kalleboo,
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My HARD OFF Megathread!

HARD OFF is my favorite store ever. It’s a Japanese chain of tech thrift stores that will buy your junk and resell it. There’s also OFF HOUSE (clothes/household items), the confusingly unrelated BOOK OFF (used books, games and other media), LIQUOR OFF, etc

I’ll start off by posting some overview photos of what kind of stuff you can find there, and then start following up whenever I find something interesting

Let’s go!

#RetroComputing #RetroGaming #Thrifting #mb

kalleboo,
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Today I also ran across some useful Apple cables - a PowerBook HDI30 SCSI cable and a serial adapter that I both picked up

#VintageApple #Thrifting

kalleboo,
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Today in weird HARD OFF finds - a Windows XP laptop with no pointing device whatsoever! Anyone have any ideas what the use case for manufacturing a niche machine like this would be?

#RetroComputing #Trifting #japan

kalleboo,
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Big fan of this webpage I found about Fujitsu laptops with a GIF of a spinning logic board http://www.katch.ne.jp/~toshiaki/index0.html

SinclairSpeccy,

@kalleboo The early web called. They want their aesthetics back

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@SinclairSpeccy <META name="GENERATOR" content="IBM WebSphere Studio Homepage Builder Version 13.0.6.0 for Windows">

kalleboo,
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And as you can see there are no pop-out trackballs or mice or anything like that like on some older laptops.

Left side of computer revealing DC jack, network jack, IR jack, 2 USB ports, power switch and audio controls/jacks
Front of laptop revealing floppy drive, battery bay and CD-ROM drive
Right side of computer revealing PCMCIA card slots

raruler,

@kalleboo

"Depending on the choice at the time of purchase, external PS/2 mouse attached (without flat point) or infrared wireless mouse attached (with flat point. In some cases, a light receiving part will be added to the main body of the computer)."

https://www.fmworld.net/biz/fmv/support/fmvmanual//02kamiki/5721nu/h_gijyutsu2.html

Maybe for having it be strapped/attached to something like a cart/machinery/airplane or people who just really hated touchpads?

penguin42,
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@raruler @kalleboo So yeh I was going to suggest the Trackman Portable - which was a cute clip on trackball; but @kalleboo 's pictures show USB not PS/2 so it's a bit later.
https://www.retrocomputing.co.uk/2019/08/logitech-trackman-portable-mouse-t-ce3.html

kalleboo,
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@penguin42 @raruler It does also have a single PS/2 port on the rear (rear photo didn’t fit in the 4 photo limit) so it could work!

penguin42,
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@kalleboo @raruler Oh right, then it definitely deserves one of those little clip on trackballs;

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    kalleboo,
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    @chris Interesting! I guess that it is one way to get people to stop poking at things 😅

    kalleboo,
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    A portable VHS deck (presumably for use with a pre-camcorder video camera)

    This funky red Betamax deck and a video wipe generator

    A karaoke LaserDisc player with 5-song track selection

    A US-spec closed captions decoder??

    A red Sony Betamax deck
    A laserdisk player with big buttons marked 1-5
    A TeleCaption 400

    kalleboo,
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    A product category I had never heard of before - an automatic watch winder

    #thrifting

    vga256,
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    @kalleboo super important for automatic watch owners! i had no idea how useful these were until i got my first automatic :)

    kalleboo,
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    Spotted today: this Wyse Cx0 Thin Client from 2011

    #RetroComputing #Thrifting

    MODEL NO: Cx0 WTOS 1G 128F/512R DVI ES JPN NO: 902175- 09L L NO: 2JUDKC00281 DATE MANUFACTURED: DECEMBER -2011

    kalleboo,
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    A pair of combo AV devices: A dual Hi8 + SVHS player, and a dual LaserDisc + DVD player. With these to you're all set!

    kalleboo,
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    Pretty sure my parents had this same woodgrain cassette tape drawer, maybe with different branding

    europlus,

    @kalleboo also here in Aus.

    aldi80s,
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    @kalleboo lol... I had one like this in the late 1980's

    kalleboo,
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    @aldi80s I think everyone did!

    aldi80s,
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    @kalleboo if not...then 95% at least ! 🤣👍

    vga256,
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    @kalleboo these make exceptional win9x gaming machines!

    kentbrew,
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    @kalleboo omg it's just like Weird Stuff Warehouse!

    kalleboo,
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    I went to a new (to me) HARD OFF today and spotted a Wacom tablet. There are always lots of Wacom tablets and they’re always USB, but wait a second… that looks like a miniDIN plug… and… isn’t that an ADB pass thru?

    Yes indeed, today the #MARCHintosh gods smiled upon me and now I am the proud owner of an ADB Wacom ArtPad II!

    #VintageApple #RetroComputing

    A blurry closeup of the plug revealing it is indeed ADB
    The underside of the tablet with ArtPad II TABLET and KT-0405-A written on it

    kalleboo,
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    They also had a G4 and 2 G3s, but the G3s were in a sad state :( #MARCHintosh

    The side of a PowerMac G3 revealing a large chunk of missing plastic

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