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Re: Still using XP and dont want to change

in Milliways
Sometimes I think about whether it even makes sense to have a computer at home. Why not just get by with a smartphone? To do stuff, of course... - Computer science calls them a real world approximation of a Turing machine, so they could do everything if given enough time and memory (and well, …

Re: Future nostalgia?

in Milliways
as public telephones are now free in Australia. Ha! Our payphones are, where they still exist*, the last vestiges of tick-based billing (ie not exact call time), ISDN, and truly anonymous communications :) :( * I found 50 cents in the change slot of one in Milan barely 6 months ago - some habits …

Re: What is that one computer habit that you got rid of?

in Milliways
Closing everything except Explorer and Systray before burning a CD :) Tabbed browsing IE6 style (= open 6 pages - a good amount for 32 MB when they have lots of tiny pictures -, wait for them to load, disconnect from dialup and repeat once you've read everything and printed the most interesting ones …

Re: Is the interest in retro PC hardware decreasing?

in Milliways
Depending on how we look at it, wasn't it also kind of being "period correct" for the 90s for their users being "non-period correct" when they assembled PCs ? 😉 Yep, the desktop if not full tower PC has always been about modularity, if anything it's been more common in this millennium, between …

Re: what is the greatest old hardware find/deal you have ever come across when looking for retro computer parts?

A DDS5 tape drive for 12 €… though it's still not clear if it works (apparently tapes must have the factory LLF in place, and most ones I have are DDS2 so read only, only one DDS4) Free, a working IBM 8503 monitor though none of those are as interesting to me as my first own PC (80 € in 2005) or the …

Re: WinXP Updates

I'm coming in late, but I noticed a number of people recommending SP3 It matters as they're (also) kernel updates and, as SP3 was current for more than any other major version of XP as well as being "tolerated" in the 7/8 age, the one required by many later programs :) I've been running SP1 on my …

Re: Turning a Single Board Computer On and Off - Manual and Connector Photo in the Post

You probably can't, at least inside the Amiga… What the board can do, is to control an ATX power supply (example: AT backplane, ATX power supply with AT adapter, you connect a regular power button + the green and purple wires to the right pins of the JP3 connector, and you get it to work like a …

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