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this oughta be posted hereSombrerotron posted:anyway get a load of this
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 18:15 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 22:07 |
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i had a plextor cd burner. £160 lmao.
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 19:25 |
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all y2k computers need zip drives
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 22:15 |
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OSI bean dip posted:all y2k computers need zip drives
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 22:16 |
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we had a zip drive I have never ever used a zip disk
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 22:19 |
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zip drives weren't around very long before usb flash drives took over
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 22:20 |
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Silver Alicorn posted:zip drives weren't around very long before cd-r took over
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 22:26 |
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zip drives were much faster than cd-rs or the early usb keys they were, however, much less reliable than either alternative
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 22:31 |
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SO DEMANDING posted:this oughta be posted here those plexwriter 12/4/32s were bomb as gently caress because they were one of (if not?) the earliest burners to have buffer underrun protection, so you could do other stuff on your computer and if it didn't send data to the drive fast enough it wouldn't just instantly hose the burn. i remember downloading music off napster and burning CDs for people at high school. good times
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 22:58 |
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UDF-formatted CD-RWs
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 23:00 |
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can you udf a hard drive
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 23:32 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:those plexwriter 12/4/32s were bomb as gently caress because they were one of (if not?) the earliest burners to have buffer underrun protection, so you could do other stuff on your computer and if it didn't send data to the drive fast enough it wouldn't just instantly hose the burn. Fuuuuck - I remember burning CDs at 8x off a 5400RPM Maxtor without any underrun support. Risky business...
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# ? Sep 5, 2016 06:36 |
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Made worse by the fact that each blank was around $10 in the early days of CD-R, most people were running Windows 98 with nasty IRQ sharing hardware and IDE hard drives that were barely fast enough to keep up. Good times, I remember the ritual of rebooting your computer, closing all other applications and as many background tasks as possible to increase your chances of success
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# ? Sep 5, 2016 06:46 |
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surely someone remembers burning directly from a downloading file
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# ? Sep 5, 2016 06:51 |
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error1 posted:Made worse by the fact that each blank was around $10 in the early days of CD-R, most people were running Windows 98 with nasty IRQ sharing hardware and IDE hard drives that were barely fast enough to keep up. and watching the buffer gauge plummet if you accidentally bumped the mouse
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# ? Sep 5, 2016 12:00 |
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remember to keep your hard drive and cdrom on a different ide channel
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# ? Sep 5, 2016 15:35 |
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Most important - make sure both the burner and HDD are capable of and set to DMA instead of PIO mode.
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# ? Sep 5, 2016 17:34 |
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i dont think this thread is complete until the op underruns a cd burning session with their warez'd software of choice
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# ? Sep 5, 2016 17:36 |
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we need some period appropriate malware. does anyone archive that poo poo, and how much of it would work anymore?
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# ? Sep 5, 2016 17:47 |
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SO DEMANDING posted:we need some period appropriate malware. does anyone archive that poo poo, and how much of it would work anymore? danoct1
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# ? Sep 5, 2016 18:10 |
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I'm running windows 2000
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# ? Sep 5, 2016 18:25 |
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SO DEMANDING posted:we need some period appropriate malware. does anyone archive that poo poo, and how much of it would work anymore? also: https://archive.org/details/malwaremuseum
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# ? Sep 5, 2016 18:27 |
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download everything you can find on a sling.to/fosi mirror. og site is down.
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# ? Sep 6, 2016 18:45 |
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krooj posted:i dont think this thread is complete until the op underruns a cd burning session with their warez'd software of choice discover clone cd and use it to distribute working copies of gta 2. dont breathe on the tower while it's writing.
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# ? Sep 6, 2016 23:54 |
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I've still got this thing. not sure what to do tbqh. is there any cool workstation software I should try to run?
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 01:15 |
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Silver Alicorn posted:I've still got this thing. not sure what to do tbqh. is there any cool workstation software I should try to run? old games that literally the only half-decent reason to build a POS like this was that not what you had in mind?
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 01:35 |
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eh. mostly I wanted to explore the hardware. learned a lot I guess
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 01:48 |
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I mean it's not old enough to play the really old DOS games that are more CPU dependent
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 01:49 |
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Silver Alicorn posted:eh. mostly I wanted to explore the hardware. learned a lot I guess congratulations on exploring a frankensteined hardware configuration no one actually had back then. Silver Alicorn posted:I mean it's not old enough to play the really old DOS games that are more CPU dependent not that old, use dosbox for that stuff . but there's a bunch of win98-era stuff which is completely hosed up on anything modern and doesnt work well with VMs though things are changing, i was playing around with this recently: http://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ it's very very neckbeardy and has literally zero documentation, but i managed to get simcopter running!
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 02:06 |
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hey, it's a compaq motherboard with a compaq cpu and a compaq power supply. idk what video card would have been in an actual ap550 tho
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 02:18 |
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Silver Alicorn posted:hey, it's a compaq motherboard with a compaq cpu and a compaq power supply. idk what video card would have been in an actual ap550 tho matrox g400 probably if it was fancy enough, wildcat 3d. that won't play any video games tho
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 04:55 |
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Install BeOS imo It opens up a whole new world of exciting computing if you've never tried it before
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 06:11 |
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hmmm....
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 13:56 |
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throw it in the trash where it belongs
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 15:28 |
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beos is cool butBloody posted:throw it in the trash where it belongs
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 15:37 |
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Raluek posted:cant be stealthy if you have a quantum fireball. i bet a bunch of them still work, tho. they were weird like that, i think the ones i had either failed within the first year, or never. i wonder if this bigfoot can be coaxed into functionality if they still sell that i have all my christmas shopping taken care of
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 18:15 |
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Run OpenBSD on it. And get a CRT.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 21:31 |
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sarehu posted:Run Solaris on it. And get a CRT.
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# ? Sep 12, 2016 04:37 |
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dude what a waste
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# ? Sep 12, 2016 14:40 |
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krooj posted:trying to find the pos passive cooler I had for my 9800 Pro...
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