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I got rid of a 4 foot tall pile of PC Pro etc. some years ago.
All the rest of the mags are now down in the garage, totally inaccessible, in plastic boxes of a size that is essentially unmovable, along with a shedload of paperbacks that I have no bookshelf space for in the house (having originally lived in a book case in the parents' house).
I have retained the multiplicity of CDs and DVDs off the front of said mags since they don't take up all that much space and some of them have useful stuff (if you run Win3.11/95/98/2000/XP and the like ).
I'm not sure of the utility of the CP/M stuff though.
I've been considering what to do with the CDs etc. as I don't really have any use for them. The Internet Archive has a growing collection of such things, so I might ship them off to California to be preserved for posterity
I've been considering what to do with the CDs etc. as I don't really have any use for them. The Internet Archive has a growing collection of such things, so I might ship them off to California to be preserved for posterity
Surely there must be some sort of ap to allow one to run some essential DOS or Win3.11 program from 1991 on one's Mac?
Speaking of washrooms, the bogs on this floor were out of action earlier.
I thusly had to walk 50 yards to the other end of the building to take a slash.
And how the telephone exchange is fecked.
'Tis all go in academia today.
Plus I went to Waterstones & spent another £30 at lunch time.
One of the 2nd year esteemed customers just asked me how to do a problem in network (electrical not computer) theory that uses the superposition theorem.
Pleasantly warm afternoon, hilarious goings on at the client.
Cadbury's haven't produced anything as flakey as their network. (that's the polite version, the adult version is: "If only your wife went down as often as the network")
And I'm getting asked the question: "why is the database slow?" (I'm not a DBA)
I ask them to run tests. Where the network is stable, the results are fine. No slow database, no timeouts, etc.
Where the network is flakey, the results are slower.
I should start sorting out old magazines. I find it easier to get motivated now the things that were in the way are no longer in the way, being in the space formerly occupied by the old bookcases; having to spend (what seems like) ages (but is really only a few minutes) shifting stuff around before being able to start is highly demoralising.
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