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Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:47 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:45 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:44 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:42 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:41 am I had another one of them in the shed that had XP on it, but then I tried to find it one day and it was just gone. I must have thrown it away without realising.

Thrown it away? How'd you manage that?

As stupid as it sounds, It's likely that there was so much stuff out there that I threw it out thinking I'd never use it. That was a big mistake though, we need to appreciate those old beige computers.

I'm not sure how much of them I've kept in the garage. It's possible that even the cases were thrown out…

I do remember my first one being a Packard Bell with Windows 98, which I didn't get until like 2004. I had no internet, but I liked playing Solitaire, using mspaint, and using a Sega Genesis emulator to play Bart vs the Space Mutants.

What did the emulator come on? Floppies or CDs?

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:49 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:47 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:45 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:44 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:42 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:41 am I had another one of them in the shed that had XP on it, but then I tried to find it one day and it was just gone. I must have thrown it away without realising.

Thrown it away? How'd you manage that?

As stupid as it sounds, It's likely that there was so much stuff out there that I threw it out thinking I'd never use it. That was a big mistake though, we need to appreciate those old beige computers.

I'm not sure how much of them I've kept in the garage. It's possible that even the cases were thrown out…

I do remember my first one being a Packard Bell with Windows 98, which I didn't get until like 2004. I had no internet, but I liked playing Solitaire, using mspaint, and using a Sega Genesis emulator to play Bart vs the Space Mutants.

What did the emulator come on? Floppies or CDs?

I had to get my friend to burn a CD with the emulator on it, since he had XP and the internet. I even remember him getting here then saying "crap, I forgot to get WinZip", so we had to go back to his house to download it.

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:50 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:49 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:47 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:45 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:44 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:42 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:41 am I had another one of them in the shed that had XP on it, but then I tried to find it one day and it was just gone. I must have thrown it away without realising.

Thrown it away? How'd you manage that?

As stupid as it sounds, It's likely that there was so much stuff out there that I threw it out thinking I'd never use it. That was a big mistake though, we need to appreciate those old beige computers.

I'm not sure how much of them I've kept in the garage. It's possible that even the cases were thrown out…

I do remember my first one being a Packard Bell with Windows 98, which I didn't get until like 2004. I had no internet, but I liked playing Solitaire, using mspaint, and using a Sega Genesis emulator to play Bart vs the Space Mutants.

What did the emulator come on? Floppies or CDs?

I had to get my friend to burn a CD with the emulator on it, since he had XP and the internet. I even remember him getting here then saying "crap, I forgot to get WinZip", so we had to go back to his house to download it.

Ah, WinZip. That reminds me of the time I made an MS Paint graphic on my Grandad's PC, and then we wanted to bring it home to print it, but it was too big to fit on a floppy. So we ended up making a WinZip self-extracting EXE, of WinZip itself, and putting it on a floppy, so we could install WinZip at Grandad's and use it to compress the bitmap and bring it home on a floppy. If only PNG had been a thing back then.

My first console broken And my first PlayStation also

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:53 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:50 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:49 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:47 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:45 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:44 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:42 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:41 am I had another one of them in the shed that had XP on it, but then I tried to find it one day and it was just gone. I must have thrown it away without realising.

Thrown it away? How'd you manage that?

As stupid as it sounds, It's likely that there was so much stuff out there that I threw it out thinking I'd never use it. That was a big mistake though, we need to appreciate those old beige computers.

I'm not sure how much of them I've kept in the garage. It's possible that even the cases were thrown out…

I do remember my first one being a Packard Bell with Windows 98, which I didn't get until like 2004. I had no internet, but I liked playing Solitaire, using mspaint, and using a Sega Genesis emulator to play Bart vs the Space Mutants.

What did the emulator come on? Floppies or CDs?

I had to get my friend to burn a CD with the emulator on it, since he had XP and the internet. I even remember him getting here then saying "crap, I forgot to get WinZip", so we had to go back to his house to download it.

Ah, WinZip. That reminds me of the time I made an MS Paint graphic on my Grandad's PC, and then we wanted to bring it home to print it, but it was too big to fit on a floppy. So we ended up making a WinZip self-extracting EXE, of WinZip itself, and putting it on a floppy, so we could install WinZip at Grandad's and use it to compress the bitmap and bring it home on a floppy. If only PNG had been a thing back then.

WinZip really brings back memories. It's crazy to think that PNG wasn't even a thing yet, and BMP were fairly large too.

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:55 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:53 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:50 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:49 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:47 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:45 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:44 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:42 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:41 am I had another one of them in the shed that had XP on it, but then I tried to find it one day and it was just gone. I must have thrown it away without realising.

Thrown it away? How'd you manage that?

As stupid as it sounds, It's likely that there was so much stuff out there that I threw it out thinking I'd never use it. That was a big mistake though, we need to appreciate those old beige computers.

I'm not sure how much of them I've kept in the garage. It's possible that even the cases were thrown out…

I do remember my first one being a Packard Bell with Windows 98, which I didn't get until like 2004. I had no internet, but I liked playing Solitaire, using mspaint, and using a Sega Genesis emulator to play Bart vs the Space Mutants.

What did the emulator come on? Floppies or CDs?

I had to get my friend to burn a CD with the emulator on it, since he had XP and the internet. I even remember him getting here then saying "crap, I forgot to get WinZip", so we had to go back to his house to download it.

Ah, WinZip. That reminds me of the time I made an MS Paint graphic on my Grandad's PC, and then we wanted to bring it home to print it, but it was too big to fit on a floppy. So we ended up making a WinZip self-extracting EXE, of WinZip itself, and putting it on a floppy, so we could install WinZip at Grandad's and use it to compress the bitmap and bring it home on a floppy. If only PNG had been a thing back then.

WinZip really brings back memories. It's crazy to think that PNG wasn't even a thing yet, and BMP were fairly large too.

PNG probably was a thing, but Paint in Windows 98 didn't have an option to save in it.

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:58 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:55 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:53 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:50 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:49 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:47 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:45 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:44 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:42 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:41 am I had another one of them in the shed that had XP on it, but then I tried to find it one day and it was just gone. I must have thrown it away without realising.

Thrown it away? How'd you manage that?

As stupid as it sounds, It's likely that there was so much stuff out there that I threw it out thinking I'd never use it. That was a big mistake though, we need to appreciate those old beige computers.

I'm not sure how much of them I've kept in the garage. It's possible that even the cases were thrown out…

I do remember my first one being a Packard Bell with Windows 98, which I didn't get until like 2004. I had no internet, but I liked playing Solitaire, using mspaint, and using a Sega Genesis emulator to play Bart vs the Space Mutants.

What did the emulator come on? Floppies or CDs?

I had to get my friend to burn a CD with the emulator on it, since he had XP and the internet. I even remember him getting here then saying "crap, I forgot to get WinZip", so we had to go back to his house to download it.

Ah, WinZip. That reminds me of the time I made an MS Paint graphic on my Grandad's PC, and then we wanted to bring it home to print it, but it was too big to fit on a floppy. So we ended up making a WinZip self-extracting EXE, of WinZip itself, and putting it on a floppy, so we could install WinZip at Grandad's and use it to compress the bitmap and bring it home on a floppy. If only PNG had been a thing back then.

WinZip really brings back memories. It's crazy to think that PNG wasn't even a thing yet, and BMP were fairly large too.

PNG probably was a thing, but Paint in Windows 98 didn't have an option to save in it.

And without internet there was no way to just download another program. Back then there probably were none.

I still have the first xbox and a gamecube somewhere. It's becoming quite old even though it was the nec plus ultra not so long ago. You have difficulties finding the old xbox on google, often only the 360 is appearing on results.

I have a couple of those old Xboxs, I love those consoles.

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:00 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:58 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:55 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:53 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:50 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:49 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:47 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:45 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:44 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:42 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:41 am I had another one of them in the shed that had XP on it, but then I tried to find it one day and it was just gone. I must have thrown it away without realising.

Thrown it away? How'd you manage that?

As stupid as it sounds, It's likely that there was so much stuff out there that I threw it out thinking I'd never use it. That was a big mistake though, we need to appreciate those old beige computers.

I'm not sure how much of them I've kept in the garage. It's possible that even the cases were thrown out…

I do remember my first one being a Packard Bell with Windows 98, which I didn't get until like 2004. I had no internet, but I liked playing Solitaire, using mspaint, and using a Sega Genesis emulator to play Bart vs the Space Mutants.

What did the emulator come on? Floppies or CDs?

I had to get my friend to burn a CD with the emulator on it, since he had XP and the internet. I even remember him getting here then saying "crap, I forgot to get WinZip", so we had to go back to his house to download it.

Ah, WinZip. That reminds me of the time I made an MS Paint graphic on my Grandad's PC, and then we wanted to bring it home to print it, but it was too big to fit on a floppy. So we ended up making a WinZip self-extracting EXE, of WinZip itself, and putting it on a floppy, so we could install WinZip at Grandad's and use it to compress the bitmap and bring it home on a floppy. If only PNG had been a thing back then.

WinZip really brings back memories. It's crazy to think that PNG wasn't even a thing yet, and BMP were fairly large too.

PNG probably was a thing, but Paint in Windows 98 didn't have an option to save in it.

And without internet there was no way to just download another program. Back then there probably were none.

Well, we had internet, it was just slow, expensive dial-up.

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:03 pm

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:00 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:58 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:55 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:53 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:50 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:49 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:47 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:45 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:44 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:42 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:41 am I had another one of them in the shed that had XP on it, but then I tried to find it one day and it was just gone. I must have thrown it away without realising.

Thrown it away? How'd you manage that?

As stupid as it sounds, It's likely that there was so much stuff out there that I threw it out thinking I'd never use it. That was a big mistake though, we need to appreciate those old beige computers.

I'm not sure how much of them I've kept in the garage. It's possible that even the cases were thrown out…

I do remember my first one being a Packard Bell with Windows 98, which I didn't get until like 2004. I had no internet, but I liked playing Solitaire, using mspaint, and using a Sega Genesis emulator to play Bart vs the Space Mutants.

What did the emulator come on? Floppies or CDs?

I had to get my friend to burn a CD with the emulator on it, since he had XP and the internet. I even remember him getting here then saying "crap, I forgot to get WinZip", so we had to go back to his house to download it.

Ah, WinZip. That reminds me of the time I made an MS Paint graphic on my Grandad's PC, and then we wanted to bring it home to print it, but it was too big to fit on a floppy. So we ended up making a WinZip self-extracting EXE, of WinZip itself, and putting it on a floppy, so we could install WinZip at Grandad's and use it to compress the bitmap and bring it home on a floppy. If only PNG had been a thing back then.

WinZip really brings back memories. It's crazy to think that PNG wasn't even a thing yet, and BMP were fairly large too.

PNG probably was a thing, but Paint in Windows 98 didn't have an option to save in it.

And without internet there was no way to just download another program. Back then there probably were none.

Well, we had internet, it was just slow, expensive dial-up.

I remember my uncle having that, it making those dial tones and people complaining that the phone made noises. I accidentally opened one of those Windows internet games on his computer before, and when it tried to connect then made the sounds, my granny was like "who's on the internet", so I panicked and pulled the plugs from the wall.

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:06 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:03 pm

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:00 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:58 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:55 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:53 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:50 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:49 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:47 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:45 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:44 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:42 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:41 am I had another one of them in the shed that had XP on it, but then I tried to find it one day and it was just gone. I must have thrown it away without realising.

Thrown it away? How'd you manage that?

As stupid as it sounds, It's likely that there was so much stuff out there that I threw it out thinking I'd never use it. That was a big mistake though, we need to appreciate those old beige computers.

I'm not sure how much of them I've kept in the garage. It's possible that even the cases were thrown out…

I do remember my first one being a Packard Bell with Windows 98, which I didn't get until like 2004. I had no internet, but I liked playing Solitaire, using mspaint, and using a Sega Genesis emulator to play Bart vs the Space Mutants.

What did the emulator come on? Floppies or CDs?

I had to get my friend to burn a CD with the emulator on it, since he had XP and the internet. I even remember him getting here then saying "crap, I forgot to get WinZip", so we had to go back to his house to download it.

Ah, WinZip. That reminds me of the time I made an MS Paint graphic on my Grandad's PC, and then we wanted to bring it home to print it, but it was too big to fit on a floppy. So we ended up making a WinZip self-extracting EXE, of WinZip itself, and putting it on a floppy, so we could install WinZip at Grandad's and use it to compress the bitmap and bring it home on a floppy. If only PNG had been a thing back then.

WinZip really brings back memories. It's crazy to think that PNG wasn't even a thing yet, and BMP were fairly large too.

PNG probably was a thing, but Paint in Windows 98 didn't have an option to save in it.

And without internet there was no way to just download another program. Back then there probably were none.

Well, we had internet, it was just slow, expensive dial-up.

I remember my uncle having that, it making those dial tones and people complaining that the phone made noises. I accidentally opened one of those Windows internet games on his computer before, and when it tried to connect then made the sounds, my granny was like "who's on the internet", so I panicked and pulled the plugs from the wall.

Ah yes, I remember Granny once telling Dad and myself that she had tried to make a phone call earlier that day, but the phone was making "gingle-gangle-goongle-gongle noises" – she'd forgotten that phone and internet were mutually exclusive!

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:10 pm

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:06 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:03 pm

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:00 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:58 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:55 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:53 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:50 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:49 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:47 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:45 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:44 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:42 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:41 am I had another one of them in the shed that had XP on it, but then I tried to find it one day and it was just gone. I must have thrown it away without realising.

Thrown it away? How'd you manage that?

As stupid as it sounds, It's likely that there was so much stuff out there that I threw it out thinking I'd never use it. That was a big mistake though, we need to appreciate those old beige computers.

I'm not sure how much of them I've kept in the garage. It's possible that even the cases were thrown out…

I do remember my first one being a Packard Bell with Windows 98, which I didn't get until like 2004. I had no internet, but I liked playing Solitaire, using mspaint, and using a Sega Genesis emulator to play Bart vs the Space Mutants.

What did the emulator come on? Floppies or CDs?

I had to get my friend to burn a CD with the emulator on it, since he had XP and the internet. I even remember him getting here then saying "crap, I forgot to get WinZip", so we had to go back to his house to download it.

Ah, WinZip. That reminds me of the time I made an MS Paint graphic on my Grandad's PC, and then we wanted to bring it home to print it, but it was too big to fit on a floppy. So we ended up making a WinZip self-extracting EXE, of WinZip itself, and putting it on a floppy, so we could install WinZip at Grandad's and use it to compress the bitmap and bring it home on a floppy. If only PNG had been a thing back then.

WinZip really brings back memories. It's crazy to think that PNG wasn't even a thing yet, and BMP were fairly large too.

PNG probably was a thing, but Paint in Windows 98 didn't have an option to save in it.

And without internet there was no way to just download another program. Back then there probably were none.

Well, we had internet, it was just slow, expensive dial-up.

I remember my uncle having that, it making those dial tones and people complaining that the phone made noises. I accidentally opened one of those Windows internet games on his computer before, and when it tried to connect then made the sounds, my granny was like "who's on the internet", so I panicked and pulled the plugs from the wall.

Ah yes, I remember Granny once telling Dad and myself that she had tried to make a phone call earlier that day, but the phone was making "gingle-gangle-goongle-gongle noises" – she'd forgotten that phone and internet were mutually exclusive!

I still remember when broadband was only a new thing, most people wouldn't have a clue what we mean.

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:10 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:10 pm

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:06 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:03 pm

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:00 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:58 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:55 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:53 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:50 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:49 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:47 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:45 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:44 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:42 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:41 am I had another one of them in the shed that had XP on it, but then I tried to find it one day and it was just gone. I must have thrown it away without realising.

Thrown it away? How'd you manage that?

As stupid as it sounds, It's likely that there was so much stuff out there that I threw it out thinking I'd never use it. That was a big mistake though, we need to appreciate those old beige computers.

I'm not sure how much of them I've kept in the garage. It's possible that even the cases were thrown out…

I do remember my first one being a Packard Bell with Windows 98, which I didn't get until like 2004. I had no internet, but I liked playing Solitaire, using mspaint, and using a Sega Genesis emulator to play Bart vs the Space Mutants.

What did the emulator come on? Floppies or CDs?

I had to get my friend to burn a CD with the emulator on it, since he had XP and the internet. I even remember him getting here then saying "crap, I forgot to get WinZip", so we had to go back to his house to download it.

Ah, WinZip. That reminds me of the time I made an MS Paint graphic on my Grandad's PC, and then we wanted to bring it home to print it, but it was too big to fit on a floppy. So we ended up making a WinZip self-extracting EXE, of WinZip itself, and putting it on a floppy, so we could install WinZip at Grandad's and use it to compress the bitmap and bring it home on a floppy. If only PNG had been a thing back then.

WinZip really brings back memories. It's crazy to think that PNG wasn't even a thing yet, and BMP were fairly large too.

PNG probably was a thing, but Paint in Windows 98 didn't have an option to save in it.

And without internet there was no way to just download another program. Back then there probably were none.

Well, we had internet, it was just slow, expensive dial-up.

I remember my uncle having that, it making those dial tones and people complaining that the phone made noises. I accidentally opened one of those Windows internet games on his computer before, and when it tried to connect then made the sounds, my granny was like "who's on the internet", so I panicked and pulled the plugs from the wall.

Ah yes, I remember Granny once telling Dad and myself that she had tried to make a phone call earlier that day, but the phone was making "gingle-gangle-goongle-gongle noises" – she'd forgotten that phone and internet were mutually exclusive!

I still remember when broadband was only a new thing, most people wouldn't have a clue what we mean.

I do remember trying to explain the (then hypothetical, due to my rural location ) advantages of broadband to Gran and Grandad. "But if it's always on, what if Dad tries to ring you?" – the whole point was that it wouldn't interfere with the phone anymore!

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:15 pm

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:10 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:10 pm

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:06 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:03 pm

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:00 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:58 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:55 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:53 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:50 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:49 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:47 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:45 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:44 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:42 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:41 am I had another one of them in the shed that had XP on it, but then I tried to find it one day and it was just gone. I must have thrown it away without realising.

Thrown it away? How'd you manage that?

As stupid as it sounds, It's likely that there was so much stuff out there that I threw it out thinking I'd never use it. That was a big mistake though, we need to appreciate those old beige computers.

I'm not sure how much of them I've kept in the garage. It's possible that even the cases were thrown out…

I do remember my first one being a Packard Bell with Windows 98, which I didn't get until like 2004. I had no internet, but I liked playing Solitaire, using mspaint, and using a Sega Genesis emulator to play Bart vs the Space Mutants.

What did the emulator come on? Floppies or CDs?

I had to get my friend to burn a CD with the emulator on it, since he had XP and the internet. I even remember him getting here then saying "crap, I forgot to get WinZip", so we had to go back to his house to download it.

Ah, WinZip. That reminds me of the time I made an MS Paint graphic on my Grandad's PC, and then we wanted to bring it home to print it, but it was too big to fit on a floppy. So we ended up making a WinZip self-extracting EXE, of WinZip itself, and putting it on a floppy, so we could install WinZip at Grandad's and use it to compress the bitmap and bring it home on a floppy. If only PNG had been a thing back then.

WinZip really brings back memories. It's crazy to think that PNG wasn't even a thing yet, and BMP were fairly large too.

PNG probably was a thing, but Paint in Windows 98 didn't have an option to save in it.

And without internet there was no way to just download another program. Back then there probably were none.

Well, we had internet, it was just slow, expensive dial-up.

I remember my uncle having that, it making those dial tones and people complaining that the phone made noises. I accidentally opened one of those Windows internet games on his computer before, and when it tried to connect then made the sounds, my granny was like "who's on the internet", so I panicked and pulled the plugs from the wall.

Ah yes, I remember Granny once telling Dad and myself that she had tried to make a phone call earlier that day, but the phone was making "gingle-gangle-goongle-gongle noises" – she'd forgotten that phone and internet were mutually exclusive!

I still remember when broadband was only a new thing, most people wouldn't have a clue what we mean.

I do remember trying to explain the (then hypothetical, due to my rural location ) advantages of broadband to Gran and Grandad. "But if it's always on, what if Dad tries to ring you?" – the whole point was that it wouldn't interfere with the phone anymore!

It's always hard to explain technology to the elderly. I remember my friends mother saying "why don't you Google it on Facebook".

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:18 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:15 pm

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:10 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:10 pm

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:06 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:03 pm

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:00 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:58 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:55 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:53 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:50 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:49 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:47 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:45 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:44 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:42 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:41 am I had another one of them in the shed that had XP on it, but then I tried to find it one day and it was just gone. I must have thrown it away without realising.

Thrown it away? How'd you manage that?

As stupid as it sounds, It's likely that there was so much stuff out there that I threw it out thinking I'd never use it. That was a big mistake though, we need to appreciate those old beige computers.

I'm not sure how much of them I've kept in the garage. It's possible that even the cases were thrown out…

I do remember my first one being a Packard Bell with Windows 98, which I didn't get until like 2004. I had no internet, but I liked playing Solitaire, using mspaint, and using a Sega Genesis emulator to play Bart vs the Space Mutants.

What did the emulator come on? Floppies or CDs?

I had to get my friend to burn a CD with the emulator on it, since he had XP and the internet. I even remember him getting here then saying "crap, I forgot to get WinZip", so we had to go back to his house to download it.

Ah, WinZip. That reminds me of the time I made an MS Paint graphic on my Grandad's PC, and then we wanted to bring it home to print it, but it was too big to fit on a floppy. So we ended up making a WinZip self-extracting EXE, of WinZip itself, and putting it on a floppy, so we could install WinZip at Grandad's and use it to compress the bitmap and bring it home on a floppy. If only PNG had been a thing back then.

WinZip really brings back memories. It's crazy to think that PNG wasn't even a thing yet, and BMP were fairly large too.

PNG probably was a thing, but Paint in Windows 98 didn't have an option to save in it.

And without internet there was no way to just download another program. Back then there probably were none.

Well, we had internet, it was just slow, expensive dial-up.

I remember my uncle having that, it making those dial tones and people complaining that the phone made noises. I accidentally opened one of those Windows internet games on his computer before, and when it tried to connect then made the sounds, my granny was like "who's on the internet", so I panicked and pulled the plugs from the wall.

Ah yes, I remember Granny once telling Dad and myself that she had tried to make a phone call earlier that day, but the phone was making "gingle-gangle-goongle-gongle noises" – she'd forgotten that phone and internet were mutually exclusive!

I still remember when broadband was only a new thing, most people wouldn't have a clue what we mean.

I do remember trying to explain the (then hypothetical, due to my rural location ) advantages of broadband to Gran and Grandad. "But if it's always on, what if Dad tries to ring you?" – the whole point was that it wouldn't interfere with the phone anymore!

It's always hard to explain technology to the elderly. I remember my friends mother saying "why don't you Google it on Facebook".

Oh shoot yes, I've heard the phrase "Google in" used to mean "type in".

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:19 pm

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:18 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:15 pm

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:10 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:10 pm

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:06 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:03 pm

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:00 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:58 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:55 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:53 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:50 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:49 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:47 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:45 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:44 am

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:42 am

Steo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:41 am I had another one of them in the shed that had XP on it, but then I tried to find it one day and it was just gone. I must have thrown it away without realising.

Thrown it away? How'd you manage that?

As stupid as it sounds, It's likely that there was so much stuff out there that I threw it out thinking I'd never use it. That was a big mistake though, we need to appreciate those old beige computers.

I'm not sure how much of them I've kept in the garage. It's possible that even the cases were thrown out…

I do remember my first one being a Packard Bell with Windows 98, which I didn't get until like 2004. I had no internet, but I liked playing Solitaire, using mspaint, and using a Sega Genesis emulator to play Bart vs the Space Mutants.

What did the emulator come on? Floppies or CDs?

I had to get my friend to burn a CD with the emulator on it, since he had XP and the internet. I even remember him getting here then saying "crap, I forgot to get WinZip", so we had to go back to his house to download it.

Ah, WinZip. That reminds me of the time I made an MS Paint graphic on my Grandad's PC, and then we wanted to bring it home to print it, but it was too big to fit on a floppy. So we ended up making a WinZip self-extracting EXE, of WinZip itself, and putting it on a floppy, so we could install WinZip at Grandad's and use it to compress the bitmap and bring it home on a floppy. If only PNG had been a thing back then.

WinZip really brings back memories. It's crazy to think that PNG wasn't even a thing yet, and BMP were fairly large too.

PNG probably was a thing, but Paint in Windows 98 didn't have an option to save in it.

And without internet there was no way to just download another program. Back then there probably were none.

Well, we had internet, it was just slow, expensive dial-up.

I remember my uncle having that, it making those dial tones and people complaining that the phone made noises. I accidentally opened one of those Windows internet games on his computer before, and when it tried to connect then made the sounds, my granny was like "who's on the internet", so I panicked and pulled the plugs from the wall.

Ah yes, I remember Granny once telling Dad and myself that she had tried to make a phone call earlier that day, but the phone was making "gingle-gangle-goongle-gongle noises" – she'd forgotten that phone and internet were mutually exclusive!

I still remember when broadband was only a new thing, most people wouldn't have a clue what we mean.

I do remember trying to explain the (then hypothetical, due to my rural location ) advantages of broadband to Gran and Grandad. "But if it's always on, what if Dad tries to ring you?" – the whole point was that it wouldn't interfere with the phone anymore!

It's always hard to explain technology to the elderly. I remember my friends mother saying "why don't you Google it on Facebook".

Oh shoot yes, I've heard the phrase "Google in" used to mean "type in".

Or like my dad, look it up on Facebook when he means use Google.

So my original Xbox with the RAM and CPU upgrade died, and I couldn't source a power supply anywhere.

Since I have lots of crap I don't need, I decided to hook a crappy PC PSU up to the Xbox just to check if it still works:
Hoodcom once said Steo rigging is a thing.

My Rayman 3 score lives on:

Fantastic! So wait, does the motherboard use a standard ATX power connection?

Not exactly, they all vary. I just took the pinouts from a diagram and put the wires in the right places. Mine is a 12 pin board.

The board needed these cables,

12v = 1 cable
5v = 3 cables
3.3v = 1 cable
Standby voltage = 1 cable (3.3v)
Ground = 4 cables
POWON = 1 cable
POWOK = 1 cable

There was one problem though, the PSU has 5v in standby, so instead, I put a 3.3v cable into the standby voltage, then shorted POWON to ground to make the PSU turn on. The fan and HDD just fire up when I plug it in, and then when I press the power button, it boots. Obviously I have to unplug the console when I'm done using it though.

This is only a temporary solution and it's a bit mad looking, but now that I know the console is working, I can source another console and take the PSU from it.