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I've got access to (but not ownership of) an old new-in-box Microsoft serial mouse. Behold: The box says 18 games are included... In the box there are four 3.5" disketes, of which two are supposed to have games, their labels read "Microsoft Arcarde" (diskette 3) and "Best of Microsoft...

I am testing this ChatGPT thing, and well... it mimics very well the speech of a human person, but it also dishes out wrong answers with a straight face (very human-like, if you ask me). Check out this conversation I had with ChatGPT...

I recently got a vintage laptop: Compaq LTE 5000, with a Pentium-75 CPU and 24 MB RAM, which I already have running Windows 3.1. I would like this machine to have Internet connectivity (yes, I know Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and Windows NT 3.51 have already built-in TCP/IP stacks; but I have...

I happened to have a HP Compaq nc6000 laptop in pristine condition lying around, which years ago I had stored away with the intention of running some old Linux on it, some day. This is a top of the line, business oriented, premium quality laptop from the middle 2000's. It has rounded corners...

Hello. Some IT Dpt. was moving into a new office, and a deep cleanse of the old offices ensued whereby several layers of IT trash were lifted. This machine was thus unearthed, it's a Tandon laptop with a Cyrix 5x86 CPU and 4 MB RAM. It runs Windows 95 with 8 MB RAM with a 512 MB HDD. The...

On these days I've dug out of storage an old laptop, an IBM Thinkpad 755CE -- which I bought back in 2012 for 30 Euros. 10 years ago I posted a thread about it here: https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/request-your-opinion-on-a-semi-vintage-ibm-thinkpads-price.29906/ So now I'm in the...

This 3 hour long video stream goes through the pains of installing Debian 2.1 Slink on an old IBM Thinkpad notebook. If you have time to burn...

I've searched the forum, and I found no mention of EtherDFS. So I quote here the post by its author, Mateusz Viste, in the Usenet group comp.os.msdos.misc: """ Hi all, Today I released a new version of EtherDFS: v0.7. Since one of the major changes of this version is that it became...

Hello. I've heard about the book "Life with UNIX: A Guide for Everyone", as a gentle introduction to the every-day, casual usage of the Unix system. The book is from 1989 and authored by Don Libes and Sandy Ressler. It's on Amazon here. However, I've also found a PDF version of the book on...

Hello. I am getting email notifications from the Forum software when there is activity in the threads I follow. Those emails are getting through to me, but my email server in complaining that the SPF for the "vcfed.org" domain is not all right. In my email server logs, I see this: Indeed...

Now that we are back on topic, what do the fellow forum members think about putting the author of the posts at the side of said posts, instead of above them? With the current distribution of the poster's info above the posted message, a lot of screen space is wasted.

I was surprised to discover that a newly bought laptop with pre-installed Windows 8 came with a printed leaflet explaining how to use the basics of Windows 8 user interface. Here is a page from the PDF version of that leaflet: This kind of baloney -- smashing the user's previous knowledge of...

I have a Pentium 4 machine, a no-brand PC in tower format, of 2002-vintage :D which runs Windows 2000 Server and I use it as a workstation (when not using my laptop). The motherboard has three slots for memory modules, which I currently have fitted with three 512MB SDRAM PC133 DIMM modules, so...

Only the postmasters really knows the tons and tons of spam and garbage email that daily hits the mail servers he tends. Fighting spam is somewhat doable, with the right tools, the right expertise, and the right "determination" to do what-it-takes... On that later regard, sometimes "bending...

It seems that Microsoft now requires that PCs have UEFI and Secure Boot firmware (and not a traditional BIOS) to be "Windows 8"-certified. OK, Microsoft does not forbid OEMs to carry an optional feature in UEFI to enable CSM (Compatibility Support Module), which disables Secure Boot. Anyway, I...

I'm setting up a PowerPC iBook G4 laptop with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and as much software as I can to recreate a period-specific (2004-2005) iBook system. I see I have the option of installing QuarkXpress 6.0 (first version native to OS X) or QuarkXpress 7.0 (both sourced from the buccaneer's...

In an iBook G4 running Tiger (10.4) I have a situation where I created with Disk Utility a "Restore" full backup of my system Volume to a partition on an external USB disk. My system Volume originally had the name "vol1". After the full backup completed successfully, the partition on the...

Sometimes, you post a high bid for some item on eBay, and after the fact you then start having feelings of remorse... "I really don't need it", "It's too much to pay really", "It's going to eat up my time and I have other projects to tend to"... And then, out of no-where, eBay tells you that...

OK, I know Windows 2000 is not vintage, but it is unsupported by its vendor, which is something. :lookroun: I happen to use Windows 2000 as my main OS in my main home PC workstation, and I am happy with it. I use the server version, which I run as a standard non-privileged user, and I RDP to...

Hello all. My ISP years ago pulled the plug on their NNTP Usernet server. I have since been using the free and open NNTP server "news.x-privat.org", but it seems it has died. I am not interested in binary groups, but only on the 'traditional' text groups. I was subscribed to...