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  • Re: The Decline of PCs

    From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPTEST to MRO on Mon Dec 29 09:07:50 2025
    No joke. I eventually went to parting out and/or e-cycling most of
    what I had around. I few old cases became risers on my basement
    floor. A mini fridge sits on an empty old pentium case, for example.
    :D

    when i was a kid my dream was to have a room full of 7 ft tables with computers on them. now that i'm old i got rid of most of my computers. i'm just running one and i have 2 or 2 in a tub.

    Yeah, I remember thinking something like that would be a neat idea. Now,
    what I could plan to do with all of those machines, who knows?!? :D


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  • From Rob Mccart@VERT/CAPCITY2 to NIGHTFOX on Mon Dec 29 08:12:05 2025
    I haven't done anything but Print since I left school, other than for a signature.

    One of the arguments my 7th-grade English teacher said when telling me not
    >to use cursive anymore was that it's actually quicker to write with standard
    >print than with cursive because there are fewer strokes you need to make.

    That would be true of what I think of as True cursive. A lot of extra
    ink in almost every character.. Plain writing would go a lot faster but
    most people who use it get sloppy with speed and it gets harder to read.
    At least with printing most people can make out what you were saying.

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANTIR to Rob Mccart on Tue Dec 30 06:12:03 2025
    Re: The Decline of PCs
    By: Rob Mccart to OGG on Thu Dec 25 2025 09:07 am


    Looking briefly at the RClone info online it appears to be a
    tool to Handle other Cloud accounts and your devices rather
    than being a cloud storage system itself, although I'd imagine
    it must offer some degree of that..

    Rclone is just a tool for moving data in and out of any supported storage backend. This can be your FTP server, some mainstream cloud provider, or whatever have you.

    Rclone does not provide storage itself.


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  • From Rob Mccart@VERT/CAPCITY2 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Sat Jan 3 09:35:57 2026
    Ha.. For ages I had a huge Server system with 5 full sized bays but
    the hardware eventually got too old to mess with anymore and for
    a number of years it ended up being an end table beside my main
    computer desk. Sitting on the floor it was as tall as the desk.

    One of the BBS's systems in the 90s was a cast-off 486 server that came
    >in a desktop case as tall as a table. Locking front door, some unreal
    >number of 5 1/4" drive bays, and casters to move it around. I don't
    >think I had more than a single IDE drive and a tape drive in it.

    Sounds similar to mine, although I didn't have casters on mine or a
    locking front door. Mine was a 386 system originally. I would have
    had two 5.25 floppy drives in it and I think a 32 meg (updated from
    a 10 meg) hard drive. I remember having to custom make my own cables
    so I could get a Mouse to work on it..

    This would have been around 1988 or 89.

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