@whitequark signel integritty is my pashion

@whitequark Scavenging old computers to make current ones work ... Cyber Punk is not dead.

@nela I would be quite curious about the results! especially if you can measure SI somehow

@mer @whitequark I have this suspicion that the normal use case is to be able to interface the SO-DIMM to a DIMM socket on a RAM tester

@datenwolf @whitequark I remember this thing in particular and how shock/vibration sensitive it made the PC

@RedstoneLP2 @jn @whitequark I recently found an sff thinkcentre in front of an e-waste bin, no ram of course, ddr4 is gold these days so it's possible it was kept by the previous owner. i had some laptop ram to spare, so i did purchase these adapters. i can only use one slot, the other module would not fit due to the presence of the drive cage (and even the one i can use is sort of rubbing against the fan shroud, but it works, so whatever.)

@whitequark what about the bus speed and width? Is it really fully compatible? Isn't it slower, or something?

@thejessiekirk @whitequark

https://notalwaysright.com/laptop-flop-part-44/405289/

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @whitequark wtf is an "activist investor"?

@M0YNG @whitequark @elexia this one weird phenomenon means second-hand MacBooks have stayed basically the same price this whole time

@north @whitequark

It is a term that emerged. I wanna say a couple of decades ago and usually meant an investor that use their ownership in accompanying to force specific business decisions.

So, in this case, the investor would be dictating to the company management to make an AI play or somehow sell itself to an AI company.

@whitequark @M0KHR @datenwolf i learned C on a 33 MHz amd386 with 4 MB of SIMM RAM and i think a 128 MB HDD running dos 5 and win 3.1.

This was circa 1999, so w9x was out, but we kept this box until around 2001 when we got an 800ish MHz pentium 3 running windows mistake edition (very shortly upgraded to XP).

@noisytoot @whitequark that's an adapter you use to get enough ram to run SAP

@azonenberg @whitequark @M0KHR @datenwolf thank you all for making me feel insanely old. I'm pretty sure I threw a hip out thinking about how my first PC was... literally a 5150 PC. Cassette port and all. Eventually with an expansion chassis and a couple 10MB HD.

Now to go back to figuring out where that 256GB of RAM disappeared to.

@azonenberg @whitequark @M0KHR @datenwolf The nineties were such an exciting time if you were into computing. Every time a computer magazine dropped in your mailbox, clock speeds had gone up again. (I learned C on an x86 with 640k RAM and a 30MB HD.)

@tom_verbeure @whitequark @M0KHR @datenwolf It's funny how everyone else who grew up in the same time period has all these formative memories of playing games on 95/98 etc and I never had that.

I was doodling in 16-bit PBRUSH.EXE and writing C in EDIT.COM

@noisytoot @whitequark they left that to prove it was written by a human

@azonenberg @tom_verbeure @whitequark @datenwolf

Computing went through a mad pace of change between 1985 and 2000, from 8-bit computers to 64 bit becoming relatively affodable with Alpha chip.

I went from doing BASIC on my Spectrum 48k as a kid to running multi-user systems on Intel/AMD architecture.

Meanwhile, the last 15 years in user-end hasn't that much advanced. Yeah, more cores, more RAM but I've already had more than 4GB RAM on my PC in 2010, and even now that's quite OK with Linux.

@whitequark @datenwolf those came angled in 2 different directions so you could install 2 of them.

@whitequark @mxk but I need the other way round