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Yeah, that's some vintage #FirstPersonCamera gear here...

Way before #Glassholes were a thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCfvFQH_1YA via @lazygamereviews / #LGR

#Oddware #VintageElectronics #WeirdTech

@NanoRaptor I seriously want this to be a real thing for @lazygamereviews / #LGR to make an #Oddware video about.

Would make for a good #AprilFools clip!

@puppygirlhornypost2 well, @NanoRaptor is just doing #QualityContent!

Nit just #Oddware and #cursed #shitposts...

The Magical 2010s VOIP Dongle From Goodwill™ (magicJack PLUS)

https://cuddly.tube/w/eg7JjR2XXbDemwXJgREfF8

Personally I am a sucker for recently surplus'd #ThinClients as they offer decent computation for a cheap #NAS whilst being #fanless.

But I guess @lazygamereviews would rather look at #oddware with like #Transmeta #CPU|s, because that's propably way more exciting than the most boring #ThinClient there could be.

#LGR

Some NOS #OddWare: Olympus "Flash Path" SmartMedia-to-Floppydisk adaptor.

Poor man's LS120 SuperDrive of the time..?! 😅

#RetroComputing

Long before #USBC was pushing out 3½mm #headphoneJacks, #HTC had already tried the same with for instance their #TyTNII aka Kaiser. (Whose form factor with slide-out keyboard and tiltable screen I still kinda miss...)
Today I came across my 3-in-1 USB adapter I got for it at the time: #MiniUSB plug on one end, and on the other end ports for a 3½mm headphone, mini-USB for power/transfer, and HTC's own headphone jack.

#oddWare #FiXatoFoto

a hand showing the connectors of the adapter. Mini USB plug, mini USB receptacle, 3.5mm headphones port, HTC headphones port (which kinda resembles a mini display port I guess?)
On top the usual symbols are embossed for each port.

Same adapter, but now seen with the bottom up, showing the label:
"3 in 1 USB adapter
- USB Data Hotsync
- Convert to 3.5 StereoJack
- Convert to HTC Jack"
and the usual CE compliance, USB, RoHS, and no trash (?) logos/symbols, and "Made in China" text.
It also shows the plus are housed in a semi-circle shaped plastic casing, with a short mini USB lead coming out the back.

OMG 😂

#RetroComputing #OddWare

Btw, this is the "webcam" that goes with it. Good we had CRTs back then, because that thing is large and heavy. 😅

#Intel #Oddware #RetroComputing

Did not expect to get the full package when I bid on this, but that's what just arrived. Let me present you some forgotten odd-ware:

The Intel ProShare Conferencing Video System

Consists of a i750-based video capture card to connect a camera to, as well as an ISDN card with mwave audio. Quite beefy with those DSPs. And software, lots of software. 😆

#Intel #Oddware #RetroComputing

A very early example of flash memory storage aimed at the consumer market: a so-called "Miniature Card" from Olympus with 4 MB (the standard itself was developed by Intel in 1995). This one is from 1996 and even pre-dates the Multimedia Card.

It saw use in a few digital cameras, voice recorders and PDAs. It was quickly forgotten, though.

#RetroComputing #RetroTech #Oddware

@Szwendacz if it were so easy then @fuchsiii wouldn't go through all the effort to version-manage and dynamically switch between different #wine versions.

Because there's a lot of #Oddware and old, clasic games between #98SE and #Vista that doesn't run in either #VMs nor #DosBox nor #Proton & #DXVK well.

Also being dependent on #Valve isn't a good idea for #RetroGaming because to get Proton running one's kinda forced to have #Steam up and running.

And don't even get her started on #cringe architecture like #Win32 games that have a #Win16 #InstallShield, which if #Microsoft hadn't specifically accounted for that scenario, whoudn't even install on #Win64.

Right now she's contemplating on what workaround for the "#WorksOnMyMachine" / "#WorksOnBareMetal" problem can be used and having setup some #BareMetal to do some testing and reverse-engineering / debugging stuff with a clear "is" vs. "should" compareable setup.

Cuz as much as she's a #classic #ThinkPad #fangirl, do you think she'd collect hard-to-maintain legacy stuff like #T60's jist for lulz?

Sorry if this seem a bit vent-ish...
I've just seen a lot more behind the scenes development re: her wine hacks and found your post quite #demotivating...

But I can't spoil that much more as of now...

@mich181189 @zymurgic @foone

But weird #Oddware aside:
That's still a modern concept with #Autoloaders for #Tapes being deployed to this day...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxnhtnWpLFo

Ever heard of a #LaserCard? Probably not. But what if I tell you that this was the first-ever optical storage medium that allowed the user to write data to it? Way before PD and CD-R. And you would be even more stunned to learn that it did exist in mid-1984 already - before even the first CD-ROM drive.

The format was developed by DREXON and later continued by LaserCard Systems. Storage capacity was between 2.8 and 4.1 MiB (with/without EDAC).

The first two pictures show a LaserCard from my collection. These were samples given out at SYSTEMS '91. Last picture is from Computer Chronicles (May 1984) with Stewart Cheifet showing a card. Fun fact: almost all pictures you find on the web show sample cards.

Why I write all this? Well, after many years, I just scored a LaserCard drive to read/write those! 🙂 While a complete flop in the consumer market, they were very successful e.g. for access control and used 'til the early 2000s. The last drives even had USB.

#VintageComputing #Oddware

Not sure if I posted this here already or if that was still on Twitter, but anyway... this is my weirdest PC game in my collection so far: Bubble Memories by Taito for Windows 9x/2000/XP, "Not for Sale" promo from Korea. No idea why this even exists. 🤔 The game was never released to retail for Windows.

ps: It's not a native Windows port but runs the arcade roms instead.

#RetroGaming #Taito #PC #Windows #Oddware