.

>>21262002
Gimme a site! I'll see if Opera supports gopher:// URLs.

>>21261980
For me it was /b/ before /b/, so I still rather enjoy it.

A challenger appears.

>>21262022
BluX runs one:
gopher://gopher.su

Just follow the links from there. Floodgap is a must.

>>21262053
What?

Beta Max

>>21262053
CueCat may have died, but the stupidity lives on.
Pic related -- it's the spiritual successor to the Que, ahem, CueCat.

>>21262053
it looks like a USB vibrator.

>>21262057
Opera has failed me.
Oh Opera, and here I was thinking you did everything Internet!

>>21262053
CueCat fffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

>I nostalgia'd

>>21262057
>gopher://gopher.su
Firefox can't open your link.

The almighty finger command.

It's *technically* not dead, but opening a terminal window in OS X and fingering yourself (yep, I'm logged in!) doesn't really have the same punch.

The fuck is a CueCat?

>>21262124
>>21262140
http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher

>>21262150
A barcode scanner using ps/2 ports.

>>21262140

Firefox hasn't supported gopher since 4.0. None of the major browsers do any more, without adding plugins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

>>21257783
What is this?

>>21262140
>almost 2012
>gopher
wtf

>>21262189
So as you can see, it was much more exciting than a USB vibrator.
Just because you were supposed to use CueCat to scan barcodes in magazines did not stop you from scanning barcodes on say ... ALL YOUR BOOKS and creating a massive index per barcode. Yeah, that was cool.

It had this weird little PS/2 thingy that got between your keyboard and the computer port, so that your computer was thinking your keyboard typed in the barcode and not the CueCat.

>>21262215
>2011
>Doesnt know Sierra

>>21262215
GOTYAY's copy protection

>>21262219
there's an app for barcode scanning
>American Game shows are dead

oh hai

>>21262200
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
They dropped because it is worse than http/www stuff?

>>21262124
Try either FireFox with OverbiteFF extension or good, old Lynx. Mosaic and Netscape work, too, if you have them around.

Achewood.

>>21262256
They dropped it because no one uses it.

>>21262240
No whammies! No whammies!

The one gameshow I watched in France that I did not understand at all were fifty hot girls each standing behind a little box. It looked like the contestant got to open the boxes at random and decide to keep whatever was in the box, or open up another one. I mean WTF? It makes pinball look like an intellectual giant.

>>21262256
Firefox's implementation was dropped for being insecure.

>>21262277

That sounds an awful lot like the American game show Treasure Hunt.

the ps2 is dead

>American game shows
>dead

>>21262301
Zero skill and you open boxes until you like your prize? It looked stupid, and I don't even speak French. I weep that it's been imported into the USA. Thank God I don't watch TV often.

>games with fat, delicious manuals.
>cell phones with dem extendable antennae. i know i'm not the only one who got a kick out of those things.
>lay flat desktop cases.
>electronic music aside from wubstep, watered down house, or autotuned shit.
>cyberpunk. mfw fucking Snow Crash will never happen.
>smartphones, even though I'm getting an SGS2

Protip: use lynx to surf gopher sites

Pro-Protip: It's a CLI web browser

>>21262332
>cell phones with dem extendable antennae. i know i'm not the only one who got a kick out of those things.
China still makes those.

>>21262295
I see.

It is cute to see that every old technology has some defenders. You can still see BBS-s running and things like that.

>>21262332

Dayum shame.

>>21262332
>games with fat, delicious manuals
Sigh. I miss Operating Systems and All Programs of All Types Everywhere that used to come with Big Fat Manuals.

I'd read them. They used to be written by engineers, and you'd learn a lot of tech with them.

I remember being slightly suspicious when I bought a printer and it didn't include 40 pages in the back explaining what escape codes you need to get it to do various tricks, like printing a line centered or double-height or auto-justified.

Usenet host: news.gwene.org

Groups:
gwene.info.tokyotosho.anime
gwene.info.tokyotosho.anime.non-english
gwene.info.tokyotosho.anime.raws
gwene.info.tokyotosho.anime.h
gwene.info.tokyotosho.drama
gwene.info.tokyotosho.manga
gwene.info.tokyotosho.manga.h
gwene.info.tokyotosho.music
gwene.info.tokyotosho.music.video
gwene.info.tokyotosho.h
gwene.info.tokyotosho.games.h
gwene.info.tokyotosho.batch
gwene.info.tokyotosho.other

Your computer will be down for several days and can't into a short-lived RSS feed? No problem.
Killfile all the One Piece and Bleach? KILLER APP.

Oh, yeah, to whoever said that finger servers are not there:
finger bluxsysop@gopher.su

BluX is like living (?) history book of Internet.

>>21262391
Shows how often I've fingered people on my Mac.

r@ygold

>>21262382
I can't connect to usenet.
I don't know my ISPs usenet gate or some stuff like that.

>>21262268
>cat macros

>>21262445
I do hope that.

>the scene

>people thinking 4chan are all Hackers and are dangerous.

now it's like people think this is the new facebook.

>>21262479
They're still releasing things... The only scene that seems to be dead is the music scene.

>>21262502S
Regardless, they're dead.

for some reason, i kinda miss downloading ~30mb shitrips of fansubbed anime over 56k. took three hours each but was somehow worth it. now, if it's anything less than 720p mkv dual audio bullshit, it makes me wanna shoot myself. was spoiled by high speed connection.

>>21262502
>does he mean scenesters?

>>21261258
I heard it back then. it was never a respected description though, just people incorrectly parroting words.

>>21262522
No... The guys who release TV shows and movies.
>>21262512
How are they dead if they're still releasing things that EVERYONE downloads?

>>21262502
New mods and demos are released all the time, demo compos for 2011 finished not too long ago.

>underground anime and manga scene

this fucking sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz3rMbV-2DQ

>economy

>>21262518
same here. my dbz videos are 32-50 something rmvb's.

yes, you heard that

mother
fucking
rmvb

Hotline is glorious and not dead yet.

>>21262567
my friend has those
lots of them

>>21262567
Resolution?

>>21262518
oh, and landline phones. i haven't used one for more than a minute in like six years.

>>21262534
>No... The guys who release TV shows and movies.
which is basically a video transferring task and the same for every other movie. there are "siteowners" that refuse submissions like that because they require no "real skill".

I'm not for or against your use of scene, just in the past it was all the same group of people, that knew a lot about computers/programming, made demonstrations that max out the hardware, also release copyrighted work and patches.
The people that know Assembly and are gods in computer architecture are the ones that are dead.

A hardware or software product that came with a manual. Especially an Apple product.

p2p
DC
Kazaa

>>21262589
>hotmail

>>21262689
Yeah today we don't have manuals...

Why?

>>21262719
nobody would read them anyway?

>>21262689
>>21262689
This manual pictured here for GEOS taught me what a GUI (Graphical User Interface) was, how you interacted with it, and what elements it had.

I was used to turning on my Commodore 64 and getting a READY. prompt with a flashing text-only cursor underneath it until then. That GEOS manual blew my mind. I read it cover to cover, then never looked at it again. It served me well for 20 years so far.

>>21262606
>>21262615
its was rmvb and 32mb. the res was... i think the worst encoded was 320xsomething. their heads consisted of a handful of pixels and the fights... at least my imagination was in working order.

but hey, i watched every god damn episode, all 200+ of them that way. I spent hours, days, weeks, scouring the net for ddl episodes (p2p was or less non-existant, at least for me and our isdn connection wasnt fast enough anyway).

>>21262553
>>dial-up modems
>>dead

You severely underestimate how many old people and rural people there are out there. AOL still has millions of subscribers.

>>21262756
daaaamn. I still have Dragonball rmvbs. remember using /something/ to play them on my treo 650 on the bus. shit was beyond hardcore.

>>21262748
I would.

>windows phone 7
>symbian
>nokia
>silverlight
>google+

I could come up with more

>>21262784
>nokia

Nope.avi

>>21262553
WHAT. Are you telling me Windows 7 stole the boot sequence from the PS2?

>>21262625
>>oh, and landline phones. i haven't used one for more than a minute in like six years.

Hipster detected.

This is a thread about dead technology, not "technology I'm too cool to touch any more".

>>21262798
>Nokia
>sony Ericcson
>Bing Search
>Shovelware
>that shit you find on new computers.

>fax

>>21262813
where the fuck did you make that comparason lol.

Very dead things that I have used:
- 33.3 rpm "long play" records
- 45 rpm singles
- reel-to-reel tapes
- 8-tracks
- cassette tapes
- CDs

Now everything is an MP3 ripped at 192 kbps VBR. Haters gonna hate, I know, but I don't hear a difference beyond that.

>>21262629
But demoscene is still active, just check some 4K pieces from this year!
We even had thread about demos yesterday.

>>21262855
>snail mail

>>21262863
> HHHHHHIIIIIIPPPPP- oh wait i saw the last lines.

>>21262859
Both the YT link shows colored blobs racing around the screen during the PS2 boot -- just like the Windows 7 boot does once before the logo looms large on the screen.

Is nothing Microsoft does an original idea? Sigh.

arch linux

>>21262889
i dont even give a fuck.

Windows 7 is still cool.

though:
>PlayStation I, II
>Xbox Live
>Gamecube

>>21262873
I still get lots of Snail Mail Spam.

And if you live in a crappy country like me, then fax is still alive.

>>21262873
> junk mail is dead
O RLY?

Dear %first_name%,
Did you know that three out of four smurfs prefer being mashed into blueberry jam? Find out more with Consumer Rapports. For just [...]

>popups

>emailing for young people

Seriously, since social sites and IMs.

>>21262915
I'm bummed, as the new animated boot was the only thing I liked in Win 7. The new shell makes me rage. Change for change's sake, not for improved functionality. Hipsters. Hipsters everywhere.

>>21262719

Well, in Apple's case it's mainly because Teh Steve was so anal about "it just works" that he felt anything more than a pamphlet telling you how to turn it on would be an indication that he had failed.

But for everyone else: They're just cheap. Printing manuals costs money, and now that everyone has Adobe Reader and a printer, they just put a PDF file on the CD and say "Fuck you, pal."

Which is why David Pogue has gotten rich off these. $35 for something that, as the cover itself says, "should have been in the box."

If you think firewire is dead, it is not, semi professional and professional cameras still use it a lot, maybe usb3 will kill it tough.

Only bacause you think cinema students shit is retarded and dont know about the stuff they use, it does not makes it dead, it just become a specialist article, son PCs will be one to.

>>21262961
people would rather stick to win7 than spend time trying to buy or illegally download vista or XP without getting viruses.

I actually own this. And used it.

And it's nowhere NEAR the oldest Compu$erve manual I have.

Firewire ain't dead. My ten HDs and five interfaces say otherwise. Great stuff. USB just never measured up.

It made me sad when newer iPods came out USB only, instead of Firewire like they were originally.

>>21262963
I agree, paperwork is expensive.

If I were selling a complicated thing like an OS I would try to give as much advice to the user as I can. But I'll never make software and things like that.

I own this. Half the pages in it are literally handwritten.

I are old.

The alternative to paper manuals is AWESOME help.

Microsoft Office 97 was probably the pinnacle of online help. It was written by technical writers, actually assembled into a cohesive whole, indexed, table of content'd, and cross-linked until the cows came home.

Modern Office help? Useless. Articles are written individually. They don't relate to one another. And good luck finding one even vaguely on the topic you are interested on.

"Just google your damn question for results" is what Microsoft should be saying.

>getting rich from the web

Sorry Google and Facebook etc. stole all of the space.
You'll never survive near the giants.

>imageboards as a serious format

Hur dur memefags everywhere.

>>21263059
>"Just google your damn question for results" is what Microsoft should be saying.

Office is rather expensive for this kind of attitude.

>>21263040

Mother of God.
You have the computer for it?

>commodore

Why, I say why...
If I had money I'll try to resurrect the company for fun and profit.

>compilers with every computers

Once upon a time you had to make your shit for yourself, there were magazines telling you how to make your own games and tools.

>Phonebooks
>CD's
>Cash

I paid for CP/M. I got something like three thick manuals and about 5 5.25" floppy disks.

When I think of the hundreds I paid for it on my little 8-bit microcomputer, oh wow, did I ever get ripped off compared to today.

>zip drives
>floppy disks
>cassettes for computing

>>21263263
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE

>the distinction between home computers and workstations

>>21263195
That computer still works today and works as intended. It probably can take care of Internet connectivity and home office tasks, too. And in another 10 years, it will still work, long after your current computer turns into ashes.
You weren't ripped off back then, rather, you are getting ripped off today.

>>21263279
I remember my trusty C64, I was like 6 years old.

Cubicle Farms

>>21263297
>you are getting ripped off today
Can you explain.

Also.
>BluX

You are my favorite /g/ trip so far.

>>21263310
That's no cubicaI farm! That's an open-concept office, and a spiffy one with nice furniture, from what l can teIl.

>>21257761
>dead things

pasteurized milk

>>21263083
>>Mother of God.
You have the computer for it?

Yup! The power supply is blown, but otherwise it still works. Someday I'll get around to fixing it, or ambushing Woz at some public event and asking him to do it. ;)

>>21263355
Oh, bad news! Woz was a digital wiz but all his analog power supplies sucked. That's why you're having problems with it.

I'm sure there are some super-spiffy tiny SMPS plastic brick type PSes that you can get for your Apple ][, if you look around.

>>21263355
Old mac are best macs.

I really wish that they could resurrect the old spirit.

>>21262332

There's a lot of new electronic music that isn't shit.

Look up Com Truise.

>>21263135

You're too late, it's already happened.

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx

The 2011 Commodore 64. Intel i7 3.3 GHz processor. Yet still runs old C64 stuff.

>>21263423
Is that the same Estonian musician who called himself ... argh, another reverse name earlier this summer?

>personal webpages
>web rings

>>21263437
>And there goes my childhood dream
it was fun while it lasted

>>21257777
What's wrong with USB 3.0?

>>21263333
Cubicle farms are getting replaced by open-concept offices.

I have a buttload of these too.

You want to talk about hell on earth, waiting 3-5 minutes for a 32K program to load ... *if* there wasn't any acoustic noise in the cord during the transfer, which would render the entire program a useless mess of ASCII and force you to rewind the tape and start all over.

Also, Lemonade kicked ass.

>>21262002
Last time I checked it, it was completely taken over by Cash for Clunkers ads.

>>21263489
I played the snot out of the Lemonade stand game too.

>>21263469

>>21263437

>>Commodore 64
>>$1499

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA no.

I don't care if it performs blowjobs and makes breakfast too.

>>21263510

10/10

Actually I find capitalist trolling a good genre.

>>21263316
20 years ago, you were expected to keep your computer for years with minor or no upgrades and HW and SW manufacturers accounted for it and optimised everything. HW and SW for C64 made today will still run on the very same 1988 configuration you had. Today, you will be gently (or not) pushed into upgrading, since nobody expects or wants users to keep their computer for 10 years.

>>21263437
There are already people complaining that CUSA takes too long to ship units (or doesn't ship them at all), doesn't reply to mails, overcharges on shipping... they make Hyprion look good!

>>21263477
pic related, it's my office. I hate it, Always feel like someone's looking at you so it becomes like a game to try and alternate between work and slacking off.

>>21263539
You have a good point.

It's like MS dropping the support of old Windows and Offices, also hardware.

>>21263547
I find that they give you the same level of privacy as a cube farm. At least now your coworkers know you can hear them when they're on the phone.

>>21263489

I remember that we paid so fucking much for the Apple II Plus that my parents couldn't afford the equally-outrageously priced floppy drive. It took another two years before we were finally able to get one of these off-brand drives.

>>21263547
I like both cubicle farms and open-concepts

>farms are more for the introverted and independant workplaces (like IT consultant offices)

>open-concepts are for more the extroverted and group oriented offices like google or web startups.

>>21263589
That's the way current consoles work.
And they are doing pretty well. They are even holding down PC games, because nowadays most titles are ported.

>>21262629
I'm not talking about the demo scene.

>>21263612
Ha. I bought my first 486 second-hand without a hard disk. It had 16MB of RAM and I used to play Doom from a ramdisk.

>>21263608
> At least now your coworkers know you can hear them when they're on the phone.

That doesn't mean they won't still talk on the phone in the room. It also leads to more open discussion breaking out, which some mightsay is a good thing, but I find it's distracting, breaks concentration when someone asks you something, and it it's an interesting topic you feel compelled to join in, again breaking concentration.

>>21263612
I love old computer hobbiest magazines. The ads rocked.
None of the stupid lifestyle type ads you get today.

>>21263620
I agree.

PC gaming is a little bit weak nowadays.

>>21263619
I'm in a startup, but I would like to have a cubicle. A daily meeting to catch up with everyone else, then emails for anything else.

I don't think I'm cut out for a startup though. I want security and regularity, not this bullshit seeking investment and stress.

I'm a Class A introvert and I prefer open concept, so long as my back is against a wall.

>>21263663
I hate lifestyle ads, I hate them.

Seriously, they made a pc with a C64 skin?

I'm not smart or clever but I find the concept dumb.
Commodore was a big name, it's not ruined by this attempt but I'm sad to see that they are not doing it right.

I remember computer tradeshows where the people at the booths were the programmers, not slimy sales types.
Not that I have anything against sales types, except for the fact they know nothing and are useless.

>>21263663
>>I love old computer hobbiest magazines. The ads rocked.
None of the stupid lifestyle type ads you get today.

Even consumer magazine ads were a lot better back then.

>>21263745

It's real, without question.

>>21263745
It's not so bad, emulation of old computers often have problems in games because the keyboard layout doesn't match.
It is a product for people who are nostalgic of the old computer. I think I saw reproductions of the cases of old TV sets with modern electronics inside them.

Salesmen used to learn about FAB:
F - Feature
A - Advantage [of said feature]
B - Benefit [of using said feature]

Dumb salesmen pitched the feature. Smarter ones the advantage. The smartest went right for the benefit. Tell the would-be customer the benefit of the product.

Now all you need is some artfully shaky video and some sell-out indie band to make an ad.

It would be better to get that Commodore 64 joystick with the TV out and the built-in games which happens to be a fully-compatible C64 which you can connect 1541 drives to and everything.

Holy smokes. All the old timers are on daytime /g/. It must be Thanksgiving!

>>21263795
It could have been a great tool in the hands of a big PC to fight the in "premium" segment against Apple.

Personally I would tried to make a PC manufacturer and produce really useful and nice stuff.

>>21263814

I agree!


>>21263836

I'm am amazed that I can hear about the old stuff.

>>21263836
Nothing deters you from modding the case.

>>21263815
This.

>>21263836
Warning: I do not own this product. I found it while looking for a floppy drive interface in a PCI card, which I didn't find.
webstore.kryoflux.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=29

>>21263836
It's Friday, when neckbeards from all corners of Earth crawl together.
There's programmable on-chip C64 with tons of improvements, AmigaKit sells them.

>>21262815

>Implying landline phones aren't a waste of money unless you live in an area with a shit signal.

>>21263898
At first, I was confused why you posted a little microcontroller fun board when then I read:
"Save as raw stream, or export to common sector formats supporting: Acorn Electron, Apple, Amstrad CPC, Archimedes, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, BBC, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, MSX, IBM PC, PC-8801, Sam Coupe, Spectrum, E-MU Emulator II and many, many others."

Ooooh!

>making a tech company

Forget it, only the behemoths can survive now.

Bill Gates and co. lived in the golden age.

>>21263925
Welp, landlines also carry DSL signals. Here I use a 1.5mbit cell phone connection, I wish there was anything faster available.

>>21263904
Thanks, Fellow Friday Neckbeard. I'll check this AmigaKit thing out.

The thread started as shit, and turned into a nice thing.

>>21263925
>>Implying landline phones aren't a waste of money unless you live in an area with a shit signal.

>infinitely better audio quality
>actually works in an emergency (East Coast cell service fell apart during that pathetic 3.4 "earthquake" earlier this year, and all people were doing in was making calls to GOSSIP)
>unlimited service means unlimited
>99.999% uptime
>power outages have no effect
>you can actually get a "signal" inside your house

Landlines are superior technology for everything except portability.

>>21263955
You're joking. There are more startups now than ever. It's the opportune time for it.

Go read Hacker News and Y Combinator's Startup Library.
Related:
http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html

>>21264099
>There are more startups now than ever. It's the opportune time for it.

Damn I don't have any sort of capital now.

But thanks for the books.

>>21264133
That's what companies like Y Combinator are for.
http://ycombinator.com/about.html
From what I've read, they don't dick you over. Though most of what I've read comes from their own site. I'm sure there are plenty of other startup investors out there too (didn't moot join one?)

>>21264076
And when you are totally out of power they are a nice 12V supply.

>>21264197
CoolFace.jpg

Free electricity .

>>21264166
I see.

Sadly I lack mental capital. No company can me clever or smart.

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