050124_3 posted:

the day's events when history became obstructed, january 1st 2015

Internet Old One posted:

Please sign up for DMs next time I want you to tell me about this in detail. This sounds important.

Agile Vector posted:

the problem was not enough fiber:

Internet Old One posted:

He should add more features to his SA burner accounts. To punish Jeff and make fools of us.

Thankfully he hasn't thought of that yet because we're protected by satan.

Beeftweeter posted:

that's satin

it protects, lifts and separates

quote:

The product was only 9.7 in (250 mm) wide, 5.9 in (150 mm) deep, and 1.6 in (41 mm) high, and weighed less than 3 lb (1.4 kg). While it used a Chips and Technologies 8680 microprocessor, it was marketed as having 286-level performance. The C&T chip set included hardware emulation of the Intel 80186 processor and the HandBook used a special feature of the chip set called SuperSet whereby 80286 instructions were trapped and then emulated in software. This same feature was used to emulate the 8051 keyboard controller, serial port and numerous other I/O functions. Intel worked closely with IQV to include similar capabilities in the SL chip sets which were introduced in the mid-90s.

The HandBook had 640 KB of RAM, a 20 MB hard drive, and a monochrome blue-white CGA-compatible display. The unit could be powered by a rechargeable NiMH battery or six AA batteries in a special battery pack. The rechargeable batteries were unusual in that they are able to be charged without actually being in the laptop. A floppy disk was attached through a proprietary parallel port connector. A tremendous engineering effort went into the design of the HandBook's keyboard. It featured 17.8 mm center-to center key spacing and 2 mm travel for a firm feel.

After the success of the original Gateway HandBook, Gateway came out with a 486 model. The HandBook 486 (as it was called) was originally available as two models: A 486SX/25 and a 486DX/40 model. Gateway later on came out with HandBook 486 models utilizing a 486SX/33 or 486DX/50 processor. All of these handbooks used a grayscale 640x480 VGA display. Because of the small size of the unit, the display was distorted — what appear as circles on other displays come out as ovals on the HandBook 486.

The built-in hard disk for the HandBook 486 was usually 120 MB in size. The HandBook 486 was produced between 1993 and 1995. It had 4 MB of built-in RAM, which can be expanded to 20 MB.

Beeftweeter posted:

the gateway 2000 handbook



it came in two models, a C&T 8680 "286" and a 486

per wikipedia (cleaned up):

it ran on 6 AAs lol. note it has a thinkpad style clitmouse above the enter key and mouse buttons by the latch

gabensraum posted:

give me that keyboard on a modern laptop

Progressive JPEG posted:

that "286" sounds like dogshit garbage and I wonder how badly it performed compared to a real one, but sign me up for that 486

Beeftweeter posted:

the gateway 2000 handbook



it came in two models, a C&T 8680 "286" and a 486

per wikipedia (cleaned up):

it ran on 6 AAs lol. note it has a thinkpad style clitmouse above the enter key and mouse buttons by the latch

Beeftweeter posted:

the gateway 2000 handbook



it came in two models, a C&T 8680 "286" and a 486

per wikipedia (cleaned up):

it ran on 6 AAs lol. note it has a thinkpad style clitmouse above the enter key and mouse buttons by the latch

3D Megadoodoo posted:

why the gently caress would you want to connect a floppy disk? you can do that just as well with a bit of cellotape. now connecting a floppy disk drive would be useful.

VictualSquid posted:

mystes posted:

I didn't know they made an anime out of WinRAR

mystes posted:

I didn't know they made an anime out of WinRAR

mystes posted:

I didn't know they made an anime out of WinRAR

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

the acid test. and i remembered it because it had a moment of anachronistic relevance https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Passing-Acid2

FMguru posted:

its the other way around - winrar was developed out of a very popular anime

minidracula posted:

Wasn't there a thing a while back how "no one" registers WinRAR (except e.g., businesses), and it blew up (in some places) for a while, and then someone did a "goof" where they bought a registered copy of the oldest WinRAR they could, or something like that?

I guess I fall into the "never bought" but not the "never registered" camp because I got a free WinRAR license decades ago through a website that IIRC had a drawing to win one as a prize that month (they had monthly deals, usually discounted software), and I entered and happened to win.

shackleford posted:

huh. pkware still exists and they're still making pkzip

Midjack posted:

under no circumstances play the winrar visual novel, it's pure uncut filth.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

wasn't there a good chunk of time where no web browsers could pass the acid test?

minidracula posted:

Wikipedia's History section of their page after Katz died is... I dunno; I was gonna say "interesting", but it's not really, what it's more like is it's what you probably expect if you didn't know anything that happened after Katz died before reading it (which is more or less when I last paid attention to PKWARE): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKWare

axolotl farmer posted:

I had a dream that the entire internet reached final shittification. the only website left that still had content written by humans was cnet.com/blog and that was just boring as hell.

I have never used cnet and that page doesn't exist. stillf, shittification is very imminent and real.

thanks for coming to my dream journal tedx.