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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 05:32:54 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   Laptops from System76 and Framework are always advertising that they work well with Linux, but that's NOTHING compared to this.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 05:41:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     the funny thing about this computer? it's one of the first ones I've seen at ewaste that has CLEARLY been opened up to take the hard drive out.

     why is that funny? it doesn't have a hard drive. This is a solid state/floppy PC, no hard drive included.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 05:56:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     they still left personal info on it, though.

     I KNOW ABOUT YOUR SPANISH BAND'S CD RELEASE!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 06:01:17 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     This is a brother Personal Digital Notebook.
     A very dirty one that's missing most of the screws.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 06:04:43 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Inside.
     It's a GeoBook 10.4" Color!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 06:07:21 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     So this was a computer designed for people who just needed something cheap to do word processing and the like. The details on the specs are rare, but apparently it has 5 megabyte of ROM, 4 megabyte of RAM, and 1 megabyte of flash storage.
     Since this is the NB-80C, it's got a 10.4" 640x480 color LCD. (the NB-60 has a 9.4" 640x480 greyscale LCD)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 06:13:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     IT LIVES!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 06:18:03 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Yeah here's our main menu. The obvious office stuff, internet, file manager, preferences, calculator.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 06:21:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     hey look, the file manager says there's a command.com on the F:\

     Does that mean this is just running on top of DOS?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 06:22:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Yep it sure is.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 06:28:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     made a DOS 6.22 bootdisk. Let's see if it'll boot that.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 06:30:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     nope. it doesn't seem to boot off floppies.

     But I was able to use the command.com from it to finally check the memory. Yep, 4mb.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 06:41:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I ran some tests. System Information says it's a 33mhz 386SX.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 06:44:34 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     GEOS's mouse config says you can switch to an external serial mouse.

     also look at these lovely GUI markers. vaguely CDE?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 06:50:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     the first serial mouse I plug in appears to have dead horizontal tracking. god damn it.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 07:02:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • jornucopia

     @jordan no, brother. brother made this laptop!

   • jornucopia (jordan@sometimes.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 07:02:17 JST jornucopia

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     @foone oh, bother

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 07:16:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     okay I got it working with a much more boring mouse.
     once @gewt gets out of her meeting I'll try doing dialup with it.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 07:21:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     oh hey it still has credentials saved for the previous user's ISP

   • Jonathan ‘theJPster’ Pallant (thejpster@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 07:24:56 JST Jonathan ‘theJPster’ Pallant

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     @foone how does a PS/2 mouse know a Serial adapter has been plugged in? Do they put a Serial signal into an otherwise unused pin?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 07:24:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Jonathan ‘theJPster’ Pallant

     @thejpster Something like that, yeah. Or they wire it so that if they're plugged into PS/2 they get power on a different pin, so they can tell which one is plugged in

   • Cumberland Gorch (crobbler@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 07:26:14 JST Cumberland Gorch

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     @foone I think it might just barely be able to run Doom. Minimum requirements are 4mb 386

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 07:26:14 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Cumberland Gorch

     @crobbler the fun part is that the main reason it can't run doom is a lack of HARD DRIVE space! there's nowhere you could install Doom to!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 07:28:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it's also got a PCMCIA port. so maybe I could shove an ethernet card in there

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 07:32:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     or a hard drive card big enough to let me run DOOM

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 07:46:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     OKAY I dug through my PCMCIA box a little.
     We've got some storage adapters, some storage cards, and some ethernets.

   • gabriel (gabriel@col.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 07:48:59 JST gabriel

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     @foone and the "Internet" works ?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 07:48:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • gabriel

     @gabriel good question!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 07:51:21 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     the manual implies that the PCMCIA slot is only for storage. So far it hasn't liked any of the cards I've put in it.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 07:54:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     and that they'll sell you 4mb or 10mb cards.

     those fuckers better not have stuck some kind of crappy DRM on this thing to make them only work with their own cards

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 08:00:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     okay I got a 10mb drive to work. now to install Doom on it

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 08:06:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     WHAT? 10mb isn't enough for Doom?!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 08:16:48 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • The Turtle

     @the_turtle This program might be newer than the computer

   • The Turtle (the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 08:16:49 JST The Turtle

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     @foone they know the existence of the Pentium/66 so... 1996 or 1997?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 08:20:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I tried to put disk #2 of Doom onto a spare floppy labeled "BIBLE" for some kind of irony, but the irony was on me: this disk is corrupt

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 08:27:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     HOLY FLORKING SCHNIT THE WEB BROWSER WORKS

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 08:28:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     has anyone made a GEOS mastodon client yet?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 08:33:24 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     okay I finally got a copy of Doom on there.

     and it doesn't work!

     it hangs after the DOS/4GW banner.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 08:39:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I think I accidentally deleted the browser

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 08:43:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     okay I found an article about this thing which includes some disk images:

     https://www.pilothobbies.com/geobook/

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 08:45:30 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     some interesting hacking of it here:
     https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/06/o-brother-geobook-lets-get-thou-back-on.html

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 08:42:39 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

     @apzpins yeah, I've got some of those! And an HP omniGo which also uses it

   • Ari [APz] Sovijärvi (apzpins@mstdn.games)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 08:42:40 JST Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

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     @foone Nokia used Geos on their early Communicator phones too. I think until 9210. It was neat to break one into command.com too. Also managed to get a Linux kernel running, but the keyboard had something funky in those and it only worked over serial connection.