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1. AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 02:47:09 JST AmigaLove

   How fast does your modern desktop/laptop boot?

   Let’s race. Mine is from 1990, 34 years ago. Go!

   #amiga #retrocomputing #90s

   • AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 03:53:33 JST AmigaLove

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     • andy diller

     @dillera 2 SCSI2SD cards off the internal SCSI with microSD. The boot card is a lowly 512MB. The 2nd card has a 2GB microSD (I don't bling out the data side of things like a lot of people because I rarely need SO much space).

     It also has way more RAM than makes sense, over a .5GB, and even a ridiculous RTG graphics card with HDMI out. If I'd had my SCSI CD-ROM turned on the bootup would've been slightly faster as I wouldn't have gotten the error.

     And a 50Mhz 060 😎

     It's nuts. But fun!

   • andy diller (dillera@social.vcfed.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 03:53:34 JST andy diller

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     @amigalove spinning hd or flash?

   • AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 04:00:36 JST AmigaLove

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     • andy diller

     @dillera In fact, this machine boots so fast that when I got the video card in 2020 I had to put a statement in the startup sequence to wait an additional second or 2 because the video card couldn't initialize fast enough for the machine before the machine tried to hit it. After making it Wait, the card had time to "wake up". But it's still pretty quick. The extra couple of seconds gives me a razor crisp 1280x1024.

   • AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 03:15:01 JST AmigaLove

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     • andy diller

     @dillera I LOVE that setup. Reminds me of the Mac I used in highschool in the late 80s for making our school paper. We had 2: "Mother" like the computer from Alien, and another that was mainly for typing up our stories. They were networked. And Mother had a hard drive like the one you have in the video. IIRC it was a staggering 20MB. I was a C64 kid at the time and told myself the games were 100x better on my rig. But I knew the Mac was the future for professional getting work done.

   • andy diller (dillera@social.vcfed.org)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 03:15:02 JST andy diller

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     @amigalove How fast was that? Here my Mac booting in about 16 seconds:

     https://vimeo.com/921234424

     That is fast!

   • AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 03:49:50 JST AmigaLove

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     • andy diller

     @dillera Also, I timed it. Mine takes about 23 seconds to boot, and 30 total for the desktop image to appear. So I think your blinged out SE30 wins by about 7 seconds. However, my challenge was to modern computers. 😎

     Don't make me go flick the power button on my C64! LOL