My guess is that the screw shorted out something on the motherboard when the system was powered on, delivering current or too much current to something not expecting it.
Is the 70…
Well my dual450 G4 has been sitting for three weeks or so, and I am now going to use it during this when I sell my 20" iMac. I hit the power and I hear a sizzle and a single long b…
Am I the only one here who has ever actually loaded a program from a cassette tape?
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Nope, I started out with a Trash-80 (TRS-80) Model I Level II with all of…
Ohyes. I can well remember doing tape loads and saves on an Australian clone of the TRS-80, among other machines.
Sure...just don't expect me to spoon.
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... I had a Mattel Aquarius.
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Holy Cannoli !! lol
Me too ! 8^ ]
My grandmother pickd it up in a type of "Surplus Store" -- where some guy buys overstock of…
I have a wavelan silver in my Wallstreet, had to get a wireless router to use it. All in all it works decently, my router is in the basement and I still get decent signal 2 floors …
... I had a Mattel Aquarius.
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Holy Cannoli !! lol
Me too ! 8^ ]
My grandmother pickd it up in a type of "Surplus Store" -- where some guy buys overstock of…
Sure...just don't expect me to spoon.
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So, a full share of the rent then?
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OK, maybe a cuddle....I don't spoon so soon.
Uuuurgh... Unfortunately, yes. I have tried to load from cassette. It was horrible. Eventually I said screw it and recorded the cassette tape onto the computer - that worked much b…
Am I the only one here who has ever actually loaded a program from a cassette tape?
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I have a Realistic™ tape recorder specially designed for computer use (it…
This is just edging me closer to buying an Apple I replica. Maybe we can be room-mates after the divorces ;-)
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Sure...just don't expect me to spoon.
Am I the only one here who has ever actually loaded a program from a cassette tape?
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Definitely not. I've done it as a kid on a Commodore CBM (don't remember…
Am I the only one here who has ever actually loaded a program from a cassette tape?
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Certainly not, ZX-81, ZX Spectrum 48k and CBM-64.
The CBM-64 was the mos…
Folks, I don't think you can get any geekier than this.
Retro reverse engineering: Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape
If my wife ever found out that I found this S…
Hey all,
My new lombard works great except for one thing: after being awake for a while the trackpad starts to "jump" around -- when I lift my finger off of the pad, it will jump…
from what I heard, those things caused a LOT of data corruption, mainly as the North-Bridge of the G3 was specifically made to only support 1 Processor per north-bridge from my und…