Thread 107025194

Because I'm a Commodore man

I prefer what I have

>>107028429
>french

>>107025194 (OP)
>TRS-80 ultra gigachads rise up

These were available at any small or large town Radio Shack in America.

>>107025194 (OP)
For me it's rich chocolatey Ovaltine.

why don't you have an Ann Arbor?

>>107025194 (OP)
Is that hazelnut flavored Ovaltine?

>>107025194 (OP)
There was one where I live for 2oo€ but that's too old for me.

>>107028429
Basé et Minitelpilulé. But this is a dumb terminal, OP's machine is a computer.

have one of these, somewhere

let's not turn this hazeltine into... HAMMERTIME

>>107031704
neat!

>>107031404
Je sais, it was just some silly shitpost just because they look similar from a distance

>>107025194 (OP)
Mine has more ram. 640k should be enough for just about anyone.

selling my amiga 1 and 2 was my only regret in life.

>>107025194 (OP)
i was using a usb to rs232 adapter to send text to the terminal or get text from the keyboard. rs232 so only 3 wires (best if used the handshaking lines but) and can be a really long cable.

>>107025194 (OP)
no use case

terminal was connected to a ampro z80 board (was running a RBBS under CP/M 2.2 on floppy) but that broke so used with the windows pc instead.

might be fun to connect the terminal to a eso32 via rs232

>>107037227
I think some people did that.
Theoretically an ESP32 could turn an old terminal into full computer. A really limited one, kinda on par with 80s computers but a computer nonetheless.

>>107036972
Minitel 1 was even more similar I think

>>107037307
Hi!!!!!!!!

>>107031076
That is fucking cool anon!

>>107025194 (OP)
Pfft i would rather an Agat 4 cyka

>>107037003
i was given a boxed C64 when i was 14 in 2004. i hadn't heard of it before. i could obviously tell it was a computer.. i had the box, it showed that. but it just looked like a useless old computer to me, so i ended up throwing it out.
in my defense, i only had the computer and the box, not a power supply, a floppy/tape drive or any software, so while i would have poked around if i could, i didn't think it was worth the effort

oh, he also at the same time gave me a full-tower 286 pc, which i also didn't keep (only kept 386+ stuff at that time, i was interested in old computers, hence they gave them to me). i forgot/didn't know what model is what, but more recently i've found it looked a lot like an ibm ps/2 model 80

>>107039279
yeah, but a Tektronix 4501 is even cooler. It used used storage tube CRT, programmably-persistent phosphors when RAM video memory was really expensive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ind_2eMzsbM
The past is chock full of forgotten cool technology, anon, and old terminals deserve more love…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-F7ZySfgZ0

>>107042537
super early computers used crts for memory (ram)
https://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/williams_kilburn_williams_kilburn_ram.html

For me, its the MSX.
I just wish mine had a floppy drive, but realistically everything is going to be done via ROMs loaded trough a cart.

>>107025194 (OP)
I just wanted to share this thing that I accidentally found while just mindlessly clicking around on a website before I had coffee, I don't even remember how I got here:
https://www.commodoreos.net/CommodoreOSIntro.aspx
If the link is too spooky here is the same video in youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fGP59mJ5M
I've never had nostalgia for this era of computing because I wasn't alive or if I was (born in the 90s) I was way too young to remember. I think it's kinda cool but also kinda pathetic in a way. If I met someone who owned one I'd love to ask questions about it but I don't see myself buying something purely based off of hardware or software nostalgia. Thoughts?

>>107026752
I just read this after I posted this lol >>107043675

>>107043197
The MSX boxes were generally so stylish.

>>107042537
>Boomer sitting there thinking "Wtf am I even looking at?"
>Puts a pencil on those old, fragile, finicky hard drives you'd have to plug in and remove to transport data
kek

>>107043765
The Sony floppy disk models were pure kino. If I ever get a second MSX its going to be one of these.

>>107028429
I have this, but the power supply is busted and the documentation online is either all in french or it doesn't cover what I need, it's dead

>>107044740
You might try checking all the caps and just replacing them.
Also even if they're all in French, AI OCR translation tools are pretty robust these days. Try running the documents you've found (if they look like they can help with the power supply) through one and see if the translation passes.

>>107044776
the transformer or whatever blew up or something, I'm not sure about the specifics but it's basically impossible to replace.
I did look for documentation but nothing really looked like it talked about that, such a shame

>>107044791
Only other alternative is to buy a second one with its own issues and salvage its power supply.
I fixed my Thinkpad 380XD through the magic of buying a second one and smooshing their parts together. The first one had a ruined processor, I think. Wouldn't even reach the bios.

>>107046296
I tried to look on ebay and the only one on sale was from a guy who didn't even want to confirm if it worked at all

>>107046305
There's a seller by the name EveOfEurope on Etsy that sells some. One listing says untested, and another (more expensive) listing says turned on and letters typed but being sold as untested anyway:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1818958538/vintage-french-minitel-1-telic-alcatel

>>107042537
Display demo

>>107040046
I bet all of the 4 people in the soviet union who could afford this were really happy with it

>>107047336
it's so insanely pretty

>>107047336
Based, it's time for thin-line vector graphics to come back. I'm doing my part.

>>107047336
Very cool. Thanks anon.

>>107047653
That looks pretty sweet, anon. Is this a project of yours?

>>107031360
UK and USA butchered the name for some reason.

>>107048155
ovomaltine sounds nastier than ovaltine

>>107048155
There's a funny story behind that, the Swiss rep. who was getting it patented in the UK had a thick accent and the patent registrar didn't understand him and put down ovaltine instead of ovomaltine. They tried to change it back but the registrar wouldn't or couldn't change it once it was Royally approved, so it stuck as Ovaltine. This carried over to the American and other English speaking markets.

no games

>>107048276
Not true, look up Tennis for Two

>>107048155
Just so you know your swiss chemist misspelt Ovum as ovom because he thought the plural of eggs was ovom and not ovum. The urniverse got revenge by completely renaming his product.

>>107048058
Yep, that specific one is just something I made quickly for work 3 years ago when implementing a recursive filtering to visualise things, I made a habit of making small programs like this all using the same system. I made a library that contains this GUI system and renderer: https://github.com/Photosounder/rouziclib

>>107048281
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeQMTUl70eo
It's not 1956 anymore bro, it's 1980

>>107048560
IF you truly lived in the future then why are so many people, even people who weren't alive when this technology was around, yearn to go back to it?
Because we are living in an actual Dystopia and people are comforted by technology that reminds them of a time when jobs were plentiful, homes were affordable, and games were worth plaything.

>>107048647
It's like why car mechanics like old cars, the technology is more comprehensible and there's an art to what they did back then, but I do like some doomerposting too

>>107048525
Sweet! Thanks, anon.

You're clearly a highly-proficient C developer, so please don't take offense: is there a C++ wrapper for this library? All my other work where this would be very useful is in C++.

>>107048844
You can use it directly using extern "C" {

>>107048896
Alright, fair enough then. Again, nice work!

>>107048266
That's gold, anon. Gold!

>>107047336
Holy shit

>>107048266
It's probably for the best desu, English speakers don't like names with too many syllables.

>>107048525
I like this. How do I use this? What's the setup to make my shit look like a bell labs program from 1979

>>107051223
Look at "Example project", when I need to make a new project like this I fork this. The """documentation""" is just quick_reference.h. There's a toolbar for editing GUI layouts off-screen towards the bottom left (you have to enter the zoom-scroll mode using the middle mouse button or Alt-Z to find it).

>>107043197
>>107044210
Is 100€ ok for msx2 with floppy and serial/ide cartridge? One is for sale locally.
I want something old to play with that is not Amiga/Atari and use it as serial terminal from time to time.