Vladimir Mišev
@vmisev
Tinkerer;
FreeBSD / Unix aficionado; OpenVMS hobbyist;
"Tape loading error" survivor;
Dog ally; Printer whisperer;
MS (G35)
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08-04-2009 11:13:39
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 You're plugging them into IDE on a motherboard? External IDE adapters are generally useless; I had to build my own. The drives themselves are pretty bulletproof. Here's mine:
L Break Into Program Ahhh yesss, the mythical herpes. 🤦🏻♂️ Back in my day, that kind of ignorance would get one humiliated in front of the entire class or crowd, not to mention there were often "how can you be so stupid!?!" beatings afterwards as a bonus. It was very effective for most people...
Liam Proven When talking about 8bit in the East: here in Serbia, for the reasons unknown to this day, some folks in EI Niš (electronic giant, they made Honeywell-Bull) decided to badly clone Comx-35 and made Pecom, RCA CDP 1802 CPU based machine🤦♂️
Liam Proven BTW, first European-made pocket-size calculator, the DB 800, was manufactured in May 1971 by Digitron in Buje .hr, ex-Yu, using TI TMS1802 even before chip was officially introduced in the US? Interesting story, maybe worth digging & writing about?