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The T20 needs a new CMOS battery (doable) and a new regular battery (less doable). Installing WinME without ACPI (setup /p i) apparently ends up being the single most stable Windows ME or even 9x in general install I've ever had. I was able to kill and gracefully restart from Explorer locking up...

So for the 486 that's mostly true; early 486SXes were DXes that failed QA testing on the FPU. They just had that portion lasered off and were sold as lacking an FPU. They'd later develop a FPU-less core to meet demand. The "487" really is just a 486DX with an extra key pin, 169 pin PGA vs 168...

I used to optimize my conventional memory by hand for fun. These days I'm lazy and just have a config menu where one option loads EMM386 and just stuffs everything in UMBs leaving me with 620K free conventional... and a conventional-only config with, like, no drivers loaded that sits at 591 I...

My IBM Blue Lightning dates from about 1994 or thereabouts. I've had one older board (GA-486VM) that was from late 1992 by the date codes. My Pentium MMX build is recent, but the heart of it is a Biostar 430TX board from the first third of 1997. Of my known-working laptops I have a Toshiba...

Could not have been a more direct hit if it tried. Lot of trees down and FPL only just got us power back today. Cell service was out for everyone on Verizon for most of a day, from the storm hitting on Friday night through to Saturday night. My work phone is AT&T. We've got a couple clients...

The ViRGE is notoriously slower than software rendering, but the Savage is merely "normally" slow in the way that most single-pipe single-TMU designs just... are. Anything using multitexturing tanks the framerate, you're pretty much capped at 640x480 if you want a playable framerate, etc etc...

I've decided the T20 will run Windows ME dual-booted with NetBSD i386 latest. If I'm gonna make a stupid waste of my time, I'm going to make THE stupid waste of my time. ME should be a supported platform for this, and there is some logic to it: - The sound is horrible in DOS, so I don't need to...

Momentum. It's still there because momentum. People don't really change thought patterns, it's why Microsoft is still so dominant in the first place. Your first option a normal person will think of when wanting an alternative is going to be a Mac or an iPad with a keyboard case, and the first...

The T23 wasn't available until mid-2001, and its max was 1GB. (The T20 through T22 had a max of 512MB.) 1GB or even 512MB was still gobs and heaps and tons of RAM in 2000-2001, so you very likely still had plenty of headroom with that. I would have killed for any kind of portable computing...

Considering the limited video chip and the fact that the fastest chip I'm likely to be able to run is a 1.0GHz (anything faster is a Tualatin and not directly compatible), I'm not too fussed. For what I'm going to do with it, 700MHz is plenty, given the rest of the hardware kneecapping it. I...

Friend of mine is ditching a ton of his e-waste, so now it gets to be my e-waste. At least his more or less works, and what may or may not will at least be useful for parts, unlike a lot of the junk that litters my home office that I haven't gotten around yet to recycling. Laptops. I'm getting...

In retro build news, my Pentium MMX is finally stable. Biostar MB-8500TTD paired with the custom J.3 patch to fix several bugs with the IDE controller -- and an EEPROM with an actually writable config memory portion -- has this thing rock solid, even at a 75MHz bus. 83 can boot into Windows and...

Sure starting to wish I had the hybrid. 😅

As much as I view AI as a copyright infringement machine, I do have Claude Pro (at least for the rest of the month, unsure if I'll renew) and I have used it for automating some stuff like writing out SQL to make new items on a batch basis (when I need lots of a similar thing, I'll make the first...

I used to use mRemoteNG for that, and it's a native Windows application. I'm not actually sure if that's still developed. On Linux I tend to gravitate toward Remmina -- it's maybe a little less fancy, but it works fine. It's good that something exists that's cross-platform and runs in a browser...