Caz @caz@computerfairi.es

Testing mastodon resolution

testing again

My main testing rig gave up the ghost. I ordered a replacement motherboard and this past week or so I've been troublehsooting the silly thing, as it kept freezing on me.I finally figured out that it was a setting I selected when installing chipset drivers. No turbo mode for me I guess.

Journey to replace my broken 98 rig (part 2/?): More troubles. My USB keyboard works in bios settings, but stops working when my cdrom boots up an installer. However if I use a live installer like KollibreOS the keyboard works again once it fully boots into the operating system. Unfortunately my only ps/2 keyboard is dead, and I can't find any USB compatibility mode settings in the bios.

Journey to replace my broken 98 rig (part 1/?):
My new motherboard came in the mail. By some bizarre fuck up, the label for power switch was labeled completely wrong in the motherboard, but somehow right in the manual. At least it powers on now!

Sometimes when you test software on a virtual machine, you don't touch it for a while and forget what you installed. What the fuck am I looking at?

I really hope someday we can have a #microsoftober where we celebrate Microsoft's operating system from hell: Classic Windows.
Not only do we do cool stuff with our windows installs, but we make Halloween "Windows Plus!" Themes and change our bluescreens into Halloween colors. #retrocomputing

Hey #retrocomputing did anyone ever make a converter for the proprietary PSU slots on those old 90s dell motherboards?

When trying to save an old program called pgpfone, I clicked an unassuming link and was sent to an "interrogation" page. I wonder how paranoid the government spooks were about this program back in the mid 90's? #retrocomputing
https://web.mit.edu/network/pgpfone/pgpfone-form.html

The weirdest thing I've done since becoming a software archivist is go back to using dogpile.com. In this case I was trying to find a newer version of Simona Planner. Google couldn't find anything but usenet postings. Mamont couldn't find anything. But Dogpile delivered. #retrocomputing