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Still have my parallel and usb zip drives. They're an integral component of my vintage computing experience from back then!

Me too, have an internal IDE one as well.

I still have my Zip drives, too; a bunch of 100MB drives (internal and external) and an internal 750MB drive, with plenty of media for both.

(I wonder if Zip is more reliable than flash drives for long-term backups of small files?  I know Zip had some quality control problems, but I seem to recall that was early on.)

That happens all the time to me. I'm just not in the habit of checking the OP date - if the thread is a the top of the forum and it looks relevant I'll check it out.

At first I read "I just liked a 16 year old" and pondered if she's a bit too young. ?

Oh yeah, now I remember, there were likes, it was the new smiley reactions that are fairly new.

I somehow missed the last sentence, haha...  A)  Tips are Great!    B)  Big tips are Really Great!   C)  Cash tips Rule!    D)  I am not at liberty to say why...

@GoldLeader As to part D - I did not give any particular reason why cash tips may or may not be preferred. 

Kinda funny,  I'll often get, like a 4 or 5 dollar tip in quarters!   And for some reason there was this house that ordered about 3-4 times in One Week, and each time paid for about $40 (of cheese steaks, hot dogs, pierogies etc.) ALL in quarters!  They give me a bag of quarters and say there's $45 there.  Yay!  I don't count it til later...Once it was $44.75  Close enough, Yay!

Years ago, I once tried to sign up Just for the sweepstakes online and it was a bigger joke than that crap they used to send out in the mail.  It's like tangent after tangent,   You're caught in a downpour of torrential ads trying to get your attention, because they think you'll eventually click on just one.  I also remember some of those same type of ads spammed up Amazon's M-Turk system too.  You were supposed to get paid (to test their system) just by clicking to get through all of the ads, but you could never reach the end.  It just kept going around in circles.  They wasted your time and then wouldn't pay.  After one try I said Never Again!   It's not worth it.   I'm not sure it'd be worth it if I was guaranteed to win haha...Just get to the end to win!  (Except you can Never reach the end!)...

In the movie Knight And Day, IIRC it's explained that Publishers Clearing House is just a front group, and Tom Cruise uses it to set up his parents with income. I can't exactly remember all the details, but the meat of it is that his parents 'won' the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes twice. Lol.

I'm a bit baffled by the amount of magazines people are buying or subscribing to nowadays.  Sure the numbers have to be way down but there are still a lot of magazines that people subscribe to (nothing I would want - good housekeeping and people type mags).  I would love to see some old video game mags in print but it isn't viable.  I guess the magazines still in print have some decent numbers to warrant their existence.

As for the whole Publisher's Clearing House stuff... again I see a lot of their print material and I'm thankful it isn't going to my mailbox!  lol  I remember in the 80's when my parents would subscribe to a magazine and would be guaranteed a 'prize'... it was always some gimmick trinket that would be the prize... and then the mail would continue on and on.  The best part was the magazine subscription... as it was the one thing I wanted (it was a hockey magazine of some sort that was much more interesting that the junk mail they would send!).

Back in those days you could do a lot with 625MB. No bullshit bloat from 100MB browsers, no ads, no windows 10, no MAME bloat. It was all real active code that DID something!

Haha! Reminds me how Johnny Mnemonic had 80GB data storage in his brain. That was huge in 1995!

Yes, which explains why Devon needed that tractor-trailer rig, because they needed to hook KITT up to an IBM 3084 mainframe, which transferred the updates vis-a-vis a 9600 beee-brrrr-brrrrt .... beeeeeeee 8-N-1 modem, which also explains why that rig had a kick-ass sleeper-cab complete with a Betamax and a minibar, because a gargantuan 625MB update might take forrrr-evvvv-er.

Incidentally, that red WHIRRRL-a-whir thingy on top of the hood was actually a prototype de-multiplexing IR-port receiver which kind of sped things up.

I'm not making this up!

Oh,  Don't be so down on yourself.   I'm sure you've done stupider things if ya just think about it.

do you now own a shiny new Ford Bronco? hehe

@digdugnate   No, but she wants to order one.  That stuff costs money!

I always thought of it like this:  We didn't get Star Castle, but we got Yars' Revenge (which is Amazing!).  And we didn't get Astro Blaster, but we got Megamania (which also Ruled!).

But as you know it's a Great Time to be Alive!, because Now...All of us Savvy AtariAgers have Star Castle Arcade for 2600 (Thanks Chris Walton and Thomas Jentzsch, etc.,) and Astro Blaster for 7800 (from Bob Decrescenzo).  In fact if you don't have them,    What are ya waiting for?   They're in the AA store right now,  waiting for your dollars so get off yer duff!

Also did U know Megaman got its name by taking Megamania and losing the last 2 letters?

I'm just kidding on that one LOL!

Sweet!  I Love those guys!!

NICE!!! THANK YOU for this discovery, they rawk!  

@save2600  Quite possible.  I think it might have been in the Tacobox thread.  Too lazy to search. 

Houston Roughnecks the one and only champions!

I'm wearing my 5.50 t-shirt. ?

I wanna go to Milwaukee!   See you guys and raise a glass of BEER!!!

A shame.  I was hoping to run into you again this year!

If it's like the Doom Classic remakes, they redid it on all platforms with the same codebase. I'm not going to double-dip for the Steam version, but I've put it in my wishlist, so thanks for the tip!

It's too dark

Yeah, has the gamma been fixed up on the remaster?

I have a 3D TV, and some glasses I've never used. What are the best titles? Are they readily available, or stupid expensive?

Tron Legacy is probably my favorite.  Ready Player One is good, Pacific Rim, while kind of a dumb movie, has really good 3D.

Just check Amazon, most don't look overpriced compared to normal.  The used media stores around here put the 3D Blu Rays in a separate section so they're easy to find.  Oh, and they're plentiful on eBay too.

Now that's a virus I can get behind! 

Go Roughnecks

@Flojomojo that's the first place I went as soon as I heard the news.  Autoplay next has been turned off since they added that 'feature'.  Don't like it.

And I JUST quit Netflix too . . . 

I canceled Netflix several years just because of those autoplay ads.  Maybe I wasn't the only one and they figured out that annoying crap was losing customers.  Can't say I've missed them one bit as Prime has been far more enjoyable imo.

I've got a great nephew who's eight who gets N64 carts and a Sega Genesis for Christmas.

How much did they have to pay Spiner to get back in that makeup?

They should have done Datas face in CGI. That would have retained his youth. He has aged a LOT and it's noticeable even through the makeup. Very minor gripe though. Show was amazing and can't wait for more

Data's face was touched up with CGI. I'm not sure they had the budget or time to do a 100% CGI rendition that looked better than what we got.

Gruber?  Yeah he was in McHale's Navy wasn't he?    ...   Never knew his first name...

Now,...If it was the other way around,  ...(Like if I wrote fan fiction)...Well...Tears of JOY!

Just got home from seeing it this evening and it was a great movie.  It was a fun time and my son enjoyed it as well.  He has a new favourite character too.  

This may be one of the Disney Star Wars movies that I will see in theatre more than once!

(WED.)  This line is moving pretty slow.  In fact, it's not moving at all!  ...Are they even making them chicken sandwiches up there?

^  See...He's in the wrong line.

I had a co-worker who would send things with "read receipt" on them, then IMMEDIATELY RING MY PHONE upon seeing that I opened the message. No more read receipts from me!

Hah, oh yeah those are blocked too.

Preach.

Shatner disagrees.

I hear it comes with a Media Male

Can I get a whole case of 'em shipped to me in a ridiculous way? I have very specific needs

Our Wal Mart never had the $11 deal, when I looked...So I offered $21 on eBay and got one....Haven't hooked it up yet...I need to so I can leave feedback.   Maybe tonight after work...

Yeah I agree the earlier controllers were way better...Gonna have to try a better controller...My hand feels more cramped than...than Harry Potter's bedroom.

Walmart has secret clearance items.  I think I paid about the same amount for the Flashback Legends with 50 games.