Post number #559991, ID: 16fea1
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Its a good day for bargains today apparently! I just bought some crazy old computers from the 1900's yep, you heard me right! They're the kind that only have two digits of ram!!!
I also found some REALLY old wiztech! Its called an IBM5100!! Its heavy as hell and everything I thought I would die carrying it home-de arimasu!
Man I love techie stuff!! What about you fellow /Deck/lads found anything good lately??
Post number #560009, ID: 525c6d
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There was a really nice old game console on sale today, death! Only cost one coin, death!
Post number #560087, ID: f25de6
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Where did you even find something that ancient? -CN
Post number #560096, ID: b1dd41
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>>560087 I cannot speak for whom you are quoting, but I tend to find typewriters where I live. All of them have degraded in quality, but they're easily repairable.
Post number #560108, ID: 2cb18c
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I did find some weird chrome plated discs the other day. Supposedly people used to stick memory on them using tiny ass mining lasers, but that's hard to believe when you consider the kind of shit we run nowadays.
-LocoPoco
Post number #560111, ID: dbdd15
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>>560108 Wait... those things aren't coasters?
... Well, this is embarrassing.
-Roy
Post number #560112, ID: 98c1fc
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>>560108>>560111 You mean DvDs and CDs?
Dont they still use those? >IA
Post number #560119, ID: dbdd15
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>>560108 My gramps said that him and my 'ma used to have those sent to them in the mail all the time.
>>560111 Who the fuck told you those were coasters??
-SEGFAULT
Post number #560132, ID: e44d0a
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>>560112 No hehe, not anymore...just like floppy discs back in the day.
Who else remembers what a "floppy disc" is, except for CN? . . . and no, it's not actually floppy. -Reya
Post number #560134, ID: dd8d23
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>>560119 My roommate. Thank god we haven't had any houseguests yet. I'll have to ask her what other things she's having me misuse on a day to day basis...
-Roy
Post number #560136, ID: dd8d23
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>>560134 She sounds like a riot. You lucky chummer, you.
>>560132 Are you talking about those big plastic crackers?
-SEGFAULT
Post number #560142, ID: b1dd41
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>>560132 Floppy *disks*. They were spelled that way.
Source: am a collector.
Post number #560143, ID: 98c1fc
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>>560136 You dont know what a floppy disk is?
Think of them like those memory chips. Except the size of a tea platter. And were really bad at holding data >IA (Also little side question, whats with the same ID stuff?>>dd8d23 )
Post number #560145, ID: dd8d23
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>>560143 (same /u/ser, two different characters. when posting on non-setting threads, I prefer to have them post separately since it's not like they're always in the same place)
Post number #560157, ID: dd8d23
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>>560143 So... like a microSD, but... multiplied by 100? In physical size, at least.
-SEGFAULT
Post number #560158, ID: 98c1fc
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>>560157 Yep, size ×100 but data storage ÷100
They really weren't all that good. >IA
>>560145 (Ahhh organization i see. Ok thanks, sorry to bother, i jus got curious)
Post number #560171, ID: dd8d23
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>>560158 ... I think I have an old hoodie from college that has one of those on it, actually...
-SEGFAULT
(no worries! sorry for any confusion. earlier on I was making a point to switch my wifi on and off to change IDs, but that's a little too much effort lmao)
Post number #560188, ID: 58dc51
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>>560158 100? How small of an SD do you have? Floppies were at least 1000 times smaller in capacity than those ancient SDs.
Post number #560209, ID: dbdd15
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>>560190 Any of the "experts" or "collectors" here want to explain to this chuuni something he can easily find with a simple matrix search?
'Ggrks', omae.
-SEGFAULT
Post number #560220, ID: 33ba31
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I found a floppy disc the other day, thinking of scrapping it, anyone want it? -Impulse
Post number #560224, ID: d7fb20
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>>560087 In the flooded-De arimasu! I happened upon a huge cache filled with stuff, most of it was crumbled down though!!
Its a lucky find-ssu!
Also forget my name didnt I? -Kikushi Dancho
Post number #560231, ID: 0f073b
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>>560220 Dibs! >>560209 やれやれ, you rite. I'm good. -Reya
Post number #560341, ID: dbdd15
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>>560231 Heh, "やれ"/"レヤ"… Cute.
-SEGFAULT
Post number #560356, ID: e54a65
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>>560171 Whuh? Might i ask for elaboration?
>>560231 I cant not look at that without the first thing that comes to mind being jojos.
Goddammit >IA
Post number #560380, ID: 0f073b
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>>560341 Disagree? Wir kann auch Deutsch sprechen, aber ich wolle nicht. >>560356 You mean ブブブ? Not surprised, honest. >>560224 Sounds like a good time, if there's stuff worthy of the find. -Reya
Post number #560381, ID: 6f646e
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>>560380 The internet has ruined me. But also not really >IA
du kannst Deutsch?!? -GEMINI
Post number #560382, ID: ff311a
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>>560356 I, uh... used to dress like a real tool when I was in uni. Had some old clothes with weird patterns and stuff that I'd pick up from odd shops... apparently this look was real popular like, 60 years ago. I'll dig it out and see if I can take a pic.
>>560380 Sorry g/u/rl, only bilingual over here. Thought that was an intentional pun.
-SEGFAULT
Post number #560559, ID: ff311a
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>>560224 'Danchou'? Danchou of... >>>what, exactly?
-SEGFAULT
Post number #560713, ID: ba00f5
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>>560381 Ja. >>560382 Oh hehe, valid... -Reya
Post number #560721, ID: 43371d
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>>560382 Tell us! Tell us! Tell us! -GEMINI
Nothing better then embarrassing stories to pass time >IA
>>560713 • ̫ •) does that mean you are German? -GEMINI
Post number #560764, ID: 0d8f66
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>>560559 I am the Lumiel order's Danchou--De arimasu! We're but a small group dedicated to old tech, a so-called decker circle!!
I am its founding memeber and thus its danchou--de arimasu! -Kikushi Danchou
Post number #560802, ID: 9b3887
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>>560721 Out right now; so this isn't the genuine article but... it has a pattern that's kind of like this:
It was really huge on me, too. Luckily I came around a bit after I graduated... fashion really isn't for me.
-SEGFAULT
Post number #561360, ID: dbdd15
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>>560802 i intend to draw a pic of this I just haven't found time yet orz
Post number #561381, ID: 43d7ee
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>>560764 Danchou san danchou san Can i call you kishi danchou san? -GEMINI
>>560802 I dunno man, put that on a jacket and itll just look like a jacket.
I fail to understand how that would be considered strange in any way >IA
Post number #561417, ID: 88f2d4
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>>560721 Pretty sure there are atleast three nationalities that use German as their language, not counting the possibility that people can actually learn German. Not all speaking German are German, if that make sense. -Impulse
Post number #561651, ID: bf96d5
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>>561381 You can call me anything, just don't call me short--dearimasu! -Kikushi Danchou
Post number #561687, ID: 43d7ee
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>>561417 I wuz just asking mister impulse! No need to get nitpicky
Post number #561713, ID: 4b586a
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>>561687 Just putting it out there, in case next time you would ask "Does that means you are Austrian" -Impulse
Post number #561721, ID: 9819d4
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>>561687 Never actually answered, but no I am not. -Reya
Post number #561777, ID: f8c030
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>>561381 It's... less the pattern alone and more... everything combined along with it. Like... a gestalt of douchebaggery.
-SEGFAULT
Post number #561787, ID: 43d7ee
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>>561777 So you were considered an asshole during your time in university? >IA
Post number #561788, ID: f8c030
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>>561787 Chummer, I said I >>>dressed like an asshole, not that I>>>was one.
Also, isn't everyone an asshole at that age, uni or not?
... but yeah, uh, I'm sure there are people that thought I was. I know there are plenty of people that think that now, but that's whatever and they can go piss up a rope for all I care.
-SEGFAULT
Post number #561898, ID: 43d7ee
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>>561788 Yeah and i said *considered* not *was*
Still thats actually pretty relatable
Back in uni we had this one group of asses that fancied themselves shadowruners just because one had a pistol from their dads safe and another knew how to >>>barely hack websites
Not even high sec sites too. Like he thought he was the shit from rewriting the banner on the school website >IA
Post number #561900, ID: 0a72df
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>>561898 Which uni? That group sounds familiar... -Reya
Post number #562068, ID: dbdd15
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>>561898 Can I ask what he put on the banner?
-SEGFAULT
Post number #562069, ID: 5181d0
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>>561900 One of the Sorbonnes. Er to those not french, its basically one of the universities that succeeded the paris university.
>>562068 What one might expect from kids at the time. A phallus, most likely traced >IA
Post number #562071, ID: dbdd15
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>>562069 Some things never change.
Traced, though... that's like, a double disappointment.
-SEGFAULT
Post number #562073, ID: 5181d0
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>>562071 Was not even that bit if i may add.
If memory serves, assuming it was erect. It was only like 3 inches.
Poor fool regretted it afterwards.
Like, the girls had a list of people with tiny dongers, that way they knew who to avoid as a one nighter.
Guess what happened >IA
Post number #562076, ID: dbdd15
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>>562073 The... girls at your uni had a burn book full of dudes with small dicks??
... fucking wild, holy shit. What was their criteria??
Post number #562077, ID: 5181d0
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>>562076 I know right!? Anything that was smaller then 8 inches was gone.
As to how i know. Well..when your a robotics student, you have less free time then an engineer.
Which means you dont have time to get into any romantic relationships.
Thus all the girls thought i was the one quote: "really nice guy who is asexual." One told be about it after a or two beer
Kinda hurt... >IA
Post number #562080, ID: dbdd15
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>>562077 Whew lad, those are some hard rules there. They getting out measuring tapes in the bedroom or some shit?
The burning question here is: once you had the power this info gave you, did you use it for good... or at the expense of others-- like banner kid?
-SEGFAULT
Post number #562084, ID: 5181d0
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>>562080 Thats a secret. But ill tease ya with this tidbit
Apparently knowing the list meant that i could edit it >IA
Post number #562088, ID: dbdd15
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>>562084 wwwww fucking... adapt and survive, chummer!! Terrific.
I was in clinical pharm before I dropped-- all the static there was just people trying to sabotage their classmates' rank instead of actually amusing shit like that.
-SEGFAULT
Post number #562097, ID: 5181d0
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>>562088 I feel as if thats not the best thing for a school and society as a whole if the med students and future life savers are all backstabbing each other
>IA
Post number #562099, ID: dbdd15
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>>562097 I was (and am) inclined to agree with you, hence the dropping out part. Medicine as a field of study is really just a big pissing contest tbh.
It, like the earlier parts of this thread, also happens to be full of archaic tech that no one fucking uses anymore.
It... wasn't a cutoff when I bought it; my dumb college kid ass decided to take a pair of scissors to it because I thought that'd >>>somehow make it>>>better. Learn from my juvie mistakes, chummers.
-SEGFAULT
hopefully the link works; apologies for a not so fantastic quality scan and bleeding markers orz
Post number #562178, ID: 3dc43a
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>>562159 Not usually it seems. Still, your bound to find someone from here when you go to a bar somehow.
Never knew why or how, its kinda strange no?
>>562161 Thats pretty hipster i suppose. Still, we all had out stranger years. >IA
My curiosity is satisfied yey -GEMINI (damn, you drew a char just because someone on the board got curious. Absolute legend)[/spoiled]
Post number #562183, ID: dbdd15
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>>562159 IA is right about the bar thing. I don't think he and I have actually met in person yet, but I'm sure it'll happen at some point...
>>562178 The important part is that we've all reformed... right? What was this aesthetic called, anyway? Weren't those things on my shirt... the disks, aren't those like 100 years old?
-SEGFAULT
i could use the practice, and i like to think it brings the character to life a little bit more-- im sure it'll happen again
Post number #562207, ID: 419df5
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Steins;Gate anybody?
Post number #562298, ID: 3dc43a
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>>562183 I think its called vaporwave or something. Or maybe its called 60s. I dunno >IA
Post number #562627, ID: ff311a
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>>562207 Whose gate?
-SEGFAULT
Post number #562637, ID: bfb375
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>>562627 I think they're referring to a really old sci-fi visual novel about time travel and such. Dunno how it relates, but oh well. -Reya
Post number #567367, ID: 95ca10
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>>560224 Hey Dancho, I've been wanting to do some business with you. Think we can talk about buying that IBM off your hands? -CN
Post number #567442, ID: 35f54f
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...what would you guys even do with such old tech? Those things are huge, heavy, and takes up space. I can't think of any use for them other than space waster.
Post number #567452, ID: 37d2e6
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>>567442 They can be made as a resilient means of communication or medium. Security through obscurity and stuff.
Post number #567522, ID: 0d8f66
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>>567367 You aiming for my old PC? Sorry but I ain't selling it Dearimasu!
Now, if its just to use it; well I'm sure we can get a deal going arimasu! -Danchou
Post number #567534, ID: 0ba4bd
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>>567522 That works for me, I just need to read through some old files. What's your poison? -CN
Post number #567535, ID: 0d8f66
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>>567534 That's something you can look forward to Dearimasu!
I'll send you the location, I hope you don't mind the public or are adverse to crowds! -Danchou
Post number #567569, ID: 0ba4bd
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>>567535 I'll be fine. -CN
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| Its a good day for bargains today apparently! I just bought some crazy old computers from the 1900's yep, you heard me right!
They're the kind that only have two digits of ram!!!
I also found some REALLY old wiztech! Its called an IBM5100!! Its heavy as hell and everything I thought I would die carrying it home-de arimasu!
Man I love techie stuff!!
What about you fellow /Deck/lads found anything good lately??