crew posted:

This is how I lost my cyber cherry and made my first babe gallery on geocities

Archer666 posted:

I remember spending hours playing crappy fanmade South Park games and listening to South Park "song parodies"(Basically songs with random voice clips added in).

Mak0rz posted:

Bonzo posted:

Same here. I remember one drive starting to fail so I moved all the content over to a spare. Another reason that those huge towers came in handy.

I still have Zip disks that load up and never failed.

Return Of JimmyJars posted:

Game spy is the origin of this dead gay forum. Low tax worked there until he was fired for sexual harassment.

Buttcoin purse posted:

Interestingly, Wikipedia says "Although they are in extremely common use, the terms "master" and "slave" do not actually appear in current versions of the ATA specifications. The two devices are simply referred to as "device 0" and "device 1", respectively, in ATA-2 and later."

I guess they're like SCSI target/ID numbers, in that SCSI devices (at least in the olden days) would have some dip switches or some other kind of selector allowing you to pick which SCSI ID to use in the range 0-7 (although I thought 7 normally referred to the SCSI host bus controller card in your PC). This is because naturally if you have a cable with more than one device on it, you need to tell the devices what their device number is, so the computer can then say "hey, device number <n>, do <thing>" (or at least that's one way of solving that problem).

In terms of IDE/parallel ATA, what really affects you is the "device 0"/"master" on the primary IDE channel is normally viewed as the first disk by your operating system if it's giving you a list of disks, assigning drive letters, etc.

I think DOS does something weird like go through all the disks in order and assign drive letters to the bootable partitions, and then go through them again and assign drive letters to the non-bootable partitions, like C: might be on disk 0, D: might be on disk 1, then E: might be back on disk 0. I don't care enough to check if that's correct.

So I guess when IDE first came out, they decided that instead of numbering the disks they should use the words "master" and "slave", maybe they really were racist? Or maybe it's because that's what the disks were called on some other old IBM system.

FDISK in MS-DOS 3.3 doesn't tell you you're looking at the master or slave disk, it says "1" or "2".

I don't know the logic behind why some hard disks used to not only have jumper settings for "master" and "slave" but also "I'm the only disk".

Vladimir Poutine posted:

Anyone play DOS Links golf from like 1991ish? I remember there was only two or three sound effects in the whole game and one of them was a guy going "looks like you hit the tree Jim" every time the ball hit a tree.


apparently they were still making games in the series as late as 2004

woodch posted:

First golf game I ever played on a computer. With "RealSpeak(tm)" Technology! Digitized sound and voice clips through the PC Speaker! Amazing!

The same company (Access Software?) made a blatant N.A.R.C. ripoff that I forget the name of off hand, but it was fun. I loved playing NARC at the arcades, but hated feeding it quarters, so this was a great way to play it for free.

Jose Oquendo posted:

Is it still used in the legal profession? I think that was the last 'holdout'

Ein posted:

Up until 99/2000 or something https://www.ati.com was just a picture of poo(plastic fake dog poo poo) against a green background. Internet Archive seems to have purged the page though.

And here's a relic that few, if anyone, will remember - the PD format:

It came out years before the CDRW but failed miserably because only a PD drive could read the PD cartridges(the disc couldn't be removed/swapped from the cartridge).

ReverendFaux posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uoBE2uTzc

God I miss that loving thing.

A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:

Also, here is another Nixie tube clock project. A testament to a horribly wasted youth.



This board is an expansion card for the clock, containing alarm clock circuitry, day of the week display which I made out of a staggering amount of discrete components (russian transistors and diodes), a complete (yet kinda rudimentary diode-transistor logic) video circuitry driving a 7-segment display, showing the day of the week in cyrillic. Why? Because gently caress you that's why.





"che" on the screen (made in Eastern Germany in 1980.) Che stands for "Chetvrtak", "Thursday" in Croatian language.

Yes I'll be dying alone.

Jerry Cotton posted:

As long as it isn't taped to your junk they don't care because all they look at is your junk because they want to see your junk.

thathonkey posted:

I remember when OS didnt have zip compression support built in and the first thing you'd have to get on a new install would be

Sten Freak posted:

There's a commercial from a while back that shows the inventor of the USB walking through a room while people cheer and hi-five him in slow mo like a sports star or something. USB did do away with so much pain but I got a little irked when I saw it because of the physical design of the port itself - a connector that can fit both ways. How many times have you had to reverse a cable, particularly on a new machine or piece of hardware or if you're in IT and have to deal with racks and new configurations all the time (haven't worked with hardware in years but still)?

It's a huge improvement but a notch or other obvious indicator or better yet the ability to insert in either orientation would have made it perfect.

Data Graham posted:

Just dial 10-10-220

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

Didn't Datsun rebrand to Nissan in the US, because the Datsun brand was really really suffering from quality problems/perception of quality problems?

drunk asian neighbor posted:

I stopped liking Volvo's design when they did this. The early 90's boxy Volvos are far superior to both the mid-late 90's "Boxy with slight curves" and the modern "this looks like basically every other car on the market" look


Really? Around here (NJ, NYC suburbs) I see 'em all the time. Lexus and Infiniti are the definition of "I want people to know I have money, but not that much money" car.

Also, around here at least, Maserati seems to be usurping BMW as the noveau riche douchenozzle car of choice.

drunk asian neighbor posted:

Also I thought the Infiniti G35 was a rebranded Nissan Skyline and not a 350Z? I never knew why they didn't stick with the Skyline name - it sounds cool and also has a ton of immediate brand recognition among weeaboos and anybody who's ever seen Tokyo Drift. (Not to be confused with the Skyline GT-R of course)

UIApplication posted:

Does SA still have an island or whatever in second life, that poo poo was hilarious