Subj : Re: Too many? :) To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Thu Oct 22 2020 20:49:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! > > Hey you won't belive this: the landline is down again!! Autumn's father Barry! stop chewing on the phone line, you're not a squirrel! > KM> I have the 286 (and wish I'd kept the souped-up XT, oh well) and > KM> a few from the late 1990s in the basement, but the ones in > KM> regular or even intermittent use ... well, > > I'd probably have more interest in repairing and playing with my old/ > antique computers if someone else wa around to appreciate. Another Yeah, old hardware is kind of a group hobby > computer geek of sorts. I can appreciate, don't need to do something > for someone else's approval, but my 'need for speed' is overriding the > need to repair. Don't need a separate computer just to run the X10 / Same here... hopefully Silver and Fireball will be good for a few years, at least if the ever-growing CPU cycles sucked up by the everyday web don't keep expanding!!! > KM> Bullet is the oldest > KM> everyday PC, with a 2008 motherboard and a quad-core, and the > KM> oldest laptop still in occasional use is the same age. Anything > KM> below a 3GHz Core2Duo is just too slow these days, and anything > KM> below an iX is increasingly painful online. > > Yup. Similar to I could wait for the computer to boot/reboot but I > don't want to so spent a little extra money and put the OS on a SSD. SSD does help, even with faster PCs. I could sure tell the difference on the i7 systems -- probably about a 30% everyday performance boost, especially with disk-busy OSs like current Windows. > When I buy the new motherboard and Intel CPU it will be fast, towards > top of the line, but to show off, but I don't like waiting for the > computer, plus I know I don't replace them all that often, so today's > upper line is next year's mid-line. Yep. Let someone else take the depreciation hit. I'll get trailing edge or used and be no worse off. I'm kinda eyeing a new DFI board (still in beta last I asked) that takes a 9th generation i7 ... tho by the time I can justify the cost, the board will still be about $260 when the CPU is down to 5 bucks! (they only have two left in stock of the previous model, it's still $260 but yes, the CPUs it supports start at 5 bucks!) > KM> Bubbles has been around a while > > Oldie but goodie! ...What's a keypunch? What's a tape reader? Dot > Matrix -- is she a character on Netflix? LOL, yeah :D Bubbles (an old friend from L.A.) is an old-time programmer... he did one of the early text-to-speech readers, a DOS commandline util that ran on a 286. I still laugh at how it pronounced "spaceman" so it sounded like "spazzie man" :D > > Never tried a filename with a leading exclamation point -- doesn't > > follow my naming rules. > KM> We all have our weird quirks. > But we're loveable because of (or is that despite?!) them! Dunno about you, but I use them to frighten the neighbors. > > > /home/barry/File Cabinet/Recipes/ > > > |-- aa_Cooking Tips > > > |-- aa_Food Timeline > > > | |-- Food Timeline: food history research service_files > > KM> Food timeline, fish: Fresh, Stale, and Stinking in 3 days. > > How'd you know that was what was in there?! > KM> I looked in your fridge, and got food poisoning. > > Ah poo: got those bags mixed up! It was supposed to be the gone-bad > food from the power failure was put in grocery bags and refrozen until > the night before trash day -- kept the trash from stinking and > attracting maggots. Good trick :) Tho today I'd just need to toss it outside... question is, would it freeze first or would a raccoon haul it away first?? > Yes, like my DEC Rainbow 100 had 892 KB of RAM. (Seems like mine had > more but that's what I found.) At that time that amount was HUGE, and > semi-costly. Now the remote that comes with the TV probably has more. Or the IBM1620 (first computer I ever touched) that had something like 4KB of RAM. > > From what I've read the Raspeberry Pi will be using a 64-bit ARM > > instruction set soon. :) > KM> About time! > The beta is available now; the other day downloaded a current Raspbian > (which is now called something like Rasp OS) and saw it was available. > Right now don't have time to play with beta. I don't usually bother anymore either. I just want workee. > KM> New distro: Rip Van Winkle OS :) > Takes twenty years to boot and then it goes to a Desktop scene of a > forest? (Hey: if Microsoft can have a field in California then RVW can > have from a hamlet in New York!) Haha... or a pic of the moon, with sheep jumping over it. > > KM> Yeah, and while Synaptic and some commandline magic can get around > KM> it, why do all that extra work? > > Because I enjoy pounding my head against the desktop? Actually did Explains the dents. > > ..    I can see clearly now, the brain is gone...    Explains that too. þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .