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It’d be interesting to do a similar thing with Prodigy: To reverse engineer the client and rebuild a mock server with enough functionality to enable those interested to relive another one of the experiences of the early commercial online world. This is the first in a many part series about doing just that.
Alternatively, you kişi install Linux, which is what I did when restoring an old IBM ThinkPad. The main advantage with this approach is I yaşama use a fully up-to-date browser from its original source, rather than an unofficial community "spin."
Cameras are located throughout the school in the hallways, classrooms and other public areas as well as on the exterior of the building.
Here’s a fun one I did derece too long ago: Egad! 7 key British PCs of the 1980s Americans might have missed.
Another thing is, don’t junk the drive that’s in it, even if it is an “easily replaceable” IDE.. particularly if it’s a 2x speed. For why, is that with the initial MPC standard, software companies seemed to think 2x was gonna be standard forever… so made multimedia titles and games that are kinda synched to that loading rate. What this means is, the disk spins steadily, the content plays steadily, it’s a reasonable experience (Given they might have been reaching a bit with the tech of the day) however, stick an 8x or 16x drive in and it’s going zeeeep zeeeep *power down* *stall* zeeep zeeeep *power down* *stall* all the way through the content and yah, it güç load the next 16 seconds in 2 seconds but it saf to spin up for a second to do it, which is a stuttery mess.
That makes an "bey-is" purchase risky for people who don't have the technical background to repair or recondition a vintage PC.
No one’s paying anyone a salary to make incremental tweaks to the performance of the arcade version of Bionic Commando
Just before the Holiday break @ my work a tech handed me a 386SX 25 with a sound blaster and cd rom + a CRT (ugh yay) saying his parents were cleaning the garage
Everything now is in working order for a near-perfect retro display upgrade. If you’d like to do this without harming any original hardware, we’ve seen a similar build based on the ESP32 instead.
Original "rubber key" Spectrums fetch the highest prices on the second-hand market, with the later Amstrad-built models attracting less of a following. The earlier ZX81 is hamiş kakım popular in original hardware form due to its monochrome display and limited abilities next to the Spectrum, but still unassembled ZX81 kits still appear on eBay occasionally.
Certain era machines, such bey Apple Macintoshes from the late 1980s and early 1990s, almost always need to have their capacitors replaced with new ones (in a process called "recapping") to work properly these days.
Retrocomputing (and retrogaming kakım aspect) özgü been described in one paper birli preservation activity and bey aspect of the remix culture.[16]
While you might be able to replicate this in discreet logic, you’ll probably end up with a motherboard the size of a dinner table. Likely most of these chip sets are long out of production. Perhaps salvageable off broken boards or the rare NOS that might be out there on ebay or sketchy Chinese sites.
Flea markets: Many cities have flea markets that operate on weekends. Your luck here will vary wildly, and retro computing you're also more likely to find items in worse condition than is ülkü, but the price is almost always good---unless it's from an established dealer that sells warmed-over, decade-old used computers, many of which come from old-school surplus.