Re: HELP! Windows XP cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile

Posted on 2019-11-13, 15:50

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Took a look through eventid.net for those event id, they have a couple of suggestions, not sure how helpful they will be but here you go: http://eventid.net/display-eventid-1511-sourc … 555-phase-1.htm http://eventid.net/display-eventid-1502-sourc … 503-phase-1.htm

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Re: HELP! Windows XP cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile

Posted on 2019-11-10, 21:19

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Had a similar problem with a Windows 7 box a while back. Turns out it was a bad registry entry that was causing the problem. Editing/deleting the offending entry fixed the issue: https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-rep … in-the-registry

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Re: Clone of Amstrad's Adlib clone

Posted on 2019-11-05, 21:05

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Yeah I guess just uploading them won't cause any harm. Here you go.

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Re: Clone of Amstrad's Adlib clone

Posted on 2019-11-04, 23:53

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If anyone is interested I have reasonable photos of the board in question (both sides of the board).

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-11-02, 14:19

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Maybe not buy but renting is a real possibility 😀

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Re: Serial & parallel port opening covers

Posted on 2019-10-11, 23:07

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My case has something similar but the manufacturer soldered metal plates roughly the same shape (possibly the actual bit of metal that was cut out of the case) in place to keep them covered if you didn't need them. Like those annoying plates you find welded across drive bays on occasion.

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Re: Help repair my 486 DELL 433/L motherboard

Posted on 2019-10-11, 23:02

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Board looks identical to my 466L (I think its was used in several models differentiated by different model numbers based on CPU). Sadly mine is also dead(ish) but I did manage to coax it into running an on board diagnostic which provided pointers towards my problem. Not sure what the correct …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2019-10-05, 13:37

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I have a couple of PASCAL books if your interested. No TP specific but cover the basics: Software engineering the development life cycle (second edition) Fiona Stewart Kirkman Publishing - 1993 ISBN - 1-874107-02-5 PASCAL (third edition) William Findlay and David A Watt UCL Press - 1994 ISBN - 1- …

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Re: Recommended WWI flying games 2002-2005?

Posted on 2019-10-01, 22:18

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Only one I can think of is Flying Corps Gold. Not sure if the visuals would be up to what you are looking for though.

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-10-01, 14:41

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Not given up as such, I simply don't have the space or budget these days to do much on the collecting front. With that in mind I've simply had to change my approach regarding what retro stuff I do. At the moment I'm trying to re-learn COBOL which I haven't touched since college back in the mid 90's. …

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Re: Very compact retro PCs?

Posted on 2019-09-26, 21:20

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Sounds just like the bundle I got with my machine (I assume you also got Windows 3.0). Still got everything for mine but the joystick is a bit dodgy but that is the least of that machines worries right now. Kind of surprised the box is still running at this point.

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Re: Very compact retro PCs?

Posted on 2019-09-26, 14:31

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Seeing how someone brought up small form factor Amstrad machine here is a picture of my 4386SX complete with its little 10" CRT. It might be small but it makes one hell of a racket, damn thing can almost drown out the hoover on a good day. Filename complete-system.jpg File size 202.23 KiB Views …

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Re: *nix software and systems

Posted on 2019-09-03, 21:08

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Some of those manuals were HUGE. So true, back then manuals were REAL manuals instead of today when all you get is a single sheet of paper (if you are lucky) which tells you almost nothing apart from the EULA. I remember the AIX manuals back in college. They were stacked literally floor to ceiling …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-08-31, 19:15

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detritus olentus wrote: Mission accomplished! It was all going so well right up until he had to do an emergency stop at which point he was decapitated by an unrestrained chassis flying from the top of the pile on the back seat. So sad.

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Re: *nix software and systems

Posted on 2019-08-31, 11:52

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First UNIX experience was AIX 2.2.1 running on an IBM RT6150 via a dump terminal (IBM 3161 I think) in the early to mid 90s. Worked fine apart from one time when some genius tried to run samna over a telnet link and almost killed the network (no, it wasn't me). After that, my first dev job on a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-08-17, 11:08

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Just finished Sam and Max. The game puzzles really makes no fuc*$#*ing sense at all. But it's still hilarious as it was 20 years ago. Now I will try Atlantis next day. I'd recommend Day of the Tentacle if you haven't played it already. Very similar to Sam and Max in some respects, apart from the …

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Re: Apollo Guidance Computer Saved From The Scrap Yard

Posted on 2019-08-05, 15:46

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Curiousmarc on youtube has posted quite a few videos in the last few months covering his restoration of an AGC to full working order: https://www.youtube.com/user/mverdiell/videos

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Re: Hulu is adapting Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series

Posted on 2019-07-25, 12:07

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Pass, sorry but the last film put me right off any adaptations apart from the original TV series. Before anyone starts, yes I know it was a radio show as well but I bet even that was probably better than the film (never heard it but I assume it was fine). Why can't they just leave stuff alone?

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Re: PC asking to insert Windows98 disk

Posted on 2019-06-12, 12:49

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Maybe simpler just to make an iso image and mount that when installing new hardware or features.

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Re: Windows NT 4.0 Installation shenanigans

Posted on 2019-06-02, 15:44

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They are still available from the Adaptec web site: https://adaptec.com/en-us/downloads/ms/ms_win … aha-2940uw.html

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