hmm good point but if everyone threw away theyre old computers, we wouldnt have vintage computers and everything would be lost/forgotten... and i wanna get this 486 up and running because me and my friend are starting a computer buisness and we want it to be the main hub that everything runs around, we have software and everything its just we need to get it setup.
Stop it. You're killing me.
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FCC Section 97.313(a) “At all times, an amateur station must use the minimum transmitter power necessary to carry out the desired communications.”
hmm good point but if everyone threw away theyre old computers, we wouldnt have vintage computers and everything would be lost/forgotten... and i wanna get this 486 up and running because me and my friend are starting a computer buisness and we want it to be the main hub that everything runs around, we have software and everything its just we need to get it setup.
I'd love to hear how you're going to pull this off. If you actually manage, I'll buy you a beer. I have a 486 CPU as a trophy on top of my monitor.
I don't think that one could say its useless because you can use a Packratt 232 MBX with one and transmit Pactor, Baudot, Amtor, and Morse should you wish, and Packet of course
I don't think that one could say its useless because you can use a Packratt 232 MBX with one and transmit Pactor, Baudot, Amtor, and Morse should you wish, and Packet of course
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Correct. Just for nostalgic purposes now, I occasionally use an Apple ][+ for 2 Meter packet operations. It just keeps going, and going, and going...
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I still have my first Vic 20. Its still working, but I doubt I could use it for a backbone for a business.
I also have functioning Apple IIe but never did get the floppy drives for it.
My original IBM compatible 8088 computer with an actual 850mb hard drive still works too.
I have a hand held scanner and a dot matrix printer lashed up to it as well as the blindingly fast 7400 baud telephone modem that probably still works still in it.
Around two years ago I used it to send and receive some fax messages just to see if it was still working.
Some folks down the road gave me a PII the other day, I’ve been using it to play the original Command and Conquer. I got the ISO of the game for free while back but was unable to get it to go with my XP machine. I still had the installation disks for Windows 95 from my Acer PII so I installed that and the game runs fine on it.
Its kinda fun to dig out the old stuff and play with it from time to time but to actually try to use it these days to do real work can be frustrating.
While the 8088 machine does work for faxes and as a word processor you type your page and even as slow as I type I can out run the key buffer then you connect to some other fax machine and wait and wait for the fax to be sent.
Not the cutting edge you need to have a computer store.
It might be nice to have several old stations set up around the shop to show folks how slow they truly are so you can sell them the latest flash bang all bells an whistles new one if you have the room but,… get real.
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