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LP๐ธLight up the nightsure sex is great but have you ever turned off an IBM PC AT by throwing the big red switch and been absolutely, supremely confident that all computing has now ceased and will not resume just because the operating system gets peckish for some midnight updates
wtb one of those switches for my brain
Yes, this post mentioned sex as part of the joke form. If you get Weird about that, the other Old thing you will get to experience today is the "plonk" of landing on a blocklist.
For the rest of you, thank you for not beign weird creeps in my notifications.
Ressu@LionsPhil And the satisfying thunk of the switch.. pure perfection.
Cysio 
โ@LionsPhil the same energy as turning off the power strip back in my day
FULL-FIFO DEVELOPER ๐บ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฟ@LionsPhil not sure why you think sex is great, but this lever is indeed such a turn-on
Rua / Whitepaw &๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๐ฑ
Luna Dragofelis ฮฮ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ@ruawhitepaw @LionsPhil I just wish those switches weren't so goddamn bright.
@LunaDragofelis @LionsPhil This one flickers, too! Just like those flickery neon candles.
FoxVK@ruawhitepaw @LionsPhil hoho that switch one day collapses inside and you become instatly in heat...
Nate Vack ๐ด@LionsPhil Oh my god I remember that switch.
One of the all-time great satisfactions in life, that switch.
Manuel Tejera@LionsPhil Many many moons ago i pilfered a IBM PS/2 386 tower from an old job and it was a massive all metal machine that weighted like 20 kg and had a red tab power switch the size of my hand. When you powered on and off that thing, the entire building KNEW.
D. Griffin Jones@LionsPhil The TRS-80 Model 4P power switch isnโt just giant and red, it also *glows*
https://tech.lgbt/@dgriffinjones/111775005580726814
https://tech.lgbt/@dgriffinjones/111775005580726814
D. Griffin Jones (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 video reject modernity, embrace glowing red power switches
Halla Rempt@LionsPhil no... but only because I never had an AT, all I had was an X86 spring circle super turbo pc xt, but it had that switch ...
Tim ๐ฅ๏ธ๐@halla @LionsPhil
I can confirm the XT also came with the big red switch - difficult to accidentally activate too.
I can confirm the XT also came with the big red switch - difficult to accidentally activate too.
Rob@LionsPhil cuh-CHUNK
that big red switch was so deeply satisfying
Steve Scott@LionsPhil Oh the switches on those IBM PC ATs were *SO* good
Raven Luni@LionsPhil I've never not been confident of that :)
Calicosine@LionsPhil This is why I prefer power supplies that have switches on them.
Randy_underscore_S@LionsPhil The Big Red Switch is the first of many things they stole from my generation.
kianryan โ๏ธ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐That *thunk* of a proper disconnect/connect of power.
A real feeling of powering up a robobrain with electricity.
Rob Zazueta@LionsPhil Oh, God... I can still feel the satisfying *THUNK* of switching it off.
Life needs more of those switches...