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ltning.bsky.social
@ltning.bsky.social
He/him. I've tried to move all my socials to the Fediverse (see name), but I'm told I need to be here, too.

#FreeBSD and #OSS enthusiast with a craving for retro (mostly PC) hardware. Four kids and a wonderful patchwork family.

http://floppy.museum/
The museum in Helmond is absolutely fantastic. I've visited twice. The town is cute too. :)
July 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I got mine today. Reads 1992. :)
December 29, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Imagine the voltages and magnetic fields inside of it, needed to bend those beams around such sharp corners .. take care when you open it up, yeah? And if you've plugged it in any time in the last... year or so, give it another year to discharge ;)
December 29, 2024 at 2:18 AM
That one is so big and flat it almost passes as an LCD. Half points only, I'm sorry Sir.
December 29, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Haha okay I guess I prioritise my eyes and having room for at least one more OpenBenchTable. ;)
I also have a 17" (or is it 19"?) Trinitron (why doesn't autocorrect know that word?!?) but mostly use it when I'm mess up display settings in OS/2 so the LCD can't render the signal. :D
December 29, 2024 at 2:12 AM
You know back in the day people used to have these ..what were they called... houses? Large dwellings with plenty of space for CRT monitors and TVs, gramophone players, guest rooms, multiple bathrooms and walk-in closets.
Nowadays people live in shoe boxes with desks the size/depth of door mats. :D
December 29, 2024 at 1:57 AM
Particularly when tcp/ip is added to the mix (and tcpbeui). Who needs that in DOS anyway? It's for the big boys in suits running OS/2 and they have all the memory in the world!
I mean a 286 with NetBIOS over TCP/IP is quickly down to ~450kb conventional mem by the time the first drive is mapped..
December 10, 2024 at 3:49 AM
It's, I suspect, one of the reasons the 16-bit lanman client for dos never got much memory optimisation love. Why waste time saving a few kb when the 640kb limit was about to be a thing of the past anyway?
December 10, 2024 at 3:46 AM
Wouldn't think of it.
November 17, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Yep. I only ever fired it up once, I wasn't a big gamer at the time. May need to install it on one of my boxes one of these days...if I can find a copy that doesn't have to be purchased :P
November 17, 2024 at 3:19 AM
What was that massive game from Stardock? Galactic Civilizations or something?
November 17, 2024 at 2:35 AM
Not dual screens, but several OS/2 machines around here :D
November 17, 2024 at 2:34 AM