Recent content by jj463rd

Our 1997 Pentium 166Mhz MMX systems would fly on dial up modem Internet access and a 486 computer would be workable.If you needed to watch Youtube or Hulu a 800 Mhz Pentium III system would be all that you would need

Advertising makes communism sound like a much better system. I'd rather look at statues of Lenin and Stalin than ads. Every child that is starving (and dies) helps protect the Earth's environment.

Then the voice of the avatar of the blue faced man told you to kill.

I guess that Diamond Stealth II S220 (Rendition Verite 2100) graphics card absolutely new unopened in its box from late in the year 1997 or early 1998 at Amazon was not sold but rather re listed again.I was lucky I guess I didn't miss out. This time I purchased it (it was $54.45 USD a small...

Vogons are definitely a great resource.Another site that is really helpful is Erik S Klein's Vintage Computer collection and his excellent forum.I also like the Vintage3D website which compares early graphics accelerator cards.That and old reviews,magazines gives a lot of perspective.There are a...

Prices for 3Dfx Voodoo 2's on eBay are not really unreasonable in my opinion at around $30 USD each however you will notice that many of the Voodoo 1's and 2's sold there won't come with the required pass through cable that connects between the SVGA output of your graphics card and the 3Dfx...

I forgot to add that it is getting harder to find older device drivers now and some of them are disappearing.One good resource very that's useful for older hardware for retrocomputing is the Vogon's Driver Library and also their forums too.There are a lot of dastardly sites now that will try to...

My opinion here just build custom builds according to each era using genuine parts and Operating systems from that era.Have fun building ultra high end super builds for a pittance of the cost today.Look at the old Toms Hardware or Anandtech reviews from the 1990's for hints.Reading those old...

"Change for the sake of change is irrelevant. (Like metro for non-touch displays)" Agreed. "Change for the sake of progress is useful. (Like the automobile)" Disagree here. The automobile is a predominant transportation device of the 20th century. Mathematically,Physics (especially from the...

I would put a HP-65 Programmable calculator in there.Why? They were far more practical (and very easy to program) than the early personal microcomputers which many of them came out later like the Altair and they had a fairly large following (users group) with thousands of people writing programs...

I disagree with Jun Dong-soo.It's being unfair to Vista which was at least patched and workable. Vista 64 bit ran great on my desktop PC with a quad core CPU with 8 Gigabytes of RAM when I built my desktop PC back then in 2008.Microsoft has no plans to fix how their bad User Interface works with...

He reminded me a lot of the mischievous character Eddie Haskell in the very old Leave it to Beaver television series in the late 1950's to early 1960's.They should bring him back.

It needs emotions like anger,feeling threatened etc and should be hooked up to nuclear missile launch control systems,codes etc.

Well they made more than double of their Kickstarter goal.$225,789 which was above the $100,000 goal.Perhaps more of a business test (My opinion as a outsider) to see how much interest there was in it as I think previously they had 340 pre-orders and another 51 orders at the Kickstarter site for...

DRM is to blame.Honestly I liked the 1990's era better.The newer technology is much better but DRM ruined a lot of the excitement for me.Some things make up for part of the loss like Good Old Games.