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Admittedly, my visits here have become increasingly erratic over time. Over the last few years, I've simply had less and less time and enthusiasm for tinkering with computers, and I ultimately let my ...

Thanks for your interest, guys!

T-R-A,

Although it would be most convenient to get rid of the stuff before I leave (which will be sometime between July 13 and 18 ), I could make an arrangement t ...

Hi all,

It's been a while since I last popped in here. Unfortunately, over the last few years I've largely lost interest in tinkering with older computers. Sad

Most of my equipment has been gat ...

I recall that four and five years ago, there was quite a bit of negative sentiment expressed here about Windows XP and the performance-, usability- and/or compatibility-related frustrations people had ...

There are a lot of details and aspects of new PCs and modern computer technology in general that I don't find a lot to like about. What would things be like if I was in charge, though? Forgive me fo ...

"The greatest OS of the 20th Century?" That's a bit of a big question.

I believe I had selected MS-DOS when I cast my vote a few months ago, simply because it was groundbreaking for the ...

I believe most of the schools and libraries I'm familiar with who locked Windows 95-XP down to the nth degree did so with third-party software such as Fortres or Deep Freeze.

I made some screenshots of Netscape 1.0 a few ages ago; you can see them lot of improvements in versions 1.1 and 1.2; fairly impressive considering that they were released only a few months later!

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The 386Page forums are a wasteland, although as long as we can communicate on Uncreative Labs that shouldn't be too much of a problem to our well-being. Wink

My somewhat open-ended question is, ...

Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions is legit: http://toastytech.com/guis/win3mme.html

It's super-elusive, however, since it was available only for a very short time (apparently) only from OEMs. ...

If this is what you miss, you can have it.....EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!

I thought those old T.V.'s looked creepy as crap, and even worse with the old 70's and 80's Sesame Street skits on them (like the 10 Sc ...

I have found every version of Windows to be a compromise. There's at least one thing I dislike about every version:

Windows XP:
Default "Bozo the clown" theme, Start menu organization.
Internet ...

I may be in the minority here, but for the longest time I never liked traditional console TV sets, probably because we never had one in our own household for me to cultivate fond memories of, they put ...

Well, here's a new wrinkle:

My problems with the ISA modem usually involved the modem sometimes disconnected when it got to the "Validating user name and password..." part when dialing.
Well, I ha ...

If the PS/1 type 2011 is like the PS/1 type 2121, the battery is a flat round one clipped in place under the internal modem. I think there were lots of different PS/1s, though, so yours might be diff ...