Grabthar
@Grabthar@lemmy.world
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 week ago:
Cool, I’ve wanted an OS ROM chip since the early nineties, and often wondered why nobody seemed to be doing it. Guess they were all along!
You technically didn’t have to park the old MFM and RLL drives, but if you didn’t, then you just had the drive heads resting on the platters after you shut them down. Then if you bumped or moved the PC at that time, it could scratch the disk like a record. If you never tried to move it, there probably wasn’t much risk.
From the sound of it, the HDD in your Tandy probably would have been an MFM or RLL drive, and depending on the drive model, it either autoparked the drive heads or didn’t. As a PC clone running MS-DOS, the command was probably supported, but maybe not needed. Or you may have just been the equivalent of one of those rebels who held down the power button every time they wanted to shut down the PC and always got away with it!
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 week ago:
This taught me many lessons in life, but the one I carry in my heart to this day is piracy.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 week ago:
Yeah, old drives didn’t autopark like the IDE drive in your spiffy 486. I had an XT growing up, and dad was militant about having us remember to park the drive when we were done with it. I think by the end of the 80s, all drives were IDE and were autoparking, so the command was deprecated.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 week ago:
The one I remember best was having to use the DOS ‘park’ command before you shut down the PC. I guess I am that old.
- Comment on I knew it 2 weeks ago:
Gotta have room to fly downstairs to the kitchen for that late night glass of water.
- Comment on Based 4 weeks ago:
Wikipedia says she has dark-coloured skin due to a tan, and she goes by Hayacchi, so it’s probably the colour they are referring to.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I did three days once and was still lucid. Wasn’t even really tired, so I even went clubbing until 5am on the last night. I could have stayed up longer, but I had no reason to be up anymore, so I got four or five hours of sleep and was back on schedule. Some people just can’t do that kind of thing, and it seems to be easier for others. Dude from China sounds like a machine though. I’d guess be was the right combination of the kind of person who doesn’t require a lot of sleep and stubborn as hell.
- Comment on Not just crumbs in the CPU socket: Over 100 AMD 9800X3D chips are now reported to have gone pop and the most by far have died in ASRock motherboards 2 months ago:
I too had a barely year old AMD CPU go pop in an ASRock motherboard about 15 years ago. Bought the same CPU again and stuck it in an ASUS board and it is still running today. I know they have a better reputation these days, but this is the kind of thing that just shouldn’t happen.
- Comment on Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women 3 months ago:
It pains me to think that there soon may be a whole new employment field built around the demand for workers trained to muck out robo-vajayjay.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Never had a console growing up. Played Atari at a friend’s place, but most of us had C64 as our main, and we pirated the shit out of everything we could get our hands on. By the time NES was everywhere, the most fun stuff for me was in BBS door games. Trade Wars 2002, Modern Warfare (yes this is what I think of when I hear the full name, though MW is always Mechwarrior to me lol), Pimp Wars, and Max Headroom were some of the popular ones in my neck of the woods.
- Comment on nope don’t like it 3 months ago:
This is my hole, it was made for me!
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 4 months ago:
Doc: That’s an interesting name, Mr…
Fletch: Babar.
Doc: Is that with one B or two?
Fletch: One. B-A-B-A-R.
Doc: That’s two.
Fletch: Yeah, but not right next to each other, that’s what I thought you meant.
Doc: Isn’t there a children’s book about an elephant named Babar.
Fletch: Ha, ha, ha. I wouldn’t know. I don’t have any.
Doc: No children?
Fletch: No elephant books.
- Comment on Probably 7 months ago:
And I thought this was going to be a joke about her putting the audience to sleep.
- Comment on How to fix this glass that is no longer in place? 8 months ago:
OP, do this, but when you use silicone caulk (kitchen and bathroom stuff), you need to use rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle to smooth it out or it will stick to your finger and make a mess. Water works great for latex caulk.