Looking for Toshiba L50utils.exe - laptop pcmcia drivers for Windows 95. It is long gone from the Toshiba website. Anybody with a floppy with this on or know where to find a copy?
If you ever saw a pixel-perfect screenshot from a virtual machine running MS-DOS in the default VGA text mode, you probably noticed that it looks slightly off.
The characters are too wide, and the whole image seems stretched.
But did you know that what you’re seeing is a perfect representation of the actual image, while your monitor from 1995 was deceiving you? Let’s have a closer look.
One could imagine even a fork of NetSurf with this only intent. Just rename it as SmolWeb browser + add an option to show just all the crap that was ignored. With a percentage of data used for actual content. “Site is 76% crap”.
Then you can imagine an opt-in search engine where owner enables indexation by having some smallweb tag in the code and submitting link to a form so the crawler can get a look and eventually refuse / abort at the first JavaScript tag.
He encontrado en una caja mis archivadores con diskettes antiguos, cuando aún el CD-ROM no era algo al alcance de todos y para conseguir software o juegos los teniamos que copiar de unos a otros en discos de 1.44Mb...
Era una época en mi vida de ir a la escuela, jugar y coleccionar tazos, suspender conocimiento del medio, hacer el gamberro y a usar el comando DISKCOPY...
@omgubuntu
>Model M remake
>MX style switches
>completely different chasis
>not even curved
>no mention of
So it's a regular-ass mechanical keyboard. Why the fuck would anyone care? Unicomp has actual clones approaching 1:1 copy status.
Alltough from what I'm seeing it's less of a Model M remake and more of a Model M skin for an existing product.
@nosville22 Eeeh, yeah, 'remake' probably wasn't the best choice of word for the share lede on my part (I did share like ~2AM my time so I was running on fumes a little). I should've said 'reimagined' or 'homage' (which is what the article uses).
The keys do have a slight curve like the OG, despite the lack of buckling spring. No inset curve in the chassis is a missed opportunity but they're re-using/sharing parts between all their 'retro inspired'' keyboards so perhaps understandable.
Do you remember those screens displayed after POSTing and before booting OS? I don't remember seeing one on any semi-recent box I own(ed) or use(d)... Damn, I miss them. #retrocomputing#pc#x86
A nerd nostalgia thread of possible #RetroComputing interest:
From 1993-1994, I was a “technical assistant” in the RF Engineering department of #Comcast#Cellular. Back then, Comcast was a scrappy regional cable #TV operator making its first foray into #mobile telephony, not the multinational #telecommunications and media behemoth we know today. (1/6)
Anyway, I did what any underpaid college dropout would do:
• ask #IT for a few extra PCs on the LAN
• distribute the #cellular tower data across #Microsoft#Excel workbooks, one per machine
• write some glue macros to exchange data (probably using Network #DDE or #OLEAutomation)
• babysit the PCs as they inevitably crashed every few hours due to #Windows' flaky cooperative multitasking and its #NetBIOS Frames (then called #NetBEUI) networking protocol (6/6)
¿Te gustan los juegos de espada y brujería? ¿Te atreves a explorar el Castillo sin nombre y enfrentarte a sus peligros? Entonces no te pierdas Nonamed, el clásico de Dinamic Software que te hará vivir una aventura épica. ¡Consíguelo para #ZXSpectrum#MSX o #AmstradCPC 👍🏻🕹️😃#Nonamed#Dinamic#Retrogaming
FYI, if you are taking apart a Dynalogic Hyperion, there are only six screws to worry about: two flathead captive in the handle, two Phillips on the bottom, and these sneaky Phils on the bottom-side that are SUPER easy to miss.
Don't bother trying to remove the hard-to-reach ones. #retrocomputing
I should point out that I had a licensed copy of #Zmodem from #OmenTechnologies on 5.25 floppy that floated around for years. I think I eventually gave it to someone on #SDF