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Why do vintage computers from the 70s look like somthing an alien race would use?
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https://i.imgur.com/uunFLpp.gif
because you didn’t take your meds again
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Another leftygoy
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https://i.imgur.com/HS2js8c.gif
I’m not the one with 4 chud browser tabs open
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God you’re scrotebrained.
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I said open more chudpol tabs chud
and don’t forget to update chudzilla already
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>spam LULZ with BLACKED
I dunno, seems kinda woke af-
https://i.4cdn.org/g/1633099703126.webm
>I dunno, seems kinda woke af
don’t forget to spam more made for bbc threads chud
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>that gif
literally me
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Because that was the trendy thing in the 70s.
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>price: 455 small penises
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kek
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Looks mad comfy
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comfy
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comfy
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70s design is totally woke af!
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Maybe for zoomers. For me, all the 70s design I encountered was a sign of neglect or decay or decline. People who gave a shit tended to preserve something much older or buy new. I hate the whole design language as a result.
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You can have it in any color you like, as long as its piss yellow or avocado green.
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looks like piss
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You mean well designed?
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>vintage computers
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that’s not a computer, it’s a terminal. in my pic: now THIS is a computer
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It look more like a retro-futuristic cash register
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Commodore made calculators before that, so it’s to be expected. And yes, everyone says that keyboard was absolutely terrible.
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That keyboard looks awful.
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It was. Oh God it was.
Later revisions removed the tape drive and had a full size keyboard.
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Terminals are computers, chud
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A lot of those early glass TTYs are pure TTL and not Turing-complete.
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>calculators aren’t computers because they’re not turing complete
>pure TTL can’t be computers
typical chud-
>Nothing is actually a computer because memory isn’t infinite like the turing machine tape
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Can a very early digital terminal, like OP’s, be feed a binary easily and run it locally?
Sure terminals that could, smart terminals, existed, but OP’s is not.-
this kills the chud
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‘ate the pet
stinking tape drives always sucked even brand new
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They’re barebone computers build with the single purpose of communicating with the mainframe through a serial connection.
The display connected to your PC is also technically a computer, but would you use it as a computer? I wouldn’t.
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SOVL
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>FF 4F
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>Lear Siegler ADM-3A
terminal to first machine i ever used – Cromemmco Z2-D
I remember the ker-chunk it used to make turning it on, fun times.
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wow. never seen this before. reading the wiki, seems like a very capable machine. interesting to see that the US airforce used them, but with a 68020 cpu instead of z80.
> The United States Air Force deployed 600 Cromemco Systems from 1985 to 1996 as Mission Support Systems for the F-15, F-16, and F-111 aircraft.[13][14] During this period Cromemco systems were used for the planning of every combat mission for these aircraft, including missions during the First Gulf War. These systems were woke af on the Cromemco Z-2 computer, but utilized the Motorola 68020 32-bit processor, and had a custom, removable hard drive to meet the Air Force need to be able to physically secure all flight plan information. Cromemco received a patent on this technology-
oh aye, they were very capable ‘serious business’ machines – the nature of s100 bus made them very flexible. even had a unix-like os later with cromix.
The school my father used to teach at had it for handling all the pupil records etc. – he was head of maths and into computers, so he was writing all the database software for them, would bring it home over holidays to work on them so I got to play around with it.
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>The school my father used to teach at had it for handling all the pupil records etc. – he was head of maths and into computers, so he was writing all the database software for them, would bring it home over holidays to work on them so I got to play around with it.
that’s excellent. I know I would have enjoyed playing around with this machine if I had access to it. What was CP/M like on it? I only ever used CP/M on Commodore’s 128 and it was hell slow.>It look more like a retro-futuristic cash register
it does indeed, anon. same keyboards too.-
>What was CP/M like on it? I only ever used CP/M on Commodore’s 128 and it was hell slow.
I remember it being just fine – tho it was ~40 years ago so take that with a pinch of salt lol – very similar to MSDOS, came with assembler/disassembler etc.
First home machine we had was a TR80 Model I/II – great stuff.
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trs80 was an interesting computer. i missed a lot of these machines back then. i only had access to commodore 64 and amiga. used apple macs and bbc micros at school and i thought the bbc was superior to the mac. i think that experience with macs was what really turned me off to ever getting into them until years later when they were all colour and didn’t run at a glacial pace.
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C128 CP/M seems to suffer from a combination of under-optimized firmware and bad system architecture that you wouldn’t see at all on Cromemcos or really any other proper CP/M system. There probably was no better option unless you were ready to jump straight up to minicomputers.
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I don’t know about Europe, but US computers had to be built like tanks because of FCC regulations. They eventually added rules for unintended transmitters.
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This were meant to be used by woman.
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Yeah, chad engineers dealt with punched cards and the mainframes, these were just terminals for the secretaries and other wagies.
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God I wish I were a secretary from the ’70s.
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Because boomers are an alien race.
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because alien races in sci fi in the 60s and 70s largely used technology reminiscent of the technology of the time and even when the technology updated the depictions of alien tech in sci fi did not
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Because they ARE alien technology, taken from the Roosevelt crash.
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this
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because they were influenced by star trek which also influenced your preconceptions of alien aesthetics.
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Bump
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that’s a classy terminal
ctrl in the correct spot and everything
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