DacianFalx
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1990s workstation computer dream setup!
Jun 6, 2022 3:55 PM
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unknownfact
You can hold 3 cats in there!
RexMundane
Alley Cat might be the first game I played on PC, IBM 8088 w/ EGA graphics, & a disc drive so noisy you'd swear it ran on diesel. Good shit.
ConnectToReality
Back when you could earn 6 figures configuring devices.
PedroBenecol
I see a tracker!
oldbaldjewishman
Lone gunmen
DAndrewFetters127001
Smells like $10,000
Skizzlesnap
Looking like the dude who set up Silk Road if it was done in the early 90’s.
MyOldUserNameMeantUndeadCocaineButNowItsThis
It would sooo warm and loud. Perfect
keystotheairlock
That's actually impressive as fuck.
BrainTaffy
Seriously! I lsaid WHOOOOAAAH out loud before I could stop myself.
Jinxies
You could play so much Space Quest on those
TosokTheRodentHunter
Love those keyboards
PizzaCat64
Game Boy?! Now that's just overkill!
Iwishbettywhitewaspresident
I can hear this.
DrKenAdams
I don't think that mouse goes with any of those computers.
skie
IBM Alley Cat on the middle screen was possibly the first PC game I ever played. Props++
JLsoft
Top center: RealSports Soccer for the Atari 2600!
SkamanSam
PixelSprite64
DacianFalx
What song is this?
PixelSprite64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qFQBcsUOWc
ChristopherHallett
God damn, a Gravis Ultrasound? I used to read about those back when I only had a PCSPEAKER in my 486...
ChristopherHallett
3 monitors and 4 keyboards? Bullshit.
Buffoonery
Had something similar in the 90's. I always preferred the corner desk L-shape layout myself. No KVM!
Macetheace50
It's missing the pile of empty Coke-a-Cola cans, empty food wraps and take-out.
AdrianDunne
A tower of empty pizza boxes.
IntrospectiveZombie
Stan63
So much slowly yellowing beige ?
BantersaurousRex
All that offgassing bromine. Ah. Memories!
MosquitoHawker
*greige
nooneneedsmorethan16kofram
Well, then there’s my desk… /a/3nx8N2h
TheDizzyToast
bet you know where everything is though lmao
nooneneedsmorethan16kofram
Absolutely, currently I have some million parts here divided in a few thousand different components. All organized in less than 9sqm
MarkHughes
I wish I had the time to work on my Amiga. I was my main computer until 2005. Loved coding on it.
nooneneedsmorethan16kofram
There’s lots of development including the PiStorm. Basically an 68k emu running on a raspberry Pi in the cpu socket. RTG,RAM,Network,Speed..
MrBewn
But can it run Crysis?
Quessir
An Amiga 500 and two 1541 drives but no C64 in sight.
cheeseboy83
The best thing in this picture is the Grey Brick Game Boy. I had one. Greatest gift I ever got as a child.
MarkHughes
You mean an Amiga 500 and a bunch of superfluous computer equipment.
Quessir
Yeah but I was focusing specifically on the Commodore hardware :) I was only going to mention the drives but then I noticed the A500.
CitizenClam
Fun fact, the Amiga was made by Commodore
Quessir
You don't say.
db22
Honestly, I don't know why anybody would need any more computing power than this.
Rayj420
Never obsolete
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
because we need websites that download 200 megabytes of assets. It's what the customers want, my boss tells me.
Hammertulski
Two words - future, and proof.
downrightmike
porn
Spoonland
https://imgur.com/6ae2XUM
downrightmike
TheDogEnd
But can it run Crysis?
jdb97212
User is 'one up' on loading time...'two up'.....
LegendaryGarf
A full 16mb of RAM!!!
BeanTootsAreBest
Woah there mister moneybags, a good 8mb is more than plenty
madrush
Don't y'all know 640K outta be enough for anybody!
RevRagnarok
I just had a LAN Party last Friday with the same folks we've been doing every 3-4 months since 1998 (minus COVID hiatus). We were (1/2)
RevRagnarok
noting how amazing it is that half just use laptops and the other half have 24" and 27" flat panels and no longer need to haul huge CRTs.
ChaopsPyramydBuylderCompany
Imagine the heat it all generated
AdrianDunne
A fraction of what would be generated if they were modern machines with modern GPUs. My first discrete GPU didn't even need a fan.
usualnamewasteken
The CRT monitors are the main power suckers here. Each is easily 200W-300W. Add in the power draw from the towers and you're looking at 1/2
usualnamewasteken
an oversized space heater
AdrianDunne
Don't get me wrong, it'll still be hot, but more efficient flat panels won't make up for how hot the machine itself will get.
DemmyDemon
That kinda looks like my room in the 90s, and I can tell you, the problem is not the heat. Heat is easily transported out, *noise* is not.
ChaopsPyramydBuylderCompany
Indeed
AlexisWalker
I dont see an issue here. Honestly i sleep way better in a noisy room with loud fans than in a dead silent room where i can hear the void...
HorseonaBike
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
ItsLike3AM
People today: "No, that fan is 0.1 dB too loud!" People then: "Heh, it’s thinking."
aIohasnackbar
Someone get this person a KVM switch ASAP.
Tengenstein
fuck that i need to see both screens and type to both at once.
dongfanglong2012
I only found out those existed over the winter. flippen amazing little things made my life so much easier
mrnine00
KVM'd are so damn expensive for no reason. I for one LOVE having at least two keyboards/mice at my desk.
orthopod
I'm more puzzled at the 4 keyboards and only 3 monitors....
Hammertulski
Fuck that, KVM switching only slows me down when I’m multiboxing EverQuest toons over my two phone lines on my Voodoo3 machines. Platfarmz!
Foire
3Dfx Voodoo3 3000...AGP...16 MB...my soul. Dude, can I get a SoW, or SoC? Maybe conjure me some food and water? Asheron's Call, later? :X
Hammertulski
SoW at EC tunnel, I can do rations but one at a time. My druid is over in WC ring if you need sro/wk. Got any gems?
Foire
Right clicked mod rod by mistake; corpse is near the banker in Kelethin, was banking while feigning death as my Iksar Monk. :C Plat okay?
Hammertulski
I trashed my Kelethin faction doing Dain raids but I got a buddy with a prenerf Forbidden Rites staff that can probably grab it.
KPDethridge
I found one, untouched in its original packaging at a second hand store recently-USB and those old PS2 connectors. Bought it naturally!
3nd3rwiggin
Soon as I can find one that can support two computers and four monitors.
Ac1dBurn72
I have one that does this as just the USB connection for the keyboard and mouse input. It's incredible.
3nd3rwiggin
Interested to learn more.
Ac1dBurn72
I sent you a DM! I REALLY enjoy it. The switch can lag about 10 seconds on occasion. But nothing terrible, and not for $30.
soerenblubb
I use 'mouse without borders' with the setup you named and I love it
3nd3rwiggin
My setup is a windows PC and a Linux PC both sharing the same four monitors so mousing over from one to the other won't work in this case. +
3nd3rwiggin
However at the moment I only need to use the Linux PC. Working on getting better at coding.
RowanUnderwood
KVM's were ridiculously expensive in the 90's
quietwalker
Naw. They were purely mechanical at that time, A/B switches. The expensive ones let you have a printer too, but generally less than $80
ChloeRed
Plus, good luck with a KVM that handles the amiga and it's mouse in that shot!
TheGreatAtomsk
eh, back then when you had ps2/din, com and vga, it was just a mechanical ~30pol/2pos switch and some resistors in a metal case - about 70$.
quietwalker
Exactly. The old A/B switch was like 40$, the fancy ones a bit more. Price depended on ps/2 vs AT & whether it supported a parallel port.
mikeatike
Keyboard not found press F1 to continue.
quietwalker
Yep, if you're gonna reboot, you need to make sure the switch was on the rebooting machine.
BeanTootsAreBest
They still are
cbale2000
I somehow convinced my work to drop like $4k on a pair of 16-port HDMI KVMs a few years back. Money well spend IMO.
DrNick
The good ones certainly are. Also having full-time visibility on everything is worth a lot in some professions.
Magjee
The cheaper USB ones are not too bad. We use one for a legacy machine for old client files. image is not so great, but functional.
BeanTootsAreBest
Multi-monitor KVMs don't have a cheap version that's reliable
mikeatike
For good reason. I had a shitty one in the early 2000s and holy fuck was it bad. Didn't send a fake signal to make computers think a
mikeatike
keyboard was attached, so you'd have to select it before starting each computer.
vcgetdown
Is it really fake at that point?
mikeatike
Well, yes but no.