Laptops from System76 and Framework are always advertising that they work well with Linux, but that's NOTHING compared to this.
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Jonathan ‘theJPster’ Pallantreplied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone how does a PS/2 mouse know a Serial adapter has been plugged in? Do they put a Serial signal into an otherwise unused pin?
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@foone I think it might just barely be able to run Doom. Minimum requirements are 4mb 386
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okay I got it working with a much more boring mouse.
once @gewt gets out of her meeting I'll try doing dialup with it. -
oh hey it still has credentials saved for the previous user's ISP
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Jonathan ‘theJPster’ Pallant last edited by
@thejpster Something like that, yeah. Or they wire it so that if they're plugged into PS/2 they get power on a different pin, so they can tell which one is plugged in
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@crobbler the fun part is that the main reason it can't run doom is a lack of HARD DRIVE space! there's nowhere you could install Doom to!
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it's also got a PCMCIA port. so maybe I could shove an ethernet card in there
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or a hard drive card big enough to let me run DOOM
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@foone INTERNET? OMG WHAT IS THAT
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OKAY I dug through my PCMCIA box a little.
We've got some storage adapters, some storage cards, and some ethernets. -
@foone and the "Internet" works ?
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@gabriel good question!
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the manual implies that the PCMCIA slot is only for storage. So far it hasn't liked any of the cards I've put in it.
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and that they'll sell you 4mb or 10mb cards.
those fuckers better not have stuck some kind of crappy DRM on this thing to make them only work with their own cards
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@foone they know the existence of the Pentium/66 so... 1996 or 1997?
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okay I got a 10mb drive to work. now to install Doom on it
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WHAT? 10mb isn't enough for Doom?!
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@foone I don't think I ever owned this many. Although I did have a rare prize at one point, a Token Ring card, because I needed it to work at IBM in the year of our lord 2001. I don't think we got Ethernet until '04 or so.
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@the_turtle This program might be newer than the computer
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@markemer heh. these are just the ones I pulled out of the box.
I have way, way more