Almost makes ya wanna track down a TRS-80.
Almost.
Almost.
Another take on the Original Enterprise...
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Forgive the children, they know not what they do.Oh, good grief. I had to take a class in Fortran in 1992! I had to take that class as a prerequisite for my engineering courses, and was rather annoyed that it was no longer required (basically obsolete) the very next year.
Having said that I dont wanna go back to punch cards and 3420 reel to reel tapes either.
Hey guys, back off!
I took one Computer Fundamentals class in college in 2001. It was a late night night course. I didn't get alot out of it, but the teacher was all excited about quantum computing so I looked that up cause it sounded like a neato idea.
However, I grew up with an ancient Tandy 1000EX at my disposal. Complete with 4.5" boot-up floppies. So I'm at least aware of command prompts.
--Alex
Hey, watch it, you! I have one ten meters away from me, stored, but quite operational as of six years ago. Heavily hacked to extend its functionality, it remained my primary PC until 1986.
I currently have at my exposal two Commodore 64's, 2 Atari 8 bit machines, the wonderful Atari 512 and 1040ST, two MSX I machines, an original IBM XT (the one in the picture) three IBM PS/2 model 30 machine, one of them with HDD, all 8086 machines, a Philips NMS and its twin brother the P 3105 (the one next to the IBM XT) an original IBM AT 286 at a blistering 6Mhz this machine has 640K of piggy back RAM (whoaaa!!) also a very early 80386 DX 20 which has a 387 co-processor of course I have not one but TWO 80486 DX2 66Mhz machines, one clone and and IBM PS/2 Model 77i, then a few Pentiums a 133, 166MMX and 223MMX, I also have a Cyrix 686MX PR 200 which is a strange but neat CPU, then a P-II 333, a P-II 400, two P-III 450's an IBM Netfinity 1000 server which is a P-III 650 and is the most vicious piece of hardware I own, it looks like Darth Vader and it behaves the same way as well besides these machines I have a dozen or so more (53 or so in total.)
besides these machines I have a dozen or so more (53 or so in total.) 
Well, while I still have my old TI-99/4A stored away safely, I haven't actually turned it on in, what, 15 years? I do have a TI emulator, running on DOS, itself running within VirtualPC 2007... an emulator running an emulator... but that still works out pretty nicely if I ever get the urge to play "Tunnels of Doom" or "Parsec" (principally for that "ah, I remember spending uncounted hours of my wasted youth on this" feeling). 
Wow, man. you've got me beat, for sure, and I thought I had a ton of stuff.
I'd like to see a pic of that Darth Vader server you speak of.
I'd like to see a pic of that Darth Vader server you speak of.
http://homepage3.nifty.com/yanaken/pclife/image/nf3000-1.jpg
^^ That guy happens to have a similar machine.
^^ That guy happens to have a similar machine.
I-Am-Zim
Captain
I just had to do that. Anyway, I'm new here and I just want to say that I am monumentally impressed with the work Cary is doing on the TOS Enterprise. These scematics are fantastic. I'm currently working on a vintage cut-away TOS Enterprise model kit and these pictures will be invaluable. I know the old cut-away Enterprise kit is pretty much junk because the details aren't even anywhere close to accurate. But I think it looks pretty cool anyway. And it's a nice project that I can work on with my son. He's a big Trekkie like his dad.
. Anyway, I'm new here and I just want to say that I am monumentally impressed with the work Cary is doing on the TOS Enterprise. These scematics are fantastic. I'm currently working on a vintage cut-away TOS Enterprise model kit and these pictures will be invaluable. I know the old cut-away Enterprise kit is pretty much junk because the details aren't even anywhere close to accurate. But I think it looks pretty cool anyway. And it's a nice project that I can work on with my son. He's a big Trekkie like his dad.
Oh, that thing. I have one of those.http://homepage3.nifty.com/yanaken/pclife/image/nf3000-1.jpg
^^ That guy happens to have a similar machine.
Of course, I ripped it's guts out when I built a hackintosh out of it. It's currently empty, in the closet.
Just a brief update...
The new machine is up and running... sorta-kinda.
Turns out that there's a lot more "Digital Rights Management" stuff than I'd really been aware of. My intention was just to transfer the OS hard drive directly and let it remain unchanged. However, many, many aspects of my system ceased to function after the "swap-out." Turns out that this is almost entirely due to "DRM" issues...
SO, I've saved off the contents of my hard drive and am now doing a full, clean-sheet OS reinstallation. Apparently, any time you update your motherboard and CPU some things'll barf on ya... far more than I ever imagined.
Yeah, I could've labored through with the bugs, and fixed them later, but that'll only make it more painful in the long run.
I HATE DRM. This is the sort of thing that makes me almost... ALMOST... support software piracy.
ANYTHING to get rid of the evils of DRM.
The new machine is up and running... sorta-kinda.
Turns out that there's a lot more "Digital Rights Management" stuff than I'd really been aware of. My intention was just to transfer the OS hard drive directly and let it remain unchanged. However, many, many aspects of my system ceased to function after the "swap-out." Turns out that this is almost entirely due to "DRM" issues...
SO, I've saved off the contents of my hard drive and am now doing a full, clean-sheet OS reinstallation. Apparently, any time you update your motherboard and CPU some things'll barf on ya... far more than I ever imagined.
Yeah, I could've labored through with the bugs, and fixed them later, but that'll only make it more painful in the long run.
I HATE DRM. This is the sort of thing that makes me almost... ALMOST... support software piracy.
ANYTHING to get rid of the evils of DRM.I wish I knew what you guys were talking about- but I know it's not about The Enterprise 
It's about the contraption that's gonna be used to make the Enterprise. Cary's version, at least.
Perhaps we should pool our resources when he's done and buy him a 3D printer. Then he could build the thing and beam us all up when he's done.
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No, on second thought, I'd rather not be stuck on a spaceship with a bunch of Trekkies. You probably all smell at least as bad as I do.
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No, on second thought, I'd rather not be stuck on a spaceship with a bunch of Trekkies. You probably all smell at least as bad as I do.
Just a brief update...
The new machine is up and running... sorta-kinda.
Turns out that there's a lot more "Digital Rights Management" stuff than I'd really been aware of. My intention was just to transfer the OS hard drive directly and let it remain unchanged. However, many, many aspects of my system ceased to function after the "swap-out." Turns out that this is almost entirely due to "DRM" issues...
SO, I've saved off the contents of my hard drive and am now doing a full, clean-sheet OS reinstallation. Apparently, any time you update your motherboard and CPU some things'll barf on ya... far more than I ever imagined.
Yeah, I could've labored through with the bugs, and fixed them later, but that'll only make it more painful in the long run.
I HATE DRM. This is the sort of thing that makes me almost... ALMOST... support software piracy.
How the hell does DRM figure into this? This I gotta hear.
Wow...talk about a trip down memory lane. My first "real" job was working for Texas Instruments in Lubbock, TX repairing the TI-99/4A.
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