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virescent-phosphor reblogged from virescent-phosphor useyourimagination2020 posted by useyourimagination2020
commodorez: “chrownox: “blergeatkitty: “Vintage my ass. More AI generated crap. Not a single recognizable key or logo. Writing on the screen is gibberish. Floppy drive has no eject button or diagnostic light. Not a cable in sight. No mouse. No...
blergeatkitty's avatar blergeatkitty

Vintage my ass. More AI generated crap.

Not a single recognizable key or logo. Writing on the screen is gibberish. Floppy drive has no eject button or diagnostic light. Not a cable in sight. No mouse. No chairs. Ceiling lights don’t match up. Floor is lined with massive weirdly angled tiles that would look more at home on a bathroom wall.

I hate this. So. Much.

chrownox's avatar chrownox

source: https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/349829/view/world-wide-web-main-server-at-cern-geneva

commodorez's avatar commodorez

Sure enough, taken in 1995. TinEye confirms its been floating around the internet since atleast 2013.

The computer is a Sun SparcStation 1, 2, or 10. It doesn’t have a floppy eject button, it’s motorized like how Macs did it. The diagnostic light is subtle on the drive.

The terminal sitting on top of the computer itself is a Falco of some variety (probably not an F5000). The keyboard cable is running to the left. No mouse because it’s a terminal, and even if it weren’t, that isn’t a GUI so no need for a mouse.

Text on screen are dates/times/web addresses/ports etc.

No chairs? Probably because that’s a quick diagnostic terminal, not intended for people to stay at it for very long. Those are the exact same datacenter floor tiles I’ve seen at multiple locations in my career, they’re basically unchanged. And that lighting is a throwback with those little shiny grids, messing with the light in a vain attempt to make it directional.

I didn’t recognize any of the exact equipment here. Nor did I know any of those details about the gear. So I asked some friends! Doesn’t hurt to ask people in the community who are more experienced in some matters. And I say that as someone who cannot fucking stand AI generated images or whatever – AI stuff doesn’t belong on my blog (call me on it if you see any). But this passes fine.

So yes. Vintage your ass.

indrora's avatar indrora

Seconding the weird SparcStation 10’s bumblefuck ejector drive:

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In right of frame is a very recognizable Seagate Full-height drive crammed into an AT clone:

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In the distance looks like a few IBM 3380 disk drives:

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I’d put money that what is either or is related to an IBM 3090 system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3090


So yeah, *Vintage your ass*.

Posted on Feb 15, 2024 with 2,367 notes
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foone reblogged from foone dommeunist posted by dommeunist
dommeunist's avatar dommeunist

tumblr post in 2000: ugh why don't computers have 5.5" floppy drives anymore...

wiredwhiskers's avatar wiredwhiskers

nah this is just @foone

foone's avatar foone

Yeah. Except my computer does have a 5.25" drive and a 3.5" drive, because I'm what's known as "cool".


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(I went looking for a pic because I'm not in my office, and the image had a zip drive in it too. That's just how I roll)

zeemczed's avatar zeemczed

BUT

Do you have a Clik drive?

foone's avatar foone

A couple!

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I've got that Clik! Mobile Drive thing for copying CF/SmartMedia cards onto Clik! disks

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And the USB one, which is amusing because it's just the PCMCIA drive plus an enclosure to talk to it.

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And since I mentioned PCMCIA, I've of course got a couple PCMCIA Clik! drives.

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I've also got the Iomega HipZip and the rave:mp, both Clik!/PocketZip based MP3 players.

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And while I can't seem to locate my photo of it, I also have the AGFA ePhoto CL30 Clik!, a digital camera that takes pictures on click!/PocketZip.

zeemczed's avatar zeemczed

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Originally posted by baronafanas002

You ARE A cryptid!

What about floptical diskette drives?!

foone's avatar foone

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I've got the Caleb It! drive, which is floptical (technically so is that Zip Drive, and the LS120/LS240 drives that are too boring to post)

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But yeah. Here's two 21mb floptical drives from iomega & insite.

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And for bonus, here's a floptical disk.

indrora's avatar indrora

Foone isn’t a cryptid, they’re a very peculiar shopkeep

Posted on Apr 13, 2023 with 978 notes
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visenyaism reblogged from visenyaism visenyaism posted by visenyaism
visenyaism's avatar visenyaism

one fun thing about being a teacher in march 2023 is that chess is a literal epidemic among teens. we are starting to have meetings about how we can STOP teenagers from playing too much chess which is like if we were trying to figure out how to stop them from reading for fun. When i was in high school five years ago chess was nerd shit only but now it is transcending every social and language barrier and is absolutely rampant. kids aren’t on their phone texting in class anymore it’s ONLY chess.com. kids are playing chess on their phones while playing chess in real life. this is still better than tiktok because at least the kids are developing an attention span from this

visenyaism's avatar visenyaism

the worst part of this is that they’re on chess dot com instead of getting an education. but the BEST part of this is watching high schoolers develop the weirdest goddamn strategies I’ve ever seen. One of my students invented something he calls the “evil advisor gambit” where he gets a third person to give out constant terrible advice to both teams hoping that his opponent falls for it straight-up or that his opponent thinks HE fell for it and will act accordingly thus worsening their own strategy. he has won every game he has been able to pull off a coordinated evil advisor gambit in. this is chess innovation never before seen in its 700 years on earth

Posted on Apr 9, 2023 with 252,277 notes