LGR Oddware - 5. 25- Drive Bay CRT Monitor from 1997
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Date: 2022-04-14
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C64
My dad used to work in a large furniture store during the 1980s here in Germany. I remember a special semi soundproofed room with some dot matrix printers and a chunky computer with a built in monitor. The monitor was usually displaying a bouncing - symbol. I well remember my dad explaining to me that the --- is the -Klammeraffe- (literally: -clinging ape-, zool. :-spider monkey-) symbol. It took many years until I learned that this symbol was used as a shorthand in the English language. German typewriters don-t have this symbol.
This computer was hooked to several VT51 (like) terminals spread through the building.
I remember that my dad sometimes went into that room, punched a few keys and two pages of paper were printed. Then he used a mechanical teletype for an end of day sales report.
Also I sometimes had seen his boss using the screen watching a progress bar and swapping tapes.
I can-t remember any details but I guess that this screen was mainly used for properly shutting down or rebooting the computer, doing some maintenance, displaying and printing some stats and to initialize and monitoring backups. It sure was ASCII only as the entire system was based on a special OS running a sales and warehouse database for ASCII terminals.
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My dad used to work in a large furniture store during the 1980s here in Germany. I remember a special semi soundproofed room with some dot matrix printers and a chunky computer with a built in monitor. The monitor was usually displaying a bouncing - symbol. I well remember my dad explaining to me that the --- is the -Klammeraffe- (literally: -clinging ape-, zool. :-spider monkey-) symbol. It took many years until I learned that this symbol was used as a shorthand in the English language. German typewriters don-t have this symbol.
This computer was hooked to several VT51 (like) terminals spread through the building.
I remember that my dad sometimes went into that room, punched a few keys and two pages of paper were printed. Then he used a mechanical teletype for an end of day sales report.
Also I sometimes had seen his boss using the screen watching a progress bar and swapping tapes.
I can-t remember any details but I guess that this screen was mainly used for properly shutting down or rebooting the computer, doing some maintenance, displaying and printing some stats and to initialize and monitoring backups. It sure was ASCII only as the entire system was based on a special OS running a sales and warehouse database for ASCII terminals.
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zechs
We had a 16bit -bench computer- when I was a kid that my dad saved from a dumpster at work. We also had a win95 machine(the gateway2000 gigachad tower) but I loved using the bench PC for test drive and reader rabbit. We had a 6? color crt And a black and white crt for it but I always liked switching to the amber mono crt(all of them were dumpster finds from his job. As far as mono goes I think Amber is the best.
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We had a 16bit -bench computer- when I was a kid that my dad saved from a dumpster at work. We also had a win95 machine(the gateway2000 gigachad tower) but I loved using the bench PC for test drive and reader rabbit. We had a 6? color crt And a black and white crt for it but I always liked switching to the amber mono crt(all of them were dumpster finds from his job. As far as mono goes I think Amber is the best.
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YouTube
I grew up in the 90's and watched Ram go from 128Mb if you're lucky, to 128Gb. In two sticks. I wish I was in the computer industry as my friends and I always dreamed of. Never had the money, opportunity, or ability to do so. I miss downloading a song onto a floppy drive at school then taking it home to one by one create a burned cd of music to impress my friends.
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I grew up in the 90's and watched Ram go from 128Mb if you're lucky, to 128Gb. In two sticks. I wish I was in the computer industry as my friends and I always dreamed of. Never had the money, opportunity, or ability to do so. I miss downloading a song onto a floppy drive at school then taking it home to one by one create a burned cd of music to impress my friends.
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PhilLesh69
Around 1995 I put an old double din car head unit in the drive bay of a pc tower case, and a 12 volt cigarette lighter in the plastic blank cover below it. I ran both from the 1000w power supply's 12 volt leads. Then I ran the stereo-out to the sound card.
I think I was the only person ever to have a pc with an Alpine head unit.
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Around 1995 I put an old double din car head unit in the drive bay of a pc tower case, and a 12 volt cigarette lighter in the plastic blank cover below it. I ran both from the 1000w power supply's 12 volt leads. Then I ran the stereo-out to the sound card.
I think I was the only person ever to have a pc with an Alpine head unit.
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Ben
To me it's always helpful to have items that serve a simple purpose, to separate them from other things. For example, my computer screen is associated with so many thousands of things I could be doing with it, it would be helpful to have this little one-color screen that only serves to show me certain information I need to monitor.
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To me it's always helpful to have items that serve a simple purpose, to separate them from other things. For example, my computer screen is associated with so many thousands of things I could be doing with it, it would be helpful to have this little one-color screen that only serves to show me certain information I need to monitor.
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draeath
I could swear that I have seen something -similar- to this mounted in a server rack. I don't think it was in a server chassis, per-se.
It was at a (commercial/private) satellite downlink facility and appeared to be running some dish steering software running on Windows 98. I saw this around 2012-2018. Yes. In operation.
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I could swear that I have seen something -similar- to this mounted in a server rack. I don't think it was in a server chassis, per-se.
It was at a (commercial/private) satellite downlink facility and appeared to be running some dish steering software running on Windows 98. I saw this around 2012-2018. Yes. In operation.
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Martin
A bit of perspective - these electronics are not designed for use of consumers - as the corporate propaganda gives a hint of, they were designed to be built into industrial computers. I've seen quite a lot of these in 1980's and 1990's South Africa, usually seen being part of PC's operating CNC Routers on factory floors.
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A bit of perspective - these electronics are not designed for use of consumers - as the corporate propaganda gives a hint of, they were designed to be built into industrial computers. I've seen quite a lot of these in 1980's and 1990's South Africa, usually seen being part of PC's operating CNC Routers on factory floors.
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Nick
I never saw one of these in the flesh, but I remember seeing an add in Computer Shopper for one. I don't recall the price or even what seller it was. It only stuck in my head because I thought to myself -Man, we are living in the future! Even our computers with monitors have monitors. -
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I never saw one of these in the flesh, but I remember seeing an add in Computer Shopper for one. I don't recall the price or even what seller it was. It only stuck in my head because I thought to myself -Man, we are living in the future! Even our computers with monitors have monitors. -
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ugur
did you say somene from the netherlands send this to you? it looks so familliar i evenb think i once owned that verry same one cos the sticker is damaged the same and color etc. back in 2004 i tested it for a while my dad sold it to someone locally here in the NL lol small world; -)
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did you say somene from the netherlands send this to you? it looks so familliar i evenb think i once owned that verry same one cos the sticker is damaged the same and color etc. back in 2004 i tested it for a while my dad sold it to someone locally here in the NL lol small world; -)
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AIKISBEST
My cousin had a laptop waaaaay back, and it had an amber monochrome display (I also think it was like symbols and text only and no graphical interface, he used it for schoolwork. back in the late 90's and/or early 2000's, I dont remember, but I remember it was really cool)
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My cousin had a laptop waaaaay back, and it had an amber monochrome display (I also think it was like symbols and text only and no graphical interface, he used it for schoolwork. back in the late 90's and/or early 2000's, I dont remember, but I remember it was really cool)
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