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Borrowed my mothers credit card to buy a modem and sound card from Surplus Software, it was like a miracle when an Airborne Express van showed up the next day with my goods.

I worked at Best Buy and when the Gateway country store opened up they came in and offered most of our sales floor employees big raises and benefits. Sadly I don't think the store …

The movie "Snatch" https://youtu.be/_Yvmg4wcfzY?is=paeV1wjPaF2c6WZB

It was interesting hearing the stories about Bill Gates bridge games and partners. Probably even more so now.

The breadboard computer from 1997 deserves it's own post.

> you could tell at a passing glance which system was displaying on the screen even if you didn't know what game it was I always felt the same about the look of PS2 games

I wonder if most people kept them around just so they don't have to port their apps or migrate to something new. I worked at an HP shop, and Itanium ran HP/UX so they kept running …

Most people who buy these want to watch free movies, sports streams, etc that aren't on OTA or free services

I remember VGA and MCGA being loosely synonymous back then I only had the demo of TIE Fighter (TIEDEMO.EXE), but I remember there being a SVGA version (maybe on CD) later one

I played the DOS version on a 386SX16MHz. Had to use flat shading but it was still fun. Friends 386DX/40 ran it with texturing etc. Both were VGA 320x200

> You only have to look in any professional kitchen - they don't use non-stick pans. That's definitely not true.

> Isn't Teflon (PTFE) inert biologically? Either way, it will be 'bad' forever with some people, like MSG and other things

It's much easier with non-stick and I'm not the only one that cooks in my house.

Related: https://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html

The UX has always been my favorite part. It's like some mixup of OS/2 and Classic Mac OS

Oh, how times have changed. Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced at May's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, Calif., Mac OS X will come with a full implementation of Sun Microsy…

We haven't given out an Intel Mac at work (enterprise with 50k users, maybe 1/5th use Macs) in years....I think we might have a handful of people still using one, but it's gotta be…

That increased at the same rate of lazy/stupid users.

There used to also be fun, and somewhat interesting questions to answer or discuss. It quickly turned into simple questions and "send me the codes"

In the earlier Windows days, Borland and a couple other companies did their own buttons etc https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/c5a0e280-a1c3-974a-24c2-90...

> Counter point - driving down the beach in a convertible with good tunes blasting and the sea breeze in your hair is fun. The annoying thing now is the guys with the full dresser …

> Loud exhausts everywhere - pickups, domestic V6/V8's, motorcycles. > Super-bright headlights/aux lights improperly mounted or operated, blinding you at night. > Stereos you can a…

It's not from the VFX team but someone wrote a clone of the ATM hacking program https://bert.org/2021/01/04/t2-pin-cracking/

> Diablo II had just come out in 2000 which had a 450Mhz Pentium III and 64 MB of RAM. 64MB of RAM was probably mid-tier at the time I like to use Google books to refer to old issu…

> And the 7800 was technologically superior to the Famicom. I'd never heard this before, in what ways? The 7800 seemed to be lower resolution and I don't really remember any exampl…