14 Oct
2007
14 Oct
'07
10:04 p.m.
M H Stein wrote:
---------------Original Message:
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:29:40 -0600
From: "e.stiebler" <emu at e-bbes.com>
Subject: Re: Taken: AT 286 motherboard with mathco
M H Stein wrote:
I wasn't talking about repainting the case.
Half this list[1] is trying to find thier way out ...
You are in a twistly little tape drive ... passages are east, south and up.
[2]
As for the dearth of technical magazines like the old Byte, Kilobaud etc.,
Date:
Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:53:06 -0600
From: "e.stiebler" <emu at e-bbes.com>
Subject: Re: Taken: AT 286 motherboard with mathco
I think people worked/played more with the computer more back then.
Meaning wrote utilities, improved stuff, changed something, and were
proud if it.
Really??? Have you browsed the Internet lately and seen the amount
of
software & mods out there, and the just wild and crazy things that people
are doing with their PCs? Seems to me there are a heck of a lot *more*
people writing utilities, improving stuff etc. today, and far more complex
and sophisticated stuff at that (especially since there's so much more
room for improvement ;-).
I really don't think so. Go on this modding groups, and check, how much
background info they really have. They just take a motherboard, put a
water cooler on it and wait until it falls apart by over clocking it.
I was talking about people crawling into their computers with an
soldering iron without hurting themselfes ;-) the same kind of ideas, projects and articles are
still out there, only now
they're to be found on the internet for free and in a much more convenient
form.
Where? DIY audio, 6502's and PIC's I can find. Real projects I
can't.[3]
'nuff said,
mike
Ben.
[1] the other half are the chinese take out deivery people.
[2] They are lost some where inside the front door.
[3] Something other than blinking a led.