#512k

[utaesthetics]

DOM-512K-DropZone_V4

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Steve Jobs (2015, Danny Boyle)

31/08/2024

[2jimbi]

book reviewer!megumi who’s popular amongst readers, especially your friend group.

“yeah, he’s so cute, isn’t he?” your girl friends chat and giggle amongst themselves.

all you can do is nod aimlessly because, frankly, you had no idea who he was nor did you really care.

a few weeks later and your girl friends are still chatting about him like he’s hot gossip. “okay, i’m tired of this. who the hell is megumi?”

they all giggle and jump at the chance to show their crush to you. “look.” one of them turns their phone to you to show a gorgeous looking man in the photo, trying looking oh-so-mysterious and hot.

you gasp slightly. “what the hell?” you take her phone and zoom in, making sure you’re not daydreaming. how could they be hiding this piece of junk?

“what does he do?”

“he’s a book reviewer. he’s pretty popular on twitter and youtube.”

you quickly take out your phone and open youtube, typing ‘megumi fushiguro’ in the search bar. you click, and there pops up one of his most popular videos, with 512k views.

damn, all this for a pretty face and a book? you think.

you subscribe to his channel.

maybe you’d send him a message during the week.

this was suppose to end just like that but i might turn this into a little series if anyone wants it hehe

[80sheaven]

A rare Atari 260ST, which actually has 512K RAM (contrary to popular belief!). The 260ST was originally to have only 256K of RAM and some may even have shipped with it, but Atari upgraded the RAM on them before shipping them out due to them not having much free RAM once TOS was loaded.

[legacydevice]

Apple Macintosh 512K

[koney-scanlines]

IBM pC 5150B On THe LEFT: 512k rAm, with cgA AnD hErcULEs vidEocaRds, 5151 mONitor. oN tHe RiGHt iS: XT turbO (10MHz) CLOnE WitH hERcuLES anD CGA GRAPhics CardS, 640K RAM, AdLib sOUnd, 5153 mONiTor, NEtWorK CARd fOR inteRneT/TeLNet Bbs ACceSs, 20MB ST-225 Mfm haRD DiSk.

[female-malice]

My mom was a researcher. And in 1985 she got a grant to buy a personal computer. And she bought this beauty.

And it worked for 40 years.

SO I KNOW WHAT'S POSSIBLE!!! I KNOW THEY COULD'VE CONTINUED BUILDING 40 YEAR TECH!!! BUT INSTEAD THEY TORTURE US WITH SUICIDAL MACHINES THAT KILL THEMSELVES TO GENERATE PROFIT!!!

[quotejungle]

ジョン・レームクールは、音楽業界で働きたい、レコードに自分の顔がプリントされるようなアーティストになりたい、と考えていた。80年代、シアトルの楽器店で働き、そこで自作のカスタムサウンドを搭載したシンセサイザーを販売した。 店が午後9時に閉まると、店舗内の「MIDI City」と呼ばれていた一角へ向かった。そこにはアップルのMacintosh 512Kとかつて25,000ドルほどで売られていたカーツウェルのK250キーボードがあった。ほかにも、AKAI、CASIO、KORGのシンセサイザーが店内に並んでいた。そこでレームクールは午前2時ごろまで自分の音楽制作に没頭した。それから家に帰って眠り、また店に戻って午後のシフトをこなすのである。 新しいキーボードが発売されるたびに、レームクールは購入特典として自作のサウンドを付け足した。レームクールが販売員として働いた最後の年、その店ではグランドピアノよりも電子楽器の売上のほうが多かった。 ある日、店内でベン・ドウリングに出会った。KORGの製品担当者で、各店舗を訪問してKORGの楽器が正しく設定されているかを確認するのが主な仕事だったのだが、時には顧客相手に情報のためのクリニックを開催することもあった。 ドウリングは情報クリニックで忙しく、西海岸全域を動き回る必要があったため、レームクールを製品担当者として採用するよう会社に働きかけ、面接する手はずを整えた。 そして見事合格となり、同社で最も若い製品担当者として就職した。 彼が働いていた楽器店のオーナーが同社に電話をかけ、スター従業員を引き抜くのはやめろ、就職をなかったことにしろと訴えたそうだ。 KORGでサウンドデザインの道に足を踏み入れて以来、レームクールはいくつかの画期的なマシンを用いてきた。M1、O1/W、Wavestationなどだ。そしてもちろん、Tritonもそこに���まれる。 ある楽曲のなかで自分がつくったサウンドが使われていることに初めて気づいたとき、レームクールは衝撃を受けたそうだ。KORGのM1キーボードのためにつくった「Depth Charges」という音がそれだった。水中で爆発する対潜水艦ミサイルを彷彿とさせる、ディレイとリバーブを駆使した「水中音」だ。いわば「Tribe」の遠い親戚にあたる。 ジャネット・ジャクソンの『Rhythm Nation 1814』のオープニング曲「Interlude: Pledge」の冒頭数秒で「Depth Charges」が聞こえてくる。このダンスアルバムは、いまでも彼のいちばんのお気に入りだ。 「そこに使われているのに気づいたとき」と彼は回想する。「ヤバい、もういつ死んでもいい、と思いました」

ヒップホップの歴史に「ドアを閉める音」が刻みこまれるまで | WIRED.jp

[mybikesurly]

Anyone else really fucking hate windows after XP?

So darn tired of this subscription / cloud / we’re updating your computer BS..

Yeah, I know. Get a Mac. I haven’t touched one since owning a Jr… 512k of memory.

[arjorge1987]

Charlando sobre la Commodore Amiga 500 mientras le cambio todos los capacitores y le agregamos 512K de Chip RAM para poder jugar Lemmings!! Entre muchas otras cosas.

[oldschoolfrp]

I dug around and found my Barbarian Hero (aka Swordsman of Khaldir) from Ral Partha set 98-006 Dungeon Party, one of the little boxed sets with Styrofoam trays in The Adventurers line introduced in the 1983 catalog.  It looks like one of my earliest painted figures using glossy Testors enamels with no shading or highlighting.

When I played John Raymonds’ 1985 shareware game The Dungeon of Doom on a Mac 512K, I immediately recognized this figure in the splash screen:

You can download files for The Dungeon of Doom at macintoshrepository.org or archive.org has an emulator for the 1987 version The Dungeon Revealed, which apparently replaced this screen with new art.

[zoomar]

One Megabyte Memory

Two 512K JRAM boards for $2000

1982

[bedemotylkiemo]

☥Hejka motylki,☥

Wczoraj miałam trening i mielismy taki wycisk a ja jeszcze bardziej cisnelam. Ana mi pomogła.

Ana mi mowiła że musze byc lepsza od tych wszystkich tlustych swin (w tym od siebie)

Wiec nie poddawalam sie nawet gdy wszyscy juz zdychali w tym ja bo na koniec juz czulam ze zemdleje

Łącznie spaliłam wczoraj 1600kcal

Zacznę wstawiac bilanse z dni, moze to mi da wiecej motywacji.

Jade do taty jestem w autobusie caly dzien wiec robie fasta jak najdluzszego. Oby ana pomogla mi sie powstrzymac bo mama mi napakowala bardzo duzo jedzenia ://

bilans z 29.10

zjedzone: 512k

spalone: 1600k

razem: -1088k

Oby nastepny tydzien byl chudy...

☥chudego dnia kochani☥

[princess-viola]

MacCharlie advertisement, 1985, scan sourced from vintagecomputing.com

Manufactured and released by Dayna Communications in 1985, the MacCharlie was a hardware add-on for the original Macintosh 128K and the Macintosh 512K that enabled users to run DOS software designed for the IBM PC on their Macintosh.

It did so by literally being an entire IBM PC compatible with an 8088 microprocessor, 256 KB RAM, and a 360 KB floppy disk drive. The RAM was upgradeable to 640 KB and a second disk drive was also available, with the MacCharlie Plus including 640 KB RAM and two floppy drives as standard.

The MacCharlie also included a keyboard extension that added a number pad and function keys, as the Macintosh keyboard lacked a numpad, function keys, or arrow keys (a deliberate choice by Apple who thought that developers would just port their old software to the Macintosh rather than developing software around the GUI paradigm if they had included those keys).

The MacCharlie connected to the Macintosh via a 9-pin serial cable and performed all DOS operations itself (obviously), with the Macintosh serving as a terminal for the MacCharlie. This required you to run the MacCharlie application software that was included on a 3.5 inch floppy disk for your Macintosh along with MS-DOS, which was also (naturally) included on a 5.25 inch floppy disk for the MacCharlie.

While the MacCharlie software included the ability to transfer files from itself to the Macintosh (and vice versa), you could not run a DOS program and a Macintosh program simultaneously (the System Software, later renamed to Mac OS, for the Macintosh did not support the running of multiple programs simultaneously until the release of the MultiFinder extension in 1987, with the feature eventually becoming integrating into the operating system with System 7 in 1991).

The MacCharlie software was also limited to running text-based DOS software only.

(Oh and if you're curious about the name 'MacCharlie', it was in reference to the advertising campaign for the IBM PC featuring Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character)

[computerclippy]

In July of 1985 Commodore released their Amiga 1000 as part of their Amiga line. Two years later it was discontinued. It ran off a Motorola 68000 processor and AmigaOS 1.0. Similarly to the Macintosh 128K, the Macintosh 512k, and the Macintosh Plus, it had a 4P4C modular connector for a keyboard attachment.

[legacydevice]

Apple Macintosh 512k