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October 13th, 2018, 01:40 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread Tandy CM-2 in Tandy/Radio Shack

That is a 15 kHz CGA RGBI monitor. It'll work with standard CGA, Tandy 1000 CGA, EGA in low- and medium-res mode, or the Commodore 128's RGBI output.

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October 10th, 2018, 11:31 AM

vwestlife replied to a thread EGA and 64 colors mode in PCs and Clones

The second Rambo image looks like it's truly to emulate the Commodore 64 color palette. Maybe they got lazy and just copied the artwork from the C64...

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October 9th, 2018, 03:56 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread For Sale: spotted on Craigslist (continuous sightings) in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

And if you have an Apple IIe or newer running ProDOS, you're basically using an Apple III anyway. Apple most of the ideas from the Apple III that...

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October 9th, 2018, 01:57 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread OEMs & clones on eBay (continues listings) in Vintage Computer Auctions

The interesting thing about those is that they have eight slots, but with the wider slot spacing of the original IBM PC. I wonder if that was the...

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October 9th, 2018, 12:16 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread The lstest from Microsoft . . . in General Off Topic

There are still many elements of a touch-oriented UI in Windows 10 even when it knows you're using a mouse and keyboard. For example, some of the...

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October 8th, 2018, 06:08 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread The lstest from Microsoft . . . in General Off Topic

That site is asking for a login, but other sites have covered the story: ...

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October 4th, 2018, 03:42 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread Can't stand the bugs in Linux, so i'm switching back to Windows, quick questions in Rants

Second in what kind of "ratings"? By the time Arachne was released on December 22nd, 1996, Internet Explorer was already the second most popular web...

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October 3rd, 2018, 09:46 AM

vwestlife replied to a thread Tandy 1000 in Vintage Computer Items Wanted

Which model? Do you mean the original Tandy 1000, with no letters or numbers after the 1000?

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October 2nd, 2018, 07:53 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread Get rid of lines - Olivetti M24SP in PCs and Clones

It's on your web site: https://trixter.oldskool.org/2008/04/22/beefing-up-your-6300/ "You are correct that connecting any VGA monitor to a stock...

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October 2nd, 2018, 01:58 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread Get rid of lines - Olivetti M24SP in PCs and Clones

But only if your monitor supports the 25 kHz scan rate. You've claimed several times that the PC6300/Olivetti's video output is 31.5 kHz (same as...

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October 1st, 2018, 10:08 AM

vwestlife replied to a thread Can't stand the bugs in Linux, so i'm switching back to Windows, quick questions in Rants

No, but I bring it up because many people in the Linux community have spread a myth that "the Windows 10 EULA (End User License Agreement) allows...

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October 1st, 2018, 05:45 AM

vwestlife replied to a thread Can't stand the bugs in Linux, so i'm switching back to Windows, quick questions in Rants

I'd love to see some examples of Microsoft doing that. Because I certainly haven't heard of that happening with them. And the concern about...

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September 29th, 2018, 07:43 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread The Ebay Follies in Rants

eBay has been moving away from the auction bidding format for a long time now, anyway. By now most items have a Buy It Now price. And sellers can...

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September 29th, 2018, 11:48 AM

vwestlife replied to a thread Can't stand the bugs in Linux, so i'm switching back to Windows, quick questions in Rants

Maybe it's something with your configuration, because Firefox does support the 503 error, and I have seen it myself in Firefox.

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September 27th, 2018, 01:55 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread Apple ][ Graphics Cards in Early Apple (I, ][, ///, etc.)

That was the original Apple LaserWriter printer, introduced in 1985. It had a 12 MHz 68000 processor and 1.5 MB of RAM, while the Macintosh computers...

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September 25th, 2018, 03:05 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread Laser 128 audio question in Early Apple (I, ][, ///, etc.)

Any speaker with a 1/8" (3.5mm) plug or adapter on it should work.

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September 23rd, 2018, 06:55 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread Zenith eaZy PC, not-so-easy repair in PCs and Clones

Here is Zenith MS-DOS 3.3 Plus: https://vetusware.com/download/Zenith%20MS-DOS%203.3%20-%203.5%20Disks%20Zenith%203.3%20Plus/?id=8634

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September 21st, 2018, 05:10 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread Can't stand the bugs in Linux, so i'm switching back to Windows, quick questions in Rants

The BSD-based core part of Mac OS is open-source and can be freely downloaded and used. The only catch is that it doesn't come with Apple's...

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September 21st, 2018, 02:09 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread Can't stand the bugs in Linux, so i'm switching back to Windows, quick questions in Rants

I prefer the version of BSD called Mac OS X.

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September 18th, 2018, 09:31 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread For Sale: spotted on Craigslist (continuous sightings) in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

LGR did another video about repairing the Hot Wheels/Barbie PC, and it's pretty much all of your fears confirmed:

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September 18th, 2018, 01:32 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread For Sale: spotted on Craigslist (continuous sightings) in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

They're actually somewhat collectible, because not many were sold and even fewer are still working today.

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September 15th, 2018, 02:14 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread Why do most web browsers ask to be your default browser? in General Off Topic

It's reminiscent of the AARD code which gave DR-DOS users a bogus "non-fatal exception error" when attempting to install the beta version of Windows...

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September 15th, 2018, 09:12 AM

vwestlife replied to a thread Why do most web browsers ask to be your default browser? in General Off Topic

Now Windows 10 is planning to show this warning to users who are trying to install Firefox, Chrome, or any other browser: ...

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