Recent content by cheesestraws

That's a totally fair comment :-D

I hope you like writing drivers.

Well done and thankyou, @dougg3!

I've never really understood why people are so keen to get those machines on the Internet - there's really very little to do once you're on it other than go "well, this is bad at being on the Internet, ok".

since people have only implicitly answered this question, perhaps an explicit answer will be useful (maybe to you, maybe to some future person who finds this thread): the buffering in question here is buffering in the electronics sense of the word, not in the computing sense of the word. It is...

Crossed out floppy means that it's trying to eject a disc which isn't a system disc. If it's showing that without a floppy drive even connected, I might consider looking at the SWIM, but that's a slight guess - but if it's showing the cross it thinks there's a disc in that's not bootable, and...

Agreed, @Siliconinsider would be my first choice, very decent quality stuff. Got some memorymasters stuff as well - it's fine, just not quite as nice as the purple RAM. @CTB don't I remember you're in Aus? I suspect none of these options are very convenient for you in that case :-(

simple and cheap. And perhaps to be built by engineers who weren't printing gurus. This would be my bet.

Sony also used the variant with the extra two vertical slots but I don't know what they're for.

This sort of thing is why Radius had magicbus, of course ;-)

Argh and dammit!