Zez Retro

Found an Office 95 big box and manual for 50c locally so of course I now needed to spend 25€ to get the media which goes with it.

Turns out the box is “standard” and the media is “professional” but who’s counting

Encarta 99 for 10c, I’ll take that!

The front has a blurry stamp which says “Raamatukogu” which means “Library” in Estonian. The other words are too smudged to make out.

I’ve got a thing for thin clients.

When I was in primary school our class computer didn’t work and I pulled it apart only to find it had no hard disk….

It was about 85€ to get this old new stock Sun Ray 2. I’ve got a genuine Sun X2200 M2 ready to go.

Time to order some of them Java cards!

Wow. Someone in my city is offering "CD burning services".

Not Blu-ray, just straight up CD-R burning for 10€.

"Don't let the development of modern technology prevent you from accessing the content you need. Buy now and get a CD with the content you want!"

Don't hate the player I guess...

I tried getting a terminal into the android instance but this functionality was locked away fairly well. Which I guess is good for security but not in the way they intended

My Wi-Fi picture frame randomized it’s MAC address upon startup, confuses my router. I asked the vendor and they said it’s “more secure”

Wut? With all those public Wi-Fis I’m using it on? I do love going to my local cafe and setting up my digital photo frame, thanks vendor!

This sale tag is interesting “Tallinn Department Store Home Goods” and then a price in old Estonian kroons, the pre €€ currency.

Meaning: this wasn’t just some flea market knock off, it was sold in legit department stores back in the day

Any gamer who grew up in Eastern Europe will recognize these: yellow Dendy cartridges.

The Famicom knock off produced for the Easter bloc, seems like everyone I know had one of these at home.

A new colleague found out I was a collector and offered

Friends don’t let friends install Solaris 10

Pour one out for all the vendors who said “we have implemented updates and now our services are back online”, when really you just waited for AWS to come back up

Not a good day to be running your support desk on AWS

I’ve had really poor mental health today and I have a feeling is started when I installed Solaris 10 this morning

YouTube video by RetroRGB OLED Gaming Monitors: 1440p vs 4K for Modern & Retro Gaming

Here's a deep-dive video comparing OLED gaming monitors! I go over 1440p vs 4K, the benefits of using a 240Hz display, tons of BFI examples - and of course, LAG TESTING :)
Hopefully this is a fun one...especially for retro gamers!
youtu.be/q8DDHiAhQ6c

Thift store score today.

Audio cassettes sell for a premium in Estonia because they were late to the western technology party.

Found his sealed 5 pack of Type II TDK tapes from 1991 for 5€, an absolute steal and definite slipping from the store.

Why does a dachshund keychain from Lindex look like the dog is doing old timey blackface?

Early 2000s programming book covers were something else..

The local IT college was selling old servers cheap, I got a Sunfire X2200 M2 1U server for 20 bucks.

It’s purely for curiosity, it’s x86 hardware but genuine Sun gear doesn’t come up often around here

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

Windows 2000 Professional, "not for retail or OEM distribution" with bonus "Customer Support and Diagnostics Tools" disc behind, 10€

Windows 2003 R2 Standard, got it for 6€ because it has a valid serial

If retro operating system software comes up for sale up to 3 countries away, I am all over it.

NT4 Workstation in cardboard sleeve for 11€.

SQL Server 7.0, the last "NT" version was 7€ which came with a surprise extra NT install disc hidden behind. 👇

AI coding comes down to 2 choices

1. Let the AI code that difficult algorithm for you

2. Fuck it, just shove all the data into the AI and let it work out the answer each time

What’s even more useless than ancient operating system disks? Ancient anti virus big box. Still for 2 bucks….

MORE POINTLESS RETRO OS SOFTWARE.

Windows NT 4.0 boot floppies

I want more big box software from the turn of the century!

I want that big blue Windows NT 4.0 Workstation box but haven’t found a bargain yet on what is essentially just expensive cardboard

That endorsement at the bottom has me sold!

Can’t believe you are parting ways with the mClassic, you have no culture Bob

Makes sense, I do watch a lot of controversial videos about docker containers and networking

If you grew up in Eastern Europe, one of these two desks was your first computer table

Why does YouTube Watch Later list tell me “Unavailable videos are hidden”?

Which videos? I wanna knooooooooow

When the rights holder is a corporation who you can argue is not giving us the Star Wars stories we want? So these fan fictions are quenching a thirst?

Some seem to be a combination of animation and AI but I really have no idea. Effort seems to go into making them.

AI art slop is pretty vocally shouted down but there are tons of AI generated Star Wars fan fiction on YouTube and you will struggle to find a negative comment underneath.

I admit, I like them too.

I wonder why this AI is tolerated? It’s clearly not one click generated, so some effort goes in