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    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    The T20 needs a new CMOS battery (doable) and a new regular battery (less doable). Installing WinME without ACPI (setup /p i) apparently...
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    sedrosken replied to the thread Oldest?.
    So for the 486 that's mostly true; early 486SXes were DXes that failed QA testing on the FPU. They just had that portion lasered off and...
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    sedrosken replied to the thread Oldest?.
    I used to optimize my conventional memory by hand for fun. These days I'm lazy and just have a config menu where one option loads EMM386...
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    sedrosken replied to the thread Oldest?.
    My IBM Blue Lightning dates from about 1994 or thereabouts. I've had one older board (GA-486VM) that was from late 1992 by the date...
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    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    Could not have been a more direct hit if it tried. Lot of trees down and FPL only just got us power back today. Cell service was out for...
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    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    The ViRGE is notoriously slower than software rendering, but the Savage is merely "normally" slow in the way that most single-pipe...
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    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    I've decided the T20 will run Windows ME dual-booted with NetBSD i386 latest. If I'm gonna make a stupid waste of my time, I'm going to...
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    sedrosken replied to the thread Windows 11.
    Momentum. It's still there because momentum. People don't really change thought patterns, it's why Microsoft is still so dominant in the...
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    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    The T23 wasn't available until mid-2001, and its max was 1GB. (The T20 through T22 had a max of 512MB.) 1GB or even 512MB was still gobs...
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    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    Considering the limited video chip and the fact that the fastest chip I'm likely to be able to run is a 1.0GHz (anything faster is a...
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    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    Friend of mine is ditching a ton of his e-waste, so now it gets to be my e-waste. At least his more or less works, and what may or may...
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    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    In retro build news, my Pentium MMX is finally stable. Biostar MB-8500TTD paired with the custom J.3 patch to fix several bugs with the...
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    sedrosken replied to the thread I do want to buy a used car.
    Sure starting to wish I had the hybrid. 😅
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    sedrosken reacted to Mercutio's post in the thread I do want to buy a used car with Like Like.
    Finally bought something, a 2018 RAV 4 Hybrid with 80k miles on it. It's being shipped from Arizona, which I hope means it spent its...
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    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    As much as I view AI as a copyright infringement machine, I do have Claude Pro (at least for the rest of the month, unsure if I'll...
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