DarrenKC53

I ordered a case from them which was damaged, it had Haribo in the box. Sent that case back minus the Haribo and the replacement also had the sweets so the must just put them in all boxes.

Here in the UK a lot of sites, and some run by a certain local newspaper (yes we really still have local newspapers) have either an Accept option or choose. If you click on choose you get a list with over one hundred organisations that want to share/borrow your details/spy on you. Annoyingly each time to be able to reject them all you need to click through 3 different popup boxes!

Yeah some of these youngsters here lol. My dad had a Commdore 64. I had an Amstrad CPC 6128. After that era I had an Amstrad PC1640 Some sort of IBM PS/2 A Compaq Prolinea 486 (breaks my heart now that both of these were just disposed of) and then first build some Cyrix 133+ based system in a beige mini AT case , wow did those Cyrix things run hot!

@LinusTech James on Tech linked the other day was brilliant, more like that please! Its always great as well when he guest co-hosts The WAN NAW Show

They are dummy or continuity ram modules for use with RDRAM. With that type of ram you couldn't leave any slots empty so had to use those, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDRAM

Some retro documentation here, found recently. Unfortunately not got any hardware from the system it refers to, and I'd even forgotten about Apricot existing, its dated 1989. The system seems quite advance for the time, there's a section in the Owner's Handbook about the model which had an exchangeable hard drive.

I liked the old set but they seem to have a better setup sound wise now. The only thing I'd like to see is zoom the camera out a little to frame the presenters better, they seemed a bit too close on Friday

Or Tailosive Tech He seemed pretty upset by the Imac Pro thing.

Whats going on with the WAN show set lately, I thought it was only quite recently redecorated etc?

There was very little money in this in the late 90s and definitely none now (the retail side at least)

He's still on the WAN show most weeks though.

A couple more from me of the IBM PS/1. Clearly from the era when case design was functional and nothing else!

It's gotta be a joke/trolling attempt. Luke is usually very funny about things being shown/shared on screen and will often stop Linus showing certain things, yet he sat and stared at this for ages, and it came back a few times on different screen shares without it being removed and Luke not prompting Linus about it....

Wow, that must make it one of the models with the monitor integrated with the rest of the system? Also DOS on ROM? Any pictures?

Its the 2133 model with a 386 proper old skool Intel 80386SX @ 25 MHz RAM 2MB VRAM 256KB SIMM 2×72 Pin FPM Hard Drive 59G9567 (85 MB IDE) I've got a source on an IBM monitor locally and a dot matrix printer which would be time relevant to it so hopefully can get it all working again soon. Loving some of these other posts here, especially the beige box PCs from the late 90s when home computing really took off and had started to become affordable and mainstream. I worked in a small computer shop during that era, boy did we sell some crap. Worst at the time I remember was the PC Chips motherboards with on board everything (which in those days was always crap) and needed about a million jumper settings changed to get everything to work paired with the AMD K6 processors. Certainly dont miss the effort it took to get those things working!