Keatah

Who needs a PC? I use my Saturn to play Microsoft Office Zwei.

Are you posting from '84?

**Hides in the safe space among the Famicom carts**

I'm trying to remember if any applications required TURBO to be off. I seem to recall that either Lotus 1-2-3 or dBase was one of the culprits?

I seem to recall that some did. Too. I wonder what the technical issues were?

WHAT! The turbo button on my grandpas PC JR wasn't doing anything??? It made the ball go faster in Mean 18!

Well, Gravis was always a luxury item, even back then...

Yay Dos-rigs. Using batch files and a handful of utilities, you can built your own front-ends. I have a lot of fun doing this.

Batch files in a specified path were like NEW COMMANDS! I felt like a million bucks when I could make my own!

I mean...Ummm...Nothing

@nanochess, you go around the whole circumference of the pin?

Yes, it prevents further oxidation. But only if I had problems with the chip.

I'm pretty much over YouTube in general -- especially the talking head "hot takes." SIGH

I still go there for scientific lectures and science news in general. Stuff you won't get on public radio.

I bought this up because that black hole photo came out of 5+ Petabytes of data. They transported nearly 2000 pounds of hard drives via jet cross-country.

@x=usr(1536) I head the original phrase used tape cartridges instead of hard drives. I suppose whatever storage device is popular in your time period will work. And the statement will hold true.

Never underestimate the band width of 5 fat guys who play rock and roll.

I've used my Sonicare UV Brush Sanitizer

I've used our cat-pee-detecting UV flashlight for that.

I didn't know you could do that.

I'm not. We went from 86°F yesterday with a pleasant breeze down to 45°F today with 30-40mph winds. Thanks, bomb cyclone!

Luckily she can use her horn to alert everyone to moooove.

OMG! I missed the MOOmentum part the first time haha...*not joking* Somehow it's really funny seeing it a second time and seeing I'd missed the pun. Udderly Hilarious. LOL!

I live in Wisconsin, what you say is not a joke here, it's a fact of life.

I can honestly say I've never seen one of their shows!

To be clear, I've never given THEM money, but I ran and processed an infomercial for them, so They gave ME money!

Indirectly...

Hey, it can’t be any worse than those ‘Him’ and ‘Her’ KY Jelly commercials!

Well, it's certainly better than everybody's favorite Tiddy Bear:

Additionally, if you go through the trouble to swap things, you tend to be thoughtful about what your doing and it lends a sense of physicality.

I have trouble understanding you sometimes. Could you give the "For Dummies" version of that? (You should write "SmallFormFactor PC for Dummies")

Ohhh

You must not live in Illinois.

Wait..

In my experience, career bureaucrats know their stuff and care about getting things right. It's the elected officials and their appointees that you need to watch and who give the whole enterprise a bad name.

Flojomojo ... Often nails what I wish I could put into words.

All I have in my neighborhood is comcast and at&t, and I'd kickstart a vaporware console with a retro name before I go to at&t

But would you Indiegogo it?

Yes.

Even if you made the plane out of indestructible unobtainium, recall that crew and passengers are made of meat.

I feel confident that engineers have solved the easy problems of air travel in addition to a great many we haven't thought of.

Mmmmm... meat... *chomps on own arm*

Not if your crew is robots!

Use Slo'mo?

You should be using FastVid too.

I shall report back.

Collecting samples?

^That'd be like giving an alcoholic a bar tending position!

It's Dubai-ous.

So the question is PODP5V63 or DX4ODP100DX4

And the answer is neither! Fuck intel's overly convoluted marketing department that sells even lamer products.

Yeah!!

So you attended a "good ol' fashioned car fixin" Yeeeeehawwwww!

That's the thing I like about winter. Keeps a few more idiots indoors!

low-intelligence drivers crash often.

When in doubt, issue a low-level format.

good god...I haven't used CHKDSK since Win95...feels like a century ago...wait..IT WAS!

I stopped having coitus on planes, too. The bathroom's just way too small.

Try sticking it on the bottom of the toilet and then enjoy the vacuum ... it's from another world.

Atari Games & Recreations is my favorite. It attempted to teach two space aliens from a highly advanced planet how to use our simple computers. Since I read it ~2014, the premise made a lot more sense than it would have in 1984.

I just got about 1,000 pages of MS-DOS and Norton Utilities 7 information spread across 2 books.

I expect to know some of the material, and to discover new tricks or tools from the rest.

I like the ones written in Latin!...Joke...Ya know, cuz (especially in the realm of computers), they're old.

Sorry to the other guys for the outburst. I'm not an expert on many things, and I don't pretend to be one. But then again, I'm not John Stamos Mullet AKA 7800somethingsomething troll who's been banned

Maybe folks should wait for the experts to do their job before speculating?

I'm sure everything will be fine after everyone applies Boeing Service Pack 1 at the end of April.

I've still got tons of Zip disks (mostly 100MB), and a box full of new drives. I'm tempted to continue to use them for backup media; I think I'd trust them more for that purpose than cheap USB flash drives and DVD-RW discs.

I'd trust magnetic media over cheap USB flash and other electronic storage. Problem is the high-density means you don't get enough of a storage cell to do the job. Some SSDs have a retention down of less than 2 years unless powered on and re-written.

Retention span that is..