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Re: suggestions for windows XP

Posted on 2021-07-31, 17:46

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Well - I guess I had to see it for myself Reinstalled XP, complete with SP3 - "unable to connect to activation server" And THIS is why so many people protested the activation nonsense End of an era

format question

Posted on 2021-07-31, 14:45

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I got a new SSD drive - and it is formatted ex-fat (nothing new, I have a smaller one with the same format) BUT there are a lot of small files and it is TREMENDOUSLY wasteful of space versus a magnetic drive formatted NTFS Is there really any good reason not to reformat the drive NTFS?

Re: fading away

Posted on 2021-07-26, 12:51

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And something else I realized as changed - storage. CD and DVD now seems (almost) as archaic as floppies. I started creating backups on hard drives many years ago. First it was just mirroring what I had on DVD. But now - there's just no putting the genie back in the bottle - the drives have slowly …

Re: fading away

Posted on 2021-07-26, 12:46

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Continuation - I never liked that XP activation concept - that's why I stuck with 98se for so long. It was the last OS you could install from a CD-ROM without having to connect to the internet for updates or activation or some other nonsense. I

Re: fading away

Posted on 2021-07-26, 12:40

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Ah...floppies are still viable yes.....but only for small files! Most files...not even word processing documents...are not going to fit on a 1.44 Mb floppy anymore. I thought about the network idea And hard drives....better be sure your "newer" motherboard still has an IDE interface I have a 4 Gb …

fading away

Posted on 2021-07-26, 12:05

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Just a (more or less) random thought Seems like older systems are becoming less and less viable. I already killed off DOS and 95 - oldest I now use is 98se. And it is fine for running older apps......but the problems arise getting files off the machine. Floppies are no longer viable, only some …

Re: Retro paradox?

Posted on 2021-07-26, 10:28

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Since C64 was mentioned in a previous message, I'll mention something I have pondered over the years. I would argue that when the C64 came out, it could do more and was a better buy than the PCs of the era (XT). BUT then think about how primitive it really was. It couldn't even do something like …

Re: Retro paradox?

Posted on 2021-07-26, 10:13

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Well...in the "old days" you DID have to know more about inner workings. Code WAS tighter because it HAD to be. But now....development time seems to be most important. Which is how we got to where we need a quad-core computer with 4 gigabytes of RAM to open a text file 😉

Re: Why DOS died...

Posted on 2021-07-10, 23:38

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As hardware advanced, DOS took less and less advantage of it. The way I understand it, as far as DOS was concerned, a 386 or 486 was really nothing more than a fast 8088

Re: What do you regret throwing out?

Posted on 2021-07-10, 23:28

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I'll turn my own question around and say what I DON'T regret throwing out - two tape drives - the kind that ran off the floppy controller. BAD technology - way too slow, and capacity was really not there. But - I suppose better than nothing

Re: What do you regret throwing out?

Posted on 2021-07-10, 23:24

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Vert first "real" PC was a 486 DX4/100. I eventually parted it when I built a 166 MMX system. Money was very tight back then, but I wish I'd kept that 486 system together - just for the heck of it

Re: Burning my first iso in 15 years

Posted on 2021-07-10, 23:20

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What brand of CD-R disks? What color is the dye side - that light green, blue-green, or dark blue? Juts curious - I have often thought of a cd-r collection Spent a LOT of time om CD Freaks 😉

What do you regret throwing out?

Posted on 2021-07-10, 22:49

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Is there anything you regret throwing out? In my case it was a DOS computer. It was my oldest motherboard - a pentium mmx 233 that had originally run win95. It was re-tasked for DOS + Win 3.1 long after I quit using both. Pretty much dumping all of my oldest hardware into one box. Complete with the …

Allure of retro computing

Posted on 2021-06-18, 00:29

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Just curious - what do you think is the allure of retro computing? Just like tinkering? Maybe older systems gave you more control over things? Does it take you back to an earlier time in your life? All of the above?

CD-Burners

Posted on 2021-06-18, 00:19

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Is anyone else nostalgic for the era of CD-R? I was one of the early adopters, paid like $350 for a HP 2X burner (and that was on sale). At the time that seemed like a really big deal.....especially coming from tape backup that ran off a floppy disk controller. 650 megabytes was a lot back then! And …

Re: What is your Favorite CPU and Why ?

Posted on 2021-06-18, 00:11

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I'd have to say the one that made the biggest impact for me was pentium 166 mmx. I am sure many will argue, but that was the one that made windows 95 practical. In graduate school, I had one with a 4.3 gigabyte drive and a 2X CD burner. To this day I have p3 650 and 850 machines that are in many …

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