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There's really not a lot in the realm of "specs", all Macintosh SE machines are the same, bar the RAM and storage options. They can come with 1, 2.5...

I've never seen a 1541 with a bad belt, so don't care too much about it. And it is. It's a C64 minus the SID, the VIC-II, and less RAM. The fact...

Yes, that's it. Boy, that's a head-slapper moment. :satisfie: https://github.com/MobyGamer/TOPBENCH/releases/

I spent the last couple of days working on my OS/8 handler book. I expanded the section on the OS/8 boot process adding the RK05 boot loader, the...

Back in the day, one of the guys at the office leased one of these and was doing commodities analysis on it using custom software. He later...

Please I would take thier ignorance today over the uselessness of modern store workers. "Hello, Where is this item?" answer " I dont know, you can...

Yep, that was the one. They were way ahead of the time with that one. A few years later with WMC and XP and they would have had a real product......

M-M-M-Mondo Necrobump! The fault seems to of been the bearings in the stepper motor required lubrication. Like, serious lubrication. The oddly...

Using my own VoIP box, I don't really notice the delay. I find more delay on mobile phone service.

That was true only up to a point for selected sales people. Among junior staff, the ignorance was astounding.

the audio latency of any digital based voice service drives me crazy, I pretty much hate talking on the phone now (never liked it a whole lot to...

I still remember buying my Fluke meter from their original Sunnyvale store off Lawrence Expressway. Store then were staff by personnel that actually...

My Packard Bell 286 system was sold at SEARS back when I got it. Most major department stores competed with Radioshack to sell computers and...

I miss real "department stores" like sears, j.c. penney , and gfox.. Remember when those places were so elaborste they had professional vlerks...

Or people who want something that works reliably all the time, doesn't require constant recharging, doesn't require replacing and changing around...

Landlines are getting much more expensive these days even if you don't use long distance. I wonder what percentage of the population uses a landline...

Well things change--remember when Macy's demoed leading edge consumer appliances? I bought my first (Panasonic) answering machine from them and was...

Shadowlord: yes they sold a computer system with large screen crt tv that was an entertainment system.. Forget the name.. But THEY DID try and just...

Does the rubber dome look cracked or feel brittle at all? If so then the rubber dome may have just broken down over time like Chuck said. If this...

Well, there are serial to TCP/IP devices. I've been told that landline service obtained through a telephone company's fiber/DSL bridge should...

I believe it was Bob Russell who once observed that the 1541 was the best computer Commodore ever made.

I was in the Fry's in Fremont in 2019 and it was dead, dead, dead. More staff than customers. I figured this couldn't last.

I don't follow NewEgg that much any more. When they came on the scene they had excellent prices, free shipping. Then the free shipping went away and...

Well wasn't the large TV part of the Gateway systems? That is, they were not selling TVs but had one of the first HTPC setups? I think they came with...

This is going to sound ridiculous, but is it possible, lacking a land line, to use a modem over a fiber or cable connection? For example something...

Fry's was rather the outlier providing everything a consultant might need to complete a contract while pulling an all-nighter: cables, computers,...

Here is a picture of a SIM4-03: http://www.bitsavers.org/components/intel/MCS4/SIM4-03_Brochure_Apr73.pdf It is suppose to be pin compatible with...

In the mid to late 1980's, were Fry's and other computer stores like them places where you could buy generic parts and mid tier computers only, or...