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The University

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  1. 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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  3. we bought a kenmore elite about 5 years ago, and the only problem we had was with the drain pump. easy fix. it's probably a rebranded lg. very silent and was a few hundred less than a smaller capacity bosch. will it last 20 years? we'll never know since the wife will probably want to redo the kitchen yet again.

  4. if the horns lose to the sooners by 1 or 2 points, there ain't any room in my head for moral victories. it simply sucks and i hate it. i don't care how highly ranked those toothless cousin fucking assholes might be and guarantee that sooners feel the same way.

    i'll never be able to comprehend the loser mindset of aggy. they're basically the garbage pail kids of the world that didn't even make the cut.

  5. 34 minutes ago, Katfid54 said:

    lsu-girl-goes-hard-during-game-against-g

    spitting image, personality-wise at least, of a girl i briefly dated back on the 40 acres. i tried, but i couldn't handle that level of crazy. friended me awhile back and noticed she was already on her third husband. those poor dudes...

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    9 minutes ago, Katfid54 said:

    I'm confused by a bunch of shit in that post.  But I'm most confused by the statement "we boatraced [Bama] 56-19 in college station in 2009."

    aggy was in a paddle boat and bama was in a searay sundancer.

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