I pulled the NC10’s motherboard out, stuck it in the oven — 200 degrees Celsius, five minutes, no fan — and baked it. Not metaphorically.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 hours ago

      I did worse, resurrected a 1999 industrial 486SX on Win98B. It was fun as hell trying to figure it all out again, and most references are gone from the early web. Which reminds me, time to get that 10-BaseT NIC working!

      • Bruncvik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        I have a 486, but with MS-DOS 6.2 and Norton Commander as a UI. Haven’t booted it up for about a decade, though, but don’t see a reason why it shouldn’t work. My Win98SE computer (Pentium 100), on the other hand, is still my gaming rig. Don’t need anything better for HoMM2, Master of Orion 2, and TES: Daggerfall.

      • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        That’s a little interesting because of the old 486sx and the lack of handholding.

        I think deploying dos and/or win3.1 with audio and 3d gfx would be interesting due to the lack of memory management and manual hardware config. Windows xp was pretty simple though.

    • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
      91·
      15 hours ago

      that’s because this “challenge” is the type of thing for college kids to do for the lulz. the author believes that this is interesting to people outside their social sphere.

      they are incorrect. at least in my opinion.

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.orgOP
        151·
        15 hours ago

        okay that’s enough. here’s the actual answer:

        People have told me I don’t know how good I have it.

        That my complaints about Linux['s accessibility for the blind] are too much. That I’m spoiled. That back in the day, things were harder. That Windows XP was worse in every way. That modern systems are faster, more usable, more accessible — and I’m just being dramatic.

        So I decided to call that bluff.

        —part 1

        One of the points Fireborn made in their famous “I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back” series is that Linux accessibility has deteriorated a lot over time.