David Fleetwood - RG Admin
Quincy ⁂Fuck them all.
Almost as if those making these decisions weren't people.
But Vogons or something.
No. That's an insult to Vogons. Even #Vogons have higher standards.
nzwrxI'm a fan! :-)
"Ford Prefect shows Arthur Dent The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy"
By @greigjohnsonmaking
Ford Prefect shows Arthur Dent The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
MaxThe #vogons have arrived. They've found that they don't need to publish new zoning plans in Alpha Centauri, in the basement, behind the broken door and the dragon beyond it. It is clear that humans have not followed the fire code, and Earth can be torn down to make way for that intergalactic bypass
GM Fuzzy Flumph (capheind)Is #VOGONS full of trolls or something? My use of that site is limited to reading the occasional post when I'm trying to get something working. But I've stumbled on like the 4th or 5th project, which has been abandoned due to harassment coming from folks on Vogons.
squelch41#386 #laptop repair and restore complete!
Backlight working again (cable break where it went through the hinge), keyboard ribbon repair.
A #vogons user integrated #xtide into the #bios for me (original bios has fixed parameters for 20, 40, 60 and 80Mb disks only) so now running 512mb CF card.
#floppydisk drive still works.
Dont have original psu and NiCad original battery bound to be dead so converted to usb c power - adding where was a space for a modem expansion
#retrocomputing
Backlight working again (cable break where it went through the hinge), keyboard ribbon repair.
A #vogons user integrated #xtide into the #bios for me (original bios has fixed parameters for 20, 40, 60 and 80Mb disks only) so now running 512mb CF card.
#floppydisk drive still works.
Dont have original psu and NiCad original battery bound to be dead so converted to usb c power - adding where was a space for a modem expansion
#retrocomputing
((Jann Gobble)) 🏳️🌈@montef Wha'? You don't like the texturized-white bags against the dark brown of my deck? I thought it served to counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor...
Nevermind. I am laughing so hard I can't keep typing that sentence! 😂
SaustrupIt's been a while since I updated you on my #vintagerepair project. Last time, I was knee deep in a Commodore PC50 III 386SX16, but things have gone a little out of hand since.
Shortly after I tasted the sweet, sweet flavor of success, I ordered a lot of 3 possibly dead #IBM #Aptiva system. Naturally they were exactly that - dead. One was missing a power supply and another had the wrong one. After a lot of work, I managed to get the beefiest system running - a #Pentium 133. The work is ongoing, and has so far involved ordering weird cable adapters from Germany, washing motherboards in the dishwasher and sourcing an original power supply from the US. Pro tip - if you're ever considering collecting desktop Aptivas, don't. They're incredibly difficult to get parts for, and - so far - pretty tricky to bring back from the dead.
And the BIOS is in Swedish.
If you're curious about the progress, you can follow my thread over at #Vogons: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=102881
CaioInfelizmente, eu gosto de me torturar usando ou jogando coisa velha, mais especificamente, para #MSDOS. Tenho um 486 DX-4 encostado, mas não conheço alguém confiável para trocar os capacitores dele e "socketar" a bateria. Diante do 486 cada vez mais velho e abandonado, fiquei pensando como seria lindo ter um hardware realmente novo para rodar DOS e durar uma década ou mais, até porque, já tinha visto projetos faça-você-mesmo no passado, mas achei a discussão e disponibilidade muito limitadas. Eis a virada: parece que um usuário do fórum #Vogons vai tentar desenhar uma nova versão de um #computador aberto pensado para #jogar no DOS, tentando, desde a concepção, facilitar a confecção da placa: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=100351.