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The PC Bible Thread (Formerly "If You Have Time To Waste...")

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First post, by brassicGamer

Posted on 2017-04-25, 11:00

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...then you could probably do worse than flick through this beast:

https://doc.lagout.org/The%20Indispensable%20 … d%20Edition.pdf

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Reply 1 of 11, by Rhuwyn

Posted on 2017-04-25, 16:49

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That is a big freakin book.

Reply 2 of 11, by elianda

Posted on 2017-04-25, 18:58

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But even better is: http://retronn.de/ftp/pictures/books/pc_hardware.jpg

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Reply 3 of 11, by krivulak

Posted on 2017-04-25, 19:13

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Holy mama, this is quite a bit of book!

Reply 4 of 11, by firage

Posted on 2017-04-25, 20:04

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The bible I like to leaf through to pass the time is Scott Mueller's Upgrading and Repairing PC's. The 1996 edition has an especially nice PDF conversion available for free: http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/imprint_downlo … /DVD/PCs6th.pdf

My big-red-switch 486

Reply 5 of 11, by Jade Falcon

Posted on 2017-04-25, 20:24

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Books like this were not all too out of place in the early to mid 90s but yeah that's a lot of book to read.

Reply 6 of 11, by torindkflt

Posted on 2017-04-25, 20:58

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I have a copy of this book somewhere in storage left over from a PC Tech course I took at the local community college back in 2002-2003. My class was the last one to use this particular edition, so I wasn't able to sell it back to the campus bookstore (Which kinda sucked, being a typical poor college student in dire need of money and all 😵) . I decided to keep it anyway for nostalgia's sake. It's a beast, thicker than most major metro phone books. 🤣

Reply 7 of 11, by brassicGamer

Posted on 2017-04-26, 08:29

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Did anyone else check out the parent directory?

https://doc.lagout.org/

😮

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Reply 8 of 11, by tayyare

Posted on 2017-04-26, 14:39

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brassicGamer wrote:
Did anyone else check out the parent directory?

https://doc.lagout.org/

😮

OMFG! 🤣

GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

Reply 9 of 11, by gca

Posted on 2017-04-26, 15:51

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Great, as if my to read pile wasn't big enough already... oh well I didn't have anything else planned for the rest of the year/decade so what the hell, let the downloading commence 😀

Reply 10 of 11, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2017-04-26, 15:54

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Yarr! Should that be posted?

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Reply 11 of 11, by brassicGamer

Posted on 2017-04-26, 16:03

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gdjacobs wrote:
Yarr! Should that be posted?

Ahem... once I saw the extent of the material published there I did think "maybe not such a good idea". Ah well, if it gets deleted, it gets deleted 😀

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