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  1. I eventually got a Pentium 3 1GHz PC around 1999 when GEnie finally folded. I mainly used the ST (upgraded to a Falcon in 1996) everyday for telecommunications at that time because that was where it really excelled and it was fun. I lost interest in gaming so telecommunications was my new "game machine". Since there was still the usenet, GEnie, and a few local BBS that supported Atari around here in the 90s, there was plenty for me to do during my little free time on my Falcon while spending most of my waking hours studying in college. However, usenet posts started going down, BBSes were going down, and the last straw was when GEnie folded. Everything was on the internet by then, so I went the PC route. That is where I encountered the chipset problems with soundcards. My PC had a VIA chipset and I wanted to use a pro-sumer sound card (can't remember the name, but it was a Turtle Beach card) to continue my sound editing fun that I started on the Falcon, but now with sharper graphics and MUCH faster editing. The system locked up whenever the card was installed, but worked fine with cheap ass SoundBlasters. My dealer who I bought it from (who was also an Atari dealer) tried his best to figure out what was wrong, but he was unsuccessful. He mentioned that if he knew I was going to use the PC with a "fancy" sound card, he would have recommended a motherboard with an Intel chipset instead. He wouldn't allow me to exchange it or anything so I was peeved at everything PC. Luckily, CompUSA allowed me to return the card and got a full refund. I would have been really pissed if they didn't as I think it was like $600. At that point, I knew my next computer would be a Mac as I didn't want to deal with this chipset incompatibility crap again. Thank Apple for the Mac Mini.
  2. Looks like a 5200 controller with a big joystick, a spinner and big round buttons instead of small rectangular side buttons. The keypad and three buttons on top are just like the 5200.
  3. I think this is the same situation with my Dell U2412M. The earlier models seem to work with the ST/Amiga, but my later version does not. Let's compare serial numbers, where it was made, manufacturing date, and other info on the box and the back of the monitor to get to the bottom of this mystery! I'm interested in a smaller monitor too.
  4. In the last two days when I logged into AtariAge, I usually check out the new posts in the forum by clicking on the "Unread content" button in the upper right corner of the webpage. Then I use an Activity Stream that I set up years ago to show a list of all the new posts in the last 24 hours. This has not been working for the last two days. Yesterday, it showed the new posts in the last two hours and then started listing posts from 2015 and then "no new activity". Today, it showed the new posts for the last 9 hours before it started showing random posts from previous years including 2015. I am using Firefox on a Mac if it helps. Thanks.
  5. The classic case that even the US Patent Office uses is "Delta". Delta Airlines and Delta faucets seem to co-exist just fine with little confusion.
  6. I have been meaning to attend one of these, but life keeps getting in the way - particularly in the last several years. I think next month, life things will finally start to settle down for me so that I can start doing some fun things like this instead.
  7. I have a couple 1040ST motherboards that are untested that I would like to use in my H5. Some of these boards look wonky to say the least. It looks like upgrades were done on them, but then ripped out because I see some cut traces. They look like they were tossed around and were just about to be junked before someone rescued them. Even the reset buttons are all broken off. I'm wondering if I should try to get these motherboards working, or if I should just take out/desolder all the chips, desolder some ports (cartridge, DIN14, DB19) and stick them into the H5 and troubleshoot from there. I'm leaning towards the latter, but does anyone think I should do the former? TIA.
  8. SF Bay Area. I haven't gotten around to the SLCC Zoom meetings yet as I'm very busy right now. Hopefully one day when things calm down.
  9. I'm not sure how TOS knows, but I think it's something in the Control Panel or DESKTOP.INF or something like that. I can't remember. I do know if you use an alternative desktop like Neodesk, there is a radio button in one of the configuration windows (not sure where) where you tell NeoDesk to load X.PRG in TT RAM instead of ST RAM. Of course, the program has to be a cleanly written GEM program to take advantage of this.
  10. There was a dry cleaners near me that sold Atari computers and software. I vaguely remember...(trying hard to dig deep into my brain...)...as you enter the store, to the left was a glass counter display with Atari software and hardware. They had some Atari 8-bit cartridges along with some APX titles too. I remember they sold peripherals because I remember buying my Trak disk drive from them. That's all I could remember though. I remember as you enter the store, to the left was the counter for Atari products, but going straight from the front door was the counter to pick-up/drop-off your clothes to be dry-cleaned. I wish I had pictures or something because I always thought that was odd.
  11. I got a STacy with no power supply, but the seller pointed me to a universal power supply that he used with it. After I got it, I looked at the bottom of the STacy, and it shows that it wants an 18V center negative power supply. However, when I looked online for pictures of the original Atari STacy power supply, it shows what you showed - 16.5V center positive. I was perplexed too, but never got the time to ask on the forums. Anyway, thanks for your help. 😃 Now, the next question is...does it want 16.5V or 18V?
  12. That sounds like your hard drive is dying. I doubt it will break your STacy, but it could cause read/write errors that you are seeing. Next step would be to disable the internal hard drive, but I'm having a brain fog right now about how to do it...
  13. Awesome! 😀 I remember the old days of comp.sys.atari.st where there were no more ACSI interfaces for sale, so someone hunted down Tom Harker at ICD to see if he would release the designs to the public domain. He said no, and asked for a hefty sum of $$$ that, unless you're rich or somehow plan to make money off them, was too much for most of us. This was in the early days of the internet, so there was no crowd funding back then. Great to see that this can be preserved and people can make them if they are inclined to do so. Looks like this will be on my to-do list when I retire in 10+ years. 😜
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