deepthaw

Well, the power supply died the first time I tried it. So I bought a new one but I had to cut up the case to mount it and now the weird clamshell case won’t close all the way with the power supply in it because it doesn’t fit.

I would see if I can move the motherboard to a different case but it has a proprietary ribbon cable and PCB for the front USB and the power button. That’s assuming the motherboards screw holes will even line up with an ATX case.

The real reason I grabbed it off the side of the road was for the CRT, and that works fine so I’m happy with that.

Alas poor Yorgle, he looks like a frickin' duck.

Love that 80's hi-tech Trinitron aesthetic.

That part is actually user-replaceable. Just grab a new one off eBay.

‘‘Twas a roadside Pentium 4. The CRT works, which I am more interested in. And it gives me a chance to teach my nephew how to replace power supplies and test/reinstall ram and cpu. 

But I don't have the money for arcade boards.

I've messed with a Retropie substantially but I've been moving back to original hardware. I have a Trinitron that I can press into service for consoles.

I've thrown out plenty of broken sofas myself. Thanks labrador!

There’s recycling fees here locally, so a lot of computers and crts end up on roadsides for folks like me to pick through. If nothing else, I can use it to test all this old RAM I scavenged from recycling at work before pitching it on eBay. 

Thanks for all the thoughts and discussion..  I think I’m going to stick with Windows as it’s main and see what I can pull off in a DOS dual boot. Wish I could find a 486 but those are expensive nowadays. I really only grabbed it because of the crt, and figured I’d see what I can do with the PC. 

Yes took a brief hiatus from being a prog masterclass to release "Owner of a lonely heart" and other songs in the early 80's.

I've been rewatching the show Monsters on Amazon Prime. The acting's not very good, and the sets are cheap, but I'm a sucker for anthology horror.

I will dissuade and say the 4. The extra "oomph" can make it comfortably faster in Raspbian, which is likely where you'll be spending a fair amount of time.

Time to file a FOIA with the NSA to get your old emails. At least, that’s how I handle backups. 

This is the closest I could find:

And by closest, I mean has a kinda vague title and 65 replies so I guess it's become the official one (Unless you remember one that you now can't find.)

Tempest 2000 is good, but it's not the prices Jag fetch on eBay good.

Or is everybody just suddenly itching for a 64-bit kiss?

More snow than we've gotten, I suspect. And we normally average 10 inches a year.

Hey, at least the floppy drive’s faster than a 1541!

Roughly 100 untested sticks of mixed DDR2 and PC100 RAM, two pentium 4 2.8ghz, and an Athlon 64 X2.

So the All-in-Wonder 9700 is not in the 9700 box, although there's a pile of accessories and a random PCI video capture card in there. The All-in-Wonder 128 *is* in the 128 box, so at least we have that. Also have a PCI SoundBlaster card of some fashion and a lot. A LOT of old RAM.

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.

I loved seeing Jean-Luc immediately run out of breath in his brief action sequence. Like, he didn't even make it up what, two stairs?

Accepting that our protagonist is old FTW!

In the time between purchase and receipt of this Odyssey2 it has come to my attention that it is not in fact a sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey and request a full refund for false advertising.

Maybe try jumping to the Dragonlance ones? I never tried those but maybe they're enough of a flavor change from PoR to be worth trying?

Technically, a decade can refer to any set of ten years...

And being technically correct is the best kind of correct online.