Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I came across & re-read a computer magazine from January 1998. An average laptop cost $3,000-$5,000, an average decent desktop cost $2,000-$3,500, and a barebones desktop without even a hard drive might've been had for $1,000 if you shopped around a lot. I remember eventually buying a Compaq Presario 1690 later that year (or early '99) for $4,000. It's amazing how much prices have changed in the 20 years since, even without adjusting for inflation.
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I'm saving LB for the next time a customer asks me why the Internet crashed.

One of the most amazingly useless things I recently learned is how to do subtraction, multiplication, and division on actual late-19th/early-20th Century adding machines. True adding machines, mind you, the kind that don't have any subtraction or other arithmetic functions built in.

Adding picture captions in Tusky is a little less obvious than on your instance website but still easy. After picking the picture, tap on it & choose "Set caption."

Add captions for the sake of the fully sighted as well, not just the partially or fully impaired. It saves you from "what am I looking at" questions whose answers may be obvious only to you.

But I now have a hardware reference for a DIY keyboard, not just a PDF scan.

The keyboard ribbon has breaks going too close to the keyboard itself, so it's looking like I'll have to hit up sellmyretro after all.

Home taping is killing software industry profits!

We left this side blank so you can help

Encountered while reading computer program cassette inserts:
"YOU ARE ADVISED TO COPY THIS TAPE ONTO SEPARATE TAPES, RETAINING THIS COPY AS A MASTER SECURITY IN CASE OF ACCIDENT."

It was a different time and a different culture. #DontCopyThatFloppy

*electric adding machine noises*

This both complicates things and explains why so few keys worked. Both ribbons were almost completely separated at the connector, & the bits still clinging on snapped right off while carefully lifting the board out. Bits of keyboard are still in both connectors.