Re: Never Lock Your Phone With A Fingerprint

Posted on 2014-11-06, 12:36

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by ahendricks18

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RacoonRider wrote: P.S. My friend's little brother used to lock his laptop by licking the fingerprint scanner with his tongue 😜 Lol, that's damn hilarious! Anyway, I just use a pattern on my android. I usually keep my phone on me all the time so unless I loose it ill be fine. And I don't strangle …

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Re: Do you guys collect other things?

Posted on 2014-11-06, 12:30

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Oh yeah, and I used to like vintage radios and televisions. I like the 80's tvs the best because they are cool. Not to long ago i got an amazing condition goldstar tv from the 80's and its got great picture quality and in great condition!

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Question on cd rom drives

Posted on 2014-11-06, 12:25

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will a dvd/cd rom work in an old system or do i have to get just a cd rom? thanks

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Re: found an old packard bell!

Posted on 2014-11-06, 12:21

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I wasn't really rough, I pulled it out at an angle and just one too many pins were broke and it wouldn't work so i thought id try to fix it by this wierd method on the web. But dont worry, I talked to the IT guy at school whose pretty cool and he suggested i get an ISA ide controller, which seems to …

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Re: found an old packard bell!

Posted on 2014-11-05, 16:49

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by ahendricks18

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Take some pictures and show us. Check whether you can disable the IDE on the MOBO. If not you will have to go SCSI after all. I have an IBM PS/1 with SCSI because of that reason and no FDD. It has a separate controller for the fdd, but I'm pretty darn sure you can disable the hdd ide and leave the …

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Re: found an old packard bell!

Posted on 2014-11-05, 13:39

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alright. ill get an ide controller isa card.

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Re: found an old packard bell!

Posted on 2014-11-05, 12:40

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by ahendricks18

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what i meant was the motherboard pins are broke. wtf is my problem.

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Re: found an old packard bell!

Posted on 2014-11-05, 12:38

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it was for the hdd. damn. what im gonna do now is probably get an scsi card and see if i can get a new scsi hdd. or maybe an ide to scsi 50 pin adapter. the pins already had one or two broke and i broke another when i plugged it in.

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Re: found an old packard bell!

Posted on 2014-11-04, 16:36

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I broke a bunch of pins off the IDE connectors, don't ask me how, and I decided to cut em all off and do a little trick of putting pins in the cable and letting it sit. Damn that was a stupid choice. Ill get it fixed though. But Ill upgrade to 3.1 and add the cd rom as a slave.

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Re: Do you guys collect other things?

Posted on 2014-11-02, 14:15

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I like to go to thrift stores and buy music on tape and cd. Id buy on vinyl but i don't have a turntable.

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Re: found an old packard bell!

Posted on 2014-11-02, 14:08

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by ahendricks18

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There's a pic of it!

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Re: found an old packard bell!

Posted on 2014-11-02, 13:57

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Its a 486sx. I want to try to install Windows 95, but no cd rom drive and the fdd's fail on startup and the 5.25's light is always on. Also it won't read the 3.5 in win 3.0, says system error.

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Re: found an old packard bell!

Posted on 2014-11-01, 22:04

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by ahendricks18

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How would I go about adding a cd rom drive? I've got some old dos games on disc i want to play.

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Re: found an old packard bell!

Posted on 2014-10-31, 21:00

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Also it has a lock on the case like some older ones do. How should i get it open?

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Re: found an old packard bell!

Posted on 2014-10-31, 20:57

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by ahendricks18

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Well you just drive in and you can recycle your old electronics or take things. They also have tents to keep em dry. I was gonna dig out an old stereo, but my folks wanted to leave.

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found an old packard bell!

Posted on 2014-10-31, 20:40

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stopped by the local transfer station and found a nice old packard bell! i had a matching monitor and plugged it all in and it booted up windows 3.0! It has a 5 1/4 fdd as well as 3.5 fdd. Ill post pics later

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Re: stuff I found at the local transfer station!

Posted on 2014-10-23, 13:10

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Thanks for the replies! I plugged it in with a hp laptop charger from my other laptop and it worked, but no display, and the indicator lights illuminate. Maybe I have to use an OEM charger, because the hp was not the same. Also I plugged it into a monitor and still it has no display but the monitor …

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Re: How to dry a crt monitor?

Posted on 2014-10-22, 21:39

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Yeah, i just dumped em both today, but i got a packard bell in its place!

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stuff I found at the local transfer station!

Posted on 2014-10-22, 21:36

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Hi all! Just went to the local "dump" and found a couple neat old items. 1st, an old IBM ThinkPad 365XD. they had a few but this was the best one condition wise. Also has an optical drive. Has a win 95 sticker on back. It looks like its missing the battery and HDD but i can get those easy. then i …

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Re: How to dry a crt monitor?

Posted on 2014-10-19, 18:13

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Yeah, I heard if you touch the thing inside it could kill you. I guess I'll let it dry and if it doesn't work, it's off to the dump with them.

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