Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)
Posted on 2020-06-28, 16:36
Cowboy coffee and doughnuts.
Re: Ast Bravo
Posted on 2020-06-28, 13:23
Err...I don't thnik these Sony drives were the fastest on the market at the time. They were probably the *cheapest" on the market, which is why I got one. They were good value for your money. Among 2X drives, something with SCSI should be fastest (probably Texel/Plextor). I think the Sony SLCD …
Re: Computer projects you would have liked to have been a part of ?
Posted on 2020-06-28, 13:11
That what I use to think about Sun Microsystems too until I visited there main facility. It was not that great. However today with Oracle culture they should be more driven with a set goal. lol, the only goal Oracle has for the Sun/Java stuff is the same they have for everything they acquire: to …
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-06-27, 23:32
Lol. Having worked in a company that had clients in broadcast and video production, I can tell you with a very high degree of confidence that while individual freelancers might as well go this route, production houses would never touch anything that isn't supported by a major vendor. True. Yes, …
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-06-27, 23:18
I think Apple customers who do high end processing in video editing value there time. So the less time they spend editing and rendering a video is most important for them. If they can do it with a 32-core AMD CPU and dual graphics cards for half the cost of a NEW Base model Mac Pro and in 1/2 the …
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-06-27, 23:06
I think Apple customers who do high end processing in video editing value there time. So the less time they spend editing and rendering a video is most important for them. If they can do it with a 32-core AMD CPU and dual graphics cards for half the cost of a NEW Base model Mac Pro and in 1/2 the …
Re: Computer projects you would have liked to have been a part of ?
Posted on 2020-06-27, 22:57
SUN. I think what they achieved and how they brought computing world-wide to a next level (think Java) is just amazing. Looking at what employees said, it also seems that the work-culture there was the right balance between start-up chaos and IBM-like coprorate culture. That what I use to think …
Re: Computer projects you would have liked to have been a part of ?
Posted on 2020-06-27, 22:52
For best corporate culture in US I would have loved to work for Hewlett-Packard in the 70/80. I have to say “HP” was the BIG Kahuna in Silicon valley. A very discipline company. The employees where very loyal to the company. I have never seen the IBM culture but that must have been what they where …
Re: Ast Bravo
Posted on 2020-06-27, 19:07
Yes, The Cheap capacitors in the Sony 2x CDROM drive was NOT AST fault. As allot of people where using this drive back in 1993 because it was one of the fastest on the market. Gateway 2000 486 computers are not much better as they used Micronics motherboards which where very picky when it came to …
Re: Ast Bravo
Posted on 2020-06-27, 16:18
yeah ight Yes, those first gen Sony 2x speed CD-ROM drives that everyone was using back in 1993/94 had cheap capacitors that would start leaking The acid would eat away at the circuit board. That is why there are so few of them around today. AST used a proprietary bios and the motherboards where …
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-06-27, 16:08
Upradability is a different matter. If that is a criterion, it should be addressed before purchase . For example, complaining about having no RAM slots (soldered RAM) in a desktop or laptop after buying the machine is nonsensical, IMHO . Exactly, Apple made the NEW Mac Pro repairable and upgradable …
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-06-27, 15:55
Apple is going to become more of a closed system and fully proprietary. An appliance. ( disposable and recyclable ).
Re: Ast Bravo
Posted on 2020-06-27, 15:05
maxtherabbit wrote on 2020-06-26, 21:56: ast made good shit Ummm, Not really. It was very cheap. There cases where nice but the motherboards was there own design and cheap. They used media vision sound cards and Sony Cdrom Drives.
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-06-27, 14:31
I think its a love / hate relationship with the iMac and Mac Pro. Users like the operating system and apps but don’t like that they use proprietary hardware and that it is hard to find and when you do find it it is expensive. Things people don’t like about the Mac: 1) expensive 2) expensive to …
Re: Ast Bravo
Posted on 2020-06-27, 11:54
I have a couple 486 AST computers. However i was unable to get them to recognize the motherboard cache upgrades. I would like to know if you are able to upgrade your cache.
Re: Computer projects you would have liked to have been a part of ?
Posted on 2020-06-26, 14:02
id Software when they where making games for Apple ][, but ENIAC cracking german crypto must be one as well. Apollo project as someone else mentioned maybe the greatest. But working with IT in Silicon Valley in the 70/80´s must have generally been great and exciting. I grew up in Silicon Valley. I …
Re: NT3.51 Just turned 25 Today!
Posted on 2020-06-25, 23:11
I'm surprised how many people are saying their schools had a NT3 server. Did the education system get it cheap? Would have thought peer to peer was good enough, Computer labs were pretty basic in those pre internet for everyone days I know Microsoft made a deal with the Australian Education system, …
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2020-06-25, 20:22
I picked up an HP z420 workstation for cheap. They are almost giving these away today on eBay. This one has a 6-core Xeon CPU and 64gb ram. I am going to upgrade the CPU to an 8-core Xeon and load this up with drives. I have a drive cage that I am going to put directly under the existing drive cage …
Re: Identifying my XT clone
Posted on 2020-06-25, 13:09
Cameras really sucked back then. Kodak 110 and 35mm and Polaroid.
Re: Help Restore my Zenith z-150 computer
Posted on 2020-06-24, 22:54
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