Windows XP Activation
Posted on Yesterday, 01:53
I was reading about this program that could activate Windows XP: REMOVED Would you be afraid of this?
Re: touring old commodore plant
Posted on 2024-05-02, 21:00
I remember seeing one of those videos but I had forgotten about it! The mention of 9-track tape in my original post made me look that up. I had seen those several times (thought not in person) without really knowing what they were (other than data storage.) It makes me realize how far everything has …
Re: Online copies of games are not owned
Posted on 2024-05-01, 20:06
Continuing with the house example.... When you rent, you NEVER STOP PAYING. You could live there for 30 years, and then you retire, can't make the payments anymore, well, you are out on the street. Those 30 years count for nothing You could pay Netflix for 30 years...and the price is up to $400 a …
Re: nostalgia midlife crisis
Posted on 2024-04-30, 23:45
I am not saying the OP is old ( I am much older, trust me) but I DO think that as you get older your perspective definitely changes. When you have MANY more years behind you than ahead. When you start to realize that it is much too late for any kind of real course correction. And that everything is …
Re: nostalgia midlife crisis
Posted on 2024-04-30, 23:36
I sometimes wonder if it just natural for is to fill nostalgic about past times...even if we "know" they weren't really that great.
Re: Online copies of games are not owned
Posted on 2024-04-30, 22:24
I hate to say it but I gave up on games a LONG time ago - when it got to where you could no longer just but a disk in a store and install it (without an internet connection or some kind of account) I HATE this whole subscription movement
touring old commodore plant
Posted on 2024-04-30, 19:24
This might be old news for some, but I found this really interesting http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5256
Re: electronic componemt kits
Posted on 2024-04-30, 18:25
I just got some cheapo tackle boxes from Wal-Mart - one for resistors, one for capacitors, one for ICs
Re: electronic componemt kits
Posted on 2024-04-30, 18:22
You can pretty much order anything you want from Mouser or Digikey - you don't have to order hundreds of each part 😉
Re: What would you do different?
Posted on 2024-04-30, 18:18
Something else I might do different - not mess with those internal/external hard drive enclosures (drive enclosure mounted in PC case and taking up an IDE slot) but with a removable drive. I had a couple. Problem is - they take up an IDE slot. Better solution network the computers
Re: Did you create maps for games?
Posted on 2024-04-30, 17:51
Lately I have been fighting the urge to get out the quake level editor. But it is suuuuuuuuuuuuuuch a time-waster and who would even see the maps
Re: Can someone tell me what all these parts are worth as a single lot
Posted on 2024-04-30, 17:47
I would have to say "no" - just an opinion, take it for what it is worth Rationale = all this stuff is old, and getting older. I would maybe think that past a certain age it's no longer feasible to keep it running Why would anyone want to mess with MFM anything, assuming it even still works. Unless …
Re: What would you do different?
Posted on 2024-04-30, 12:34
Surely you joke about the floppy disk thing? Even by the 90s they were becoming woefully inadequate. I was an early adopter of CD-R, and I have always felt like that was very much worth the money
Re: Which computer to keep?
Posted on 2024-04-30, 01:04
Resurrecting and older thread here but.... Just looking at ebay prices, Asus CUBX vs. Tyan1854.... the prices tell you which one is considered to be more valuable (the Asus)
What would you do different?
Posted on 2024-04-30, 00:30
If you could go back to the 90s, what would you do different (regarding computers)? My list would be: 1. Avoid tape drives (at least the ones I had, that use the floppy controller = way to slow) 2. Avoid K6-2 completely 3. Jump on WinXP way sooner than I did. 4. Stockpile some more of the "good" DVD …
Re: so I had the urge to get out an old Linux computer
Posted on 2024-01-24, 15:35
If anyone is interested, I tried to upgrade to netscape 6, but couldn't find the download Then I started looking at firefox....the latest version I could run was like 0.70. Couldn't get that to run. Maybe this is telling me something - that his really old stuff may not be worth fooling around with …
looking at motherboards
Posted on 2024-01-17, 02:20
I was looking at motherboards and now I am depressed :( I am realizing how much things have changed. The last system I built was an athlon XP and I was behind the time when I built that - all that stuff I got used so it was old back then. I used that as long as I could, and then gave up on building …
Re: Hobbes OS/2 archive says goodbye
Posted on 2024-01-17, 00:41
It seems like we have a lot of this type of thread lately - things going away, services discontinued, etc
Re: end of DVD storage
Posted on 2024-01-17, 00:33
Well I left a very negative review on the website. They had the 8x ones pictures, but sent the 16X. Not the same thing at all. I had found a website that claimed to have some some 8X JVC/TY ones. I find that VERY hard to believe. I sent them an email inquiry but never got a reply
Re: Man builds his own 80s VHS store in the cellar
Posted on 2024-01-16, 02:38
With regards to lack of high-end players (of any kind) I think even the Japanese manufacturers are feeling the pinch of cheap crap from China
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