• flandish@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    loved the 90’s slackware era “oops i forgot to burn this with network drivers… and it was my only machine.”

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      3 days ago

      do u remember when they warned you if you got the dot pitch setting wrong for your CRT it could destroy it? I was like wtf?

      • Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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        3 days ago

        That was a plot point in Cryptonomicon. And yeah the XFree86 docs mentioned it too…

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      3 days ago

      I had to hoof it to a friends house with floppies a few times after breaking my system. Good times.