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Still just one file, my friend. It would begin to compare with Unix/Linux if you had to chase includes through half a dozen scripts in different directories with the aid of only a man page that was last updated in 1997 and a handful of forum threads from 2001... Gorgonops: Programming Language...

True enough, I suppose, but to be honest I've never encountered a Unix feature that I haven't seen implemented more simply and elegantly elsewhere (if not in DOS specifically.) Indeed. But VMS has been pretty good to me thus far, though I admit I haven't gotten terribly in-depth with it.

I'm just sayin', I've never gotten a headache from spending hours wrist-deep in nested configuration scripts and digging through enormous reference manuals trying to sort out some inscrutable problem with DOS.

Fun stuff! I love old DOS PCs of the 386/486 era - home to some of the best games the PC ever saw, and for all the headaches with ISA and jumpers and whatnot, DOS managed to bring a flexible but simple minimalist approach to operating systems far better than Unix ever did. Love the sound of the...

According to EveryMac, it's 1MB VRAM, non-upgradable, for the onboard video - room enough for two full 800x600 8-bit framebuffers. I'd expect the issue lies more with me using a VGA monitor + adapter and the Mac having no idea what modes are supported, but if it would just let me select the...

Well, an LC PDS Ethernet card was about the same price, came with a driver disk, and openly claims compatibility (so I can complain if it doesn't work,) so I went with that. Since there seems to be only one LC PDS video card that's even accelerated (the Envisio Quick16,) and I can't find one...

Well, yeah, the printer port will work for one, but as I said, I've got two that I'd like to use. But as long as it doesn't disable the modem port, that shouldn't be an issue. LowEndMac says the PDS slot is an extension of the LC PDS slot, so if that's true I could just get an LC ethernet...

Got this baby for free at the recycle center along with a very nice Extended Keyboard II (for which I need to get an ADB cable - I swear I already had one!) The case is rather battered (the bezel's coming apart,) but it boots and runs just fine. Already got 8.1 on it, and it runs nicely. It has...

Welcome to the trailing edge :)

Wish a lot more people were this "oldschool."

You can swing YouTube at 360 or possibly even 480 on a 1.67GHz AlBook if you use one of the dedicated player programs rather than Flash. Combine that with TenFourFox (and NoScript, ideally) and it's quite usable for a lot of things.

I actually just ran across a CED player and a handful of discs in a pawn shop yesterday. Woulda bought it, but I already have enough crap in my house...

Awesome :) I nabbed one of these at a thrift store years ago, and it's been a fun format to explore...you just can't beat the cool factor of a CD the size of an LP!

However the A3640 isn't a particularly good option, as it has no slots for fast RAM, leaving the CPU stuck with the slower RAM on the motherboard. If this unit came with one, so much the better, but don't go out of your way to hunt one down; there are much better accelerators available.

Congratulations! As has been said, you'll probably have an easier time getting adapters and using PS/2 keyboards/mice, but pretty much any VGA monitor will do ya.

Do you mean you got WPA2 working on OS8/9? Do tell...

That really is an atrocious policy...but hey, if people could just get used stuff that still worked, the economy would collapse and the terrorists would win!

Talk 'em down to $20. I've gotten Quicksilvers and MDDs at the recycle center for $10.

Is this one of those MIDI modules that are "MT-32-compatible" in the sense of having an instrument list that mimics the MT-32 presets, or is it actually compatible with custom patches? Either way, cool :)

Hah! I'll have to set my SE/30 on a stack of half-rack modules when I get it up and running :lol: