Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@Sir_Boops Someone basically asked: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_install/install-windows-10-from-floppy-drive/8ae9d380-5b89-41c0-8f95-8ced7e283d9b

Also:

@quephird@mastodon.social Hi, I just want to say that your display name is awesome. :3

I need to find a way to put a fairy-wand star & bow on the end of my repair kit's socketed screwdriver handle.

I can now add a 21st Century WinCE-powered machine (that does make me wince) to the list of computers my fix-it computer fairy wand has magically restored.

@Saxxon I'm kicking myself for not thinking of it first.

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.

My bank can give me instructions to upgrade my credit card machine in a phone call or via text message. They can't send instructions to me in email, & they don't have a Web page with instructions.

What century is it?

What I mean by the volume set at "Marty McFly": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-njcAia6nY

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.

@troubleMoney Mostly the same, thanks to Navy training with sound-powered phones. I was taught to say "silence on the line" for the first example, and to spell a dash as "tack" (same as the sailing maneuver term).