vga256,
@vga256@dialup.cafe avatar

over one year my retrocomputing storage room went from an organized archive to this disaster. today i’ve had enough. time to sort and clean. 😬

abreaction,
@abreaction@mastodon.world avatar

@vga256

Looks good to me. Tons of cool stuff in there.

vga256,
@vga256@dialup.cafe avatar

@abreaction 😅 hopefully you'll be able to see some of it when i'm done cleaning!

wossman,
@wossman@mastodon.social avatar

@vga256 I spy with my little eye, a glorious diamond of an O2 in that coalmine of yours!

Jeneric,
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@vga256 I don't understand this picture - no CRT iMacs?

vga256,
@vga256@dialup.cafe avatar

@Jeneric your eyes deceive you. the white box on the left is an Indigo G3, and there are 3 others (a Tangerine, Strawberry and Sage) hidden behind the box pile 😅

Jeneric,
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@vga256 Just the kind of reply I was hoping for! I lent my G3 iMac to a friend who had an urgent computer need, and they thought it was old and useless, so disposed of it without asking if I wanted it back. I miss that computer. The Harman & Kardon speakers made it useful if only as a CD player.

vga256,
@vga256@dialup.cafe avatar

@Jeneric gah 😭
what colour was yours?

Jeneric,
@Jeneric@mstdn.ca avatar

@vga256 It was the iMac DV, Indigo was the official colour name, maybe?

vga256,
@vga256@dialup.cafe avatar

@Jeneric yes! that’s the one i still have in its original box 😃 what an amazing machine. i picked it up several years ago and restored it.

The side of an iMac G3 DV showing an indigo model.

Jeneric,
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@vga256 Found a picture of mine!
A man is playing a guitar in front of a laptop which is perched on a piano. To the right of the man is an old iMac that has a music application onscreen.

vga256,
@vga256@dialup.cafe avatar

@Jeneric ohhh nice, you had an original Bondi Blue if the colours are right 😻

TimeCycles,
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@vga256 Got any Performas? That was my first Mac, back in '93. Screeching modem, AOL, the whole shebang.

vga256,
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@TimeCycles yup - i'm running an LC475 (Performa 475) as my router, there's a Performa 580CD (peeking out from the extreme bottom right on the floor with a pinky sticky note), and a Performa 575 in a massive cardboard box in the hallway out of frame :)

they're great machines! if only the plastics on them didn't turn to dust.

TimeCycles,
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@vga256 I got a lot of use out of it. Moved on to a Mac clone (UMAX or something). Then the iMacs and eventually a few MacBook Pros.

vga256,
@vga256@dialup.cafe avatar

@TimeCycles i did too. someone gave me a Performa in 1999, and it got a lot of retro use for years afterward.

TimeCycles,
@TimeCycles@mas.to avatar

@vga256 what I remember best were the screen savers - the toasters of course, Daredevil Dan, rats racing around a track. Lots of fun stuff. My start up sound was Marv Albert yelling his signature “Yes!” (An American sportscaster in case you’re unfamiliar).

vga256,
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@TimeCycles 😆 i had "Totally Twisted" AfterDark installed on mine - and The Simpsons screensaver. i left it running all day just to keep me occupied while i cooked in the kitchen

CodingItWrong,
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@vga256 good luck! what are those black things in the center? Macintosh TVs? The black 5000 series I'm talking to @applepc about?

vga256,
@vga256@dialup.cafe avatar

@CodingItWrong dead-center that's a dark blue HP Pavilion monitor and beside it an SGI O2

applepc,
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@vga256 @CodingItWrong The O2 is such a cutie!

Mine only boots to an IRIX terminal (not the full desktop) so I’ve never been able to properly play with it.

Maybe a project for 😛

vga256,
@vga256@dialup.cafe avatar

@applepc mine's sadly a non-booter. i suspect the PSU is dead.

turgon,
@turgon@dosgame.club avatar

@vga256 horrifying and shameful and don't look in my garage

vga256,
@vga256@dialup.cafe avatar

@turgon 😆

amoroso,
@amoroso@fosstodon.org avatar

@vga256 It looks like Tutankhamun's tomb.

vga256,
@vga256@dialup.cafe avatar

@amoroso tutankhamun's had less dust 😅

amoroso,
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@vga256 So this is Retrokhamun's tomb 😀

vga256,
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@amoroso and they might find my body here in 1000 years too 😆

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