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@NanoRaptor maybe if they’d used all that space for something useful like expansion slots but no, they had to go and weld the damned thing shut.
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@NanoRaptor pretty sure you gonna have to plug it trice before you plugged it correct way
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@NanoRaptor perfectly normal POIUYT keyboard layout, I don't understand what's been changed in this one
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@NanoRaptor Users traded tips on safely accessing the extra drives, since too much threatening could cause the Mac to eject the disks at high speed in self defense. @NanoRaptor people laughing at this have never been hit by a 3.1/4 inch disk traveling at near supersonic speeds. @NanoRaptor that looks like it has a lot of space for drives inside. I wonder if you will run out of room, SCSI IDs or power first 😂
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@NanoRaptor I feel so sad for Kelly Rowland, still waiting for her text back.
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@NanoRaptor You can’t tell because the room it’s in is an entirely featureless pure white with no obvious source of illumination, but Powder Macintosh is actually sitting on top of a mirror. I heard a truckload got wet in Oklahoma. The resulting explosion of suddenly-rehydrating Macs devastated the neighborhood. Limits on volume transport imposed to prevent a recurrence killed the product. Time for that reminder again. You may have pulled the leaky 1/2AA batteries from your Macs, but have you re-applied thermal compound? It can dry out to barely more than dust, and the last thing you need after pulling a classic machine out & firing it up for the first time in years is thermal damage because it just couldn't cool itself.
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@NanoRaptor I changed out all the fans and the thermal paste on my Dual G4. Still isn’t exactly quiet; pondering more extreme measures.
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@NanoRaptor And why not a full scroll wheel!? I don't know why Apple hasn't tried it yet! @NanoRaptor could use some help from tesla — two rollers with left-right axis, but one for scrolling up & down, while the other for scrolling to sides Despite the 3.5" Magneto-Optical format's many advantages - A much larger, more reliable and resilient storage, bright backlight, and a high-resolution active matrix colour screen - it still failed to make inroads against sales of the older ubiquitous greyscale 3.5" floppy disk.
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IHDVGA (Inconveniently High Density VGA) extension lead. IHDVGA was abandoned early on as keeping pins straight turned out more difficult than expected. Most manufacturers still turned a profit by selling the leads without shells as convenient groundable wire brushes.
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@NanoRaptor I've seen several regular VGA cables with bent pins. This would've been a nightmare to keep straight. @NanoRaptor I’m messing around with Cisco HD-60 cables right now and they are frighteningly not that dissimilar. The bent shell on the picture in the seller’s website really drives home the reliability and robustness.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social The short-lived optical parallel port brought numerous advantages to the interconnectivity table. Advantages included small size for the era, transfers free of electrical noise, the speed of parallel transfer, and the convenient ability to debug protocols just by having a look.
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@NanoRaptor yeah, but did you ever spend 3hrs trying to get them to work only to find one was green and the other was amber
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@NanoRaptor comes with a free copy of Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim? "Walk without rhythm, you won't attract the worm"
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Apple's innovative ADB Extended Mouse II provided the ability to use cursor keys to navigate without the need to switch back and forth from mouse to keyboard.
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@NanoRaptor This is so pragmatic and useful in the real world that it can't be apple, it has to be parody. @NanoRaptor You know, I'm old enough to remember using Windows 3.1 at work - WITHOUT A MOUSE. It was actually possible in those days as developers always provided keyboard shortcuts for everything.
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@NanoRaptor It should have only one button, which should operate like the ThinkPad nipple (or whatever it's called.) |
@NanoRaptor "This is Commander Jameson, en route to Lave Station. There is an unexpected item in the bagging area. Please wait for assistance."
@NanoRaptor thargoids have a new ship...