So, I recently ran a oll in my Workshop regarding the next theme for fun things and it tied between Mage Fashion in Final Fantasy/Fantasy, and Consoles and Computers. Being the decider, I went with my biggest nerdfest ever and... Well... It's exploding. SORRY GUYS. So expect the Consoles coming in a short time.
This is Computers through history. Included in this raffle is several selections. Because this has a LOT, there's sections, broken up into General, peripherals, Brands, and, in one case, contine! Intrigued? Read on!
Ends: November 27th at Midnight Ticket Price: 1K per ticket
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2016 12:14 pm
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Tickets are 1K each, regardless of section! Achieve your dreams! Buy as many tickets as you like! I like pure, but items over 10B are fine too. List 'em if you're using 'em in your bid though. Every section is Edumacational! Read up in there kids! ouo You may win in TWO sections, but enter all of them! Sections will be rolled one at a time. Trades come to me. You may buy tickets for friends! No proxies - buy the tickets to give them! Be good sports. If you're an a*****e, I will be sure to give you a second one. Al are welcome, all are welcome. That means staff and patron alike. I'm equal opportunity yo. Trades are due at time of purchase. Failure to pay will result in disqualification of unpaid tickets. Insane Inside.
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2016 1:30 pm
Computers Through Time In the beginning of the story.... And the middle, and the end.
RADAR
IBM 5150 One of the first home PCs? Well...
Tandy 1000 Setting the Tandy Standard.
Packard Bell Multimedia Tower The 90's were a SPECIAL time in computer history hur hur hur
COMPAQ Look mom I got bought out by Hewlett Packard!
Gateway Back in my day Gateway Stores littered the landscape like fleas.
Alienware Gaming Laptop Alienware used to be cool but now they're owned by Dell.
Homebrew Rig There's Computer Users and then there's the Computer Builders. Then there's the assholes who do both.
The first place to look for gaming is in fact well past into the 40's and 50's. Not with PONG, or Atari, although the two art early synonymous with early gaming, but rather to RADAR based gamrs. Back in the day, Games were simple.
And then, after computers began becoming more common after machines like ENIAC and UNIVAC, companies began to look up from the calculator wars and at the future.
One of the first home computers is the IBM 5150. Although made for business, clever programmers soon learned how to manipulate the system for more than word processing -- the need for a Taiwanese font set on that lovely phosphor screen led to the invention of the Hercules graphics card. Eventually, IBM began developing the IBM PCjr, at which point Tandy, one of many companies manufacturing clones of the IBM PC, deeloped the Tandy 1000 with IBM PCjr compatibility. Before it was released, the Jr failed and the IBM standard became the Tandy Standard. Entering the 90s Tandy and IBM began to compete with more than the giants of Apple and Commodore Business Machines -- corporations like Packard Bell, and Compaq became the popular choicesin the home market. Although Packartd Bell developed a dubious reputation and withdrew from the American market, and Compaq is now part of Hewlett Packard, some brands survive. Alienware, popping up sometime in the late 90s, became a gaming company eventually bought by the powerhouse of Dell.
These days, many computers are also popularly home built.
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2016 1:41 pm
Apple Computers Hello, I'm a Mac. And I'm a PC.
Apple II Look, Wozniac and Jobs didn't shove this one into a wooden box!
Apple MacIntosh 528K The last of the rainbow Apples. Mmmm. Apples.
Apple iMac G3 After ousting Job they eventually made this candy coated beasty.
Apple iMac G4 When everything went touch. And then bombed. Am I the only one who loved it? ;_;
In the late 70's, two guys were working in their garage and somehow farted out a hobby computer. These two nerds were Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The Apple PC was sold by Jobs and designed by Wozniacand enjoyed a quiet ut delicious popular sale factor. And then, as they formed a company, Steve and Steve worked and Steve Wozniak created the Apple II. An icon was born! The Apple II was made for hobbyists, businesses, and schools -- and in fact many tiny nerds in the 80s and early 90s can tell you nothing beat playing games on an apple. One popular game, Oregon Trail, even has a cult following! However, Apple chugged on, developing less known machines like the Apple Lisa and Apple III, but the next Big Hit was the Apple Macintosh 528K. Sometime after Woz left, and Steve Jobs was ousted by his board.
During this time, Apple continued working on PCs that just kept imploding in on itself -- however two new Macs, the iMac G3 and G4, were released. Steve Jobs, meanwhile, created NeXT, and formed Pizar based on this technology as a colossal middle finger to Apple. It worked -- when Jobs was taken back, he dug Apple from the toilet, and ran the company to success after success until his ultimate death. As for Apple? Don;t. Don't bring it up, just... Enjoy the good times...
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2016 1:52 pm
Commodore Business Machines Are you keeping up with the Commodore? Cause the Commodore is keeping up with you!
Commodore PET The First Commodore Computer, for Businesses.
Commodore Vic-20 Endorsed By Shatner circa 1982
Commodore 64 GS Because the Commodore 64 didn't make a great console but damn fun gaming so...
Commodore Business Machines. Owner of Amiga. Holder of my Biases. Commodore was a calculator manufacturer in the 70's whom discovered not only the PC market, but aquired MOS to develop a chipset for their first foray into the Computer Market of the late 70's. Known in Europe as the CBM, and in North America as the PET, this first monstr is an icon of times past. After the PET - NOT a gaming machine! - the company put investment into the Vic chip, soon releasing the Vic 20. After the Vic 20, the most populatr machine of their line-up was released... the Commodore 64. Commodore released multiple iterations of the infamous C64, which still has a healthy homebrew market, long after the Company imploded in on itself in 1994. I can get into more but, uuuhhh in truth I can do an entire raffle on Commodore if we really go that route.
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2016 2:11 pm
Europe and Peripherals Mmmmm, foreigners.
Acorn BBC Micro BBC commissioned, BBC approved
Sinclair ZX Spectrum It's pronounced 'Zed' cause it's from the UK.
Preipherals!
5 1/4 inch Floppy Disk Back when I was a young girl... Oregon Trail was on these.
3 1/2 inch Floppy Disk Hard plastic nostalgia
In the 80's the European Market had infinately mre games and options, at least, to collectors. Similarly, the Floppy disk 5 1/4' and 3 1/2 are iconic memories of the past!
