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Turbo Pascal was lots of fun with this machine, Windows 3.10 riding on DOS 6.22. 4 Mb RAM -> 8 Mb, 40 Mb HDD (Computer Shopper upgraded to 350 Mb later)

When I upgraded I gave it to my parents, and went back to retrieve it years later only to discover they had sent it to the landfill . . .

https://www.recycledgoods.com/...

I think you meant this mouse:
http://www.recycledgoods.com/l...

Everything old is new again: http://www.recycledgoods.com/h...

Part number 063-0009-001 from SGI. Mine has been in constant use for at least 14 years, and still works fine. It also has a good curve to it to fit your palm:
http://www.recycledgoods.com/s...
or
http://www.sgisun.com/sgi_octa...
or
http://www.mashek.com/SGIparts...

Try this:

Trident 89-1627-1 ISA Video Card

http://www.recycledgoods.com/images/41998_1.jpg

That would require a docking station, which in turn would require a power source, defeating the purpose of a laptop. It'd also require a monitor.


Also, that's no Tseng ET4000.

Try this:

Trident 89-1627-1 ISA Video Card

http://www.recycledgoods.com/images/41998_1.jpg

Really?

This is the power supply for a Vectra. This particular one is 100W, and by the date I'd guess it was for a 486. Most of the ones I had were 120W, manufactured in 1996, and ran Pentiums.

Note the odd shape? That little slanted area on the bottom of it is where the fan is. It blew onto the processor's heat sink. Here is another picture, where you can see that fan.

Here is a picture of a 486 Vectra's processor. The Pentium models were very similar, and had no dedicated processor fan.

You don't know what you're talking about, and my guess is that you were in diapers when these machines were made. Go back to your tinker toys, little AC - the adults are talking.

Really?

This is the power supply for a Vectra. This particular one is 100W, and by the date I'd guess it was for a 486. Most of the ones I had were 120W, manufactured in 1996, and ran Pentiums.

Note the odd shape? That little slanted area on the bottom of it is where the fan is. It blew onto the processor's heat sink. Here is another picture, where you can see that fan.

Here is a picture of a 486 Vectra's processor. The Pentium models were very similar, and had no dedicated processor fan.

You don't know what you're talking about, and my guess is that you were in diapers when these machines were made. Go back to your tinker toys, little AC - the adults are talking.

Am I ever going to see an article on slashdot that I didn't see the day before on reddit?

Why do I keep coming to slashdot to read yesterday's news as if it's today's?

Sure, this'll get modded down, but seriously... slashdot is becoming the news equivalent of one of these.

For that you need a math coprocessor.

The old IBM XTs had a big red toggle switch. It was a beefy mofo in a recessed housing. Check it out! You couldn't accidentally toggle that thing off.

Rocker switches, on the other hand, can much more easily get bumped between "on" and "off" while futzing around with cabling, especially under a cramped desk.

I use an old microsoft (gasp!) trackball that rolls off the tongue with a model number x05-87475. I use it because of the very high tracking speed on the trackball. Everything else I've bought since then would choke if I flitted the ball too fast. They either stop tracking at all until the ball slows down (or gets epilepsy) or they track backwards.

It's a big beaste too. But you have very little choice if you want a "right thumb" ball instead of a center ball. I'm amazed no one has made anything like it since then. While I've been looking, I keep running into gamers using this exact same model of trackball mouse for gaming, for exactly the same reason, all of them looking for anything like it. It's apparently the only high speed trackball to ever hit the market.

All these "laser mice" we read about, I tried one, and besides fleecing my wallet, it didn't help. I can't get used to moving the whole mouse, I'm used to just moving the ball. And I don't understand how you can do things like circlestraffe with a mouse since you quickly run out of desk space? I may yet get ambitious enough to take power tools to my pricey laser mouse gathering dust and see if I can turn it into a trackball.

Only the old-timers will remember the days when we used spooky coloured one-character-at-a-time terminals,

No, old timers remember ECL logic card computers driving a Mod 28.
http://railroad-signaling.com/tty/tty.html

Were were really impressed when our first dot matrix KSR showed up, the DEC KSR Keyboard Send Recieve unit arrived.
http://www.recycledgoods.com/item/15910.aspx

A few years later, we got our first screen display.

Yeah, me too... I liked the cool factor of those handset-cradles, though! Where is it, where is it...? Ah, here it is!

Hell of an upgrade when I went to the Avatex 2400 (could only find the 1200 BAUD model of this design in a good pic), though. I just about wet myself at how FAST the BBSes flew by!

Once upon a time, some fast-talking sharp convinced some poor slob at NEC that Packard Bell was a good aquisition because of the brand recognition, not mentioning that people recognized the Packard Bell brand as synonymous with "sucks."

I did tech support for Packard Bell NEC for about a year, and in one quarter NEC poured $450 million into the sink hole, so I would guess that the total loss was substantially over a billion. I'm not sure if this counts as a "Gigalapse" becuase I don't know how much of what NEC wanted had to do with the internet.

You may notice that Packard Bell no longer exists in the US. There're a few good reasons for this, one of which may be the "pizza tower" case (the motherboard is horizontal, with a riser card). Another reason is probably that PB put used parts in computers which they subsequently labeled "new."