Oh, yeah? How much RAM did your lake have?
We killed a homeless man on this bench. Me and Dru. Those were good times. You know, he begged for mercy, and you know, that only made her bite harder.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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amych - May 22, 2008 3:10:25 pm PDT #6342 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Matt H - May 22, 2008 3:42:44 pm PDT #6343 of 25501
Musikalicen Opfer
Jumping in to bid for geek-trashiest: How about a 1981 DEC Rainbow with both Z80 and 8086 chip, and BOTH C/PM and MS-DOS 1.0....still operational, with all the papers I wrote as an undergraduate on floppies that STILL WORK.
(yes, I actually still have this. Don't know why.
amych - May 22, 2008 3:45:53 pm PDT #6344 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
You have the machine because that's fucking cool. You have the undergrad papers because... well, that's between you and your doG.
Matt H - May 22, 2008 3:53:27 pm PDT #6345 of 25501
Musikalicen Opfer
It's sort of cool. The monitor (which is nothing but a relogoed VT220T) needs a pair of filter caps for the power supply, as it's got some screen roll, but nothing bad, especially.
And re floppies: occasionally re-reading a college paper is a humbling experience. The papers are grammatically and syntactically correct, but gah it took a long time to express something simple.
Ginger - May 22, 2008 4:55:08 pm PDT #6346 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Hey, I had a DEC Rainbow.
t High fives Matt
beth b - May 22, 2008 7:04:48 pm PDT #6347 of 25501
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
any one need a Dec Rainbow?
beth b - May 22, 2008 7:14:18 pm PDT #6348 of 25501
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
NoiseDesign - May 22, 2008 9:06:10 pm PDT #6349 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
I need to retrieve it from San Diego but I still have a C/PM computer with an 8" floppy drive that is in a plywood case. It was still working last time I checked but that was quite a few years ago.
omnis_audis - May 22, 2008 9:49:36 pm PDT #6350 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
(yes, I actually still have this. Don't know why.)
OK, I don't have anything that old. But. I am purging. I will say, as I've been digging through old papers, I found the receipt for the Apple 5300c that I am getting ready to toss. Shocking! I paid $4,500 for it! Imagine what kind of laptop you could get for that much today! So ya, I think it's safe to say computer prices have come WAY down.
omnis_audis - May 22, 2008 11:16:17 pm PDT #6351 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Omnis, try searching for BootCamp1.4.dmg maybe one of the torrent places (or, god forbid, a traditional site) has an active copy for download.Good call! I have downloaded it. Upon opening it, it promptly tells me "Boot Camp beta has expired. OK"
So I dial back the date on the clock to see if that trick works. It starts to! It installed the Boot Camp Ass't utility. But once I open that, it says something about my internal drive needs to be reformatted to one partion in Extended (Journaled)... which it already is.
:: head - desk ::
Not tonight.
Anyone have a clue, short of backing up everything and wiping the drive?