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Post #AfYX1tIkMk0w5N9joe by [email protected] |
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I finally lugged my Highscreen SkyTower AT tower up to my office. This machine … |
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Post #AfYXhTkBmHlez1p3VQ by [email protected] |
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and yeah, it's got a sliding door in case you need to hide your drives! And… |
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Post #AfYXhWTdcHJLSZ6Ncm by [email protected] |
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check it out: screwless entry. it has a handle you just slide to open it. |
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Post #AfYXhXF8lfJBptKJfM by [email protected] |
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it's even got a drive in it! and it's not locked! yay. These caddies ar… |
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Post #AfYXhY1LsPsCFPsooS by [email protected] |
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my got-damn JPEGifer is broken again. why am I uploading big PNGs? |
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Post #AfYXpqUB6mLDpfK66a by [email protected] |
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@foone Is that a serial port on the front? |
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Post #AfYbBG2VaxOZ1tHaOO by [email protected] |
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@lopta yesp |
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Post #AfYbVhoW2ZcqxgUJcm by [email protected] |
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@tehabe yeah, I believe so |
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Post #AfYhBHvHBz1WazIVU0 by [email protected] |
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okay I had to take an hour long break to fix pastejpeg. Here's the insides! |
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Post #AfYhBKYhONkKlpl1Cy by [email protected] |
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CPU! It's a A80502-100 SX963: A 100mhz Pentium 1, bus speed of 50 or 66 mhz… |
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Post #AfYhBLKCXlkB99yxFY by [email protected] |
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fan and heatsink are very messy. very, very messy. |
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Post #AfYhBM4zjnArUHsKBc by [email protected] |
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Okay, fan and heatsink cleaned up. Fan tested, and reattached. |
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Post #AfYhBMpQx8JxoJbPZQ by [email protected] |
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bah. my battery box has gone missing. I can't find my CR2032s |
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Post #AfYjhbmB76YxLPa5tA by [email protected] |
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I pulled out the Rustmaster 9000 PSU. This is not getting tested, it's goin… |
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Post #AfYjhf9KZTrho5R7tQ by [email protected] |
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Darn. My clean PSU isn't gonna fit into this case, the fan + power plugs ar… |
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Post #AfYjhfuTkBZyAJUmNk by [email protected] |
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But in the meantime, lemme just grab a modern PSU and my ATX2AT |
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Post #AfYjhgfGwD0eVRO9Jo by [email protected] |
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Putting a modern gamer-black PSU in a classic AT tower is just wrong. |
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Post #AfYkf38x0RLDJ9ZoUS by [email protected] |
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@foone Ahhh, the classic old design of having all the heaviest parts of the PC … |
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Post #AfYkf3DCkckBWLZD7Y by [email protected] |
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@A_C_McGregor what could go wrong? |
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Post #AfYlGuuc3f0qmcvW7s by [email protected] |
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Hmm. Nothing from the motherboard: It doesn't ever init the VGA. I'm go… |
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Post #AfYm1jr6z27k6QcDCq by [email protected] |
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@foone that thing looks like a prison for evil capacitors |
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Post #AfYm1jv0kXF8IWRKHg by [email protected] |
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@Foritus that's really what most of my electronics are, to be fair |
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Post #AfYnSlOxRZUUfbtfgu by [email protected] |
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ooh cool, I was able to get the picante CR2032s! |
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Post #AfYngguKwsN2mqDPuq by [email protected] |
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@foone How did that fan run? Or did it? |
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Post #AfYnggyEiNUQyw2Wzg by [email protected] |
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@PJ_Evans I didn't try running it until I cleaned it, so I don't know. … |
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Post #AfYoeLwi0r9J9Mm2fA by [email protected] |
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Darn. No luck with the CR2032s. There's a possibly my VGA display is broken… |
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Post #AfYu7xm6wZmKdxktRw by [email protected] |
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@foone You’re aware that the picante CR2032s may not work in devices with cre… |
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Post #AfYu7xqifRSssFuZdI by [email protected] |
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@rgsteele fun! |
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Post #AfYv838B89RHD0gMim by [email protected] |
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@Mondobizarrro yeah.AT is "Advanced Technology", and ATX stands for &… |
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Post #AfYxIPsHcnrIYEJo4u by [email protected] |
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okay I pulled the cards.We've got a 3com EtherLink-IIII, a 3C509B-IP. |
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Post #AfYxSNWhD5nOAEyIEK by [email protected] |
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And the modem is a Diamond SupraExpress 144i PnP. 14,400bps of blinding speed. |
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Post #AfYy7Ll2gsUkYHDcES by [email protected] |
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And our video card is a STB Systems Horizon+ PCI, built around a Cirrus Logic C… |
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Post #AfYyRYgQLMJMQnh7Ue by [email protected] |
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Good news! yanking the modem/network card (and reseating the VGA card) made it … |
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Post #AfYzkQFW1c1BjJfQfY by [email protected] |
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okay I spent a few minutes swearing at the bad menu system on this monitor and … |
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Post #AfZ0Ij7EO2DY5Z9LYe by [email protected] |
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@foone I guess you have to start typing backwards now. |
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Post #AfZ0IjBU8DcWIl8kBk by [email protected] |
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@alilly I've already got a keyboard for that! |
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Post #AfZ0l2qccIJfOYssSm by [email protected] |
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@foone the horizontal flipping bug is also in your jpeg paste code? |
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Post #AfZ0l2vELA0Dcr2Ye8 by [email protected] |
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@ellie nah, my jpeg code had a vertical flipping bug! |
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Post #AfZ1PG4erPqC01cmxM by [email protected] |
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@foone How does that even happen |
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Post #AfZ1PG8YcuxaC7Ru2C by [email protected] |
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@krutonium I probably took apart the display and broke something when I put it … |
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Post #AfZ30Wlfr8qgRX52OW by [email protected] |
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I'm trying to dump the drives before I do anything with this machine and on… |
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Post #AfZ3u71mkDHypP7Yvo by [email protected] |
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there are 900 ways to disable DMA and none of them work |
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Post #AfZ6lUE5QKM026SAN6 by [email protected] |
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so the 2gig drive is still failing to work, but I imaged the 500mb drive, and i… |
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Post #AfZ74NWKZzjejmzlsu by [email protected] |
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it seems it was running InterMail Post.Office, a mail server for small ISPs |
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Post #AfZ9pTm3LXOpeRw79M by [email protected] |
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@fooneWhat's in that bottom bay? My mind says 'zip drive' at first,… |
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Post #AfZ9pTqf4P5Nsk5nKi by [email protected] |
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@wouter That's not a bay: that's the handle for the sliding bay door |
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Post #AfZDKkDmXtDbV8VSTY by [email protected] |
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yeah, the other drive was kinda working before, but I couldn't get DMA to t… |
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Post #AfZDnCJ5iXbSiQYbei by [email protected] |
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from what I did get off, it looks like the removable 2gig drive stored the webs… |
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Post #AfZMJ4MZaSnEyhtVrs by [email protected] |
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I did manage to get it starting to scrape the 2gig drive.ddrescue has been runn… |
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Post #AfaQdDdBQtguULUGbg by [email protected] |
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@foone want! |
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Post #AfaST6mCGNQKF30fT6 by [email protected] |
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left it running overnight and I'm now up to 6.6mb recovered! also it slowed… |
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Post #AfaVpRmV9DircXUnlw by [email protected] |
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hooking up a mastodon bot to post whenever it updatescurrently at 7036k |
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Post #Afab20wwiY8JwJC26q by [email protected] |
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@foone The P90 version costed 4k deutschmarks back in February 1995.https://arc… |
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Post #Afab211uQ66SBhVzqS by [email protected] |
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@hennichodernich oh, good find! thanks |
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Post #Afab21LPFbhPAAdZEe by [email protected] |
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@foone That's $3800 in today's US dollars. |
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Post #AfabK2gyyfeyYYK4Rc by [email protected] |
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@hennichodernich found an advert for (almost) this exact model!https://radiosoc… |
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Post #AfabK5pFKP3KH3DDF2 by [email protected] |
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I paused it to implement some tmux nonsense so I could actually make this bot i… |
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Post #AfadkUr75aIXLCnsHo by [email protected] |
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@Cyber_cereal_killer I think it just was ran in a dusty/damp area for about 12+… |
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Post #AfcdKoSVyFKwvUyEMK by [email protected] |
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it has somehow sped up to the point where it thinks it'll finish within the… |
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Post #AfcdwmiAuqZMVkOyaO by [email protected] |
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I wonder if I could adjust the IDE timeout without having to recompile my kernel |
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Post #Afcgp48EYzug5KbMFE by [email protected] |
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I made a program to scrape the status from ddrescue, just in time for it to err… |
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Post #AfciHdDhndcmyJLVpY by [email protected] |
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I was able to do the trick I did before where I repeatedly reset the SCSI host … |
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Post #Afclgvx1axfOAPIgCm by [email protected] |
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@foone this is so stupid i love it |
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Post #Afclgw1zIVdWPncdwO by [email protected] |
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@lena that's my speciality |
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Post #Afcr4uvDZYxThCi7k0 by [email protected] |
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sdb: detected capacity change from 2111864832 to 0awww, my bytes are gone |
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Post #Afcuq9fGsPfwtPT54i by [email protected] |
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oops. I accidentally hotplugged the hard drive |
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Post #AfcvH5r39NNktXp4Hw by [email protected] |
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@foone Did you inadvertently let out the magic smoke? |
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Post #AfcvH5uwusV95deBMm by [email protected] |
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@nyrath I don't think I broke it anymore than it was already broken! |
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Post #AfcvPm4663UO7o45Jo by [email protected] |
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I dunno why this drive isn't working |
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Post #AfcvwDcLC2mWqMYKOG by [email protected] |
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@adriano that was there when I found it! |
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Post #Afcwp8NAOWpqVKdmyG by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] I feel like this should have a "gore" warning |
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Post #Afcwp8RQ8iEoiWdBbM by [email protected] |
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@HeyCallMeRed good point, I forgot there are robotgirls (and robot girls) on he… |
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Post #AfcxBrpa3vlbrTlsNU by [email protected] |
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@fooneCan't expect spinning rust to be very hard working. It's a bit ol… |
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Post #AfcxBrtpo7Aa4flH0a by [email protected] |
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@Kishi what? surely this is a modern 2gigabyte seagate! |
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Post #Afcxo89noJLLV5TWDI by [email protected] |
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ok I'm officially giving up on this drive.I was able, in the end, to captur… |
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Post #Afcz8yDc3a72iCl5Cy by [email protected] |
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@foone When do you start building a greaseweazle for HDD platters? |
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Post #Afcz8yH9qOwqtCPujY by [email protected] |
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@gparker no joke I was thinking I want one |
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Post #AfczFMpvRO3UnhjGu8 by [email protected] |
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@foone yeah I think it ded, unfortunately |
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Post #AfczFMuBBZST0tifXE by [email protected] |
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@sadmac356 it very dead |
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I was able to get info and find out that this machine hosted this website at so… |
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Post #Afd0gtBRNoyitcToyO by [email protected] |
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@gparker @foone I've been planning one for CDC Finch |
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Post #Afd0gtFh80Nh6oTDbU by [email protected] |
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@mxshift @gparker nifty. I think one of my microcomputer drives is one of those |
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Post #Afd196w1qiTBeajDua by [email protected] |
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@foone @gparker they are rather uncommon. Usagi Electric has two. I'll add … |
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Post #Afd1970dZa9jsssu5w by [email protected] |
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@mxshift @gparker thanks! |
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I realized I need a serial mouse to reinstall NT4 onto this machine. but that s… |
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Post #AfebaYuLkI6TjkIAKG by [email protected] |
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@foone is that a Conner? That's kinda just the way they crumble |
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Post #AfebjxkakbhrOJD6Ya by [email protected] |
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I think I'm gonna need to do a motherboard swap on this machine. It'll … |
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Post #Afec6jP8FtWhYe1u8u by [email protected] |
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@vxo Seagate! |
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Post #AfecMCM6thvjgyzX4i by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] WJSJSJJSJSJE WHERE ARE THE BUTTONS |
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Post #AfecMCQMdtKhuAyvho by [email protected] |
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@graphite the eyebrows! |
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@foone are the brows the buttons?? |
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Post #AfecVBtLzWTurNpRiq by [email protected] |
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@iaintshootinmis YEP |
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@foone ahhh. I forgot about that series from them. |
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Post #Afecr9uA3kP74IgK4e by [email protected] |
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@foone my experience with the Conner disks was that they'd work fine then o… |
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Post #AfedL75j5I3H1vNHPs by [email protected] |
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@foone ...is that a PS/2 mouse with an adapter |
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@Rairii kinda. you can't convert the PS/2 protocol to serial without smarts… |
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Post #Afee1xrlG8cks2H928 by [email protected] |
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@foone Huh, I haven't seen biprotocol serial and ps2 mice. Is the pinout of… |
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Post #Afee1xvf1dk9486G6y by [email protected] |
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@robryk I think it's manufacturer specific |
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@foone Do you have any advice on finding like, REALLY cursed mice? Asking for a… |
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Post #Afee8Z2XxbGvtvT280 by [email protected] |
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@Ghostpaw nah. just ebay and local junk shops |
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Post #AfeeIFmiPEiD4rgNOK by [email protected] |
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@foone Maybe try an off-board IDE or SCSI card? |
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Post #AfeeIFqy9Q7BI3fm1Q by [email protected] |
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@PurpleJillybeans that's certainly an option, but I'm worried that if t… |
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Post #Afef9nxq3gIOQmQ8f2 by [email protected] |
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I grabbed another computer of about the same era from my car. |
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Post #Afef9rKHYh1yrFwbYm by [email protected] |
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She lives! Mostly. CMOS battery low... that's not a good sign. I think this… |
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Post #AfegA3EFP9N5jAmEV6 by [email protected] |
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@foone did you find this next to your hamburger telephone? |
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Post #AfegA3IV9Km3wMld8C by [email protected] |
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@sen no! I don't have one of those.My roommate does, however |
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Post #Afeh3f9W6gKRGz58pU by [email protected] |
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@foone Dremel time... |
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@Doridian NOT ALLOWED. not since The Incident. |
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YEP. That's a DS12887A real time clock + battery module.Booooo |
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Post #AfehNv0kr1c4FWdsY4 by [email protected] |
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also not a fan of this stuff. is this mold? |
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this might be the first time I need to clean a computer case with bleach |
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scraping it off and snorting it so that I turn into a retrocomputer fungus zomb… |
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this says it's a problem with the metal not being properly anodized, so par… |
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Post #AfekBmfuK2DymZnRh2 by [email protected] |
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@foone to get rid of the mercaptan smell i presume |
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Post #AfekBmkA4DcwzlmqK8 by [email protected] |
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@dojoe I'm anosmic, I don't gots any smells |
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Post #AfemBssLT5oVvCn1H6 by [email protected] |
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@foone perhaps a faulty PSU? Voltage drop due to rotating grate. Just guessing |
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Post #AfemBswxBxV49UwhSS by [email protected] |
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@Mordoukna Nah, I'm powering it with a modern PSU and an ATX2AT, it'd t… |
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Post #Afemj2wh34vmi4dWUq by [email protected] |
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@foone just referring to the CSB report @whitequark posted yesterday, where peo… |
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Post #Afemj30wnGKkvGcv7w by [email protected] |
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@dojoe @whitequark oh, fun! I hadn't seen that. |
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Post #AfenqIN2CJpKWwyg4W by [email protected] |
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@foone those traces and circular silk screen to the side make me think it might… |
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Post #AfenqIRHwVEIk8y4hc by [email protected] |
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@panegyr yeah, but the problem is the x2 silkscreen nearby. That's for a cr… |
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Post #AferpQoRixomExdv1c by [email protected] |
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@phooky yikes |
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Post #Afes2OiYpAphVX4ZTU by [email protected] |
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Yanked all the cards so you can see the motherboard. |
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Post #AfesamMHR3o8fp2sk4 by [email protected] |
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VGA card is a PCI card without a name (seems to be a clone of an Acer ALiCAT). … |
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Post #Afesap1TWrwqwAKoEK by [email protected] |
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The network card is an ISA card with no name on it, and the main chip is an FPX… |
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Post #Afet9COBA1JPFgLWyW by [email protected] |
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And the sound card is a CT2960 Creative Sound Blaster 16 Prelude.It's a bud… |
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Post #Aff577BCkxjbxz3BVw by [email protected] |
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@foone By today's standards, that's a piece of Pooh. |
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Post #Aff577FoTpQACHCrhI by [email protected] |
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@scottmichaud so many of my old computer parts can be described that way |
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Post #Aff5qEDjQSgUpmkCH2 by [email protected] |
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@foone funny - we just accessioned that same card |
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Post #Aff5qEHHDHWJ0mP1nc by [email protected] |
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@mediaarchaeologylab yeah this isn't even the first one I've got in thi… |
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Post #Aff6Bgdwwfv34FEun2 by [email protected] |
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OKAY I grabbed another computer, mainly because it was weird when I looked at i… |
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Post #AffAjfbdhxADVrcQwC by [email protected] |
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ah-ha! I knew it wasn't a fucking Pentium II. It's an AMD K6-III "… |
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Post #AffBdrP12JCKJcVXxg by [email protected] |
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@foone I had one of these. Great price/performance back then. |
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@lgw4 yeah! my first linux server was built on one of these |
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Post #AffH3RTKZDD7C4XmHg by [email protected] |
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I got it to boot, but the mouse isn't working properly. I only have vertica… |
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Opened it up. |
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I was all "there's your problem, it's bent!" but then I reali… |
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Post #AffJTxLsrQAHVMpbHc by [email protected] |
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I gave up and switched to a different serial mouse. This is a Microsoft Serial-… |
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It's running Windows 98. It's got some dialup network called aristotle.… |
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it did have two bookmarks.the first one is savebears.org:https://savebears.org/ |
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Post #AffJug0ZS6g1X6bTc0 by [email protected] |
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oh hey it still has an old version of yahoo.net cached |
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Post #AffKEzun9Iix43aeXI by [email protected] |
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and the other link is to a flash game called "Bad Apple" (not that on… |
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It's in flashpoint:https://flashpointproject.github.io/flashpoint-database/… |
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Post #AffKnC7sFsr6mY12G0 by [email protected] |
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and I found a name in the email and confirmed that the former owner of this mac… |
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the emails also say this machine was set up in 2004, which is a bit late for a … |
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anyway windows can't currently see the floppy drives or the CD-ROM. I'm… |
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It's got an AGP Creative CT6900 (nice) 3D Blaster S3 Savage 4.16MB of VRAM,… |
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wait |
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Post #AffM6Z4nFb2fPwNJNQ by [email protected] |
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So here's the CD-ROM plugged in.Do you notice anything slightly odd about t… |
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Here's a different angle. you can see from here that this is a SCSI CD-ROM … |
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This also explains another problem this machine is having which I encountered e… |
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Post #AffM6dDnq2cqH2cYyW by [email protected] |
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THEY PLUGGED THE FLOPPY DISK CABLE INTO THE SCSI CD-ROM DRIVE |
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I'm gonna have to bend these cables back if I want to plug the SCSI cable b… |
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Post #AffNLbqRL6yEIlOnia by [email protected] |
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@foone you could call me an AGP creative |
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@dangerdyke yeah every time I see "AGP" on these old machines I have … |
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Post #AffP6Hjg1RA7V03Xe4 by [email protected] |
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@foone I love that this still *looks* like it’s from 2000. |
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CD-ROM works, but I think the top floppy drive has failed. possibly plugging it… |
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@foone suboptimal. |
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I'M IN |
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@foone YES! |
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damn it. I can't get disk 2 to read. Maybe my spare drive is bad? |
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NEVERMIND I'M IN |
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@jens given the "Pentium II inside" and the weird mix of technologies… |
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Post #AffRzuvSDSzescDhho by [email protected] |
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fuck. The drive is indeed dead. it stopped spinning when I tried to put in disk… |
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Post #AffTRYULKZm1M2HX5k by [email protected] |
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I HAVE THE SCSI! |
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@foone all Pentium II’s were slot 1 yeah? Pentium Pro was socket, and later P… |
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@jpm @foone things got really wild for a while there. |
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@mike @jpm slockets! I love those things |
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formatting the drive. It wouldn't let me use the full nine gigabytes, so I … |
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Post #AffV7xVYnZtH4HdPAO by [email protected] |
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@foone what kind of modem form-factor is this? I couldn't recognize it from… |
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Post #AffV7xZoXlIFHTcnnU by [email protected] |
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@LaF0rge ISA card |
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WHOOO! WINDOWS NT 4.0 INSTALLED |
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@fooneAre you sure? I think it's almost certainly 10Mbit only, due to it be… |
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@pyksy good point, it's probably 10mbit only |
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and I'm booted! tomorrow figure out drivers and get this thing above 16colo… |
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@foone IIRC that was a quirk of the NT4 installer? It really hated using NTFS p… |
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@domi @foone wasn't there a version of NT that would install to FAT16, and … |
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@rogerlipscombe @domi yeah, this had a step during installing where it installe… |
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oh yeah and I need to upgrade it. I think I'm on SP1, I need to upgrade to … |
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@misty it was a good year for websites. |
