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LGR - Thrifts [Ep. 2] Big Blue Find
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Jimmy
Bro you would have shit your pants if you could have seen my dad's 1990's computer store. My dad and his business partner bought probably 25 or 30 complete XT systems with different original IBM monitors and model M keyboards. All of them were IBM branded not compatible or licensed out models. There was also a whole bunch of IBM branded peripherals like original software, mice, early 80's modems, Epson dot matrix printers, etc. They sold exactly none of that stuff and, this will probably make many people here cry, they chucked everything in a dumpster - model M keyboards and all to clear out space for the stuff people were buying at the time which was basically 486 and Pentium machines. I remember playing with all that stuff as a 12 year old. I remember the green monitors and having to use a floppy for DOS then use the 2nd B: drive floppy to load Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy. I even had a complete XT in my bedroom for a while, it was my first PC in my own room. It sucks that they threw all that stuff away. Today, it would probably be worth tens of thousands. The keyboards alone would be in the thousands easily. BTW, his store was located in North Broward county Florida which is only a 15 minute drive from Boca Raton, IBM's HQ at the time of the XT. Not sure if those machines were ever in the IBM offices or if that would even make them worth any more but it is interesting.
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Bro you would have shit your pants if you could have seen my dad's 1990's computer store. My dad and his business partner bought probably 25 or 30 complete XT systems with different original IBM monitors and model M keyboards. All of them were IBM branded not compatible or licensed out models. There was also a whole bunch of IBM branded peripherals like original software, mice, early 80's modems, Epson dot matrix printers, etc. They sold exactly none of that stuff and, this will probably make many people here cry, they chucked everything in a dumpster - model M keyboards and all to clear out space for the stuff people were buying at the time which was basically 486 and Pentium machines. I remember playing with all that stuff as a 12 year old. I remember the green monitors and having to use a floppy for DOS then use the 2nd B: drive floppy to load Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy. I even had a complete XT in my bedroom for a while, it was my first PC in my own room. It sucks that they threw all that stuff away. Today, it would probably be worth tens of thousands. The keyboards alone would be in the thousands easily. BTW, his store was located in North Broward county Florida which is only a 15 minute drive from Boca Raton, IBM's HQ at the time of the XT. Not sure if those machines were ever in the IBM offices or if that would even make them worth any more but it is interesting.
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greenaum
Duuuude! Get a CGA card for that PC! I think it has to be an original IBM one, to use the artifact colours through the composite port. Gets you like a dozen or so colours using artifacting, same way the Apple II relied on (very shoddy) and the Atari 8-bits could take advantage of (nice. A lot of the Sierra games used artifact colours, as well as anything CGA with a lot of vertical stripes in the graphics, those stripes produce extra colours. I'm sure you know that. Thing is the effect doesn't work on VGA cards playing old CGA games, it has to be CGA through a composite port, and I think IBM's own CGA card. And there's a whole type of graphics, the best PC graphics at the time, that you can't see otherwise.
Plus having the hard drive puts the convenience into it! Even if it's probabaly barely faster than a floppy, and probably louder. At least a floppy drive shuts up when it's not accessing the disk.
Anyway, I repeat, -duuuuude! -
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Duuuude! Get a CGA card for that PC! I think it has to be an original IBM one, to use the artifact colours through the composite port. Gets you like a dozen or so colours using artifacting, same way the Apple II relied on (very shoddy) and the Atari 8-bits could take advantage of (nice. A lot of the Sierra games used artifact colours, as well as anything CGA with a lot of vertical stripes in the graphics, those stripes produce extra colours. I'm sure you know that. Thing is the effect doesn't work on VGA cards playing old CGA games, it has to be CGA through a composite port, and I think IBM's own CGA card. And there's a whole type of graphics, the best PC graphics at the time, that you can't see otherwise.
Plus having the hard drive puts the convenience into it! Even if it's probabaly barely faster than a floppy, and probably louder. At least a floppy drive shuts up when it's not accessing the disk.
Anyway, I repeat, -duuuuude! -
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fanjoy
The problem with buy PC games these days (in 2020 at least) is that most are tied to activation codes, which in turn are tied to a user account on the developer's server. So while someone might sell the disc and manual, it may be useless for most people as the game would not be able to run/registered under a new owner. The only exception to these types of things would be if you needed a replacement CD/DVD copy of the game and/or game manual, but otherwise owned the game (ie. had an account and activation code of your own. Obviously not all games are like this, but the majority (especially computer games) are.
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The problem with buy PC games these days (in 2020 at least) is that most are tied to activation codes, which in turn are tied to a user account on the developer's server. So while someone might sell the disc and manual, it may be useless for most people as the game would not be able to run/registered under a new owner. The only exception to these types of things would be if you needed a replacement CD/DVD copy of the game and/or game manual, but otherwise owned the game (ie. had an account and activation code of your own. Obviously not all games are like this, but the majority (especially computer games) are.
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BlueSpartan
That ibm pc would never happen in any thrift store in texas
Im sooooo jealous
But an aquaintance of mine is running a donation garage sale for the boy scouts and she said that there was an old compudyne 16/386SX pc for sale and it was only 10 dollars! Had a 170 mb hard drive, 5. 25 disk drive, 3. 5 disk drive and a 8mm backup datasette drive, and worked perfectly minus a dry cmos battery
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That ibm pc would never happen in any thrift store in texas
Im sooooo jealous
But an aquaintance of mine is running a donation garage sale for the boy scouts and she said that there was an old compudyne 16/386SX pc for sale and it was only 10 dollars! Had a 170 mb hard drive, 5. 25 disk drive, 3. 5 disk drive and a 8mm backup datasette drive, and worked perfectly minus a dry cmos battery
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Berke
5 years later and I'm ngl my high school self is mad that you didnt pick you -you cant handle the tooth- Tooth and Nail was probably the most -progressive- christian label back in the early/mid 2000s, I remember buying August Burns Red's first EP off of a store that was partnered with Tooth and Nail back in like 2009 before the whole Lancaster Christian Metalcore Scene went fkn nutso
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5 years later and I'm ngl my high school self is mad that you didnt pick you -you cant handle the tooth- Tooth and Nail was probably the most -progressive- christian label back in the early/mid 2000s, I remember buying August Burns Red's first EP off of a store that was partnered with Tooth and Nail back in like 2009 before the whole Lancaster Christian Metalcore Scene went fkn nutso
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Law
I also love to go do the rounds at some thrift stores. I look for mainly old PC games. Preferably big box games, but i also go for small box games. Sometimes loose games as well. I also like older PC hardware and oddities. I do go for the odd console. I found an emerald XBOX a while back for 30 bucks which works great.
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I also love to go do the rounds at some thrift stores. I look for mainly old PC games. Preferably big box games, but i also go for small box games. Sometimes loose games as well. I also like older PC hardware and oddities. I do go for the odd console. I found an emerald XBOX a while back for 30 bucks which works great.
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SirFireWolfe
Oh man, I recently found an XT in my grandfather's study, along with a model m and 5151 monitor, and it works perfectly, but sadly it has no 3 1/2- drive, but other than that, I can totally agree with your feeling of -. crapped my pants, had a heart attack and died right there. - so kudos on a good find!
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Oh man, I recently found an XT in my grandfather's study, along with a model m and 5151 monitor, and it works perfectly, but sadly it has no 3 1/2- drive, but other than that, I can totally agree with your feeling of -. crapped my pants, had a heart attack and died right there. - so kudos on a good find!
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Kandi
wow, such a change from the first to second episode, this is much closer to later episodes, going back and watching (possibly rewatching) these older episodes is actually interesting.
Also, first episode -zoombinis, who cares-, second episode -zoombinis, this is cool, I want to review this anyhow-.
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wow, such a change from the first to second episode, this is much closer to later episodes, going back and watching (possibly rewatching) these older episodes is actually interesting.
Also, first episode -zoombinis, who cares-, second episode -zoombinis, this is cool, I want to review this anyhow-.
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Jenny
Its a good thing you didn't buy Me and My Katamari from that thrift store, because if you look closely when you freeze, the UMD inside is not the Me and My Katamari UMD, but a DEMO UMD. I recognized it because I had it. No Katamari on there, some interesting demos of games and videos though. :3
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Its a good thing you didn't buy Me and My Katamari from that thrift store, because if you look closely when you freeze, the UMD inside is not the Me and My Katamari UMD, but a DEMO UMD. I recognized it because I had it. No Katamari on there, some interesting demos of games and videos though. :3
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Jerald
Lol I love your warning about always testing something before buying; I once fired-up a table saw in a Goodwill, because hell no I wasn't gonna pay $25 for something I wasn't sure worked (it worked. Oddly enough, an 'out of order' sign was covering the outlet the next time I visited hahaha.
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Lol I love your warning about always testing something before buying; I once fired-up a table saw in a Goodwill, because hell no I wasn't gonna pay $25 for something I wasn't sure worked (it worked. Oddly enough, an 'out of order' sign was covering the outlet the next time I visited hahaha.
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