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I definitely do not miss the late '90s rigs I had, even though they were bad *** at the time. 1.5KW power supply constantly blowing hot air, whine from 6 10K drives on raid 5, SLI 3D cards and passthrough cables, OC'ing and huge *** fans, more noise. Crappy SMP support on OSs scraping and reapplying thermal paste. Memory speed settings, pulling cache chips. Cutting your hands on sheet metal cases. Nah
Would take today's modern hardware over any of that. Solid state and low power, fanless and quiet, powerful and inexpensive. Emulate everything I need. Which is why I still have a 1MB Mac Plus. Ripped it's ROM years ago to run emulation of OS9 on my current systems. But, that old sucker still boots and runs. |
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I keep an old HP 4x USB CDRW around for writing Audio CDs when necessary in 1 or 2x mode for just this reason. Some older CD players don't like the skew on high speed written discs.
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I used to just slow down the write speed to avoid that.
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I have a Toshiba Core2Duo laptop still chugging along... probably on its fourth hard drive, now SSD. Also have a Toshiba laptop right here running XP PRO that's a Pentium4 2.8 GHZ with "704 MB" of ram... that's probably not retro but I am using it.
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I miss the old game
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Hahah, nice. I forgot about that one. I remember a Cyrix and a Pentium computer connected via serial cable to play Duke Nukem in my apartment when I worked in San Diego. Also, racking up DWANGO fees before KALI.
Last edited by crufflers; 02-22-2019 at 10:12 AM.. |
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I forgot when, but sometime after 8x writers were introduced, most vendors stopped supporting CLV write speeds and went to CAV writing that varied linear speed depending on where on the disc the laser was. There wasn't anything technically stopping vendors from supporting both, but the majority were cheap and dropped CLV write-modes. Hence hanging on to the old hardware.
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Part of the issue was it was physically impossible to write above 16-20x in CLV mode due to the velocity of the media when the laser was on the interior tracks. The CD would grenade from centrifugal forces that overcame the media's limit for failure. So, to make write speeds faster, they made the disc run at a constant velocity. That meant that the linear speed was variable and the ECC coding was sometimes omitted or improperly written due to reduced dwell time. It's this reason that audio players skipped.
Different audio CD mechanisms had different tolerances, but ones from the late '80s couldn't do anything more than 2x per Philips original spec. So if you had a high-end player from that era, as I used to, 2x was the max and the CAV drives couldn't make a clean enough disc for that generation of player. Last edited by Robotron2k84; 02-22-2019 at 1:18 PM.. |
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I know some people advise selecting to lowest possible speed to burn audio cd's but I never did. It takes a lot longer to burn at the slowest speed... I think the fastest speed to burn one (50-74 min audio) that would not skip was a couple minutes. Last edited by crufflers; 02-22-2019 at 1:32 PM.. |
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Using a USB printer with a DOS computer parallel port
I have a DOS computer that I still use. It was hooked up to a printer with a parallel port. The printer died. Is there an adapter I can use to hook a USB printer to the computer's parallel port so I can continue to use the DOS program?
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What's the DOS program and printer support? You might have better luck with a older laserjet that has a parallel port. You can get one relatively cheap from https://www.greatprinterdeals.com/ or similar dealer. Something like a 4050 or 4100, etc.. $100+
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I still have sitting up in my attic a gaming machine I built somewhere around the year 2000. Complete with the cut out window in the side, lights on the inside, fan controllers, and everything else. I know it’s not even worth its weight in recycled metal but I can’t bring myself to get rid of it due to how much money I dumped into it when I built it.
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