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  • nickt 10 days ago | parent | on: Jay Miner, Amiga and Atari designer, died 31 years...
    Thanks for posting, that lead me down a very pleasant rabbit hole!
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  • nickt 31 days ago | parent | on: 30 years ago, Apple fans met the Mac clone. This i...
    I’ve just bought a Power Computing PowerBase 180, seems like a decent machine so far.

    That deal for $100MM in APPL in 1997 though. What a horrible ROI as it’s only worth $37B today.

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  • nickt 53 days ago | parent | on: Mac Themes Garden
    When I see this, I can’t help but think, “man, how did we get so boring”. Probably when someone decided ads are more important than fun…
    • bmonkey325 52 days ago
      I think this is capturing part of the pre mobile era when the desktop was a prominent appliance in the home. When there was event tv. I knew people would would choose a Winamp skin seemingly daily. Computer themes and wallpapers were another big personalization thing.

      So many home PCs and laptops I see are the boring factory settings.

  • nickt 54 days ago | parent | on: PDP-11/Hack de luxe
    It's a really neat project. Sounds like he's planning to release the PCB and BOM, I think that'd be lovely in a blinkenlights case!
  • nickt 120 days ago | parent | on: Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012
    I’ve been tempted by one of these upgraded old-school Thinkpads:

    https://www.xyte.ch/mods/x210-x2100/

    But not pulled the trigger. Anyone have direct experience of these?

  • nickt 171 days ago | parent | on: SSI : Pool of Radiance RPG review
    This is one of those games that I’ve seen crop up so many times, read so much about it and seen the videos that I misremember playing it. I never have but it does look great!
    • danaris 171 days ago
      It was one of the first computer RPGs I played, and still one of the best computer implementations of D&D—especially early D&D. Personally, I still strongly prefer the fully-turn-based Gold Box combat system to the real-time-with-pause system popularized by Baldur's Gate.
  • nickt 188 days ago | parent | on: Building a replacement 386/486 CMOS battery
    The linked bad idea Varta board made my day!

    https://texelec.com/product/bad-barta/

  • nickt 194 days ago | parent | on: Micronet 800: Tunes your BBC into a new channel of...
    Thanks for posting - the whole archive is a nicely curated treasure trove.

    https://nosher.net/archives/computers/

  • nickt 195 days ago | parent | on: Donut shop in Indiana still using a Commodore 64.
    It looks like there’s 2 modern PSUs sitting between them so they’re probably OG.
    • bmonkey325 195 days ago
      I was just being funny. I have no doubt these are real C64's doing gods work for a donut shop
  • nickt 195 days ago | parent | on: Donut shop in Indiana still using a Commodore 64.
    That’s a great example of “the Commodore keeping up with you”!
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