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commodorez · 4 months

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Strange question, but I'm curious. Do you have a least favourite computer?

Ohhhh, good one. I'm going to make some enemies for these, I'm sure.

Least favorite vintage computer:

Apple I

Not for any technical reasons, or anything about its history. I happen to like and respect Steve Wozniak, and everything he did in the service of computing in the 1970s. His ROM monitor known as WOZMON is only 256 bytes so it can fit into a first generation 1702A EPROM, which is damned impressive. I use the newer EWOZMON regular basis on other 6502 machines.

The Apple I exemplifies a computer that no longer exists as a computer. Rather, it's become the legendary trading card for the ultrawealthy techbro types who seek to commodify the history of the home computer revolution that they didn't bother to study. It's been reduced to no more than a static display piece, and a cornerstone of revisionist history, ignoring the larger picture.

An Apple I is considered too monetarily valuable to risk applying power to or fixing, "gotta leave it original!" with failed, leaky capacitors, doing nothing. Well if you can't use it, it ceases to be a computer because it isn't computing anything. They had almost a dozen of them at VCF West XIV, most of which were under plexiglass with a hired guard to keep an eye on them because the high price they fetch. Only one was powered up at a time under the watchful gaze of experts, handling things with museum gloves. Unlike other exhibits, these were not available to be touched or interacted with (which defeats the whole reason people enjoy vintage computer festivals).

Assuming you look beyond the hype, and get your hands on a working Apple I? It turns out to be quite underpowered and limited -- which makes sense, Woz was optimizing the shit outta his part count and budget! I wish I had his skills. It was a major technical achievement to get it to do that much with so little. It's a TV Typewriter (RIP Don Lancaster) bolted to a minimal 6502. If i had one at my disposal in the 1970s, I'd probably do like the contemporary hackers did and modify it as my budget and skills allowed. But it's 2024 and an Apple I -- you aren't allowed to do that. No, if I had an Apple I, I could sell it and buy a house with that money.

If it weren't for all that, I think I'd probably just be indifferent to it, or maybe even like it for what it is.

Least favorite general computer:

eMachines eTower 600is

What a piece of shit. I had one when it was new, running Windows ME and it was hot garbage. I could not stand this underpowered excuse for a computer after a few months when the new computer sheen wore off. Floppy drive died too soon. Didn't come with the advertised 64MB of RAM (who puts 33MB of RAM in a computer?). Hard drive was only 10GB, kept filling it up. It was filled with bloatware, the keyboard was cheap garbage. I don't begrudge my parents for buying it, they didn't know any better and I was too young to have any say in the matter. That said, it endured the shortest tenure of any computer in my house to date.

Never obsolete my ass.

#apple i #emachines #etower 600is #windows me

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never-obsolete · 1 month

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#windows me #poll

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gateway-2000 · 10 months

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#webcore #y2kcore #techcore #old tech #windows 2000 #windows me #vaporwave #nostalgiacore #y2k

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slimeydeath · 4 months

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#windows me #os-tan #Windows Millennium #Microsoft #windows #hot gimmick #hot gimmick 3 #yoshizaki mine #my desktop #dont have jp pack so i cant read it...#korean me-tan #mine #my pc

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shutterlens · 10 months

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Windows OS's As Humans

#8bityinyang #windows humans #windows humanized #windows 1 #windows #windows 3.1 #windows 95 #windows 98 #windows 2000 #windows me #windows millenium edition #windows xp #windows vista #windows 7 #windows 8 #windows 10 #windows 11 #8bityinyangart #windows os

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chiivistan · 2 years

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#os tan #os-tan #me-tan #cirno #touhou #windows me #animecore #webcore #moe anthropomorphism

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nidera · 2 years

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#mine: scans #me-tan #OS-tan #i dont mind if this gets stolen really as long as it doesnt get called netrunner or netrunmon #futaba channel #anime figurine #it would be against the spirit of OS-tans for it to not be freely accessible #character design: anonymous #it just shouldnt be commodified #official microsoft mascots kinda suck ngl #windows me #old computers #old web

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arconinternet · 5 months

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Three Decades of Windows Ads (Video, 1985-2015)

You can watch it here.

Here's a Windows 2000 ad it's missing, and here's a Windows ME one.

#internet archive #video #computer history #computing history #windows #microsoft #steve ballmer #windows 1 #windows 3.1 #windows 95 #windows 98 #windows 2000 #windows me #windows xp #windows vista #windows 7 #windows 8 #windows 10

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seeminglyseph · 11 days

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someone doing a desktop simulator horror game throwback to the early 2000s needs to stop using Windows 98 or XP or whatever and pull out the real horror and use this baby as the OS as the basis for their digital horror game

the real ones out there who suffered the Millennium Edition know full well, you'll spend half your time trying to figure out if it's a demon possessing your computer of if it's just Windows ME being period accurate with its jank.

*This* is the OS you need to use for your Desktop Simulator Horror Game. It was already setup for a Desktop Horror Simulation out of the box. Please trust me, all aspiring game developers working on an early 2000s Digital Horror Game. Put Windows Millennium Edition in there. It was *made* for this.

Because it was definitely *not* made to run computers, that's for damned sure.

#horror games #windows millennium edition #windows me #horror sim #idk what the appropriate tag or genre this is #I am definitely watching a video about kinitoPET #and like that's effective enough on its own kudos and all that #but I remember windows ME and I think we need to exploit the potential of this lemon #but I don't know how to make games so I'm offering it to someone who does #you might be too young to remember windows ME because they realized it sucked #and subbed in windows 2000 real quick instead #but those of us who were kids with tech literate parents who got stuck with it for ages?#and had computers that couldn't be upgraded because scummy salespeople sold their lemons to folks who didn't know better?#ohhh there's plenty of memories to go around I'm sure #I think this could be worthwhile material

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oldwindowsicons · 2 years

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