Old Computer Challenge
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@Weng said in Old Computer Challenge:
@DOA said:
DOA's Law: The age of the oldest hardware you own is proportional to the amount of time that has passed since you last moved.
I don't move much (and with my recent investment in a backyard construction project to enable one of my life goals that seems massively unlikely for the foreseeable future), but I do keep a packing priority for emergencies. I would need 2 53ft trucks and 1 (full) twin-deck car carrier to do it all in one pass, and the old hardware is on the first truck. Most people find moving a hassle - I just throw logistics at the problem.Since @Tsaukpaetra has the questionable honour of raising this topic from the dead I'd like to page @Weng to see if he wants to share his currently tally of trucks.
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Anyone got an amiga on this thread yet. Should make get onto it
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@JBert said in Old Computer Challenge:
I'd like to page @Weng to see if he wants to share his currently tally of trucks.
He doesn't have trucks.
He just has things that fall off of trucks :P
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fuck it I am going to order the amiga ethernet adapter.
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@lucas1 said in Old Computer Challenge:
fuck it I am going to order the amiga ethernet adapter.
:justdoit.mp4:
I should see if my friend with a PDP 11 could load it somehow :P
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@sloosecannon I might have to make a new account because I login with google and there is no way an Amiga browser is going to understand that.
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@lucas1 said in Old Computer Challenge:
@sloosecannon I might have to make a new account because I login with google and there is no way an Amiga browser is going to understand that.
Well it's actually just a redirect. It might work. If the browser supports js :)
Of course, you should make a sockpuppet and make a bot that runs from the Amiga
@amigaBot ftw!
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@lucas1 said in Old Computer Challenge:
@sloosecannon I might have to make a new account because I login with google and there is no way an Amiga browser is going to understand that.
Just use the "reset your password" functionality to set a password.
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@lucas1 I've been searching for a 16bit ethernet adapter on ebay and they always don't have the plug in dongle part. So I think I just should pay Amigakit ÂŁ30 for the adapter and the TCP/IP stack floppy
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@sloosecannon An Amiga OS 3.1 web browser won't support JS. I will be surprised if it supports HTML.
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@lucas1 said in Old Computer Challenge:
@sloosecannon An Amiga OS 3.1 web browser won't support JS. I will be surprised if it supports HTML.
Well, write one. Obviously :P
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@sloosecannon Don't want to, Don't now C that well.
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@lucas1 said in Old Computer Challenge:
@sloosecannon Don't want to, Don't now C that well.
Write it in BASIC!
(That's a horrible idea. Why would you do that? Why would I tell someone to do that?)
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@sloosecannon said in Old Computer Challenge:
@lucas1 said in Old Computer Challenge:
@sloosecannon Don't want to, Don't now C that well.
Write it in BASIC!
(That's a horrible idea. Why would you do that? Why would I tell someone to do that?)
To be serious though, what would it support if it doesn't support html? Would it be just plain text?
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@sloosecannon I think it does HTML 3.2 and CSS 1 maybe. I never took it on the net. I've upgraded it to be 32mhz from 7 and 1mb to 34mb. So it isn't stock.
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Nice resurrection. I got rid of an old Mac SE a while back that still worked. I remember trying to get it on the net once or twice for kicks. It did have System 7, which had an actual TCP/IP stack, and it had an Ethernet card that I still had a disk with the driver for. I remember it being a pain to get TCP/IP working, since the stack didn't support DHCP. I think I got it working somehow and figured out that the only browsers that worked on it didn't support most of the modern internet very well.
Alas, I sold that computer a while back.
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@UndergroundCode I might have the power to emulate the mac and then go on the web
My amiga is fast enough to emulate that mac.
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@lucas1 Once I get paid again it will get VGA graphics
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I do want to get this thread on my Palm Zire 72, but don't want to pay $40+shipping for a wifi card.
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@sloosecannon said in Old Computer Challenge:
@lucas1 said in Old Computer Challenge:
fuck it I am going to order the amiga ethernet adapter.
:justdoit.mp4:
I should see if my friend with a PDP 11 could load it somehow :P
Lynx? Maybe?
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I know that Discourse kinda sorta worked on my old iPod that still had the iOS version that came with the not-Google Youtube app.
I should try to find a way to charge it and post a photo with this on it, if that works.
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@Speakerphone_Dude said in Old Computer Challenge:
@MiffTheFox said:
Don't ask me why I have an industrial machine controller lying around...
The forums don't even look that bad under Lynx- *is shot*
Is the cable set on the "C" note as a subtle geek joke or am I just high on espresso?
Fussy: That key is immediately to the right of a group of three black keys, so it's B. (F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B then no black key then C, C#, D, D#, E then no black key then F...)
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Old Computer Challenge:
That key is immediately to the right of a group of three black keys, so it's B.
Check again.
Plus, a piano where the highest key isn't a C would be unusual.Image search is giving me some counter-examples, but I'm not very convinced.
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If I can remember to do it, I could try some of my old devices. Too bad I don't have any way (that I know of) to get a dial-up connection for my Dreamcast.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Old Computer Challenge:
Fussy: That key is immediately to the right of a group of three black keys, so it's B. (F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B then no black key then C, C#, D, D#, E then no black key then F...)
There is no black key between E and F, and between B and C. The cable is pressing down a C.
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@El_Heffe said in Old Computer Challenge:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Old Computer Challenge:
Fussy: That key is immediately to the right of a group of three black keys, so it's B. (F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B then no black key then C, C#, D, D#, E then no black key then F...)
There is no black key between E and F, and between B and C. The cable is pressing down a C. Possibly recording music for dogs.
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@El_Heffe said in Old Computer Challenge:
@El_Heffe said in Old Computer Challenge:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Old Computer Challenge:
Fussy: That key is immediately to the right of a group of three black keys, so it's B. (F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B then no black key then C, C#, D, D#, E then no black key then F...)
There is no black key between E and F, and between B and C. The cable is pressing down a C. Possibly recording music for dogs.
You forgot something.
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@aliceif said in Old Computer Challenge:
Discourse kinda sorta worked on my old iPod that still had the iOS version that came with the not-Google Youtube app.
Reading worked reliably (as "reliable" as Discurse ever was on any platform, anyway) on my old (1st gen?) iPod Touch. Posting was
hit-or-miss; I could post successfully on perhaps 1% of attempts, so I quickly learned not to even try. I'm pretty sure I was still using it when we switched to NodeBB, and it worked fine.
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@El_Heffe said in Old Computer Challenge:
The cable is pressing down a C. Possibly recording music for dogs.
The typical range of a piano goes up to C8. C8 has a frequency of 4186.0 Hz, which is well within the normal range of human hearing, even for old farts with some high-frequency hearing loss, like me. The range could be extended as much as another two octaves and still produce sounds audible to humans with normal hearing (although they wouldn't sound very interesting, as none of the overtones that make a piano sound different from, say, a flute would be audible).
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According to this page, I've ordered an Ethernet Adapter that should work for the amiga, I have installed Aweb and Ibrowse ... hopefully the forum should work on one of them.
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@hungrier said in Old Computer Challenge:
Too bad I don't have any way (that I know of) to get a dial-up connection for my Dreamcast.
https://www.distributel.ca/en/product?p=Dial-Up_Internet
No more excuses.
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@TimeBandit said in Old Computer Challenge:
@hungrier said in Old Computer Challenge:
Too bad I don't have any way (that I know of) to get a dial-up connection for my Dreamcast.
https://www.distributel.ca/en/product?p=Dial-Up_Internet
No more excuses.
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@accalia That's an interesting pair of defaults.
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@accalia I have no clue where hungrier lives, but I'm sure he can find dial-up internet near him.
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@TimeBandit said in Old Computer Challenge:
No more excuses.
I can think of a couple:
- costs money
- no landline
Filed under: Can't say it's the wrong country though
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@hungrier said in Old Computer Challenge:
I can think of a couple:
Some people find solutions.
Some prefer to find excuses
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It's surprising that some of that hardware here was still functional after so many years. The oldest rig I have (Athlon XP 1700, 2001 vintage) wouldn't boot unless it was allowed to "warm up" for several minutes, and my 2008 vintage Phenom 9850 rig stopped POSTing as of a few months ago. Eight years of intense service out of an overclocked rig is pretty good, I think.
My 1GHz Pentium 3 laptop probably still works - haven't powered that on in a couple years. It's just a M.U.G.E.N. console at this point.
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@HardwareGeek said in Old Computer Challenge:
Reading worked reliably (as "reliable" as Discurse ever was on any platform, anyway) on my old (1st gen?) iPod Touch. Posting was
hit-or-miss; I could post successfully on perhaps 1% of attempts, so I quickly learned not to even try. I'm pretty sure I was still using it when we switched to NodeBB, and it worked fine.Here’s proof it works for the current forum (with iPhone OS 3.1.3):
Though it takes a long time to fully load this thread — or actually, it crashed Safari just as I was typing that, maybe 7 or 8 minutes into trying to load it, and by that time it looked like it was stuck on maybe 90% or so.
I thought I’d also try this:
But that just causes:
And I’m still wondering if I should get a 486 PC (I think) out from where I’ve stored it, try to get it running, and see what that makes of it. But digging it up is a lot of effort in itself so I’m not sure I will.
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@Gurth said in Old Computer Challenge:
Here’s proof it works for the current forum (with iPhone OS 3.1.3):
Can you post? Or just read only mode?
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@loopback0 I’ve only tried loading the forum without logging in. I’m fairly certain I can’t post in this thread, given that it crashes like I said, but I can try a new thread to see what happens.
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@Gurth said in Old Computer Challenge:
or actually, it crashed Safari just as I was typing that, maybe 7 or 8 minutes into trying to load it, and by that time it looked like it was stuck on maybe 90% or so.
try paginated mode with like 3 posts a page :)
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@sloosecannon said in Old Computer Challenge:
try paginated mode with like 3 posts a page :)
I would, but:
is what it says when I try to log in.
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@Gurth Well that's gonna make it hard to post, now isn't it? :P
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@sloosecannon It kind of puts a damper on my attempt, certainly. Or maybe it’s smarter than I think it is, and it’s just trying to keep me away from here.
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@Gurth said in Old Computer Challenge:
@sloosecannon It kind of puts a damper on my attempt, certainly. Or maybe it’s smarter than I think it is, and it’s just trying to keep me away from here.
Don't let
forbidden
command you around!Never let it get the best of you!
Don't let this stupid website tell you what to do!
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@Gurth It didn't have javascript, did it?
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@Yamikuronue I don’t know, I’ve never checked, but I suspect it does do Javascript — but perhaps not some of the things this site uses it for?
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@Gurth ISTR when the iPhone first came out, lack of javascript was a huge problem.
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@Yamikuronue Could be you’re right, let me check … (I need to get the iPod from its box again, boot it up, etc. …) No, Javascript is enabled, so that wasn’t the issue.
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@Yamikuronue said in Old Computer Challenge:
lack of javascript was a huge problem.
It doesn't sound like a problem...