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ls3mach
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JUN 14, 10:19 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by williegoat:
Before USB, that was how peripherals connected. |
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I've used serial and tons of other dead standards. I just have never once seen that port used. In fairness until recently TVs were so damned expensive people didn't have 10 in a house, so I saw a lot less of them and you really never work on a TV*. Computers though, I did have parts and crap people would give me and constantly working on and upgrading as a poor kid.
Is it the same as the old serial ports mice of yore used? I remember PS2/AT also and their adapters. Was that little serial an RS-232? If it was I just never pieced that together, and I may be calling it the wrong connection.
*My family used to tell stories of buying tubes and such at 7-11 to replace. Maybe the only meant stereos. Still not something I have ever done.
Todd is right though. It changes rapidly. Next big thing is going to be batteries. Fast charging is GREAT, but battery life still isn't there. Speeds are effing plenty fine and really have been for years. The shift has been going mobile for so long and the phones are insane now.
1st PC if you guys can recal.
IBM compatible either 286 or 386.Data cards for storage. No mouse, had to add it and some adapters. No soundcard. No CDROM. 3.5" and 5.25" floppy. I think it had both. VGA output. Windows 3.11 in all its' glory.
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williegoat
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JUN 14, 11:01 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by ls3mach:
I've used serial and tons of other dead standards. I just have never once seen that port used. In fairness until recently TVs were so damned expensive people didn't have 10 in a house, so I saw a lot less of them and you really never work on a TV*. Computers though, I did have parts and crap people would give me and constantly working on and upgrading as a poor kid.
Is it the same as the old serial ports mice of yore used? I remember PS2/AT also and their adapters. Was that little serial an RS-232? If it was I just never pieced that together, and I may be calling it the wrong connection.
*My family used to tell stories of buying tubes and such at 7-11 to replace. Maybe the only meant stereos. Still not something I have ever done.
Todd is right though. It changes rapidly. Next big thing is going to be batteries. Fast charging is GREAT, but battery life still isn't there. Speeds are effing plenty fine and really have been for years. The shift has been going mobile for so long and the phones are insane now.
1st PC if you guys can recal.
IBM compatible either 286 or 386.Data cards for storage. No mouse, had to add it and some adapters. No soundcard. No CDROM. 3.5" and 5.25" floppy. I think it had both. VGA output. Windows 3.11 in all its' glory. |
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Here is an old serial (rs232) mouse with a DB-9 connector, a DB-9 to PS2 adapter and an ISA expansion card with both DB-9 and DB-25 connectors. Just stuff I happen to have laying around.
Do I get to keep my geek card? I learned BASIC in 1967, on a terminal that had an acoustic modem and no CRT, only an IBM Selectric print head.
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A_Lonely_Potato
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JUN 15, 01:56 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by ls3mach:
Todd is right though. It changes rapidly. Next big thing is going to be batteries. Fast charging is GREAT, but battery life still isn't there. Speeds are effing plenty fine and really have been for years. The shift has been going mobile for so long and the phones are insane now.
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Yup. While new architectures have made massive improvements for efficiency, it seems things may be shifting away from x86, and to ARM. Apple did it with the M1 chip, and that spurred microsoft to finally give the ARM version of windows some attention. Progress is being made.
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Cliff Pennock
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JUN 15, 04:13 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by ls3mach:
Why that distro? What were you running? |
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Debian is crazy stable. It's by far the most stable distro I've ever run. And I've ran a bunch. In fact, PFF has been running on Debian since day one, back in 1999.
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ls3mach
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JUN 15, 04:21 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Cliff Pennock:
Debian is crazy stable. It's by far the most stable distro I've ever run. And I've ran a bunch. In fact, PFF has been running on Debian since day one, back in 1999. |
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This I shall keep in mind
I am super rusty. Does this run KDE GUI. Is that even a good one anymore.[This message has been edited by ls3mach (edited 06-15-2022).]
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williegoat
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JUN 15, 04:39 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by ls3mach:
This I shall keep in mind
I am super rusty. Does this run KDE GUI. Is that even a good one anymore.
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KDE is my favorite, they call it Plasma now. But you can run any desktop environment you like.
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williegoat
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JUL 30, 10:01 PM
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My computer is haunted!
ARGB lights controlled by Razer Chroma with OpenRGB on Debian Bullseye.
The background music is my cover of Dr John's "I Walk on Guilded Splinters".
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RWDPLZ
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JUL 30, 10:56 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
This computer building crazy really took off in the mid 90s... |
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It got a lot easier in the 90's, I built my first PC in 1998, I still remember the specs.
Built this a couple years ago now, it *just* doesn't support Windows 11 because Microsoft set an arbitrary limit.
https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum6/HTML/124091.html
I just changed out the coolant last fall, drain loop worked perfectly.
I also have a 1981 IBM 5150 PC behind me, the original PC, with the 5154 EGA color monitor and 5152 printer.
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RWDPLZ
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JUL 30, 11:03 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by williegoat:
My computer is haunted!
ARGB lights controlled by Razer Chroma with OpenRGB on Debian Bullseye.
The background music is my cover of Dr John's "I Walk on Guilded Splinters". |
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Is that the ghost of Max Headroom?
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IMSA GT
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JUL 31, 06:47 PM
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Had to go through my old stash. Back in the AMD K6 400mhz days, this was THE gaming card, a Voodoo 3DFX.
 [This message has been edited by IMSA GT (edited 07-31-2022).]
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