This guy should win "Optimist of the Year"

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November 3, 2018 at 9:54 am #27907
Boris
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Details here –

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November 3, 2018 at 10:13 am #27910
dwynnehugh
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Live in hope, I suppose.

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans
November 3, 2018 at 8:41 pm #27924
Bob Williams
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I stripped a similar system that my No.1 gson’s (barsteward) dad gave him to play with some years ago. I used the CD player in a rebuild for a mate, the rest went to WEE Heaven as I recall. It was Dinosaur doo-doo even then. This bloke is living an another planet.

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November 4, 2018 at 2:53 am #27942
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I’ve still got the remains of my 486 SX25 floating around somewhere. I’ve been tempted for a while to rebuild it and play some DOS games 🙂
November 4, 2018 at 10:02 am #27946
dwynnehugh
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I’m just wondering whether he is selling as a piece of antique stuff – see below another guy selling a very old machine for £92. Sorry but I do not know how to put the below as Boris did with ‘here’ on his opening post.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/386-computer-Mi-BM-Windows-95-365mb-HDD/264010797562?_trkparms=aid%3D888007%26algo%3DDISC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140328180637%26meid%3D63c6429e2d83467b8ecc20fb60c5d094%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D202490760621%26itm%3D264010797562&_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982

That said, probably in a 100 years they will be classed as valuable items of the early computer days and be displayed in science museums all over the world! Just the same as in 1000 years MFI / IKEA stuff will be seen as valuable antiques.?

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans
November 4, 2018 at 11:17 am #27948
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dwynnehugh wrote:

Sorry but I do not know how to put the below as Boris did with ‘here’ on his opening post.

On the ‘ribbon’ below the words Insert, Format,Tools you’ll see a paperclip icon. Highlight the word you want to use for the link, Copy the url ( the bit you’ve used in your post ) from the address bar of the webpage you’re linking to, click the paperclip icon and Paste into the box, then click the arrow to ‘apply’ the link to your post. ??

Ikea may be iconic/antique in years to come, but you’ll miss the best opportunity to utilise any MFI furniture if you don’t hurry up and build that bonfire soon……………!!???
November 4, 2018 at 12:36 pm #27950
Boris
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Dave,

The “winner” on that item has only a 1 for feedback -I surmise that he is a malicious bidder – who won’t pay up ?

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November 4, 2018 at 2:26 pm #27952
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No need for the extra power usage. Either install Dosbox or set up a VM Dos box using FreeDos. I bought a USB floppy drive from Amazon and then used Winimage to make mountable dos images of the old disks.
November 4, 2018 at 2:28 pm #27953
Ed P
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Tippon wrote:

I’ve still got the remains of my 486 SX25 floating around somewhere. I’ve been tempted for a while to rebuild it and play some DOS games

No need for the extra power usage. Either install Dosbox or set up a VM Dos box using FreeDos. I bought a cheap USB floppy drive from Amazon and then used Winimage to make mountable dos images of the old disks.
November 4, 2018 at 7:11 pm #27959
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Where’s the fun in that though Ed? 😉
November 4, 2018 at 8:25 pm #27961
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I did also notice a sale of an Amiga 500 for £1,000. In reality, they’d have to consider themselves lucky to get £10.

Arch Linux, on a Ryzen 7 1800X, 32 GB, 5 (yes -5) HDs inc 5 SSDs, 4 RPi 3Bs + 1 RPi 4B - one as an NFS server with two more drives, PiHole (shut yours), Plex server, cloud server, and other random Pi stuff. Nice CoolerMaster case, 2 x NV GTX 1070 8GB, and a whopping 32" AOC 1440P monitor.
November 5, 2018 at 6:52 am #27975
Ed P
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Tippon wrote:

Where’s the fun in that though Ed?

The challenge of getting old floppies to read, and run in a vm. Also by making iso copies of the floppies you are preserving them for the future.
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