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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-07, 20:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I decided to get with the times and buy a tablet: a lovely HP TC1100 with Windows 7 installed. Got plans for this, which are much more likely to be fulfilled than with the iPAQ 214 I bought nine years ago at considerable price and then considerable disappointment. Does great double-duty as a hand …

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-01-06, 16:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Back at work, and what do I see still sitting there? I had made peace with not lifting them, but now I'm tempted.

Re: Most recent platform for Baby AT motherboards?

Posted on 2021-12-30, 01:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sphere478 wrote on 2021-12-30, 00:50: I think that somewhere there is such a thing as a pentium 4 AT motherboard but I can’t find it, (aside from the sbc/backplane option) A scant few images of the Commate P4XB are out there.

Re: Is it just me or has Firefox gotten progressively worse every major release?

Posted on 2021-12-26, 18:32

in Milliways

in Milliways

I don't need animated menus My bank does this too and I should bill them for the time wasted. There is no reason I should have to wait any time at all for a menu to slide into place everytime I click it. What's the old tale about computers in the 60s doing calculations too fast and the suits not …

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2021-12-26, 03:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The laptops might have been salvageable but I'm really not interested in laptops. I love the standardised interchangeability of desktops. Laptops parts are like car parts - complete pain in the arse replacing anything. Wish I had an ATX car.

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2021-12-24, 22:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Saw a bunch of stuff tossed to the kerb on Wednesday while on delivery (people must be making space for Christmas presents). Three Acer laptops - soaked by the rain so I didn't even bother lifting them. Thought about pulling the licence stickers but they were Windows 7 Starter. Elsewhere, a Fujitsu …

Re: Is it just me or has Firefox gotten progressively worse every major release?

Posted on 2021-12-23, 22:14

in Milliways

in Milliways

As thought lately if I had a 70's TV in the 1995 I could still watch TV channels Back then hardly anyone could have afforded to buy a new TV every five years chasing new broadcasting standards (the FCC would not look kindly upon 'move fast and break reception'). That's what caught Steve Ballmer …

Re: Is it just me or has Firefox gotten progressively worse every major release?

Posted on 2021-12-22, 18:38

in Milliways

in Milliways

Everyone knows Mozilla is running Firefox into the ground, with the exception of Mozilla themselves. I haven't budged off 56.0. I see PaleMoon mentioned a lot in these discussions - I might jump ship eventually. On the lamentable state of the web these days; I find myself wishing Facebook would …

Re: The perils of pre-installed heatsinks when ordering retro hardware

Posted on 2021-12-11, 19:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

appiah4 wrote on 2021-12-11, 19:14: Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-12-11, 07:26: Nothing wrong with the direction that heat sink was mounted at all. Wat? I'd say it was missing a smiley to indicate sarcasm, but it's really hard to tell due to Poe's Law.

Re: Fedex charges to ship lasers in CDROMS. Is this a scam?

Posted on 2021-12-09, 16:38

in Milliways

in Milliways

RandomStranger wrote on 2021-12-09, 09:43: The FDA does have import codes for optical drives. A bizzare mix of ionising and non-ionising radiation sources in that list. From particle accelerators to Discmans. I hope they have restrictions on shipping Dihydrogen Monoxide.

Re: No space in your room to store old PC?

Posted on 2021-12-08, 20:54

in Windows

in Windows

Old style pizza box cases (like the original PC) 19" racks This is exactly the route I've gone down. Horizontal desktop cases seem to have died out at the turn of the century, only lingering on in the home theatre realm - so most will be silver or black, not beige. 19" racks and shelves are …

Re: MS encourages emulation

Posted on 2021-11-18, 16:41

in Milliways

in Milliways

Whatever happened to Public Domain laws, and how long does it take for video games to fall into the Public Domain? Longer than any of us will live. Even if there aren't any further retroactive extensions to copyright terms, functionally there isn't a public domain anymore from the point of view of …

Re: GTA Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is not very good

Posted on 2021-11-13, 17:09

in Milliways

in Milliways

Standards are slipping at Rockstar https://games.slashdot.org/story/21/11/13/0135237/rockstar-pulls-grand-theft-auto-definitive-edition-after-unintentionally-including-files Between the easy money of GTA Online, re-releasing their old titles, the departures of Dan Houser and Lazlow; I remain …

Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-12, 20:50

in Milliways

in Milliways

Jasin Natael wrote on 2021-11-12, 20:19: At least these machines will be responsilby recycled. Everyone's latched onto recycling, forgetting the saying goes: reduce, reuse, recycle - in decreasing order of effectiveness. Reducing consumption is very threatening to the current organisation of the …

Re: New processors for old sockets.

Posted on 2021-11-09, 22:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I, too, would love to see something like this happen. But as said above, there's a huge leap from gathering old discrete chips to make new sound or graphics cards to fabricating your own microprocessors. If CPU microbreweries were viable, global production might not be a mess right now. Speaking of …

Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-09, 21:06

in Milliways

in Milliways

one must not underestimate the ability of modern ultra-bloated JavaScript to bring powerful computers to their knees I ended up retiring my old Core2 Quad when simply opening Twitter used to freeze the system for ten seconds. A site designed around the almost utilitarian concept of displaying …

Re: Video Card upgrade for Dell Dimension 4400?

Posted on 2021-10-30, 19:27

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

gryffinwings wrote on 2021-10-30, 15:53: also the slot on this one is only up to AGP 4x from the information I have seen. Wikipedia concurs in this handy list of the product line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Dimension

Re: Interview with "last XP fan"

Posted on 2021-10-26, 21:13

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in Milliways

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-10-25, 20:07: Oh, it's fun sticking a non-patched XP machine directly on the internet and watching it get overrun by malware within a matter of minutes. Imagine a server farm of unpatched XP machines exposed to the internet. A gigantic digital mousetrap to keep the …

Re: would OEM cds that say for (certain pc only) on the certificate work on any pc?

Posted on 2021-10-24, 15:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The Windows 98 CD-ROM that came with my Aptiva at the time refuses to install on my Compaq Deskpro, so there's clearly some kind of hardware check going on (BIOS?).

Re: One year anniversary of NVIDIA "cancelling" their old tech demos

Posted on 2021-10-22, 15:17

in Milliways

in Milliways

I seem to only see Dawn box art for the lower spec budget cards produced after the FX series was over the hill. It could be confirmation bias that the only examples still in boxes are the crappy ones. Can anyone confirm if the box for an FX 5950 Ultra ever relied so heavily on the... charm of the …

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