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  1. 1 hour ago, Bojack said:

    The story goes that this guy walked up to James Brown after we won at the tackle box in '95 saying some shit like it'll never happen again.  

     

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    if we never have to play in that shithole again, i wholeheartedly agree.

  2. 2 hours ago, ousux said:

    Near the end a reporter asks: "Lincoln can you walk us through the last two offensive series"? *Lincoln* "No" (stares the room down defiantly)

    i'll walk you through it...lincoln completely failed and was a tiny little bitch.

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  3. you may be surprised how durable many of those old systems are. in fact, a thick layer of dust may have helped preserve the components while the system was in storage. however, rust and corrosion (usually from batteries or capacitors) can make it hard to repair.

    one of the biggest hurdles for new collectors is figuring out how to get old software images and how to put those images in media that can be read by the machine.

    there's a niche market out there for creating peipherals based on modern technology that can be used in vintage systems. for example, I have a card that i can put in any apple ii with slots that lets me use usb flash drives to load software images that can be exposed to the system as either a floppy drive or a scsi hard drive by the apple ii. there are also various video adapters that will let you plug your old system into a vga/dvi/hdmi display port.

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    in wargames, wopr tries to crack the code to override the launch sequence. however, joshua cracks it in about 10-15 minutes. some of you math nerds can correct me if i'm wrong, but that means that there are (26^6)*(10^4) or over 3 trillion combinations/codes. even if joshua was guessing 10 combinations every second, it would have taken him about 10,000 years to guess the right launch code. 

    i don't know what kind of power the department of defense had in 1983, but my 1 mhz 6502 apple ii could barely run stickybear bop without driving me crazy. 

     

    oh, and this is surly, so...

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