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Friday, July 22, 2016

My Optiplex 760 died

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Poof! All of a sudden my Optiplex 760 just stopped working. I got an amber flashing power button with diagnostic leds 1 and 3 lit up. I t...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Gateway M255-E doesn't want to boot from USB

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I got an old Gateway CA6 M255-E laptop and it just doesn't want to boot from a USB stick with Ubuntu or Knoppix. The DVD drive is a l...
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Fat transponder keys on a keychain

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One of the things I hate about these transponder keys is how fat they are. They just don't lay nicely together. If you've got tw...
Sunday, July 17, 2016

Tektronix storage tube terminals were cool

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I liked the Tektronix displays in Battlestar Galactica and how they would glow brightly at the location where they were drawing. http://...

Ubuntu 16.04 on a Portege R400 works well

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I got an old laptop Toshiba Portege R400 that had a bad hard drive. After getting a 1.8" ata100 hard drive on ebay, I installed ubunt...

I miss the old computer magazines

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I remember how much I used to enjoy the old computer magazines. I'd always make a bee line for the magazine section of the book store f...
Friday, July 15, 2016

F18a on an Apple IIGS

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Here's the neatest thing I've seen today: An f18a put on an Apple IIGS.
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