WingedGeek

It didn't. I ran it on a 386slc laptop. It was painful, but it ran. Windows 95 would also run just fine on a 486SX (486DX with the FPU disabled).

> it's pretty good Now ... But the EVO will last much longer with almost 3x the TBW, no?

Oh man memory unlocked

Probably (though not at our high school). Just saying these were definitely a thing in the 90s, and you didn't have to go out of your way to find them. "Craft" implies limited production and niche availability. (Dictionary defines it as: “denoting or relating to food or drink made in a traditional or non-mechanized way by an individual or a small company. "craft brewing"”)

Probably (though not at our high school). Just saying these were pretty mainstream in the 90s, you didn't have to go out of your way to find them. "Craft" implies limited production and niche availability.

These were what they sold in the vending machine at my 2,000 student public high school 🤷🏻‍♀️

Share the recipe?

Naw, I was eating these in the 90s, quenching the fire with Mountain Dew: https://oldviennallc.com/product/red-hot-riplets/

I remember spicy AF BBQ chips we ate in high school in the early 90s. I didn't really like them but all the other guys ate them and I didn't want to be the wuss who didn't, so... I *think* they were "Old Vienna Red Hot Riplets"? (Don't have great recall of much before I was 18 :( ) Looks like they're still available on Amazon

Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, OS/2 Warp 3.0, NextStep 3...

The 10 is > $200 shipped. The 5 is stripped, no RAM, no hard drive, no floppy or optical drive, damaged case. The Ultra 1 has no storage and is $175 shipped. The small footprint machines are spendy. I'm just saying, back in the day you could get a complete sun4m system, with RAM, storage, onboard graphics, keyboard, mouse, which wiuld run the then-current version of Solaris, for $75: https://web.archive.org/web/20001022204529/http://www.sunsunsun.net/classic.htm A ready to roll SparcStation 2 was in the $70-100 range; the SS4 I picked up was $199 complete including keyboard and mouse: https://web.archive.org/web/20000615171314/http://www.sunsunsun.net/systems.htm The cheapest SS4 on eBay right now is $249 plus shipping ($20), **no** RAM, storage, optical, floppy drive, or keyboard or mouse. I don't see any Classics. There's one LX, $300 + shipping, "for parts," though it at least *looks* complete (no keyboard/mouse though).

The 4m machines are all listed in the mid-3 figures? The 4c machines stopped at 5.7. Solaris 8 was where it was at. :)

They didn't used to be, you could get a spark station four for 100 bucks, 149 for an ultra two. I got my girlfriend a Classic for ~$100. https://web.archive.org/web/20000614204437/http://www.sunsunsun.net/s5.htm

Ditto but mine was a 4. Had a loaded 20 on my desk in 2000, it was obsolete by then but still cool and I used it more than I used my Linux/Windows dual boot Dell OptiPlex, we were admin'ing Ultra 2 boxes, later Dell power edge machines runningLinux. Everything I needed to do, SSH and and Netscape basically, worked just fine on Sun OS 5.6.

Apparently there was at least one VT220 model with the caboose and on a pedestal: https://images.app.goo.gl/x7UQyctzAByQfZRA6 But yeah the ones I grew up with were more like: https://images.app.goo.gl/ApYb3xUk2ugPAJWK6

It was illuminating to look at old product cycles ... The IIe was released in '83 and only mildly refreshed over the years until it was finally discontinued in 1993(!). The IIgs was an '86 release that hung on (with mild massaging) until December 1992. Accelerator cards (TransWarp GS, ZipChip GSX), expensive add-ons (Vulcan internal hard drives, SCSI boards), RAM cards, etc flooded the market to keep the machines relevant for as long as possible. Remember CPU upgrade kits like the Pentium Overdrives and (e.g.) the Sonnet or DayStar cards that would bump a PowerPC 603e machine to a G3? Or the 68030 / 040 add-on cards for older Macs? Back when a computer was an *investment* that cost as much as a car (the Mac IIci debuted at $6,300 in 1989, not including monitor (and hung on well into the 68040 period, finally discontinued in '93); a complete IIci system was about the same price as a brand new Ford Escort and within spitting distance of a Mustang! Now they're disposable appliances...

You could really see the job has gotten to him.

No one looked worse after their presidency than FDR though.

Songs that came out the summer before my senior year: * [Ini Kamoze - Here Come the Hotstepper](https://youtu.be/w0N4twV28Mw). * [This fun, lighthearted tune](https://youtu.be/PTFwQP86BRs) Songs that came out my freshman year of high school: * [Everyone knows this one (not shot in a high school)](https://youtu.be/hTWKbfoikeg) * [And this one](https://youtu.be/GLvohMXgcBo) (beginning of the Musack doldrums for this once very [funky moshable](https://youtu.be/C6jElKMMOWM) band) But the songs that *defined* my high school years: * [Well both the EP and LP, but this song resonates in particular](https://youtu.be/C60wFHC8Z40) * [Because she gets me](https://youtu.be/w_HA5Czhtx4) * [Because, well, fuck you! I won't do what you tell me!](https://youtu.be/bWXazVhlyxQ)

$92.80 here.

Alaska

> I would start with a car full of people at dusk, have completely different people in there by midnight, and by 3am I’d have a car full of total strangers. These days there are apps for that.

Was that the Chevy V6 one, or had they already transitioned to the 4.0L I6?

My first car was a 4 year old, 100,000+ mile Jeep Wrangler I bought off my high school math teacher, who was about to be a mom and wanted a Volvo. She first offered it for $2,500 but before I could scrounge that amount together she got $5K offers from dealerships as a trade-in, so she bumped it to $4K for me. I had to take out a loan from the Bank of Grandpa and Grandma (and Grandpa was an ex Army aviator who had grown up during the depression and was employed as a banker, so believe that loan wasn't "forgiven") to swoop the car, but I did, and drove the hell out of it for a couple of years delivering Chinese food and getting into shenanigans. Traded that in for a Chrysler LeBaron my senior year of high school; made like 4 payments on that before it was totaled by a pot hole (bent the frame). Bought another Jeep that I still have. Payments on that were like $300/month, which I more than covered working at Best Buy for $7/hr (IIRC), about 20 hours/week, and also as the on-campus Apple sales rep for another ~2 hours/day M-F (small campus ;)). Gas was somewhere in the $.90/gal range for name brand 87 octane. Paid the Jeep off early (like 2 years into probably a 3 year loan?) so I could fuck around in Europe without having to worry about how to make a trans-Atlantic car payment in the days of dial-up Internet.

The board (well, the chipset) was garbage too though. I tried so many times to get those "TX Pro" (and MV3 and ALi and ...) chipset boards to work reliably, but they always had dodgy UDMA controlllers and bad bus mastering implementation etc. Now I was at the razor's edge of tech for the time (6+ MB/sec MJPEG captures to UDMA IDE drives), but still. The i430TX / Pentium MMX, then i440BX / PII-PIII were GOAT for compatibility and stability.

[Here is 2 Live Crew - come out here and do your thing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iViMrXn5IIs)

I'm just not familiar with anything Lego that was Star Trek I don't think they licensed it?

Star *Trek* LEGO kit?

Some insight as to why that all happened the way it did: http://flying-geek.blogspot.com/2020/11/aborting-take-off-faa-occurrence.html You may get a call from the FSDO.

“Golden Era”? This is from the 1996-1997 era (3Dfx was already shipping Voodoo cards), just as they were getting busted for selling used components in “new” computers and right before they got firesaled to NEC. I worked on these things at Best Buy. about the only nice thing I can say is that at least their ISA combination sound card/modem was slightly more reliable than the entirely software based IBM Mwave cards in their Aptiva line at the time. Which is about the faintest praise possible. Heaven help you if you wanted to upgrade anything other than RAM or memory, and hope you bought the extended warranty! 🤣

1997-1998 actually wasn't really an outlier, and overall, school shootings actually trended down: https://www.npr.org/2018/03/15/593831564/the-disconnect-between-perceived-danger-in-u-s-schools-and-reality (I think they've spiked more recently?). But *media attention* and hysteria increased: > "The difference is the impression, the perception that people have," Fox says — and he traces that to cable news and social media. "Today we have cell phone recordings of gunfire that play over and over and over again. So it's that the impression is very different. That's why people think things are a lot worse now, but the statistics say otherwise." > Other experts agree. Garen Wintemute is an emergency room physician who leads a prominent gun violence research program at the University of California, Davis. He says school shootings, specifically, are not epidemic.

My first built PC was that AMD on a VLB board that could be overclocked to 40 MHz ... was a great Duke Nukem 3D machine!

Gimme 5 bees for a quarter, will ya?

I want a copy! I'll setup Windows in a VM... I need to formally teach myself how to type properly...

Really? I wasn't. We were taught basic shit like LOGO and Oregon Trail and some programs we used in shop class. How to type on dedicated software. But nothing about general purpose computing. All that I had to teach myself. Installing peripherals (internal cards, external devices), building self-booting diskettes, DOS boot floppies with IDEATAPI.SYS / MSCDEX.EXE to get Windows installed from CD, figuring out enough of your hardware to get the right Slackware disk images written, mode lines for your monitor that wouldn't let the magic smoke out (btdt), not hooking up P8 and P9 reversed and smoking your motherboard (ditto), nor realizing how important a *good* bus mastering PCI Ethernet card was until your server had been online (and struggling) for years with a cheap NE2000 clone ... None of that was taught in school, at least not any of the schools I went to.

I still have Mandrake 6.1 on a VAIO I setup in … 2000? It’s running WordPerfect 8 and works perfectly and not being able to run a modern browser is a bonus. :) Before that I ran Slackware (quad booting with W95, NT4, and OS/2 3.0 Warp) from ‘96 until ‘00.

1988? $2500 ($6800 adjusted), easily, once you included a keyboard and monitor. Hell, the Apple IIgs (an end of road 8/16-bit 2.6 MHz computer) was $999. Things were an investment then, TVs, stereos, computers. You bought it and expected to use it for 5+ years if not longer. Computer didn't really start getting affordable until the mid 90s. In late 1990 Apple released a breathed on Macintosh plus/SE level machine, the Macintosh Classic, which wasn't that different from the machines that they've been making for five years already, and it was a big deal when it debuted at $999, without a hard drive and only 1 MB RAM if memory serves. Here's a guy who had a 640K machine in 1988 for $2,200: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/KP6AjsGrX8 I remember 486DX4/75 Toshiba Satellite laptops with 8MB RAM and a CD-ROM drive *flying* off the shelves in 1994 or maybe early 1995 because they broke a price barrier (IIRC $2,499, about $5,300 adjusted).

The vast majority of the time I saw that prompt? setup /nf /m /nh /nm /f /ir (Gotta preserve my LILO install on the master boot record). Once I had `glquake` and `doom2` running under Linux, the only other thing I was likely to type here was `duke3d`

Yep they've been back in supermarkets for a couple years here, I pick a couple up every month or two as a special treat

My brother worked at Suncoast and through that got an employee discount at Best Buy ... Not sure what the relationship was? (Google tells me Musicland owned Suncoast, and Best Buy bought Musicland, thus owned Suncoast.)

People forget VHS tapes used to be hella expensive. It was [big news when TOP GUN released for $26.95](https://www.everything80spodcast.com/how-the-top-gun-vhs-changed-home-video-forever/) in 1987 (about $75 adjusted).

8.1 would run on a 68040. The 68000 itself was supported (at least in the Mac Classic, discontinued in late 1992) through System 7.5.5. 7.6 dropped support for the 68000 and '020 Macs (original II, original LC), and Mac OS 8 dropped support for the 68030 machines.

It's like pornography, the ASI knows it when they see it

ASRS does not process reports containing information regarding aviation accidents. If there's damage to the aircraft an ASRS report doesn't provide any protection and will be rejected.

In fairness, Jobs was specifically comparing the new iBook to the other brands' *consumer* offerings, not corporate...

> Does OP have a source for the post title? I'm wondering what iBook they're talking about? The G4 release? Because that was 2002 and not 2001, which would make more sense as the Inspiron 2650 in the picture would then have Windows XP (released October 2001) and the Pentium 4-M's being released (April 2002). https://youtu.be/hmX_bh2Dc2I?t=12m30s Spring 2001, iBook G3 500 MHz introduction

My stepdad was an interesting man. He had two daughters, one from an affair his late wife had had before they married, who he adopted, and one that was biologically his. When year for Christmas they adopted daughter got a waterbed, his biological daughter got a quarter horse gelding. His rationale was that he'd given both girls what they asked for, my mom was like, and you never stopped to think about the discrepancy when you were writing checks? Another year my mom had hunted far and wide to find an affordable open box Sony Trinitron that matched the specifications I needed for some piece of AV gear I wanted hook up to it. She finally found it at a decent price with minor scratches and dents. Stepdad saw it and realized it was a better TV than the Sylvania or whatever larger but crappy TV he'd bought new for their bedroom and tried to pressure my mom into swapping it, so that I would get a brand new TV that didn't actually do what I needed it to do and they would get the better Sony… She refused.

After dad moved out of our for bed 2.5 bathroom house into a crappy two bedroom apartment, he got me the USS *Flagg*. It took up almost the entire floor of the bedroom I shared with my brother, good thing we had a bunkbed. When he remarried and got a new house my brother and I still shared a bedroom since we were only supposed to be there like every other weekend and half of vacations (I stopped going pretty much immediately. But anyway.) The *Flagg* was relegated to dark unfinished room in the basement and basically never got played with, also because all the toys that I would've made it with that set or at mom's house ofc.

Erector Set. My very mid popular sorority girl mom thought they were "weird" and never got me one no matter how many times I put them on my Xmas list. (She did not exactly encourage STEM pursuits, but I could have had all the football equipment I wanted, if I'd wanted any.)

How do reavers clean their harpoons?