I have 3 computers capable of burning CDs:
1. A Broken Pentium III Dell that goes through power supplies like water filters.
2. A Powermac G4 that currently cant recognize it's hard drive
3. A Thinkpad T430 that despite everything I put it through, it always turns on and does it's thing as long as it has an SSD.
Guess which one I almost always have to rely on to burn a CD?
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?
What's also hilarious is that while most of my time using old computers is on Windows, I have many more Apple computers that are just sitting around gathering dust.
I'll probably sell most of the apples when I move, but the question is: which ones?
I just had a "fun" realization that despite collecting old computers, I hate all the companies who made them.
I guess what I'm into is what they brought to society. I'm interested in all the contributions people made to the world of computers. The fun we had on them. The usefulness they still potentially have. The long nights programmers spent writing code for to make a program that people used for a little while, then sadly discarded.
That is why I hunt for old programs.
Are there any online mail services that still support windows 98 era mail clients? #retrocomputing
NEW: Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to internal documentation we've reviewed
https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/
@internetarchive @mmasnick It seems that #Amazon universally turned off its "Look Inside the Book" feature at about the same time that Internet Archive reached a preliminary settlement in the case to widely restrict content access to books.
Are these two events somehow related?
As I understand it, Amazon's limited preview feature was always done in agreement with publishers.
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
34 she/her.