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poobah

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  1. Sure whatever. I'm glad you found a solution to your drive issue.
  2. You know, there's difference between "may not work in this particular application" and "completely wrong". Current limiting resistors are pretty common on signal lines. The original problem as stated "...damage PSG chip (what gives drive and side selection signals) - because pull much more current on those lines" True, it is possible the drive may not detect the signals, which is addressed by the solution you came up with, but the ST won't be damaged.
  3. If it is just a signal line, put a current limit resistor on it.
  4. No worries. I (for one) greatly appreciate your attention to detail and focus on delivering a first rate product.
  5. You did build it 64 bit, right?
  6. I'd almost guarantee bad caps. I've replaced bad caps on dozens of G5 iMac motherboards and power supplies from the same era.
  7. Happy Birthday, and, SENT!!!
  8. The market will have to collapse soon. Each card that gets added to the mining pool reduces the profitability of all existing cards, soon they wont be able to cover the cost of the electricity to run them.
  9. Segmented memory was the devil. 6 different memory models in Borland C.......
  10. Amber for the win! I almost miss my VT-320 from way back in the 80's (software developer on a DEC MicroVax II)
  11. FORTRAN coding sheets.... an abomination unto mankind....
  12. On the plus side, that does give me time to save up for the next round =D
  13. In the 'classic era': OS/2: Easily the best OS of its time, what Windows should have been (literally) MacOS 9 Windows 2000: Stable and solid, a little weak in the driver department
  14. I believe the 3dfx Banshee card actually had the fastest 2D engine of the era. All 256 windows raster ops were implemented in hardware, and if I recall correctly, it was one of (if not the first) to hit the maximum theoretical Windows 2d performance. It had some ungodly wide internal 2D engine (128 bit?). It was significantly faster than the awesome Tseng Labs ET6000w32, which had been my 2D card of choice before then. 2D was really the banshee's only saving grace, since it was missing the 2nd texture unit from the Voodoo2. Perhaps you are thinking of the Riva TnT, which had similar 2d performance to the banshee, voodoo3, and an assortment of Matrox cards, as by then pretty much everyone had maxxed out 2D performance.
  15. I have the 2.0 version of that printer, it is a good value, and lots of people making bits and pieces to improve it. Adding diagonal braces, better bearings and a borosilicate glass bed really helped it make great prints
  16. Pretty sure i have some, any brand/model preference?
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