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Install Windows posted:i carried around an optical mouse around in middle/high school so i didn't have to deal with this how much of your high school career was spent inside of a locker
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TOOT BOOT posted:how much of your high school career was spent inside of a locker none
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Oct 10, 2013 03:49
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my high school didn't even have lockers, owned nerd
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 http://offbeatr.com/project/the-ultimate-3d-sex-game-a-k-a-xstoryplayer-v9-9-24925473352
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Orbi posted:
Hot its like a realdoll simulator for poor creepos
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Oct 10, 2013 05:25
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an entire kickstarter for creeps
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Al! posted:an entire kickstarter for creeps creepstarter
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of course this would be on there... http://offbeatr.com/project/discord-in-equestria-your-ponysona-goes-here-58998173679
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Install Windows posted:i carried around an optical mouse around in middle/high school
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Sniep posted:the best solution for this, especially for public handling type situations (libraries, school computer labs, etc) that was better than caddies was those just wanted to quote this for the next page cause it ownes
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Oct 10, 2013 12:50
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my first burner was ide on my p133 and back then buffer underrun protection didn't exist so if the drive went faster than the computer you got a coaster that happened a ton even if you closed every single other application and gave all focus to whatever burning app you used i ended up buying a scsi card and a 6x plextor cdrw and then i could leave mirc open while i burned a cd and be able to use cdrwin 
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Install Windows posted:idk we had a special sound card cd rom drive and it didnt have any cpu hogging problems. some creative sound blaster combo thing. yeah it was either scsi or atapi also cdrom drives always had the ability to play audio data independently, no host cpu involvement. which is how video games had cd sound tracks without sweating the cpu
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flyboi posted:my first burner was ide on my p133 and back then buffer underrun protection didn't exist so if the drive went faster than the computer you got a coaster by the pentium era the buffering problem was mostly a software problem. blame windows. not kidding. "client" versions of windows deliberately tweaked the scheduler to favor the foreground process, even if something v. important was happening in the background if you had used the exact same hardware under linux/bsd/solaris it would have worked fine i do not miss that era one bit
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the mouse ball disappeared from our imac's puck mouse in 6th grade and everybody thought i took it but I DIDN'T TAKE IT 
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Sniep posted:you put a group of 12 year olds in a computer lab before htere was the internet (web) (thus they don't want to be there) and tell me how long it takes to disable all the computers cuz they have no mouse balls
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DragonReach Ghost posted:
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Sham bam bamina! posted:i'm the arousing decor i'm the stretch armstrong wiggly penis
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pretty sure the first cdrom drive i ever had was a scsi interface, it was hooked up to a mac iirc the first compy we owned in our house was a IIgs and it cost like 3k or something? shits cray
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serewit posted:iirc the first compy we owned in our house was a IIgs and it cost like 3k or something? shits cray an original pc was something like $3k for 64k, one 360k floppy drive, and a cga card. by the time you'd added a ram upgrade, hard drive, monitor, etc it could easily cost $10k+. and thats 1981 dollars
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and now you can blow 10k on giving a man a hotdog stand i think we were better off before
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Werthog 95 posted:Yup, it helps to provide people the means to achieve their goals. holy poo poo gbs [/quote] thats the guy who took away his kids christmas presents for ecred also lol: Whelp, misstep 1. Doobie didn't do a walk through before leasing. Hopefully not a year lease... He spent (gasp!) 300 on a hood he expected there. I'm worried for what other things lay in wait. Like I will canx xmas if needed.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:yeah it was either scsi or atapi i learned about redbook audio trying to get the seventh guest to work since it played the opening video with sound and then nada they ended up shipping me a third party driver on a 3.5" disk that fixed the game for me apropos of nothing t7g came with a 'making of' vhs tape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcuQoQrMjWM
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As a kid I used to click 'burn' and then run out of the room because I was so afraid of activity on the computer loving up the burn (CDRs are expensive, man!) that I thought even the vibrations of my footsteps moving the mouse might gently caress things up.
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you could easily gently caress up old cd burners by stomping around the house. those things were delicate and temperamental as gently caress
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Al! posted:holy poo poo gbs sorry son but santa left all of your gifts at a redneck's hotdog stand in alabama
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did that guy really sign a lease without doing a walkthrough? hayseed is gonna get bilked out of his money when the wallet inspector shows up
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Sweevo posted:an original pc was something like $3k for 64k, one 360k floppy drive, and a cga card. by the time you'd added a ram upgrade, hard drive, monitor, etc it could easily cost $10k+. and thats 1981 dollars a base model IBM PC was $1,565 in 1981, and unlike every home computer at the time, it had an 80 column display, the minimum for business use. this was a screaming deal. you could easily spend $1500 on a dumb terminal in 1981, and here comes an IBM PC that is both a minicomputer AND a fully capable terminal. who cares if it's bloody slow and has miserable I/O, holy gently caress, it's a business computer on my desk
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the 80 column thing cannot be underestimated btw. all home computers, like apple ii and commodore 64, had 40 column displays can't write cobol can't use it as a unix terminal can't use it as a dec terminal can't use it as a mainframe terminal just useless. ibm pc was the first inexpensive computer to do anything useful
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also the price for an ibm pc with floppy drive and 80 column card had dropped pretty quickly, with the cassette only model being dropped from availability as early as the next year iirc. it still wasn't cheap but it was a really good deal to get something that had a disk drive and an 80 column display.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the 80 column thing cannot be underestimated btw. all home computers, like apple ii and commodore 64, had 40 column displays
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:a base model IBM PC was $1,565 in 1981, and unlike every home computer at the time, it had an 80 column display, the minimum for business use. "the original PC proved too expensive for the home market. At introduction, a PC with 64 kB of RAM and a single 5.25-inch floppy drive and monitor sold for US $3,005 ($ 7,716 in today's dollars), while the cheapest configuration (1565 US$) that had no floppy drives, only 16 kB RAM, and no monitor (again, under the expectation that users would connect their existing TV sets and cassette recorders) proved too unattractive and low-spec, even for its time"
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~Coxy posted:"the original PC proved too expensive for the home market. At introduction, a PC with 64 kB of RAM and a single 5.25-inch floppy drive and monitor sold for US $3,005 ($ 7,716 in today's dollars), while the cheapest configuration (1565 US$) that had no floppy drives, only 16 kB RAM, and no monitor (again, under the expectation that users would connect their existing TV sets and cassette recorders) proved too unattractive and low-spec, even for its time" yes it was too expensive for the home market. it was still a screamingly good deal and lit the world on fire. as it turns out home users are not the primary market for personal computers. who knew? that's only half-sarcastic. in 1981, nobody knew that personal computers would be a big deal in business. having a terminal on your desk, or better yet, your secretary's desk, was the normal model. having a personal computer at work with local i/o and local processing was a really strange idea but it took off in a big way
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in a way business PCs adopted the pricing made popular by SaaS in the 21st century a lot of SaaS is sold on the basis that the initial price is so low, individual managers will either pay out of pocket or use their individual budgeting ability to purchase the first few seats of salesforce.com or whatever the IBM PC was so cheap that individual managers in the early 80s could afford to purchase one for their individual or departmental use, without any higher authority approving it
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kickstarter for a build your own 8088 pc clone kit?? make it happen nerds
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TOOT BOOT posted:computers are loving stupid
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Phoning It In posted:kickstarter for a build your own 8088 pc clone kit?? make it happen nerds just get a broken one, a magnifying glass, and a soldering iron. the transistors are like 0.5mm across
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Phoning It In posted:kickstarter for a build your own 8088 pc clone kit?? make it happen nerds i know for my microcontrollers class in college we used an 8086 board with a breadboard which had video out and USB support and poo poo, so i'm sure it's not that hard to find an 8088 version
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