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Desert Bus posted:This came up in a convo elsewhere and I forgot to get pics of the actual cd but here is the cd stuff from a 1997 OG Dink Smallwood physical release: … Legend of the Red Dragon??
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Stealing the ball out of someone's mouse was a good one, too. Now the closest thing is putting a sticky chunk of post it over the sensor with a crudely drawn middle finger.
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Yep. Old IBM Aptiva variant. They even made a style-matched flatbed scanner. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=COadOb0qVm8
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Enos Shenk posted:Oh man, that's it! I loved that machine, I always thought it was so cool. Mine died due to a power surge in a lightning storm. Yeah and the little popup for the drives had this soft close fancy mechanism. It definitely felt like a Very Fancy Computer. This guy digs through it a lot deeper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO_kceLHRTE Somehow WalMart still lists the scanner on their website, understandably "Out of Stock", but that's about what I remember paying for one. https://www.walmart.com/ip/IBM-01K1226-IBM-01K1226-0275-001-FLATBED-SCANNER-BLACK/131947271 Weird that it was all passing through an old ISA slot, didn't use PCI. I guess with whatever it was, a 4X CDROM it didn't matter. It had PS/2 ports, but the video was still a separate line. This was rihgt baout the time of Packard Bell's awkward attempts to "innovate" with their corner computers and crap. And it reminds me to curse IBM, yet again, for using those flathead screws. Have your nut driver? Life is good. Otherwise it's slotted screw hell.
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Dip Viscous posted:which one of you was it that called him "the ate-poo poo guy" after he posted a video of himself wiping out in the driveway? i still randomly think of that and giggle I will clear a space on a brain shelf and place this there, where it will remain and being me joy for many, many years. That LGR vid was kinda lame otherwise. Good on those people and amazing how much time and effort they’ve sunk, but there was really nothing but trash left.
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It’s taken me three days to remember FXTerm. A custom client BBS but it presented a really nice mouse driven GUI. Super space age compared to typical ANSI stuff at the time.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Is there an easily printable guide that can help identify different cards by their connectors (ISA,PCI, PCI Express, AGP, etc as well as their various iterations?)? I just wound up with literal boxes of various cards and I need to sort them. https://www.deviantart.com/sonic840/art/Computer-Hardware-Chart-2-0-587798335
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Desperate for a return to the grey background/blue hyperlink/Times New Roman internet.
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Light Gun Man posted:computer stuff can be more robust than we imagine. one time a kid poured orange juice into my pc. video card and optical drive got most of it. cleaned them off, video card got contact cleaner and some brushing, both worked afterwards. i still use the optical. it has some trouble ejecting, annoyingly, but otherwise fine. I dumped an entire mug of hot tea with lots of sugar into a desktop form factor computer with the case off on the floor that was running at the time. It immediately blue screened. I retrieved the mug and just shut the computer off in absolute disgust with myself. About 2 months later I took it all apart and literally rinsed the motherboard off thoroughly in a hot shower. I then left it to sit to fully dry for several more months. Put it back together and it ran for years.
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Computer viking posted:This can be done with ipfs, though you probably need to rewrite the ipfs links to go through a http gateway so a normal browser (or app) can fetch them. No idea how the ipfs project is doing, though; they were mediocre when I checked in a decade ago. Isn’t this Zeronet?
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Going from snappy and responsive text terminals to sluggish browser trash at libraries is a massive downgrade.
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Jul 14, 2023 23:59
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Hourly internet was fine because even the nerds among us didn’t live on it 24/7 and we were conditioned to rationed access by BBSes.
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Sweevo posted:It was better when graphics cards had ridiculous names instead of boring numbers. I really feel like the Roll Fizzlebeef could outrun the Blast Hardcheese if they’d just optimize their drivers better, since the Stump Beefknob is impossible to find on store shelves.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Found this beauty the other day. Two zero zero? As in two hundred dollars?!?!?!
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