Has Anybody Else Ever Had The Feeling
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Oct 29, 2009 7:49 p.m. - Subject: Has Anybody Else Ever Had The Feeling |
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That they wanted to own something old, for the sake of Nostalgia? Like, I feel like heading up to Goodwill and forking over a couple bucks to get the bulky, beige, computer of 1998. Maybe snag a beige keyboard, beige corded mouse, and beige vaccum tube monitor.
Transferring over games like Sim City 2000, Need for Speed I, GTA I, Fallout 1, and stuff like that.
Why do I want to do this?
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Oct 29, 2009 7:57 p.m. - Subject: |
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there were some good things about windows 98, and i totally feel you man. old shit was cool. i miss all the neat shit you could do with old school compys. do it dude lol. never know if you’d need one of those things
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'The Albino Ethiopian'
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| Posted: Oct 29, 2009 8:01 p.m. - Subject: |
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Not only do I know the feeling, but I made a term for it.
"Technostalgia".
Here’s a picture from about a year and a half ago from a Goodwill run a friend and I had.
We went around the city getting people to free style, there was a dude at Gamestop rapping about his job at Chick-fil-A. Hilarious.
Also, if you ever go in Goodwill and it seems like a lot of stuff is missing, come back that night and dive the dumpster, you can find some awesome stuff in there.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Oct 29, 2009 8:02 p.m. - Subject: |
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Why would I need it though? I mean the computer I have now is shit, but would still rape a computer from ’98 in every way. The only purpose would really be to play an old game, and that’s pretty much it.
Oh well though. I need an excuse to go to the new Goodwill Warehouse anyway, this is good enough. I could probably get all of this for 15 or 20 bucks, which is win. As long as I can link it to the interbutts, and get utorrent it’s fine.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Oct 29, 2009 8:05 p.m. - Subject: |
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Or link the the internet and find some rapidshits.
Doesn’t really matter as long as I can connect to the internet, but I doubt I could really download Linkysis on it and connect to a wireless network.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Oct 29, 2009 8:07 p.m. - Subject: |
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I mean Linksis.
3xpostlol
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'of the Universe'
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| Posted: Oct 29, 2009 8:13 p.m. - Subject: |
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I miss my original Sony Pentium I computer. Chip’s challenge was a blast! :)
I believe that is what VMWARE is for.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Oct 29, 2009 8:14 p.m. - Subject: |
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and you could use it as a test compy. like for risky files or something.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Oct 29, 2009 9:02 p.m. - Subject: |
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I have fond memories of my Win98SE Packard.
Good times.
Do it.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Oct 29, 2009 9:09 p.m. - Subject: |
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Hahaha,
Good stuff right there.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Oct 29, 2009 10:39 p.m. - Subject: |
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Fuck, I’m still using my Windows 98 box, mostly because I’m such a cheapskate.
Before flash memory became so cheap it can practically be found in cereal boxes, people would buy old PCs, wipe the hard drive clean, and load it up with MP3s. Then the PC gets mounted in the trunk of a car and becomes an MP3 jukebox, somehow controlled by the driver and playing the audio through the vehicle’s sound system. That must have really sounded like shit.
I might repurpose my Windows 98 box (first edition, too!), with its Pentium II processor, to control stepper motors for a CNC milling machine. That would require me to purchase the stepper motors and build a milling machine, which I’m not anxious to do.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Oct 30, 2009 6:32 a.m. - Subject: |
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Milling machines rock. Windows 98 first edition does not. Upgrade to second.
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'The Devil'
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| Posted: Oct 30, 2009 6:46 a.m. - Subject: |
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Yes I do, its why I went out and got a shit load of old SNES and N64 games I didn’t had just because those systems are old chool.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Oct 30, 2009 1:11 p.m. - Subject: |
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I instead got stuff for my Halloween costume.
No computers anyway.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Oct 30, 2009 1:25 p.m. - Subject: |
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You should still look for that old computer though, could be useful.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Oct 30, 2009 4:58 p.m. - Subject: |
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Man, I would totally buy an old cheap computer just so I could see how far I could overclock it or overload it with viruses before it becomes a smoking peice of junk.
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Oct 30, 2009 5:13 p.m. - Subject: |
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I got rid of my Xbox to make room in my life for N64.
Fuckin’ love Yoshi’s story and Legend of Zelda.
Fuck fuckitty yeah.
I miss year 5, playing Zelda, then talking about it all day long at school, then being fucking psyched to get home and play it.
Then.. after hours and hours of school, FUCKING ZELDA TIME YEAH.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Oct 30, 2009 5:19 p.m. - Subject: |
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I used to do that too, except with Mario Kart, or Pokemon. Emulators are fine for now, though. The games are expensive as balls for them since almost 20 or so years has past, and all the good ones have been sieved out and made outrageously expensive, like their retail price 20 years ago. (I’m looking at you, Final Fantasy and Super Mario RPG.)
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| Posted: Oct 30, 2009 5:52 p.m. - Subject: |
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H-Dogg, you could recycle some old printers (for the steppers, carriage, belts, cogs, etc...) and make a mini CNC mill.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Oct 30, 2009 8:48 p.m. - Subject: |
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hdog, i remember you saying like...2, 3 year back that you still had dile up. did you upgrade that yet ?
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