they give us their poison (insurmountably complex, for solo programmer, web frameworks like django)so they can sell us their cure (vibe coding with...

   tbh i wish rsync were faster for local filesystem syncing, its so slow with small filesi like to use rsync for moving Very Important Files as i can ...

   who's rewriting rsync in rust rn

   no beep thoback in the day 12v was mostly for disk motors, audio amps and serialif ur only running modern flash media a lot of need for 12v goes...

   but never mind that lets see if she choochesinfo on the 1000 RL is hard to come by, squinting at trickster's old photos, starting from the back...

   lets strip it downsome nasty battery corrosion around the dallas chip is going to need some cleanup #retrocomputing #MSDOS

   RELEASE THE TANDY behold, a Tandy 1000 RL that has sadly been stripped, this particular model was the final and best of the Tandy 1000 line, a last...

   well i bought it for CGA but it only came with a VGA cable...Samsung SyncMaster pinouts indicate a straight through DB-9 cable should do for CGA EGA,...

   a few more rounds of attempting to locate the dodgy connection and it just seems to work now???well i sure don't fuckin' trust it but i need...

   so i spend some time untangling and re-looming the sus wiring, and the curse seems reduced to the geometry changing slightly when you move...

   MY FAVORITE THING, INTERMITTENT PROBLEMS i flip it on its side and manage to slip the board out enough to inspect the solder connections and they all...

   the cleaner seems to solve the arcing problem, but some intermittent connection demons still lurk insideloosened up the pots on the back so i can...

   lot of pots are bent backwards, caps are bent over, stuff is scraped and the cable routing is very susit seems someone got in here and brutalized it...

   a useful retro tool, now does it work...on first powerup there's some spectacular arcing around the flyback coil i fail to get on camera, but it...

   i can find next to nothing about this monitor online, just a few ad listings of 439 in PC Magazine from December 1988a bit pricey, but probably the...

   apparently i repair CRTs nowthe new MN Retro Tech Club meet venue is not far from Free Geek so a group shopping run may become a traditionmrmind is...

   SvarDOSclean boot TPA: 584Kdisk usage: 83KWinner: SvarDOSbeats DOS 5.0 by 3k TPA and uses 33k less disk space by utilizing compressioni find no...

   The Last MS-DOS, Version 6.22 was very desirable on 386 machines for its UMB maximizing featureswasn't much reason to put it on an 8088 which...

   MS-DOS 5.0 supports 3.5in floppies out of the box, larger hard drives, has online help, and is generally nicer to usemost people were happy to...