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Snial replied to the thread Drexel University "Cattle Branded" Original Macintosh.What's a RIFA? (I have a feeling this is a really dumb question to ask). -
Snial commented on ClassicGuyPhilly's profile post.11kg! A computer with built-in weight training!
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Let's give it up for Lee Felsenstein's Osbourne 1 which turned 45 on April 3rd. That's right, in 1981 this featherweight 25 pounder...
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Snial replied to the thread Doom on SoftPC on an SE/30?.The first Sparc CPU (V7) was the Fujitsu MB86900 in1986. This is the manual for the MB86901, which is also a V7. The introduction...
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Snial replied to the thread Doom on SoftPC on an SE/30?.I just threw that in. Many workstation applications were maths-heavy. An 8MHz ARM could beat a 16.7MHz SPARC for some DSP computations...
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Snial replied to the thread Doom on SoftPC on an SE/30?.Nice. Here's my video of my PS/2 to Quadrature-Encoded mouse conversion that I did for my 12MHz A3020 (6 MIPS). It shows me moving the...
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Snial replied to the thread Doom on SoftPC on an SE/30?.Although there may have been work in that area, it turns out the NeXT Step Dock (and Windows 95 taskbar) was derived from the first...
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Snial replied to the thread Happy 50th Anniversary Apple.Very impressive, and NASA plans to celebrate the occasion by sending 4 people on a Moon flyby :-) ! In just 40 mins... assuming they...
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Snial replied to the thread A 512k with a surprise inside.On average I find that 1 line of code ≈ 10 bytes. So, 32kB ≈ 3200 lines, and at 50 lines per day(?) that's about 2 months solid coding...
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Snial replied to the thread A 512k with a surprise inside.Believable. When we were first put in front of the Mac 512s at UEA in 1986, they seemed very capable too. In fact, I've just remembered...
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Big news for the VintageComputerRental.com Affiliate Network! Check this thread 😁
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Snial replied to the thread A 512k with a surprise inside.It makes sense for it to have 2MB, given that the Mac 128/512 logic board can't cope with different types of RAM chips. So, initially I...
