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   Cocoa Hoto in real life (cocoa@nekosat.work)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 05:21:12 JST Cocoa Hoto in real life
   I want to strangle this 4chan poster
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 05:21:11 JST Phantasm

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     @Cocoa Likely a zoomie larping as millenial. Building old pc setups has been a thing for like two decades already, only popularised by LGR and recently Action :mokouVomit: Retro.
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 05:21:20 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Cocoa seen the LGR video, high likelihood that the drive will just fail and you can just get a flash drive or burn DVDs instead nowadays, it's pointless
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     Ree (ree@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 05:21:20 JST Ree

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     @coolboymew @Cocoa i seen floppy emulators where you stick a usb drive for floppies. also heard they are doing emulators for dvd drives too
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 05:21:21 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Cocoa I dunno. Zip disks are fucking shite and you probably shouldn't even bother to touch them, but he has some level of a point has apparently there's a lot of Gen Z like that, and if the fuckers cared enough, we could probably escape the own nothing digital future instead of playing with Zip Disks or something
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     Cocoa Hoto in real life (cocoa@nekosat.work)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 05:21:21 JST Cocoa Hoto in real life

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     @coolboymew yeah floppies kinda suck ngl
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 05:25:34 JST Blurry Moon

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     @coolboymew @Cocoa they do have a niche use that is great though for retrocomputing.
     
     original macintosh have a 50-pin SCSI port on the back. it's their only user-accessible expansion port. There's a SCSI external ZIP drive. You can boot your Mac off it and instead of an 800kb slow as balls boot disk you can have a relatively very fast 100 or 250 megabyte boot disk. sure it might fail but you can get a big stack of them, and they're more reliable than the floppy at this point.
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 05:27:09 JST Blurry Moon

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     @coolboymew @Cocoa https://picoide.com/
     
     or just a cf to ide adapter, they works great
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 05:32:58 JST Phantasm

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     @sun @Cocoa @coolboymew There's BlueSCSI SD-card adapter which I think works with the original Macintosh. And for floppies, the FloppyEmu has been a thing for years on Macintoshes as well.
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 05:34:38 JST Blurry Moon

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     @coolboymew @Cocoa btw here's my own rebuilt DOS machine. except this wasn't a "retro" build, I did a bunch of work to source all new parts. The motherboard was a modern Pentium 4 industrial board that still had ISA slots. The sound card is an Orpheus 2. The VGA is a Chinese "ATI Rage XL" recreation that was built as a replacement part for a computerized truck trailer system lol.
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 05:34:39 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @sun @Cocoa We're talking about that in the thread, however, all the stuff I'm talking about is available for Windows, not Mac, I believe
     
     I do wonder if there's equivalents available for Macs
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 05:37:22 JST Blurry Moon

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     @feld @Cocoa @coolboymew I did this exactly because I experienced how hard it has become to keep old shit working!
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 05:37:23 JST feld

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     @sun @Cocoa @coolboymew best part is you avoided the capacitor plague by sourcing new
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 05:41:33 JST Blurry Moon

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     @phnt @Cocoa @coolboymew it's technically a p4 mobile but DOS doesn't flex it really
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 05:41:34 JST Phantasm

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     @sun @Cocoa @coolboymew How are the temps on that P4 with that heatsink? My Pentium D would fry itself alive with that within a minute.
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 05:44:00 JST feld

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     @coolboymew @Cocoa everyone knows the real deal were the Jaz drives
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 06:01:06 JST Blurry Moon

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     @coolboymew @Cocoa works fine, no difference. I'm sure they bought the fabs or something and just kept making them because somebody needed them for replacement parts. I got it on alibaba
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 06:01:07 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @sun @Cocoa
     
     > The VGA is a Chinese "ATI Rage XL" recreation that was built as a replacement part for a computerized truck trailer system lol.
     
     That's insane, how well does it work with games?
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     Cocoa Hoto in real life (cocoa@nekosat.work)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 07:18:52 JST Cocoa Hoto in real life

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     @sun @feld @coolboymew yeah I had a dual NetBurst Xeon machine that became an absolute PITA to keep running, ended up scrapping it for a Haswell-based Optiplex
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 17:01:36 JST Phantasm

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     @Ree @Cocoa @coolboymew @sun If they ask more than 60 USD, it's likely not worth it. The prices became so inflated recently even for completely generic hardware in the recent years that it's not worth it. If you wanna play with old OSes, use 86Box for everything up to the Win9X era, and a normal VM from that point onward. In the case of 86Box, it's almost 100% as with the hardware in your hands, except it's not.
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     Ree (ree@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 17:01:37 JST Ree

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     @sun @coolboymew @Cocoa I seen places like nix system have PCs for older operating system but I don't think it's worth buying
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 17:14:58 JST Phantasm

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     @Ree @Cocoa @coolboymew @sun Like for example I bought a decommissioned Leninovo ThinkCenter M55 with a Pentium D ~16 years ago I think for ~15 USD. Now that completely unremarkable space heater of a box that is useless for anything more than some simple CAD on WinXP apparently goes for around 120USD or more on ebay without shipping. It's ridiculous.
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 11:03:01 JST Pawlicker

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     @coolboymew @Cocoa @sun Rage XL was everywhere in server boards too for a while before they moved to the Matrox IP core.
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 11:03:07 JST Pawlicker

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     @phnt @Cocoa @Ree @coolboymew @sun Japanese shit somehow didn't get raped in price, and also I've seen on Twitter the kids in Japan are the same way with tech. There are people under 20 messing with PC-98s and old VCRs and similar they got from Hard-OFF or YAJ.
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 11:03:21 JST Blurry Moon

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     @PurpCat @phnt @Cocoa @Ree @coolboymew pc98s are super expensive in tokyo but that's because of foreigners
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 11:05:44 JST Blurry Moon

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     @PurpCat @phnt @Cocoa @Ree @coolboymew yeah, unfortunately no hardoffs here have any good retro stuff. but we do have a really old fashioned style video game store in the next town over run by a seemingly 80 year old gamer
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 11:05:44 JST Blurry Moon

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     @PurpCat @Cocoa @Ree @coolboymew @phnt the oldest stuff I see at hardoff around here is wii
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 11:05:45 JST Pawlicker

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     @sun @phnt @Cocoa @Ree @coolboymew yeah you're going to those and not Hard Off or ewaste sellers on YAJ, at least BEEP fixes theirs up
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     Cocoa Hoto in real life (cocoa@nekosat.work)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 11:15:58 JST Cocoa Hoto in real life

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     @sun @PurpCat @phnt @Ree @coolboymew mom and pop thrift shops are the move imo, I've acquired tons of old goodies from them
     
     I found a fully functional Betamax and a really nice vintage tripod recently
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 11:16:25 JST Blurry Moon

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     @Cocoa @PurpCat @phnt @Ree @coolboymew I got a working sony video titler from 1993 off yahoo auctions for the cost of a good bowl of ramen
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     T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 14:49:08 JST T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll:

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     @nobullyplz @Cocoa tbh tho OP feels more like what millennials would do because zoomers are too stupid to understand what any of that is
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     nobullyplz :antibully: (nobullyplz@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 14:49:09 JST nobullyplz :antibully:

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     >Born
     >iPad/Cellphone Slop consumption for 10+ years
     >Find goodwill throwaway mechanical item (minidisc, vhs, crt)
     >"Wait, you mean we had precision engineering for common everyday products!?"
     >Gain sentience as if you were the 2001 monolith bone weapon monkey
     
     Youth feel they live in the ashes of golden ages. Just because it was 30 years ago and not 500 doesn't make it less so. :catnoearsmonocle:
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     Cocoa Hoto in real life (cocoa@nekosat.work)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 15:04:50 JST Cocoa Hoto in real life

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     @theorytoe @nobullyplz I'm an early zoomer and own many electromechanical works of art though :MariStare2:
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     T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 15:05:36 JST T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll:

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     @Cocoa @nobullyplz
     sir im talking about the average zoomer
     
     not the precum babies like us