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xyar
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join:2001-06-21
Portland, OR
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Re: Heresy!
Whoah, I remember trying to look at porn on a Hercules monitor, then finally I got EGA and it was like "whoah" then I saw VGA for the first time - 640x480x256 I think with 256K RAM on an 8-bit ISA card - downloading stuff in the middle of the night with my trust Practical Peripherals 2400 baud modem with scheduled downloads to max out my daily file/Kbyte limit. Then my 20 MB MFM hard drive would fill up and I'd delete a bunch of stuff then do it all over. Ahh, to be a teenager again. oh but when 16-bit color came out, holy shit!!
Don't know if Mom ever knew what those squeeling sounds were on the phone when she picked up.... ("mom, hang up the phone!!!!!") | |
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| said by xyar  :Whoah, I remember trying to look at porn on a Hercules monitor, then finally I got EGA and it was like "whoah" then I saw VGA for the first time - 640x480x256 I think with 256K RAM on an 8-bit ISA card - downloading stuff in the middle of the night with my trust Practical Peripherals 2400 baud modem with scheduled downloads to max out my daily file/Kbyte limit. Then my 20 MB MFM hard drive would fill up and I'd delete a bunch of stuff then do it all over. Ahh, to be a teenager again. oh but when 16-bit color came out, holy shit!! Don't know if Mom ever knew what those squealing sounds were on the phone when she picked up.... ("Mom, hang up the phone!!!!!") So Your Mom did that too? I'd tell Her I'm on the phone and She'd not connect the noise and Me, Boy was she dumb as She'd do It from time to time thinking She could call somebody, Explaining a computer download to Her would have been waste of time and yep I'd thought about It too, Her idea of the phones use was for the phone only to be used for talking by voice and nothing else, So why bother trying to educate Her. She would today object to Me using a Dishwasher to clean a heatsink of dust and dirt, Of course I pre-clean the heatsink of any heatsink compound including Arctic Silver as I don't want that stuff in the dishwasher at all, Of course the heatsink was in the upper rack and the dishwasher was set on Normal with both soap dishes filled, It came out warm, steamy, wet and most importantly nice and Shiny Clean of any swamp cooler deposited crud(crud=moisture+dust) that normal cleaning would not touch, The Vigor Monsoon II heatsink and fan shroud had to separated so that both would come clean, But It was easy to do, Of course the fan had to go in the wash too(hardwired), the fan looks fine afterwards and is dry now, This Tuesday I'll install It after removing the old one and the motherboard, The Ultra ChillTEC that I have(in another PC) will not require this extreme removal step of course just to install a clean heatsink and I may get another one or two in the future.
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xyar
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