Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s
Posted on Yesterday, 23:14
The earth in a nuclear winter is still more inhabitable than Mars That is why any extended visit to Mars will be challenging without lots of external resources dropped
Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s
Posted on 2022-05-20, 04:02
A discord server is one step above a group text, kinda useless for archival and search
Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s
Posted on 2022-05-20, 03:08
How many of you remember paying for internet access by the minute? I kept grandfathered under AOLs $4.95 a month plan many years My internet use patterns meant it always was cheaper than unlimited Once I knew I was going to be high use doing a bunch of auctions and switched to unlimited and AOL …
Re: What do you drive?
Posted on 2022-05-17, 20:06
full electric vehicles % sales (march) in: China: 21% Europe: 14% You will need 1 Million charging stations to accommodate all these EV vehicles. Currently there are only a few thousand. There are 276 million vehicles registered in the U.S. as of 2019. This includes 156 million trucks, 108 million …
Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?
Posted on 2022-05-17, 14:31
zapbuzz wrote on 2022-05-17, 13:08: Halo the series! Master Chief takes off his helmet Master Chief Jr Irritating woman child Doesn’t get more Halo like until episode 5 Still better than a lot of stuff on streaming even if it doesn’t follow any lore
Re: Home Computer - was it a toy or a Personal Computer for the masses?
Posted on 2022-05-15, 20:05
Towers became the custom built Pc while desktops stayed OEM then became less popular After I stopped buying OEM all my systems were towers, you just didn’t buy a desktop (even if you used the tower as a desktop) I remember a long time that if you ordered a PC out of computer shopper you were stuck …
Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s
Posted on 2022-05-14, 04:00
The Serpent Rider wrote on 2022-05-14, 02:28: TrashPanda wrote: why not the Stock Market crash of 87 ? Less orphans. And the retirement plan for 99.99% of Americans wasn’t Hobo box car Willy or death at 58
Re: Home Computer - was it a toy or a Personal Computer for the masses?
Posted on 2022-05-11, 23:29
My father was required to have a high end (for the early 80’s) programmable scientific calculator long skinny thing with a brown plastic slip in case. It was said to be more powerful than some of the home computers and some would program basic and the like on them
Re: Pentium 200Mhz in a Socket5? (with 2x maximum)
Posted on 2022-05-11, 13:52
The following does not apply to the op but… PMMX are many times limited to very specific multipliers Older original pentiums likewise were usually missing multipliers As an example I’ve had p133s that had the 2.5x multiplier and others that did not I’ve had p75s that had 2x and others did not I’ve …
Re: What vintage CPU socket saw the biggest increase in CPU horsepower from release to retirement?
Posted on 2022-05-11, 13:41
I had a non-IBM compatible 286-4mhz Unisys machine 286-25 came out near the end for a 6.25 ratio If we count the strange Evergreen overdrives you could take the systems to a 486slc2-66
Re: Breaking the internet privacy
Posted on 2022-05-09, 17:01
What is sad is 99% of the scammers are in corporate buildings operating just like any other business. Their locations are all known and quite centralized for “illicit “ operations Heck some US facing hackers have got their locations and security feeds with simple tools. 3 well placed bombs and 90% …
Re: Graphics card for Windows 3.11 and Nt3.51 in high resolutions (1600x1200 and higher)
Posted on 2022-05-09, 16:48
I think 1280x1024 at 256 or fewer colors in 1.x days is a different discussion than resolutions more than 1600 in thousands or millions of colors in the 3.x days High resolution + High color was uncommon until the 9x days, while millions of colors at less than 1280 was common even moderately early, …
Re: Would you go for any of these Socket 7 boards?
Posted on 2022-05-09, 15:53
The SIS530 can be overclockEd to 133mhz FSB which restores any lost performance
Re: Graphics card for Windows 3.11 and Nt3.51 in high resolutions (1600x1200 and higher)
Posted on 2022-05-07, 23:45
I had vintage proprietary fixed sync monochrome screens that went to strange high resolutions at minimal grayscales. My guess is that in the Win3.x days you either got high resolution or you got color but not both, Those who needed massive screens and resolutions likely couldn’t be bothered with …
Re: Upgrading a 386SX - some advice!
Posted on 2022-05-04, 23:02
DTK 386sx systems came in a socketed cpu version
Re: VGA adapter to convert a graphics card interlaced mode to non-interlaced mode on LCD?
Posted on 2022-05-03, 01:23
I had a very old vga card that allowed you to run 43hz non-interlaced or 87hz interlaced at the common resolutions. I thought the screen flickered more non-interlaced but the screen would work in either mode. Also worth noting some LCD screens will accept 87hz interlaced, my old XR6-19 seemed to …
Re: Upgrading a 386SX - some advice!
Posted on 2022-05-03, 00:52
Hi, this mainboard has the chipset UM82C366F by UMC. Does anybody know, where I can get the datasheet for it? Unfortunately google gives me nothing, but may be there are some "secret" places whatsoever :) This is long ago but I had a 386sx-20 board with that chipset and the board was labeled 24mhz …
Re: What do you drive?
Posted on 2022-05-01, 20:16
robertmo wrote on 2022-05-01, 17:36: full electric vehicles % sales (march) in: China: 21% Europe: 14% USA : 4.8% Of coarse it’s easier to have a higher percentage EV when you sell half as many vehicles overall
Re: Can the AMD K6-2 run on a K6 motherboard?
Posted on 2022-04-27, 17:20
I/o voltage mostly doesn’t matter My PCCHIPS m590 outputs 3.9 volt I/o when set for 90mhz FSB
Re: Best software for writing 1.44mb disk images
Posted on 2022-04-27, 13:54
If it’s an antique Herne Data systems maxi disk is good for saving and creating raw disk images including of non-dos disks on a Windows 3.1 system
Page 1 of 52