Grabthar
@Grabthar@lemmy.world
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 weeks ago:
Cool, I’ve wanted an OS ROM chip since the early nineties, and often wondered why nobody seemed to be doing it. Guess they were all along!
You technically didn’t have to park the old MFM and RLL drives, but if you didn’t, then you just had the drive heads resting on the platters after you shut them down. Then if you bumped or moved the PC at that time, it could scratch the disk like a record. If you never tried to move it, there probably wasn’t much risk.
From the sound of it, the HDD in your Tandy probably would have been an MFM or RLL drive, and depending on the drive model, it either autoparked the drive heads or didn’t. As a PC clone running MS-DOS, the command was probably supported, but maybe not needed. Or you may have just been the equivalent of one of those rebels who held down the power button every time they wanted to shut down the PC and always got away with it!
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 weeks ago:
This taught me many lessons in life, but the one I carry in my heart to this day is piracy.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, old drives didn’t autopark like the IDE drive in your spiffy 486. I had an XT growing up, and dad was militant about having us remember to park the drive when we were done with it. I think by the end of the 80s, all drives were IDE and were autoparking, so the command was deprecated.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 weeks ago:
The one I remember best was having to use the DOS ‘park’ command before you shut down the PC. I guess I am that old.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 3 weeks ago:
Once Bitten, Joe vs the Volcano, and Mortal Kombat are all way better movies than they should have been.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 3 weeks ago:
I’d watch it for the Europe-heavy soundtrack alone, but the film is a damned masterpiece.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 3 weeks ago:
Square hogs! Yeah, it’s fair to say I loved this one from the start.
- Comment on I knew it 3 weeks ago:
Gotta have room to fly downstairs to the kitchen for that late night glass of water.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I did three days once and was still lucid. Wasn’t even really tired, so I even went clubbing until 5am on the last night. I could have stayed up longer, but I had no reason to be up anymore, so I got four or five hours of sleep and was back on schedule. Some people just can’t do that kind of thing, and it seems to be easier for others. Dude from China sounds like a machine though. I’d guess be was the right combination of the kind of person who doesn’t require a lot of sleep and stubborn as hell.
- Comment on Anon needs medical attention 2 months ago:
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 4 months ago:
Why do all the 0 calorie sweeteners have to taste like a dead hobo’s arse?
- Comment on nope don’t like it 4 months ago:
This is my hole, it was made for me!
- Comment on guys... :( 4 months ago:
In case you want to use it more than once.
- Comment on Probably 8 months ago:
And I thought this was going to be a joke about her putting the audience to sleep.
- Comment on Nobel Prize in Lit 2024 8 months ago:
That’s just like, your opinion, man.
- Comment on Last channel rule 8 months ago:
We knew that if you pressed the satellite button and channel up/down, it let you manually move the dish, and it didn’t care how long you did it. There were also numbers to indicate the position of the dish. The rest was just sheer determination.
- Comment on Last channel rule 8 months ago:
Had C-band satellite as a teen. All the good channels locked. But if the satellite Spacenet 1 transponder 18 was locked, you could “fine tune” the reception from say, Galaxy 3 transponder 18 by holding the step up or down button, and manually swing the dish halfway across the sky to the same position where Spacenet 1 is. As the descrambler thinks you are watching a different satellite altogether, there is no more lock. And since you never actually visited a bad channel, no way to tell with history or last buttons.
- Comment on Do deaf people play media with sound on? 9 months ago:
Yeah, I’d love that. I think a good number of subs I end up downloading are written by some dude trying their best, and if they don’t know the language, they can’t really begin to guess how to spell the words. But anything released by a studio or on a streaming site has no excuse.
- Comment on dataisbeautiful 9 months ago:
True, and it even tracks with the lack of success for Joan Rivers’ talk show career.
- Comment on Who says OSHA compliance doesn't have to be fun? 9 months ago:
Some say that forklift is still running today.
- Comment on Uh oh 10 months ago:
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3 now though, right?
- Comment on Missing cold pizza 1 year ago:
- Comment on There's no such thing as too much garlic 1 year ago:
There was a shawarma place I used to go to that had an interesting “garlic sauce”. You couldn’t call it toum, as it was either not whipped with oil or they stopped after adding a splash. It had the appearance of being just very finely chopped garlic, like somebody ran it through a food processor until it was almost a paste. And fuck, it was so good on their donair pizzas. We used to get a small tub to go with it, but after a slice of the pizza, a sip of beer would set your tongue on fire. And the next morning, shaving would make the bathroom smell like fresh garlic. Definitely too much, but oddly worthwhile from time to time.
- Comment on Know the difference!!! 1 year ago:
That’s cuz ya basic like one :)
- Comment on Lions are just big cats. They like scratches under the chin and everything. 1 year ago:
But coming up against a full grown 800 pound tuna with his 20 or 30 friends, you lose that battle, you lose that battle 9 times out of 10.
- Comment on Why do people throw out old motors, bicycles, anything metal into rivers and lakes instead of a junk yard or the trash system? 1 year ago:
Canada used to do this, but then they switched to charging the disposal “eco” fee up front when you buy the product new. Everything from that point on has been free to dispose of. Any metal or electronics products are all saleable scrap though, so you can get paid for them if you take them to a metal recycler instead of the dump. A lot of places advertise free places to dump those products so they can take them in to sell. Some will even come pick them up for free as well. But if something doesn’t have an eco fee or isn’t otherwise valuable scrap or recyleable, you pay by weight to landfill it.
- Comment on Anon shows off Linux in class 1 year ago:
Thanks mom!
- Comment on Finally, fans are getting what they've been demanding for years, a crossover event between the Kelvinverse and... World of Tanks 1 year ago:
Bolos?
- Comment on Smooth 1 year ago:
There’s nothing like the sight of a shorn Skarsgård; it’s breathtaking, I suggest you try it.
- Comment on Dare you to try again 1 year ago:
Pkunk are (going to be) real?
