@datenwolf @whitequark Thanks, now I got it.

@azonenberg @tom_verbeure @whitequark @M0KHR @datenwolf My first computer was a second hand 386SX20 running MSDOS 5.0 in 1994. I quickly upgraded the 1 MB of RAM to 4MB and installed a Mitsumi FX001(S). It was basically a DOS machine, even if it had Win 3.1 installed. I was never much into gaming but rather wrote programs in assembler using debug.exe (Ralph Brown's Interrupt List FTW).
First new machine was a K6-266 with Win98 in 1998 (but still no games, Winamp, DivX and the like...)

@tom_verbeure @azonenberg @whitequark @M0KHR

"3com" maybe? You know, the NIC manufacturer who cheaped out on MAC address allocations and reused MAC addresses for cards sold in different geographical regions.

@datenwolf @tom_verbeure @azonenberg @M0KHR that must be standard practice now, isn't it? does anybody promise globally unique hwaddrs?

@whitequark @tom_verbeure @azonenberg @M0KHR

MACs are 48 bit. So far there's still enough address space left for no collisions to be neccessary. And since bad things happen when you have an MAC address collision within a network segment, and the likelyhood of that only going up: I hope that 3com was an outlier.

3com bet on their doubly assigned cards to never meet in a shared broadcast domain. It happened within months.

@datenwolf @tom_verbeure @azonenberg @whitequark

Oooh, I had a batch of those once! Installed on a couple of office computers as a 100Mbit upgrade, and then they didn't work thanks to collisions! No wonder they were cheap.

Edit: actually they weren't even cheap. I remember jumping into my car and driving to Dixons to grab a bunch of cards to replace them because they were needed *now*

@datenwolf @azonenberg @whitequark @M0KHR Way too expensive! All I remember is that they were NE2000 compatible but Novell was too expensive as well. We used a single coax cable instead of UTP.

@whitequark

Yep, they work as long as you have the space for the adapters.

@whitequark

@SeaDonut this is not real tho

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems im using one of those right now lol, im lucky i happened to have a 16gb sodimm stick lying around

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems EVEN FOR DDR3???

@whitequark

I got a wee bit of DDR3 laptop RAM
- a bit of DDR4 laptop RAM
- some old RAM 386s, ealy Pentium systems
- several old hard drives (working)

None of it is for sale. Gonna be my backup system.

@whitequark @catsalad

This ram shortage adaptor shit is getting way out of hand...

#Aislop #Ramshortage

@whitequark

Edit: forgot to write anything.

Here's a review of them.

https://youtu.be/RKbEEqku9aU

@whitequark I need to grab a few of those

@sverx @whitequark the price isn't much different but if you need RAM in your desktop and you have some laptop RAM around, the high prices of both make this kludge worthwhile.

@sverx @whitequark Give it time.

@whitequark was gonna post this cus it came on my feed too but i fucking knew i wasn't the only one... Thanks ali....

@thejessiekirk @whitequark This is the question I'm here to find the answer to.