Thankfully on most of the subs I read, the people who have gotten severely downvoted actually deserved it (usually by being racist or sexist in a progressive sub).
So! I got the ST1400 (since I couldn't find a 1480) from eBay. The one I have is in not-great shape, but it does seem to work. The command processor is an 8051, the servo processor is an AMD 80C188 (!!!), and I saw no trace of the Zilog or ST chips …
Also, revisiting the Medalist Pro thing from a few pages back: I'm pretty sure these things can trace their lineage to the CDC Swift somehow, but I just haven't found the missing link yet. That missing link, however, may be the ST1400/ST1480, which …
This machine is actually a really good Doom machine, even with an ISA video card and the 486DX2-50. I took my mini-speakers downstairs, so sounds isn't always working, but I've listened to it on headphones and it's quite good.
And once again, it turns out the 486 had yet another thing wrong with it. This time, it seems to have been the IDE cable! I was using a cheap, rounded IDE cable before because the case is so tight, but those rounded cables have a unique property to …
MASSIVE COMPUTER STATUS UPDATE:The iMac G4 is no more. A component on the logic board let out the magic smoke at some point, and I was neither able to revive it nor find the failed component, so it's gone. RIP. I FINALLY HAVE THE IBM IN A GOOD PLACE…
My introduction to Toronto was, of course, in a movie where it was pretending to be NYC (and doing badly at it, seeing as how many things unique to Toronto made it into the movie).
Thankfully most of the people I follow on FB still are good about talking about their lives, and not just spamming memes or shilling products or something. That said, I really wish I didn't have to bother with it; the people I follow there are famil…