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ROLDX02B.ICO - Data, File

...Card files, Filing Cabinets, Roladex

Owning a 3D printer in the vintage computing hobby is absolutely life changing. You go from being surrounded by a massive disorganized pile of old machines, to being surrounded by a massive disorganize pile of old machines, but none of them are missing port covers anymore.

how do you get started in kink/bdsm spaces if you don't know anybody? it seems like everybody publicly visible about kink is years-old established in it and there's no welcoming space for newbies who don't have the right connections. who do you go to if you need the hand-holding?

I am so fucking tired of everyone and their mother deciding that reinventing pure and simple HTML in fucking supercomputer-needing slow as script JavaShit is somehow the better future of the World Wide Web.

YOUR WEBSITE IS NOT THE ONLY APPLICATION I NEED TO RUN AT A SINGLE TIME! YOUR WEBSITE SHOULDN'T EVEN **BE** A FUCKING APPLICATION JUST TO SHOW SIMPLE TEXT, YOU TECHBRO-ADMIRING DUMBASSES!

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i think the one rare retro computer we have the least information about (at least widely available and easily digestible) has got to be the pixar image computer. i have no idea what they even look like working. all we know about them is how it's a big cube and steve jobs was involved somewhat

am i a clout chaser or just attention starved: a guide to your life on social media

i don't think every single website in the world needs to have https

i don't want to compile my own software. i don't subscribe to that glorious ideal of churning my own butter with computer. i like store bought

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i'm a bit sad that to make my website load on win98 ie5/6 i need to manually recompile not only nginx but first openssl

can't they just put binaries with weak ciphers enabled behind a waiver or something

"oo but what about the effort of maintaining extra packages" bitch if i complain about running out of space 10 reply guys flood me telling me how cheap SSDs are today, i think they can deal

am i a clout chaser or just attention starved: a guide to your life on social media

I found a hidden name in the Intel 8088 processor. The 8088 was a derivative of the 8086 processor introduced in 1979 and best known as the processor in the IBM PC. I dissolved the chip's metal layer and found "רפי", the name in Hebrew of Rafi Retter, the chip's engineer.

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