Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Drool



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Other than my first computer, an IBM PS/2-30, every desktop computer I have owned has been either scratch-built or a salvaged unit with some newer parts. My current desktop at home is an IBM 8000 series that I dug out of a dumpster and installed new RAM, a hard drive and a better optical drive. The keyboard is the old Model M that came with the PS/2. My work computer (my own) is a second-hand eMachines with newer RAM and a DVD/RW drive.

The Philco computer, though, I could seriously go for.

(H/T)

5 comments:

Sarah said...

Hey, that model M keyboard is the cat's pajamas. I know someone who won't use anything else.

While I like the positive clicky action, I couldn't deal with the complaints from people at work. It's loud.

Hmm.... I think I have one somewhere in the basement. I should dig it up for home.

SkinnyDennis said...

My first was a Heathkit H89.
http://oldcomputers.net/heathkit-h89.html

I still have it. Bet it would boot up, too.

Eck! said...

Still running the MIS Altair 8800 and
a collection of North*Star Horizon and a few other S100 antiques. They are circa 1978 and before (Altair is jan 1975!). Fossils still abound out there
and some of them are running machines and doing other useful work.

My H89 boots, My PDP8f and LSI-11 too.
Old is not nonfunctional. It is incompatable with modern computing due
mostly to the supersized data that used to be tiny like basic text messages.

That steampunk retro is a nice look shame it runs winders. Winders we've taken computer OS reliability back.. You can't handle it.

Myself, I still what what was forcasted and still hasn't arrived.

Eck!

Nangleator said...

Actually, that computer is a CG model and doesn't exist. It's just a resumé piece for the CG artist.

We love steam punk. (I'm in that business myself.)

Comrade Misfit said...

I know that it's CG only.

(At least for now.)