Retro comedy
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Just fired up an old Micron laptop for my 3 year old son. First: I'm surprised it didn't catch on fire when I plugged it in - it's been sitting in the garage for 6 years - with freeze and thaw cycles, dust, bugs, etc. Second: I could actually see the bios readouts - 233 Mhz - wahoooo! Third: 64MB of ram. Let me repeat that. 64 MEGA BYTES of ram. Fourth: Windows NT (awesome!) I have to say it's pretty snappy running MS Paint, which is what my 3 year old wants. I fired up VC6 and an old opengl astronomy project I was working on a looong time ago, and it actually ran decently. Looked like the ass end of my dog, but ran at 30 fps. Not bad for a relic. I love cleaning out the garage :)
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Steve Echols wrote:
cleaning out the garage
Going to be doing that soon, and I've got some old computer stuff. Looking forward to it :)
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Just fired up an old Micron laptop for my 3 year old son. First: I'm surprised it didn't catch on fire when I plugged it in - it's been sitting in the garage for 6 years - with freeze and thaw cycles, dust, bugs, etc. Second: I could actually see the bios readouts - 233 Mhz - wahoooo! Third: 64MB of ram. Let me repeat that. 64 MEGA BYTES of ram. Fourth: Windows NT (awesome!) I have to say it's pretty snappy running MS Paint, which is what my 3 year old wants. I fired up VC6 and an old opengl astronomy project I was working on a looong time ago, and it actually ran decently. Looked like the ass end of my dog, but ran at 30 fps. Not bad for a relic. I love cleaning out the garage :)
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
At my dad's ranch, there's this hut that we've converted to the ultimate knick-knack warehouse, basically anything that my mom decides must go out with the trash but we get to save it at the last minute. I've got 2 XTs, 1 386, 1 486sx, 1 486dx-4 and a pentium 1. Last time I was in there I was looking at the XTs with some serious nostalgia, remembering playing monster math as a kid.... it has a sum total of 64KB of ram :)
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Just fired up an old Micron laptop for my 3 year old son. First: I'm surprised it didn't catch on fire when I plugged it in - it's been sitting in the garage for 6 years - with freeze and thaw cycles, dust, bugs, etc. Second: I could actually see the bios readouts - 233 Mhz - wahoooo! Third: 64MB of ram. Let me repeat that. 64 MEGA BYTES of ram. Fourth: Windows NT (awesome!) I have to say it's pretty snappy running MS Paint, which is what my 3 year old wants. I fired up VC6 and an old opengl astronomy project I was working on a looong time ago, and it actually ran decently. Looked like the ass end of my dog, but ran at 30 fps. Not bad for a relic. I love cleaning out the garage :)
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Does anyone actually keep a car in their garage?
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Does anyone actually keep a car in their garage?
Steve_Harris wrote:
Does anyone actually keep a car in their garage?
Same people who keep gloves in the glovebox and have a radio on their mantelpiece.
Rob Manderson My bloghttp://robmanderson.blogspot.com[^]
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Just fired up an old Micron laptop for my 3 year old son. First: I'm surprised it didn't catch on fire when I plugged it in - it's been sitting in the garage for 6 years - with freeze and thaw cycles, dust, bugs, etc. Second: I could actually see the bios readouts - 233 Mhz - wahoooo! Third: 64MB of ram. Let me repeat that. 64 MEGA BYTES of ram. Fourth: Windows NT (awesome!) I have to say it's pretty snappy running MS Paint, which is what my 3 year old wants. I fired up VC6 and an old opengl astronomy project I was working on a looong time ago, and it actually ran decently. Looked like the ass end of my dog, but ran at 30 fps. Not bad for a relic. I love cleaning out the garage :)
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
This reminds me. When I get back home I must clear out the loft. There's a right load of old crap up there which needs to be thrown out and replaced with a right load of old new crap. From memory, there'll be 2 x ZX81's, a 48k rubber keyed Speccy, a C16, a C64, a BBC Model B, Several old consoles, a 286, a 386, 2 x 486's, Pentium 1,2,3 and 4 systems, several old laptops, a Commodore Amiga, an Atari ST...... gah! Why did I not just chuck this stuff out at the time!
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Does anyone actually keep a car in their garage?
A few years ago, we had a water line break in our yard, called a plumber who came out, and he needed to turn off the water valve in the garage ... after doing so, he said ... "Typical ... you've got $40,000 dollars of vehicles in the driveway and $200 of crap in the garage." Oh man, he was sooooo right. Sigh. I blame it on my wife. ;)
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This reminds me. When I get back home I must clear out the loft. There's a right load of old crap up there which needs to be thrown out and replaced with a right load of old new crap. From memory, there'll be 2 x ZX81's, a 48k rubber keyed Speccy, a C16, a C64, a BBC Model B, Several old consoles, a 286, a 386, 2 x 486's, Pentium 1,2,3 and 4 systems, several old laptops, a Commodore Amiga, an Atari ST...... gah! Why did I not just chuck this stuff out at the time!
Can I have first dibs on the ZX81's, the Spectrum, the C64 and the Beeb, please?
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Can I have first dibs on the ZX81's, the Spectrum, the C64 and the Beeb, please?
You can... but why do you want a whole bunch of junk?
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You can... but why do you want a whole bunch of junk?
It's computing history... ...it has to be saved.
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A few years ago, we had a water line break in our yard, called a plumber who came out, and he needed to turn off the water valve in the garage ... after doing so, he said ... "Typical ... you've got $40,000 dollars of vehicles in the driveway and $200 of crap in the garage." Oh man, he was sooooo right. Sigh. I blame it on my wife. ;)
achimera wrote:
you've got $40,000 dollars of vehicles in the driveway and $200 of crap in the garage.
But how much better would it look if you had a $40,000 vehicle in the garage and $200 of crap in the driveway?
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Steve_Harris wrote:
Does anyone actually keep a car in their garage?
Same people who keep gloves in the glovebox and have a radio on their mantelpiece.
Rob Manderson My bloghttp://robmanderson.blogspot.com[^]
Rob Manderson wrote:
gloves in the glovebox
Is that what that thing's for? I keep all the crap the state requires me to show when the gestapo stops my vehicle in there; the gloves sit on the dash in case I get a psychotic moment and want to stop in at the gym.
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