u/echocomplex

Got this monitor recently, I know gateway used this pedestal with a couple different monitors circa 92-94. I can't for the life of me position it to adjust the up/down tilt of the monitor. It just stays where it is and doesn't seem to budge at all. Just checking if there's a trick to it or if I'm wasting my time and about to break it 😄. There's a small clip on the underside of the monitor at the back of the pedestal but I think that's related to completely removing the pedestal...

The circle is held on by adhesive. If I was assured of a good result, I'd try to remove it, though I'm not sure it will work out. The white plastic of this monitor seems to be a thin layer of white paint over what is now yellow base plastic, so I'm thinking if I take it off with heat it would still take that layer off with it. Thinking I'm going to have to get used to it unless anyone has a good idea. Maybe I could just paint the yellowed circle white so it would blend in better...

Here's my family computer circa 1992 that I saved from my parents place a couple years ago. I've posted various pics of it running fun stuff here before.

Here's also my dad's copy of Aces of the Pacific. Inside the box was the instruction manual for my old joystick, the Winner Sniper (ps it wasn't very good), the first joystick I ever owned, which we bought just for this game. I'd previously uncovered the joystick itself many years ago in my parents basement so that's here too.

Recently I backed up a big collection of 5.25 disks that I also got out of my parents house a couple months ago. I was happy to find that about 95 percent of them worked, and one of those was this disk on the top of the pile, a boot disk my dad made especially to run Aces of the Pacific back in 1993 on this computer as the game needed EMS to run.

Ultimately this all came from my parents house, but it wasn't all together in the same place, I didn't know it all still existed when I started grabbing this stuff years ago, and I wound up uncovering each piece of it years apart. But now that it's all together again... I can literally play Aces of the Pacific almost the exact same way I did in 1993, the same copy of the game on the same computer with the same crappy joystick, and even using the same boot disk.

Ultimate personal dos nostalgia overload. I don't think I'll ever be able to top this.

I live in a neighborhood of houses from circa 1900. This table was on the side of the road in front of one of them. To me it looks like it would be a pre WW2 item, and perhaps could even date to the early 1900s for the following reasons:

-it's made out of cuts of wood rather than plywood

-it seems like it might have hand made nails in its construction. The nail heads are square and the cylinder of the nail is also cut in a 4 sided way rather than being round

-There is no brand or logo anywhere to suggest this was a mass market item that came out of a factory

-the finish is not glossy

-there is some pencil script handwriting on the side of the drawer that looks old timey and similar in style to pencil script on the sides of drawers in the built in hutch in my 1900s house. (This doesn't show up that well in the picture)

-the most recent owner of the house that this table likely came from was elderly and moved to the neighborhood in the 1950s so she may have a closer connection to older items than others who have moved in more recently. Its also not outside the realm of possibility that old owners of houses in this neighborhood leave behind a couple items in attics, basements or barns and they sit there for a long time until a new owner decides to clean them out. I had a few such items in my basement and attic when I moved in though they weren't glamorous (like a very old, heavy, rusty metal tray, an ancient looking basement workbench, old wood doors, etc)

I'm no expert though, so was wondering if there were any other aspects of this item that might suggest when it was built.

Pictures are front view of table, top view of table, nail used in underside of drawer 1, nail used in underside of drawer 2, side view of drawer, underside of table with the drawer pulled out, underside of drawer itself.

I haven't done an item by item inventory to the instruction manual yet but the box certainly seems to be full of a truckload of parts, many of which seem unused (you snap plastic parts out of holders like a model kit and the vast majority seem to still be unsnapped from the holders)

I never find boxed games in the wild so this was a pretty epic find today.

Hilarious 80s movie with a new gag every five seconds. Highly recommended. All kinds of tropes fulfilled in this one, including the stereotypical high school house party to make the geeks popular where the family house gets trashed in spectacular fashion.

A lot of old favorites in here. I'm kinda psyched to find a small used book store that's still in business in 2026 and I'm always intrigued to find non mainstream sci fi books of the 70s 80s and 90s.