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It's **yours** for the right price 👍

Probably has a stabilizer underneath, like a spacebar, only sideways 🤣

I'd have to go back, shorten wires, route the wires cleanly, and clean up the solder blobs with some solder wick. [This guy's work pleases me, something to aspire to.](https://youtube.com/shorts/n50KCWhBu9k?si=pu9hsMhoUSvk0ZSh) Not to cast shade on OP's accomplishment, but there's a little too much "bodge" in the "bodge wires" for my brain.

I've seen plenty of really cheap cases where the speaker mounting hardware was hot-melt glue.

It definitely wasn't the worst of times, I moved in with my girlfriend from my dad's house (she made a sinner out of me at least three times a day), and her absentee mother used to bring us cigarettes and groceries every Saturday (she stayed with her boyfriend, closer to work, the rest of the week). Most of the time it was just me, her, and her two younger sisters. We had on-site laundry, my girlfriend knew how to cook real food (not just stuff from a box), and we always had places to hang out and chill, people to see. It could have been a lot worse. Sure, there were some downsides, we had a TV and VCR, but only animated movies appropriate for her five year old sister. We'd get the second day on three day rentals when her best friend's mom would rent movies though. We had to walk, hitchhike, or take the bus to get anywhere else, and bribe the ten year old to watch the five year old, or find somewhere to park them while we were gone. The small grocery store within close walking distance had a very limited selection. All of the doors, except the bathroom, were blankets held up with push-pins, and most of the time people ignored the existence of the bathroom door because we only had one bathroom.

I would probably have used masking tape and any random #2 out of my girlfriend's sister's backpack, because I'm classy like that.

I have scans of the entire run of the magazine and ISOs of the discs on one of my iBook G4s, the other is my Photoshop machine. The family PC in my case was an IBM PS/2 Model 80 upgraded with a 486DX4 that was monopolized by my brothers, my main interaction with Macs was doing Desktop Publishing in Aldus Pagemaker on a IIsi with a Radius Full Page Display, and I desperately wanted a Mac of my own (I bought "Build Your Own Mac and Save a Bundle," and carried it everywhere). Eventually my aunt gave me a Quadra 610 (virtually the same "pizza box" case as your family Power Macintosh 6100) of my own, that I had until my stepmom smashed it to bits for something that didn't concern her at all. I moved out at 15 shortly afterwards, and I'd visit and use the family PC when nobody was home for years (the house had the aluminum framed windows you could lift out of their track and remove, even if they were"locked"). I bought the Pentium MMX system from a guy named Darren whose house was always covered in hair from his German Shepherd and always smelled faintly of dog pee, it cost me 4g of weed and a power bong made from a Super Soaker 150 (I called it the "Super Toaker 150," because I was too stoned to be original with the name).

I got into the K6-2 mainly because I already had a Socket 7 motherboard, it was an easy upgrade, and quite a boost over my overclocked Pentium MMX.

I read about that trick in Maximum PC, back in the day.

IIRC some Celerons had decent overclocking overhead, but I was rocking a 486DX4 still in 1998, and didn't get into overclocking for a couple more years with the Pentium MMX and AMD K6-2.

Yeah, I have a printer and laminator for my recipes thank you very much.

Well, if she's a touch typist with 100% accuracy, she doesn't need to look at the monitor, especially if she knows all of the keyboard shortcuts for the word processing program she's using.

It's alright, but I feel it's necessary that we provide nebs with facts, which is why I always go looking for the manuals. I actually had to look at pictures of the motherboard from a different angle just to see if you were seeing things that I wasn't before speaking up. But I'm also old enough to remember when some people would refer to that serial port as a modem port, because that's where they plugged in the external modem.

The computer has no DVI, only VGA, and the single expansion card looks like a modem. Looking up the monitor, it only has VGA input, and a resolution of 1280x1024. Either the monitor is dead, the backlight is dead, or OP has a bad VGA cable. [Here](https://objects.icecat.biz/objects/mmo_550254_1491303874_4061_22060.pdf) is the monitor manual. I can't find the motherboard manual, but a search for the part number yeilds [this page](https://the620guy.com/product/hp-dx2250-443670-001-ms-7297-ver-2-1-motherboard-athlon-64-x2-4000-2-1ghz-cpu/) selling one of the motherboard, that shows the specifications, and chipset specifics.

Well, it's hard to pivot from a free99 supplier to an actual one, really cuts into the margins.

Didn't know how to lean on this one. I thought about pointing out that sending biological material via the mail is prohibited, and then I remembered the last time I took a ColoGuard test.

Depends on how much fiber they have in their diet, they may be fairly regular /s

I was a Free I-Net guy myself, even though it was a pain to get kicked after a long session, it was free and I could always dial in and kick the next longest session off.

I can't see that name without thinking what it is spelled backwards.

Former 8" floppy user checking in here, and there was a center lever you pressed down on until it clicked that brought down the read/write head, a plastic part that engaged with the center of the disk, and blocked it from being pulled out while the head was in contact with the surface. It was hinged in the back like a sandwich press, and you'd have to press it down to click it and it would lift. The 5¼" floppy drives that came afterwards had a lever that had to be twisted to block the disk from being removed, and the hinged mechanism was similar, just smaller, and pressed down by a cam on the lever. The way the lever worked was different, but the internals were engineered in roughly the same fashion. If I remember correctly, some 5¼" floppy drives were almost exactly the same as the 8" floppy drives that I described, just smaller. I can't remember whether or not I had to flip over 8" disks or not.

Saw that video, and the following one where they put in the board to enable grayscale on the internal display. Great way to rescue components from a bombed out board. Are you planning on the grayscale upgrade and the custom ROM with bootable RAM disk option?

Like when a motherboard has an FCC ID sticker

TBH, probably way more productive than using Windows. No AI or web distractions.

Yeah, I noticed that when I was looking for an iBook G4 recently. Some absolutely trashed examples listed as "RARE," and I'm like, "yep, that's some one of a kind damage." Rare is too common now, like the word "Alert" on cable news channels.

Just the vending machines

That phosphor burn-in though.

And magnet wire from grandpa's radio shed

Beat me to it

And leave it piney fresh!

"bold, citrusy (grapefruit, lemon), and piney hop aromas and flavors, balanced by a solid malt backbone for a crisp, refreshing, West Coast character"

This, market research, like actually looking at completed listings that sold on eBay instead of just pulling a number out of yer arse.

Yeah, they worked similar to an optical pickup on a CD iirc

Well, the book I mentioned is a great place to start and the online version is free here: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/3e/ Good luck!

I haven't engaged in any endeavors along these lines, but I'd suggest you should probably look at Internet Archive's approach for a guiding light. From a practical standpoint, I would probably use Python to scrape the pages as well as archive the content, since there are libraries available through the pip repository that will serve for the purpose (good resource for the basics is the excellent "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" book from No Starch Press).

I'll know that day because that phrase will be accompanied by my being squeezed in her viselike grip 🤣🤣🤣

Mine just says "okay, but no more," every time, although I am fairly restrained and only buy what I can put into practical use, but that's probably why she's so tolerant.

Pretty much every PC motherboard I've seen from Socket 7 and forward had a socketed CR2032 coin cell, but my PC experience prior to that era was a hand-me-down IBM PS/2 with a 486DX4 upgrade on a daughterboard, 64MB of RAM, a 640MB IDE, and a gigantic 1GB Quantum SCSI drive (I eventually stole for a secondary storage for my Mac along with half the RAM, but it was fine because my brothers were console gamers) I shared with my brothers, and my personal machine from around the same time was a hand-me-down Macintosh Quadra 610.

I had a hand-me-down Color Computer 3 in the 90s, I got at a garage sale for $20 with two bankers boxes full of software on 5¼" floppies and some on cassette (I had to make my own cable to connect a Radio Shack Realistic branded cassette recorder to it). So I never delved into the manuals and tried my hand at writing software beyond playing around with Poke and various values to see what would happen. Unfortunately my stepmother smashed it and lit it on fire along with my Macintosh Quadra 610, 15" Apple Cinema Display, Seagate 1GB SCSI hard drive, and Laser Writer II because someone I invited over to a party "borrowed" and crashed my deceased mother's car. I wish I still had it all, but I guess there's always saved searches on eBay.

OP the spring goes in the narrow slit to the right side of the window on the edge, the coiled part of the spring goes in the slot, and the foot (the little bend on the end) goes in the notch towards the middle on the bottom. There's a catch on the sliding door that grabs the other foot on the spring. When the spring is under tension (when the door is opened by the floppy drive mechanism), it goes deeper in the slit, and is prevented from touching the magnetic disk by the heat sealed post to the right of the floppy window. I've put the door back on hundreds of recycled floppies back as a preteen and teen in the 90s, so don't listen to anyone in this thread that says it can't be done.

It seems that raw intelligence has decreased markedly since then, I also figured it out when I was twelve way back in 1993 (because that's how we carried around our unregistered shareware and high score lists), but nowadays if ChatGPT can't string the proper words together in the right order, then the pinwheel of death just keeps on spinning until a kernel panic forces a reboot.

Probably, but I think the candles were more a symptom of him not wanting to chip in on the bills and his stepdad unplugging the extension cord to his trailer. He was an unwashed louse that was on SSDI for allegedly having dropped 100 hits of LSD all at once by spilling a Visene bottle full on his hand (I didn't buy his bullshit*t story then or now), and allegedly working causes acid flashbacks. I'm pretty sure he's just a lazy freeloader whose greasy ass once left a ring around the tub at my apartment that had to be scrubbed off with power tools. But I digress.

Possible, it's also possible that my memory has yellowed with age since it has been more than 24 years since the computer was burned on the pyre. But I've only ever owned one new computer in my life (an Acer Aspire One I bought at Walmart), and everything else I've either bought used in person, on eBay, or refurbished on Amazon.

It's really the only way I divest myself of computers, otherwise I hang on to them forever. Incidentally, karma bit him and the travel trailer he lived in burned down because the pop-up table collapsed under the weight of his 32" CRT, sending lit candles to meet up with the flammables. He had to move back into the house with his mom and stepdad. I just couldn't muster up the sympathy for him since he couldn't adequately explain why he'd tossed my perfectly good laptop on the fire.

Had a Toshiba Satellite T2400CT that was beige. I bought it used off some random twenty-something at a computer store for $30. He'd offered it to me for more, but quickly discounted it because it wasn't specc'd out like he'd initially said, it lacked the sound card (remember when those were optional), the screen was only 640x480, and only had 16MB of RAM. It was a sturdy little beast running Windows 95 and connecting to the Internet in phone booths using an audio coupler right up to the point where I left it overnight at a "friend's" place and he lit it on fire.