My only concern is activation but I am not sure if that will still work as it's no longer a supported OS, not that it matters the machine won't go online but still.
My only concern is activation but I am not sure if that will still work as it's no longer a supported OS, not that it matters the machine won't go online but still.
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Don't worry about it, free Windows 7 keys that will work are plentiful online.
^^^Back in the1985 that must have seemed like the future had arrived because in 1956 this was how you moved your HDD about. lol
I was browsing some of the weird parts of the Interwebs the other day and found this awesomely hilarious ad from 1985. 20 MB was a lot back then.
^^^Back in the1985 that must have seemed like the future had arrived because in 1956 this was how you moved your HDD about. lol
It's hilarious what was considered portable, although that last one maybe not so portable
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I had a Compaq Portable for the longest time, and it was so much fun to play with, but heavy as hell. 
I was browsing some of the weird parts of the Interwebs the other day and found this awesomely hilarious ad from 1985. 20 MB was a lot back then.
just remember to run "park" before shutting down.
Can't really make the connector whether it's a 25 pin centronics (parallel) or 50 pin centronics for SCSI. Might be the former as there's no second connector for the terminator (unless it's inside the drive).
Though it's most likely parallel because pretty much any computer would have one, SCSI not so much.
At least by the 80's, it was only as large as a normal computer case with a little monitor and flip-down keyboard.
I love those.. Love the orange screen but never got to see one in person so not sure what they were like to view. I had a green monochrome screen which was perfect for text and numbers but terrible for anything else.
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Really interesting, but low refresh rate and some ghosting, at least on the one I used. I installed Commander Keen on it and tried to play it. It went, um, not well.
Yeah they're not the best for that... The closest I got to one was a medical monitor when I was in hospital that had an orange plasma thing showing heart rate and BP, and a few other things. Very bright and clear though.
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Yeah, the orange (or green) monochrome is such a striking display.
Green was the best though for writing. I had an Amstrad in the 80s with green mono screen and writing letters and things on that was nice as it wasn't eye straining, and it did the full 80 coluum text which was perfect for that kind of thing, I used a program called Tasword
Though predated by two CP/M systems - the Osbourne 1 which had a tiny 5" screen and the Kaypro II (fond memories)/
but yeah not particularly portable Might have been Kaypro that had the the ad about being able to fit under an airline seat.
It also had a couple of notable media appearances - the computer used by Peggy Hill on King of the Hill, and on NCIS: New Orleans doing things a CP/M system from 1982/83 just could not do.
As for Osbourne - they were a lesson in how to tank your company by talking about a new improved model (which was late) which had the impact of killing sales of your current model.
The local county college had a few around 1987. I played the first Wizardry game on them.
Also did some early word processing on orange monochrome monitors. It wasn't bad.
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I know what you mean. I did my most enjoyable writing on an Apple IIc.
I was just watching a youtube about the Sinclair Z88 and that would have been an interesting thing to write on. I like the idea of a portable word processor type of appliance. Something fixed with zero distractions.
I was too late to see / use an Apple II by the time we got to high school they were getting rid of them and I'm not sure what year but we had a room full of brand new BBC micros
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Oh yes, I love the classic word processors. You could get typing done. I'd like to get one one of these days that doesn't connect to the internet or anything, just an old word processor that can save text. I can do the rest.
Oh yes, I got to use our classroom Apple II when I was in elementary school, it was pretty new then. Played "Civil War" and "Carmen Sandiego" on it.
Then in high school we had the Apple IIc in my algebra class (loved it), my typing class had IBM PS/2s, which was the class where my typing teacher thought I was making threats against her because in my free time I was typing and printing out Star Trek parodies, oh, and our computer programming class had just got in brand new Power Mac 5200s, which our programming teacher would stay with us after school and we'd play Warcraft II over LAN. I wanted a Power Mac SOOOOO bad!
I still miss Triazzle.
I have a small issue with a USB 3 enclosure. I bought two of these for a couple of spare Samsung SSDs I had lying around.
https://www.pccasegear.com/products/51348/cruxtec-usb-3-0-2-5in-sata-hard-drive-enclosure-white
Anyway I planned to use the spare drives to make a backup of a bunch of folders and duplicate that on both drives. I got part way through the file copy when it just stops and I get the disconnect sound from the computer thinking the drive has been unplugged which then caused the computer to freeze up so had to hit the reset button, mouse everything had frozen up, tried this again with the other drive same thing so now contemplating that the enclosures are defective somehow because the drives had nothing wrong with them.
https://www.pccasegear.com/products/51348/cruxtec-usb-3-0-2-5in-sata-hard-drive-enclosure-white
Anyway I planned to use the spare drives to make a backup of a bunch of folders and duplicate that on both drives. I got part way through the file copy when it just stops and I get the disconnect sound from the computer thinking the drive has been unplugged which then caused the computer to freeze up so had to hit the reset button, mouse everything had frozen up, tried this again with the other drive same thing so now contemplating that the enclosures are defective somehow because the drives had nothing wrong with them.
