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Fujitsu DS/90 7110 running UXP/DS V10L20

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What was Benoit B. Mandelbrots middle name?

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What’s your favorite television theme song? I nominate the one from “Perfect Strangers”

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Your mama so fat, her nickname is

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Here's my HP 4951B. Works well and has all the cables. Saw one in another post and had to share.

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Toshiba 3200SX

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2001 Pentium III, 600MHz 10.1" Fujitsu-Siemens B2545 Subnotebook with a touch screen

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Hard time deciding whether today is a Ferrari or Lamborghini day

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Gimix 6809

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Digging thru some old boxes after after a move and found something surprising

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Who still uses a notebook computer with a parallel port ethernet adapter? Xircom PE3-10BT.

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What browser do you prefer to use on Linux?

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Husky Hunter Collection... Including a Reporter

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Husky Hunter Collection... Including a Reporter

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Photo of the Day

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I have an Amstrad PPC640. I was thinking of obtaining a Windows 1.01 floppy disk, but I'm not sure if it'll work (blank after "Please Wait..."). Tried a few for Slot-A.

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Anyone remember pfs:File and pfs:Write? Great programs back in the early days!

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Can I Use Old Thinkpads from the 1990's for Writing?

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That's how we were used to do system updates

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Do you floppy?

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Who remembers editing config.sys to run a program?

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fretinator007@reddit

Yeah, I remember trying to select various audio drivers via the UI. What I didn't know is it was just adding the new selection to config.sys. That was my introduction to hand-editing that beast of a file.

Everyone needs a CD-ROM capable of ludicrous speed

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Just finished setting up this G5 spot for peaceful light work and some old games

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SSH for DOS - 80386?

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fretinator007@reddit

I make them with microcontrollers using micropython. I just forward the rs232 to a network socket, and read the network socket and forward to the serial port. On the Linux box (PI4) I have a little script that binds the network port to a login terminal.

What do you do with your vintage computers, apart from gaming?

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What vintage computers have surprising modern functions?

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The NEC Ultralite 8088 laptop used an SSD for its hard drive. 1 or 2MB. It also had removable storage cards for extra memory or Applications. It was also truly thin and light, unlike its chonky brethren at the time.

Opened up this TI professional computer, and oh boy. There was a huge mouse nest and quite a bit of rust. I cleaned out most of the nest. Are there any cleaning techniques I could use?

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Father's Day present from my wife and parents 😁

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Last Friday's yard sale finds, vintage macintosh computer, Apple powerbook and early intel macbook all do work and are in good condition besides the power book having some cracks on the lid

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My newest project: Eagle II

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My new "laptop". Doesn't power on.

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What is this type of console called, and what was it used for?

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What are examples of old tech still in use today to perform core jobs?

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Who remembers editing config.sys to run a program?

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Who remembers editing config.sys to run a program?

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I remember trying to get sound to work in OS/2 Warp 3.0. I would switch drivers, and see if it worked, switch again, and see if it worked. What I didn't know is that each time it switched drivers, it left the old one in the config.sys, and just added the new. I had to go through the monster OS/2 config.sys and remove any traces of the old.

Who remembers editing config.sys to run a program?

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Man it must have sucked to install Novell WordPerfect in the 90’s

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The best thing to hear from an old widow: "My husband put some old PC in the attic 40 years ago. You can have it if you want." One more XT for my collection! Intel 8088 4.77 MHz, 640KB ram, Motorola 6845 CGA, 10MB HDD, 360KB FDD, IBM 5153 CGA Display. I like the factory defective bad sector list.

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My friends basement is a museum

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Disc drives not working with my computer

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I have an XP-era laptop with a SATA interface. The XP install by default cannot see the SATA drive. There are ways to add the SATA drivers to the XP install CD, but I gave up and installed a lightweight Linux.

One of those nights

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Transmeta: formerly super secretive Silicon Valley startup who employed Linus Torvalds and built a very low power x86 CPU ("Crusoe") based on binary translation to 128 bit VLIW core. Last IPO of the dot-com era, when we all thought they would change the world. Apparently they were big in Japan.

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Zeos 486 with no hard drive

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I use a cf-to-ide adapter with my Zeos Meridian laptop, 486 DX4-100. I chose one of the Hard Drive Type settings that auto-detects my 512mb CF. It's my DOS web surfing machine. DosLynx with SSL support. I also have DJGPP installed so I can use ks, grep, etc

Good ol PET fired up

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Surfing the (micro)web on a dual-720k-floppy battlestation using a parallel port network card - with no worry about drive-by download attacks ;)

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Nice, I do a similar thing with a Serial-wifi adapter I make that automatically connects the user to a telnet session on a Raspberry Pi. Links2 if the computer has a good terminal session, and lynx if it doesn't

I snagged a working TI-99/4A "Puddin' pop" at an estate sale

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My new collection piece. This lovely base model 5120.

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PX-4

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While the PX-8 has a larger screen, and I have the 120K memory expansion, I kind of prefer the PX-4 with its parallel port and the ability to run it off AA batteries.

PX-4

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Drop you best knock knock jokes people

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