Is it bad that I want a slim desktop case, CRT monitor and mouse, all beige? Like an Amiga 1000.
I've wondered why it is that PC cases and accessories all switched from beige to black so fast, after being beige so many years. The black does look good, but I liked the beige also.
I've wondered why it is that PC cases and accessories all switched from
beige to black so fast, after being beige so many years. The black does
look good, but I liked the beige also.
I'm going out on a limb and suggestion it was cheaper. Actually probably a few things, with PCs getting to be more mainstream, and fitting them into more home locations black is something that'll blend in better. It seemed to be a quick testing of the water, they'll buy them, and then it was on for young and old.
Black pigment in general is going to be cheaper and higher opacity than any equivalent white pigment that you've then got to add something else to make it beige/greige. TiO2 tends to be relatively steep in price, while cheaper white pigments have poorer opacity.
I feel like I have nostalgia for beige PCs, as I always pictured a desktop PC on a desk, used as a tool, and desktop computers were commonly beige.
I still sometimes would like to have a space big enough for a big computer desk with storage for media & things, and bonus points would be also having a beige PC case.. More nostalgia for me is, I used to also
have a couple of these cardboard "economy diskette drawer", which
I think I bought at my local Egghead Software at the time, to store
3.5" floppy disks.. The ones pictured here look like they're
for 5.25" disks:
Is it bad that I want a slim desktop case, CRT monitor and mouse, all beige? Like an Amiga 1000.
If anyone knows a a current
PC case manufacture that makes a horizontal case please let me know.
Vorlon wrote to klunk <=-
Oh yes, Lemmings, Lotus Challenge 1,2 & 3
Checkmate makes retro Amiga-styled cases that fit mini-ITX/ATX boards or Amiga boards, plus they recently started making a 4:3
LCD monitor styled like
a CRT: https://www.checkmate1500plus.com/
number of times I have moved homes LOL. If anyone knows a a current PC case manufacture that makes a horizontal case please let me know.
Re: Re: I want to do something retro... By: poindexter FORTRAN to
klunk on Sat Jun 22 2024 09:42 am
Is it bad that I want a slim desktop case, CRT monitor and
mouse, all beige? Like an Amiga 1000.
I've wondered why it is that PC cases and accessories all switched
from beige to black so fast, after being beige so many years. The
black does look good, but I liked the beige also.
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Oh yes, Lemmings, Lotus Challenge 1,2 & 3
"Kids, We didn't have fancy computer games when we growed up. We had to play with our dad's spreadsheet program - and we liked it!"
If anyone knows a a current
PC case manufacture that makes a horizontal case please let me know.
Checkmate makes retro Amiga-styled cases that fit mini-ITX/ATX boards or Amiga boards, plus they recently started making a 4:3 LCD monitor styled like a CRT: https://www.checkmate1500plus.com/
Checkmate makes retro Amiga-styled cases that fit mini-ITX/ATX boards or Amiga boards, plus they recently started making a 4:3 LCD monitor styled like a CRT: https://www.checkmate1500plus.com/
Not spercifically, but the jungle webs site has this thing...
https://www.amazon.com.au/SilverStone-Technology-Grandia-Radiator-SST-GD11
You had a spreadsheet? We were writing basic programs on paper... :/
Thank you, I was trying to avoid HTPC cases, although looking at this one, its not HTPC looking. Quite pricey though LOL.
I remember checking a book out from the library filled with basic programs for the C64, oh the joys of typing pages upon pages of basic code hoping you don't make a typo. At least I was able to save any of the good programs/games to a cassette once I had typed them out correctly.
Never went there. The parents always though that computers would be a flash in the pan, so no typing. A lot later though, the same jooy could be had entering hexadecimal code into "Monitor" on the II range... the joys of looking for typo in reams of two digit numbers... Even worse than hunting in basic code.
I never could afford magazines for type-ins but I do
remember my brother and me collaborating to type in a
"baby crying" program from the C64 manual. One-read-one-
type-then-swap setup. The *entire* thing was pokes, as
I remember it, and it didn't work by the time we had it
all entered.
Now that I think about it, that spiral bound manual is
most likely archived online so I *could* go back and
find out what it was meant to sound like, assuming I
can do a better job on my own than with my pesky brother :)
Wouldn't it be a surprise if there was a misprint in the book and that's why it never worked?
Can't beat a real Amiga though. :)
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I feel like I have nostalgia for beige PCs, as I always pictured a
desktop PC on a desk, used as a tool, and desktop computers were
commonly beige. I still sometimes would like to have a space big enough for a big computer desk with storage for media & things, and bonus
points would be also having a beige PC case..
The old 286 era equipment stuffed into XT style cases that have an open layout, lots of space, and allow for full height, full length cards. I
had 3 of those stacked at one stage..
I never could afford magazines for type-ins but I do remember my brother and me collaborating to type in a "baby crying" program from the C64 manual. One-read-one-type-then-swap setup. The *entire* thing was pokes, as I remember it, and it didn't work by the time we had it all entered.
Wouldn't it be a surprise if there was a misprint in the book and that's why it never worked?
Oh yes, Lemmings, Lotus Challenge 1,2 & 3
"Kids, We didn't have fancy computer games when we growed up. We had
to play with our dad's spreadsheet program - and we liked it!"
I was a little lucky in my first job, magazine returns at a newsagent. It took me a month to get enough cash for an elderly II+, it didn't pay particularly well but it did give me access to all sorts of magazines. Some of which you only had to rip the cover off to send back :) Start my program entry career as short as it was.
Typing a program into it, and hoping the power didn't go out before saving it to tape. Or "Dad vorlon's hogging the TV, I want to watch a show"....
Do you still have any of the authentic, no-cover magazines?
On 27 Jun 2024, Spectre said the following...
You had a spreadsheet? We were writing basic programs on paper... :/
I remember checking a book out from the library filled with basic programs for the C64, oh the joys of typing pages upon pages of basic code hoping you don't make a typo. At least I was able to save any of the good programs/games to a cassette once I had typed them out correctly.
Never went there. The parents always though that computers would be a f in the pan, so no typing. A lot later though, the same jooy could be h entering hexadecimal code into "Monitor" on the II range... the joys of looking for typo in reams of two digit numbers... Even worse than hunti basic code.
I never could afford magazines for type-ins but I do remember my brother and me collaborating to type in a "baby crying" program from the C64 manual. One-read-one-type-then-swap setup. The *entire* thing was pokes, as I remember it, and it didn't work by the time we had it all entered.
Wouldn't it be a surprise if there was a misprint in the book and that's why it never worked?
There were always mistakes in those magazines and books.
For magazines you would need to wait for a following
issue if the noticed the mistake, or for a lot of the
books, the programs written in basic would be a generic
basic, and sometimes you would need to modify it for you
particular computer.
When I got the VIC20 I did not even have
a desk, the computer would just be on the ground with me cross-legged sitting on the floor typing away.
I remember trying to get some Sinclair BASIC programs running in Microsoft GW-BASIC in DOS, I'd never seen a ZX Spectrum in my life.
I remember trying to get some Sinclair BASIC
programs running in Microsoft
GW-BASIC in DOS, I'd never seen a ZX Spectrum in my life.
I think you had more luck making Sinclair type-ins work
on DOS than I ever did on my aunt's Sinclair. That
awful BASIC where you had to have the cursor in keyword
mode and press "P" for "PRINT" - don't *type* "PRINT",
that won't work. Oh, you did it again. Oh and now the
whole line is muffed and actually now that I look, so
is that one 3 lines ago.
35 years on and I'm still extraordinarily furious just
thinking back to that. And to think, people loved those
things. What's wrong with people?
Oh no. I didn't realize the depths of the depravity of Sinclair BASIC.
I've always been curious about the ZX Spectrum but now I must re-evaluate whether it is a curiousity or a curse.
Oh no. I didn't realize the depths of the depravity of Sinclair BASIC.
The later releases I believe worked the "normal" way, it was just the very memory constrained earlier BASICs that made life that difficult. Possibly you could get used to it but I sure as hell was not going to put myself through that for a computer I didn't own.
Not sure where it came from, but we liberated a Sinclair from a School Cabinet. It had the wacky press this button for print, do not type print, do not pass go. We gave it back after the weekend :)
Spectre wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
You had a spreadsheet? We were writing basic programs on paper... :/
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