I'm throwing away an oldass computer today, dropping it off at the recycling center at lunch hopefully, and a 15" CRT. It was Meg's old pentium 1 HP from college.

The way we will use them is as much what I was talking about as how they will work. I was referring to desktops with no wiring, in a much more compact package, much like the ASUS EeeBox thing. Make a desktop built much like a cell phone, and with standard wireless keyboard and mouse, as well as the future of wireless external storage, and the way the wireless devices synch flawlessly without the hassle of configuration and finding working drivers. Instant synch between cell phone and desktop allowing for easy, intuitive transfer of data, again without setting anything up. I guess you could call it ease of use. Or even do away with the desktop machine, have a cell phone powerful enough to simply work as the muscle for a home setup, monitor, speakers, keyboard and mouse, all wirelessly, all with instant connection with proximity of the cell device.

I understand what you are saying thought, about not much changing. In some ways it's very similar to back in the day, but at the same time, things are so very different in pure computing power, what we can do with it, and how we use it day to day. I can just remember feeling on top of the world in 95 playing Flight Simulator, the thought that I would be able to play games 10 times as big and graphically intensive on a portable device that fits in my pocket, only 15 years down the road would have blown my mind. Just as technology 15 years from now will probably blow my mind. At least in a giddy, kid at Christmas kind of way.

I used to have a ti-99.

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/ti-994a.jpg

I still have the monitor, original box and a huge box full of the games and programs...



unfortunately my mom threw away the ti-99 itself...I cried.


omg, im so sad now. seriously. im depressed. guys...sa.f.sdf.a,?FSA<F W?>FCv.?SA ?>SADAfdas

come on up here, brain. i'll turn that frown upside down.

http://www.underdogmillionaire.com/b...es-genious.jpg

Since we've gotten on the topic of old stuff:
My very first computer! Well my dad's technically... I just played ghostbusters on it. Whatevs.

Also, you Nostalgia, you Lose.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gaJeWVMGCb...mmodore-64.jpg

http://www.bestoldgames.net/img/ss/c...keen-6-ss1.gif

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do you have space invaders?

youtube does

this was probably my favorite. omg im crying on the inside....and out

wai tno this one.... OMSASMFFDSAFDSFAFf



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MUNCH MAN NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOI MISS YOUDSFFSAfd
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inowx...h?v=Inowxh3yBU

Embed fail by the brainz!

im too sad to post and/or cut & paste correctly.

Yo, this used to be my jam right here son. However, I can tell that this person did not have all the Amiga add-ons but whatevski. Amiga 500 ftw!

Now video games that I've spent more hours than I care to know playing:

http://www.g4g.it/phpnews/images/Com...er_95_free.jpg
http://www.wayoftherodent.com/wilbur...rTycoon003.jpg
http://www.gamershell.com/static/scr...55867_full.jpg
http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/5503/diablo11ns3.jpg
http://gamesareevil.com/wp-content/u...1diabloII1.jpg
http://www.cet.com/~maniac/nascar1.jpg
http://www.battleteam.net/tech/fis/d...spasser_ui.png
http://guide2games.org/wp-content/up...owindiii-4.jpg
Ahh... The height of the ricer days...
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Yeah, I played pokemon. So say something..
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http://www.ageofempires.co.nz/images...ry_Of_Rome.jpg

Perhaps add more later...

Roller coaster tycoon! where its at! I still play that sometimes

YES! I played this so much on my dads old computer.

http://www.g4g.it/phpnews/images/Com...er_95_free.jpg

Wow. Forgot how many hours I spent playing that game. My friend and I both picked up the "Gold Edition" and then would play head to head by dialing directly into each other's computer. Seemed so revolutionary to actually be playing a computer game against someone all the way on the other side of town.

Played lots of that, would always be so excited to get home from school and start building the perfect defensive base...only to have my buddy start nuking me.

Several times I was very close to hopping back in the car, driving my happy (upset?) ass across town and unleashing a mushroom cloud in his bedroom.

Yet, no mention of this over priced piece of shit acer, just on the next page....No bias here folks!

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Ignore elesjaun. He only knows how to bash Apple.

You all just played video games? No mention of Empire (deluxe), Command HQ or other strategy games? No wonder you all have such short attention spans.

i play starcraft2 'erday.

I meant on the old x86 machines. I played Empire on a C64.

What's that, Panzer General? Real life isn't divided into hexagonal tiles?

Descent used to push the limits of my parents' Acer.

Oh my god! The playset!!! What happened to those? I had the two above. Every one I had was the scene of countless battles.

Some of the other playsets I had:

http://www.toyarchive.com/PolicePrecinctBackerPic1a.jpg

http://www.grnrngr.com/toys/pictures/02290.jpg

http://dunmancalling.files.wordpress...04/techno1.jpg

and my three favs:

http://generalsjoes.com/images/revie...hicles/hq1.jpg

http://cosblog.cosmelentertainment.c.../firehouse.jpg

http://www.panelsonpages.com/wp-cont...nt-catalog.jpg

two or three of these were before my time so I got them from secondhand from the kids up the street

I hate to keep coming back to this, but you're still talking about things that already exist today.

Apple was probably the first one to market with a completely box-free, wire-free general purpose desktop computer:

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But they're not the only ones. Sony's entry into the market supports 3d and also functions as a regular television:

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Even the "budget" manufacturers are in the game today:

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No boxes, no wires. I mean, that's what you're talking about, right? They've got 'em at Best Buy.



I have no doubt that this is just around the corner. The only thing we're lacking at the moment is a sufficiently high-bandwidth wireless connection for the video. Bluetooth takes care of the rest.

This is child's play, literally. When was the last time you saw a videogame controller with a wire on it? My six year old niece has never lived in a world where you have to be physically tethered to a box with wires. (And she kicks everyone's ass at Wii Tennis.)


Of course, there are some practical minimum standards for how far down you can take things like the screen size and the user interface before it becomes unusable. It's quite likely that "computers" 10 years from now will have become segregated into even more distinct classes than they are now. Actually, it's started happening already. For casual use (social media, email, web browsing, and even gaming to some extent) I would posit that things like smartphones and tablets have already become the dominant expression for anyone under 20 years of age. They'll obviously continue to want a physical keyboard and a large display for things like writing term papers, but that's likely the extent of it.

On the other hand, you've got professionals who probably will never embrace this technology. If you're an office worker who creates spreadsheets all day, or an engineer who designs mechanical parts with AutoCAD / Solidworks, or a video editor who works with film and television, you're probably not going to want to deviate from the box-on-a-desk form factor. You don't really need portability, and there's really no substitute for mechanical buttons and a large display in terms of user ergonomics for prolonged operation. In 2040, the accounting department is still going to have something that looks a hell of a lot like a 1970's vintage PC sitting on its desks.




Same as I felt in '80 or '81 when I first played with an Atari 2600. Or in the late 80's when I first used an Amiga 500. Or in 1992 when Wolfenstein 3D (which was not even a 3d game in the sense of using polygons) came out.

But under the lid, there's nothing going on there which the hacker crowd at MIT wasn't doing back in the early 60's on their PDP. It's just faster, cheaper, smaller, and with more of it.





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I played adventure games on my 386. Gold Rush, Black Cauldren, Police Quest, Heros Quest, Quest for Glory, Space Quest. First computer games I owned.

Strategy wasnt ever my thing, strategy games were so boring to me, but I often played Civilzation which was sorta like Empire. I played a lot of war flying games like A-10 Tank Killer. Then wolfenstien and doom came out, kinda ruined games.

I think NA6C-Guy is just angling for Microsoft to build a computer store in his house to destroy of his preconceived notions of what's available in the new computer market.

Did I hear someone say...playsets? And no one brought up THIS???

In all honesty, Im tired of those commercials. Especially the one where they show the all-in-one to the white woman and shes all like "wheres the tower" and shit. Welcome to 1998. Enjoy your iMac clone.

i used to have some line of toys where they were like part machine part plant maybe? i rember having the "bad guy" one that had like a big circular saw wheel in the front.

that shit was badass.

i remember now!

slightly before my time but I do remember my friend's older brother having one

what a great commercial, gotta love the soundtrack

I dont even remember that one.

One of my favs that gets no love today:

oh so transformers?

lol no, Macross. Two different concepts. Well, unless you count what Transformers was taken from, in which case they did have drivers. But once you start digging it all gets so mixed up and messy. Oh, Microman.

can we talk about how awesome the megaman soundtrack was?





oh no, im crying again. so awesome. i need to reinstall my emulator.

Oh man. The original Mega Man games are such classics! Modern works of art. I miss my NES. I kick myself for selling it.

I've been thinking about this a lot. And maybe I'm just looking at this from a different perspective, but to me, things have been slowing down since the 90s.

If you're talking about exponential growth in terms of the number of computers in the world, then yeah, there's no question there. Even as a lifelong geek, I own way more "computers" today than I did even just ten years ago, although only one of them actually sits on a desk. And people who would never have bought a "computer" 15 or 20 years ago probably own several of them today without even realizing it.

But in terms of technological development? We're in the weeds right now.

From the late 1950s through the early 1970s, development was pretty boring. Transistors got faster, and computer manufacturers packed more and more of them into the box, but nothing fundamentally interesting took place in terms of the underlying technology.

Then 1974 happened.

The 8080 wasn't actually the first microprocessor. It wasn't even the second. But it was the first one that you could actually build a full-fledged computer out of. That was a paradigm-shifting event. Computers could suddenly be small and cheap! And thus, the PC as we know it today was born.

That was huge.

Between '74 and '77 there was a lot of progress in terms of user-interface. Things like keyboards and monitors became a de-facto standard, which was a big leap from the earliest UIs:

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/imsai8080-left.jpg

And that was huger than huge. It was fucking mind-blowing.

After that, things kind of slowed down for a while. From 1977 until well into the 1980s, not much happened. Memory grew slowly, processor speeds ticked up incrementally. Massive growth in terms of the number of PCs that existed, but since manufacturers could barely build the machines fast enough to meet demand, there wasn't much need to improve them dramatically.


When the Intel 80386 came out, that seemed to kick things into high gear. Suddenly, the Processor War was on, and it was more than just cranking up the frequency for a change. New techniques like memory management, prefetch, and even branch prediction started to be envisioned. And processors in general were starting to get cheap enough that they could be customized for specific applications within the computer. Bit blitters led to polygon shaders, and suddenly graphics got interesting. Rudimentary FM synthesis paved the way for wavetable-based audio, and suddenly computers sounded as good as they looked!

And then, somewhere just after the turn of the century, it all sort of froze.


Seems like these days the only real innovation is in figuring out how to do the same things we did 10 years ago but in a smaller form-factor and with lower power consumption. Nowadays, each successive generation of CPUs is actually slower than the last! And they're not doing anything radical in terms of architecture either- Intel figured out that it was far easier to just cut-and-paste the same design over and over and slap the label "multi core!" onto it, and the copycats followed suit.

Right now, I fear that Moore's Law is in danger of repeal.






On an unrelated note:

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Ha! I totally forgot about those! (I never owned one- I used scissors.)

Reno Air Races Crash
 

My father was there. He is in this picture between the pole and the left edge of the white tents.



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Be nice to the people you love.

no seat, no tailfin, no care.

Alabama justice system at work! I couldn't resist taking a pic, lmao! I asked him what he tried to steal, he said a game controller... :bowrofl:

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1316718188

A modern take on the Pillory! I love it.

http://www.sadlyno.com/wordpress/upl...ory_stocks.jpg

i also think this is the greatest thing ever. you have to wonder how many people would be more discouraged by public humiliation than whatever other things we currently do to them

fucking win!

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his most visited was probably a bunch of Buck Angel fan sites, and MeatSpin... :-)

I have three computers I have been wanting to throw away for quite a while. I slip a part of one in the trash can at my house every week - disappearing a little at a time. If I try to put the entire thing in there (instead of hiding it) the trash man throws it on my lawn.

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OFFICIALLY the worst team in baseball...


At least Drayton McClane is selling the team, and we've got the first round pick.

Me and Kim Komando (~1994)

http://www.lightweightmiata.com/misc/komando.jpg

http://www.komando.com/media/images/Komando_300x250.jpg

Holy hell yes!

I killed so many hours playing Global War, Trade Wars 2002, and LORD that it's almost embarrassing.

In college, we had a massive whiteboard stuck to one wall of the apartment where I actually attempted to map out an entire TradeWars universe. I failed. That may have been, in all seriousness, the best videogame ever created, full stop.

Was that screenshot from a WildCat BBS?


http://www.memphisbbs.net/images/cnetlogin.gif

No idea what that screenshot is from (just random pic I found on the net).

I started my business one day when I got tired of waiting for my turn in Trade Wars and BRE. I ran several using PCBoard, Telegard, and Major BBS. I wish I still had some screenshots. I do have an old ad for one of them:



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Both of you obviously failed to read the pricing.

The Acer is a complete computer, while the piece of shit apple does NOT include the $450.00 15" monitor. Yeah I bash crApple products, especially their computers. Name ONE thing an apple computer can do that a PC can't do that anyone gives a fuck about, yet look at the price difference for what is basically the same fucking thing.

How about that Toshiba notebook? Jesus.. I was GIVEN a pretty similar notebook about 1999.. 2300$? Fawk..



Fuck your faggggot ass drifting, this is how Iraqis do:


That's borderline absolute fucking insanity or maaaad skill... You choose.

Yeah, notebooks back then were totally ridiculous on price.

And something my Mac does that my Windows based machines dont do? Works every day the way I expect it to.

:bowrofl: Oh shit. At 6:30, the music in the in car view. All of their music sounds the same to me. I guess maybe that's good drift music. Sounds like what Apu would be listening to at the convenience store...

Not enough crashing...

Youtube Arab drifting crash and enjoy.

To be honest I had forgotten how fuggin expensive everything electronic was back then. My first dvd player I bought in 1997 and spent $550 dollars on it! :facepalm:

Works everyday the way you expect it? Neat. My Non-Mac desktop does the same thing.. Odd.

http://manychefsbroth.co.uk/wp-conte...1202232827.jpg


TBH I've never tried to drive like that in a FWD vehicle, but I've auto-x'd several.. That's some crazy ass shit!!

My Seedsbox in the Netherlands is AWESOME. Downloading the movie at 10.5MB/s.
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