I left #68kmla about a month ago for just this reason.
There was (and still is apparently) way too much stupidity, flooding, and mean-ness going on in there, I got tired of it. So…
I will say right away, that I add to the problem.
It's true for me too, that I am often helping IRC move off topic.
But the off topic discussions aren't really what bother me.
T…
Ok, now i'm probably not the best person to say this, but the IRC channel has become a bit too....spammy and annoying.
i realize that i am a big part of the problem, i almost neve…
Schools should lease computers instead of buy them so when they are done with them they go back to whoever they got them from and get sold off to people who can use them instead of…
68kMLAPeripheralsby QuadramanTue, 2 Oct 2007 - 08:20
The districts here in Texas are different I guess. Old computers, be it Macs or PCs, are rounded up into pallets and sold through online auctions at http://www.lemonsauctioneers.co…
68kMLAPeripheralsby Mike RichardsonSun, 30 Sep 2007 - 16:46
My districts does basically the same thing, but what makes it worse is that I know there is a barn full of Apple //e's and various service parts that will either be recycled in the…
I also work for our school district in Miami (I'm a shared tech at two elementary schools). Because most of those items usually tend to be tagged by the property control departmen…
Does that ISA card have any external ports? How about internal connectors? If all it has is internal connectors, I'd wager that it's some sort of audio processing card and the TI c…
See, I work for a school.
If they were anywhere near Seattle, I would pick 'em up and distribute them on the MLA. Let me know if you see anything like this in Seattle.
Compaq Proliant 800 Workstation with Pentium Pro
NEC Protation 8000
4 apple USB keyboards
and a super weird ISA Card. I cant figure out what it is. it has its own RAM a Texas In…
During a previous career in broadcast television back in the early 1990s, I sat in on an Avid demonstration, and I recall our station's chief engineer inquiring about the price, be…
Bunsen - those little ridges on the bottom right hand corner slide to the right. You will probably have to apply more force than you like. Press inward and out to the right with yo…
Couldn't you theoretically find a wall wart with the right voltage, hack some metal pads, and stuff the pads onto the contacts of the PB100? Probably screw some serious stuff up if…
Re: battery - will do. I'm thinking an SMD NiMH charger IC and a home made AAA NiMH pack. That or finding the smallest lead acid I can.
BTW first hurdle - how do you get the bat…
Yeah, they're neat little beasties. I prefer the keyboard on these to the Duos. I personally have three or four of the 100s, but only one works. Two have some random problem that I…
PB100s are very cool - lighter, smaller, and just a little more removed from the present day than all other PB1xx series - very collectible IMHO. And there's gotta be a way to hack…