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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 07:48:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I finally lugged my Highscreen SkyTower AT tower up to my office. This machine is beautiful, even when it's yellowed and dusty and grimy and rusty.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 07:54:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     and yeah, it's got a sliding door in case you need to hide your drives!

     And good god, look at how many bays this has.
     2x 3.5", 5 5.25". It's amazing.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 07:58:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     check it out: screwless entry. it has a handle you just slide to open it.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 08:03:50 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it's even got a drive in it! and it's not locked! yay. These caddies are too small for the usual tubular lock impressioning tools so they're a pain to pick. It's usually just easier to disassemble the fucker.

     It's a Seagate ST32120A, 2111 MB

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 08:12:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     my got-damn JPEGifer is broken again. why am I uploading big PNGs?

   • lopta (lopta@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 08:35:22 JST lopta

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     @foone Is that a serial port on the front?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 08:35:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • lopta

     @lopta yesp

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 08:38:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • thomas bohn

     @tehabe yeah, I believe so

   • thomas bohn (tehabe@norden.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 08:38:57 JST thomas bohn

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     @foone that is a post-colani one isn't?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 08:43:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Mondobizarrro

     @Mondobizarrro yeah. This particular case form factor was known as AT tower, as it was used by PC compatibles that were roughly compatible with the IBM AT.

     "AT" was also a motherboard size

   • Mondobizarrro (mondobizarrro@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 08:43:39 JST Mondobizarrro

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     @foone when you say AT tower, do you mean like an AT machine from the 1980s?
   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 09:41:42 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     okay I had to take an hour long break to fix pastejpeg.

     Here's the insides!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 09:46:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     CPU!
     It's a A80502-100 SX963: A 100mhz Pentium 1, bus speed of 50 or 66 mhz.

     This is post-FDIV fix. Boooo.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 09:49:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     fan and heatsink are very messy. very, very messy.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 09:56:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Okay, fan and heatsink cleaned up. Fan tested, and reattached.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 09:59:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     bah. my battery box has gone missing. I can't find my CR2032s

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 10:08:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I pulled out the Rustmaster 9000 PSU. This is not getting tested, it's going directly back into the swamp from whence it came

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 10:13:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Darn. My clean PSU isn't gonna fit into this case, the fan + power plugs are at the wrong location. I'll have to pull another one from my Car Fulla AT Towers.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 10:14:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     But in the meantime, lemme just grab a modern PSU and my ATX2AT

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 10:21:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Alisdair Calder McGregor

     @A_C_McGregor what could go wrong?

   • Alisdair Calder McGregor (a_c_mcgregor@topspicy.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 10:21:32 JST Alisdair Calder McGregor

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     @foone Ahhh, the classic old design of having all the heaviest parts of the PC at the top of a very tall case.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 10:22:48 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Putting a modern gamer-black PSU in a classic AT tower is just wrong.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 10:28:18 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Hmm. Nothing from the motherboard: It doesn't ever init the VGA. I'm gonna need to find my POST card. Hoping it's just one of those units that won't power on without a CMOS battery

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 10:52:30 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     ooh cool, I was able to get the picante CR2032s!

   • P J Evans has moved to mas.to (pj_evans@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 10:55:20 JST P J Evans has moved to mas.to

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     @foone
     How did that fan run? Or did it?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 10:55:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • P J Evans has moved to mas.to

     @PJ_Evans I didn't try running it until I cleaned it, so I don't know. It's possible this machine got retired because it was too dustry

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 11:04:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Darn. No luck with the CR2032s. There's a possibly my VGA display is broken (it's acting weird) but there's no beeps.

     I'll have to pull the other expansion cards in case they're dead, but I'm all dusted-out today

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 12:18:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Mondobizarrro

     @Mondobizarrro yeah.
     AT is "Advanced Technology", and ATX stands for "Advanced Technology Extended"

   • Mondobizarrro (mondobizarrro@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 12:18:47 JST Mondobizarrro

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     @foone is that where the at in atx comes from in cases by any chance?
   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 12:42:52 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     okay I pulled the cards.

     We've got a 3com EtherLink-IIII, a 3C509B-IP.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 12:44:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     And the modem is a Diamond SupraExpress 144i PnP. 14,400bps of blinding speed.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 12:51:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     And our video card is a STB Systems Horizon+ PCI, built around a Cirrus Logic CL-GD5430.

     This is a 2D accelerator with an entire megabyte of VRAM.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 12:55:34 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Good news! yanking the modem/network card (and reseating the VGA card) made it work. Beeps and boots and everything!

     I did run into a minor problem with my portable VGA monitor. uhhhhhh

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 13:09:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     okay I spent a few minutes swearing at the bad menu system on this monitor and it turns out it's broken so that you can't mirror it left or right, it's always mirrored, but the left/right mirroring does turn off if you flip it vertically. So I did, and just rotated the monitor upside down. I guess that works.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 13:46:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I'm trying to dump the drives before I do anything with this machine and one of them has broken DMA. It's really annoying because I can't seem to turn it off, and every time I google it I get results from 2002 saying "the old way doesn't work anymore", which doesn't give me any reason to expect it'll work in 2024

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 13:57:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     there are 900 ways to disable DMA and none of them work

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 14:29:11 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     so the 2gig drive is still failing to work, but I imaged the 500mb drive, and it turns out this thing was running NT4.

     So I was correct! This machine smelled like NT4, and I was proven right.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 14:32:34 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it seems it was running InterMail Post.Office, a mail server for small ISPs

   • Wouter Verhelst (wouter@pleroma.debian.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 15:02:48 JST Wouter Verhelst

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     @foone
     What's in that bottom bay? My mind says 'zip drive' at first, but that doesn't seem right, and it's also missing a lever so it doesn't look like a 5.25" floppy drive... Or am I wrong?
   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 15:03:28 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Wouter Verhelst

     @wouter That's not a bay: that's the handle for the sliding bay door

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 15:42:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     yeah, the other drive was kinda working before, but I couldn't get DMA to turn off, and now it's completely failed.

     ata5.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x2)

     shame.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 15:48:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     from what I did get off, it looks like the removable 2gig drive stored the websites this thing hosted.
     and it was used at some point in 2007

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 17:23:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I did manage to get it starting to scrape the 2gig drive.
     ddrescue has been running for 78 minutes and has saved 716kb.

     So, it'll finish around March 24th

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 06:04:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     left it running overnight and I'm now up to 6.6mb recovered!

     also it slowed down. It's going to finish around July 7th

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 06:43:30 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     hooking up a mastodon bot to post whenever it updates

     currently at 7036k

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 07:42:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Henning Paul DC4HP

     @hennichodernich oh, good find! thanks

   • Henning Paul DC4HP (hennichodernich@radiosocial.de)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 07:42:13 JST Henning Paul DC4HP

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     @foone
     The P90 version costed 4k deutschmarks back in February 1995.
     https://archive.org/details/vobis-denkzettel-1993-05-21/Vobis%20Denkzettel%201995-02-02/page/n1/mode/2up

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 07:45:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Henning Paul DC4HP

     @hennichodernich found an advert for (almost) this exact model!

     https://radiosocial.de/@hennichodernich/112050921975858783

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 07:52:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I paused it to implement some tmux nonsense so I could actually make this bot if I want to, which made it slow down.

     So now it's estimating it'll be done August 15...

     2028

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 08:12:48 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • ♡ Modeus ♡

     @Cyber_cereal_killer I think it just was ran in a dusty/damp area for about 12+ years and never cleaned

   • ♡ Modeus ♡ (cyber_cereal_killer@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 08:12:49 JST ♡ Modeus ♡

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     @foone the fuck happened there

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 07:18:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it has somehow sped up to the point where it thinks it'll finish within the next 2 hours, despite having only copied 2.48% (51mb) of the drive. It's getting an average read rate of 510 bytes a second

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 07:24:52 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I wonder if I could adjust the IDE timeout without having to recompile my kernel

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 07:57:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I made a program to scrape the status from ddrescue, just in time for it to error out and drop the drive from the bus:

     Copied 52400 kB of 2048 mB (2.48%) at an average rate of 501 B/s. ETA: 1h 27m

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 08:13:43 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I was able to do the trick I did before where I repeatedly reset the SCSI host device until it is recognized.

     the problem is that it keeps falling right back off the bus when I try to run ddrescue

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:52:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     sdb: detected capacity change from 2111864832 to 0

     awww, my bytes are gone

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 10:34:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     oops. I accidentally hotplugged the hard drive

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 10:39:18 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Winchell Chung ⚛🚀

     @nyrath I don't think I broke it anymore than it was already broken!

   • Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 (nyrath@spacey.space)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 10:39:19 JST Winchell Chung ⚛🚀

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     @foone

     Did you inadvertently let out the magic smoke?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 10:40:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I dunno why this drive isn't working

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 10:46:43 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Adriano

     @adriano that was there when I found it!

   • Adriano (adriano@lile.cl)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 10:46:44 JST Adriano

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     @foone it probably the sharpie on teh top left

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 10:56:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Red

     @HeyCallMeRed good point, I forgot there are robotgirls (and robot girls) on here

   • Red (heycallmered@transfem.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 10:56:49 JST Red

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     @foone@digipres.club I feel like this should have a "gore" warning

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 11:07:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     ok I'm officially giving up on this drive.

     I was able, in the end, to capture about 54mb of the drive. 2.48%

   • Greg Parker (gparker@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 11:22:32 JST Greg Parker

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     @foone When do you start building a greaseweazle for HDD platters?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 11:22:32 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Greg Parker

     @gparker no joke I was thinking I want one

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 11:23:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • sadmac356

     @sadmac356 it very dead

   • sadmac356 (sadmac356@social.restless.systems)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 11:23:47 JST sadmac356

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     @foone yeah I think it ded, unfortunately

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 11:25:11 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I was able to get info and find out that this machine hosted this website at some point in 2005:

     https://web.archive.org/web/20040325064945/http://www.windowsacademy.net/

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 05:43:00 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     I realized I need a serial mouse to reinstall NT4 onto this machine. but that shouldn't be a problem, right? I've got a whole drawer of old mice, I just need to grab the first serial mouse out of there.

     This was the first one I found.

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 06:07:31 JST vxo

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     @foone is that a Conner? That's kinda just the way they crumble

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 06:09:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I think I'm gonna need to do a motherboard swap on this machine. It'll POST, sure... unless I connect any of the IDE connectors. As soon as I try to have any kind of hard drive, it fails to init VGA and doesn't even beep

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 06:13:38 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • vxo

     @vxo Seagate!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 06:18:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • IAintShootinMis

     @iaintshootinmis YEP

   • IAintShootinMis (iaintshootinmis@digitaldarkage.cc)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 06:18:14 JST IAintShootinMis

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     @foone are the brows the buttons??

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 06:19:59 JST vxo

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     @foone ahhh. I forgot about that series from them.

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 06:22:08 JST vxo

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     @foone my experience with the Conner disks was that they'd work fine then one day start ferociously read retrying over and over until they start dropping off the bus.

   • robryk@qoto.org's status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 06:43:50 JST robryk

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     @foone Huh, I haven't seen biprotocol serial and ps2 mice. Is the pinout of the adapter reasonably standard across them, or specific to a particular manufacturer?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 06:46:21 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I grabbed another computer of about the same era from my car.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 06:54:35 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     She lives!

     Mostly. CMOS battery low... that's not a good sign. I think this one has a dallas clock chip/battery package

   • sen (sen@gnulinux.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 06:59:18 JST sen

     in reply to

     @foone did you find this next to your hamburger telephone?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 06:59:18 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     • sen

     @sen no! I don't have one of those.

     My roommate does, however

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 07:08:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     • Doridian

     @Doridian NOT ALLOWED. not since The Incident.

   • Doridian (doridian@furry.engineer)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 07:09:00 JST Doridian

     in reply to

     @foone Dremel time...

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 07:12:18 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     YEP. That's a DS12887A real time clock + battery module.

     Booooo

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 07:16:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     also not a fan of this stuff. is this mold?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 07:22:43 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     this might be the first time I need to clean a computer case with bleach

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 07:40:03 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     scraping it off and snorting it so that I turn into a retrocomputer fungus zombie

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 07:44:30 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     • dojoe

     @dojoe I'm anosmic, I don't gots any smells

   • dojoe (dojoe@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 07:44:32 JST dojoe

     in reply to

     @foone to get rid of the mercaptan smell i presume

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 07:48:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     this says it's a problem with the metal not being properly anodized, so parts are oxidizing:
     https://aerospacemetalsllc.com/managing-white-spots-on-metal-finishes/

     So it's harmless

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 08:06:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     • Mordoukna

     @Mordoukna Nah, I'm powering it with a modern PSU and an ATX2AT, it'd tell me if the power lines glitched out

   • Mordoukna (mordoukna@osna.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 08:06:29 JST Mordoukna

     in reply to

     @foone perhaps a faulty PSU? Voltage drop due to rotating grate. Just guessing

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 08:12:50 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧
     • dojoe

     @dojoe @whitequark oh, fun! I hadn't seen that.

   • dojoe (dojoe@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 08:12:51 JST dojoe

     in reply to

     • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

     @foone just referring to the CSB report @whitequark posted yesterday, where people used bleach to neutralize mercaptan odorizers and inadvertently turned them into bombs instead.

     (disclaimer: i don't expect nor want your pcs to turn into bombs.)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 09:12:03 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     Yanked all the cards so you can see the motherboard.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 09:18:14 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     VGA card is a PCI card without a name (seems to be a clone of an Acer ALiCAT). It's got an ALi M3147v core, and something like 2-4 mb of ram (can't find the RAM chips on google)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 09:20:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     The network card is an ISA card with no name on it, and the main chip is an FPX FP96C01 .
     Pretty sure this is an NE2000 clone, so a 10/100mbit card.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 09:24:39 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     And the sound card is a CT2960 Creative Sound Blaster 16 Prelude.

     It's a budget card based on the Vibra 16C chip.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 11:38:53 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     • Scott Michaud

     @scottmichaud so many of my old computer parts can be described that way

   • Scott Michaud (scottmichaud@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 11:38:54 JST Scott Michaud

     in reply to

     @foone By today's standards, that's a piece of Pooh.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 11:47:06 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     • media archaeology lab

     @mediaarchaeologylab yeah this isn't even the first one I've got in this room! I think they made a TON of these

   • media archaeology lab (mediaarchaeologylab@post.lurk.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 11:47:07 JST media archaeology lab

     in reply to

     @foone funny - we just accessioned that same card

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 11:50:35 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     OKAY I grabbed another computer, mainly because it was weird when I looked at it, and I want to look closer.
     The front says it's an Alexis Series from NCA Computer Products, and says it's a Pentium II.

     And this is the tall tower by Inwin! The classic IW-Q500, which I didn't realize I had (I thought I only had the smaller ones, the V500 and A500)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 12:41:48 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     ah-ha! I knew it wasn't a fucking Pentium II.

     It's an AMD K6-III "Sharptooth", 450 MHz.
     This is a chip from 1999.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 12:52:10 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     • Chip Warden

     @lgw4 yeah! my first linux server was built on one of these

   • Chip Warden (lgw4@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 12:52:12 JST Chip Warden

     in reply to

     @foone I had one of these. Great price/performance back then.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 13:52:41 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     I got it to boot, but the mouse isn't working properly. I only have vertical movement.

     god damn it I don't want to have to attempt to repair Winnie the Pooh

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 13:56:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     Opened it up.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 13:57:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     I was all "there's your problem, it's bent!" but then I realized this is the vertical movement. aka the only axis that is working!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 14:19:52 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     I gave up and switched to a different serial mouse. This is a Microsoft Serial-PS/2 mouse.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 14:21:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     It's running Windows 98. It's got some dialup network called aristotle.net set up to auto connect, but seems to be mostly cleaned, thankfully. I'm getting kinda tired of finding a ton of personal information on these.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 14:24:30 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     it did have two bookmarks.

     the first one is savebears.org:

     https://savebears.org/

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 14:26:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     oh hey it still has an old version of yahoo.net cached

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 14:27:48 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     and the other link is to a flash game called "Bad Apple" (not that one).
     It apparently is Minesweeper, but for apples.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 14:29:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     It's in flashpoint:

     https://flashpointproject.github.io/flashpoint-database/search/#f5108f38-54b6-1bfc-a804-0a9e0383b980

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 14:34:32 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     the emails also say this machine was set up in 2004, which is a bit late for a windows 98 machine

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 14:34:33 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     and I found a name in the email and confirmed that the former owner of this machine died in 2019 of cancer.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 14:41:17 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     anyway windows can't currently see the floppy drives or the CD-ROM. I'm gonna see if I can fix that so I can install WINNT4

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 14:45:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     It's got an AGP Creative CT6900 (nice) 3D Blaster S3 Savage 4.
     16MB of VRAM, supports DirectX 6 and OpenGL 1.1

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 14:46:35 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     wait

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 14:49:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     So here's the CD-ROM plugged in.

     Do you notice anything slightly odd about the cable that's used to plug it in?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 14:51:00 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     Here's a different angle. you can see from here that this is a SCSI CD-ROM drive, using a 50-pin connector.

     You may notice that the cable plugged into it is slightly smaller.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 14:52:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     This also explains another problem this machine is having which I encountered earlier where the floppy disk drive(s) aren't working.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 14:54:04 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     THEY PLUGGED THE FLOPPY DISK CABLE INTO THE SCSI CD-ROM DRIVE

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 15:01:11 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     I'm gonna have to bend these cables back if I want to plug the SCSI cable back in

   • Misty (misty@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 15:22:31 JST Misty

     in reply to

     @foone I love that this still *looks* like it’s from 2000.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 15:25:18 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     CD-ROM works, but I think the top floppy drive has failed. possibly plugging it through the CD-ROM fried something.

     The bottom floppy drive is 720k, so I can't really boot my NT4 bootdisks from it

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 15:27:29 JST vxo

     in reply to

     @foone suboptimal.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 15:30:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     I'M IN

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 15:33:37 JST vxo

     in reply to

     @foone YES!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 15:43:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     damn it. I can't get disk 2 to read. Maybe my spare drive is bad?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 15:50:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     NEVERMIND I'M IN

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 15:53:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     • Jens Finkhäuser

     @jens given the "Pentium II inside" and the weird mix of technologies in this, I suspect this was a hand-me-down someone put together out of spare parts

   • Jens Finkhäuser (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 15:53:10 JST Jens Finkhäuser

     in reply to

     @foone It was kinda difficult getting 720k drives around that era. Someone put effort into this.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 15:54:50 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     fuck. The drive is indeed dead. it stopped spinning when I tried to put in disk 3, which has the SCSI drivers

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 16:11:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     I HAVE THE SCSI!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 16:22:10 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     formatting the drive. It wouldn't let me use the full nine gigabytes, so I had to format it as a 2048mb partition.

     weird.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 16:30:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     • LaF0rge

     @LaF0rge ISA card

   • LaF0rge (laf0rge@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 16:30:22 JST LaF0rge

     in reply to

     @foone what kind of modem form-factor is this? I couldn't recognize it from the picture. - ah nevermind you just did a photo of parts of the isa slot bracket, not the modem itself

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 16:43:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     WHOOO! WINDOWS NT 4.0 INSTALLED

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 16:47:47 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     • Pyksy

     @pyksy good point, it's probably 10mbit only

   • Pyksy (pyksy@mastodontti.fi)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 16:47:49 JST Pyksy

     in reply to

     @foone
     Are you sure? I think it's almost certainly 10Mbit only, due to it being a NE2k ISA card with a BNC connector.

     AFAIK the ISA bus doesn't have the bandwidth to handle 100Mbit ethernet (and please correct me if I'm wrong).

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 16:49:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     and I'm booted!

     tomorrow figure out drivers and get this thing above 16colors/640x480. That'll probably mean swapping the video card.
     I might also see if I can get it on the network, I didn't try setting up the network card yet.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 16:53:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     oh yeah and I need to upgrade it. I think I'm on SP1, I need to upgrade to SP6 for reasons

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 21:04:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     • Misty

     @misty it was a good year for websites.