Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Who is General Failure, why is he reading drive A, & why does the question not make sense?

eBay recommendations are weird. It recommended absolutely nothing Amiga for my A500 2MB RAM upgrade, but it recommended a whole bunch of Amiga stuff for my Timex Sinclair 1000 16KB RAM upgrade. It even recommended I buy a $8,000 SGI system because I bought an MS-DOS guide.

Cursed image? Blessed image?

Spell check & grammar check can't catch every error journalists make.

Well, that's a new one... I left it alone for a while, then when I went back, it was doing this weird coloring thing. I started a game then took a photo:

I should look at the RF modulator in the nicer-looking one next.

But for the desperately modded one... Woohoo!

After so much Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers, & who remembers what else, when I think of starships, I still think of these real-world proposals shown in Carl Sagan's Cosmos.

Okay, I think I just found the kind of pajamas I want for xmas. Does anyone know who sells these? https://www.deviantart.com/blackshirtboy/art/Easter-kigu-599268194

Please insert the disk labeled

Windows XP Professional CD-ROM

into Drive A:

* Press ENTER when ready.

Imagine being so unscrupulous a marketeer that a complaint letter about you survives for nearly 4,000 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir

If you asked me when I was a kid what repairing computers would entail, scrubbing cases with Lava knock-off in order to install replacement keyboards would never have come to mind.

I'm cleaning the other, amazingly-hacked ZX-81 I got on eBay.

It works! I should probably remove the RF modulator cover & see if that can be cleaned up, but it works.

The test keypresses were: P {Shift-P} 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Q W E R T Y U I O P A S D F G H J K L {Space} {period} M N B V C X Z {Enter (now New Line)}

I also had a kaleidoscope program in a .wav file ready for testing. Android won't let you keep the headphone jack volume at "Marty McFly," but the Sinclair can't hear anything softer.

That looks about as good as I can get it.

A nearly clean surface & a toothbrush rendered filthy from scrubbing it. That's looking nice. :3 The surface where I'm scrubbing hard is getting scuffed up, but that's actually a good thing; the new keyboard's adhesive should grab better.

You can see my progress in the left corner. I got about 3x as much off in a few minutes with pumice soap than I did in several hours with Magic Eraser.

I'm serious about their scraping response.

"As a result she is very limited with the data returned since creator/work information is generally missing or hard to identify, therefore is not reliable and risky/problematic to share without manual control."
LOG
THE
PAGES
YOU
SCRAPED
FROM!

If nothing else, cite THAT with each image! It's not that hard. I follow a dozen bots meeting that bare minimum.

But Archillect seems intent on robbing attribution for cashable fame.

Ban it.

someone brought archillect here.

it's a bot whose owner can't be arsed to make it source so much as the art/photo theft blog it scrapes from, & the quarter-assed "solution" they endorse is a reply bot that gets sources wrong so often i've never seen it get one right.

archillect's popularity & eternally dickheaded response to scraping, which the bot's owners will monetize if they haven't started already, is why i committed to boosting only sourcing image bots.

A bulging CR-2032 button battery. That's a first for me.

Yes, it was supposed to be a BR-2325 button battery instead, but the previous owner either didn't know or didn't care. I found out while removing a MicroBiotics M501-s RAM & Clock Expansion out of my Amiga 500.

Welcome to IBM PC-XT (5160) Cassette Basic in ROM, required for the earliest PC-DOS BasicA even though the cassette port & header pad both ceased to exist after the 5150.

The most reliable computer I have today: