Various sources on 286 and 386 hardware, and how I'm going to try and upgrade a 286-16 to a 286-25... Oh and whether Windows 95 will dual boot with Windows 3.11 on a 386DX-40... utterly useless crap as my wife would put it, but then I am building both... You know, she may have a point?

Also, just had my 8086 running and realise I need some 5.25 discs to install Windows 1, so have been looking at eBay AND finally. I've decided I need to invest in a Socket 7 Mobo, and a quicker Super Socket 7 Mobo, but the prices for these have gone crazy already...

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Various sources on 286 and 386 hardware, and how I'm going to try and upgrade a 286-16 to a 286-25... Oh and whether Windows 95 will dual boot with Windows 3.11 on a 386DX-40... utterly useless crap as my wife would put it, but then I am building both... You know, she may have a point?

Also, just had my 8086 running and realise I need some 5.25 discs to install Windows 1, so have been looking at eBay AND finally. I've decided I need to invest in a Socket 7 Mobo, and a quicker Super Socket 7 Mobo, but the prices for these have gone crazy already...

Wow!

Hardware made by the ancients. ;)

Good luck!

Copy and paste this where your sig goes, it'll be readable on screen as an image, then just take the space out and you'll be good to go.
[img]http://boincstats.com/signature/-1/user/40398919/project/sig.png [/img]

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

For Your Eyes Only
Rereading this, a collection of short stories incl. A View to a Kill, For Your Eyes only.....
FYEO was published in 1960 and almost reads like a history piece. Good fun though

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Last time I read a book was 2000 ish as my sight got worse but enjoyed Traci Harding series as it covered past, present, and future with space and time, going back in time or forward..

Last time I read a book was 2000 ish as my sight got worse but enjoyed Traci Harding series as it covered past, present, and future with space and time, going back in time or forward..

You don't have to actually "read" a book. There are books on CD and there are also "audio books." Audible.com is the most well known and, if you're interested, it has a partnership with Amazon.

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~Sue~

"Leonardo da Vinci", by Walter Isaacson.

The Robots of Dawn.

Cheers.

Last time I read a book was 2000 ish as my sight got worse but enjoyed Traci Harding series as it covered past, present, and future with space and time, going back in time or forward..

You don't have to actually "read" a book. There are books on CD and there are also "audio books." Audible.com is the most well known and, if you're interested, it has a partnership with Amazon.

I lister to stories on pod casts. I lister to Star Trek fan fiction. There are three I like with around 150-200 hours of "Theater of the Mind" listening.

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Mmm...just installed IE5, I'll try running a version of BOINC on it eventually, but then installed some utilities, and an Application to run my Icom PCR-1000, must run out a long wire down the garden to have a listen.

I couldn't actually see the space, I think I need glasses.

I've got to invest in a couple of new PSUs for the rackmounts as the old 350 Watt units I have kicking about here don't supply enough to POST the motherboards, well one does but its unstable, the other gives up after briefly spinning the fans.

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Your local public library may have a collection of audio books that can either be "read" on a regular CD player or an MP3 player.

Tom

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A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association).

Tom
And using your public library will increase its chances of staying open when local authority expenditure is reviewed.

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Robots and Empire.

Cheers.

The Price of Scotland by Douglas Watt about Scotland's Darien Project. The reviews are superlative. The Darien disaster was the main factor behind the Act of Union in 1707 which led to the creation of the United Kingdom.
http://www.luath.co.uk/the-price-of-scotland-darien-union-and-the-wealth-of-nations.html

Just finished a whole series of spy stories by David Ignatius starting with Agents of Innocence. Great yarns mainly about the CIA
https://www.google.co.uk/search?ei=CpJtWv75JcXTsAegiZ_YCw&q=david+ignatius+books+in+order&oq=david+ignatius+books&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.35i39k1j0l2j0i22i30k1l3.2156.11313.0.14175.41.22.0.0.0.0.403.403.4-1.1.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..40.1.403.0...0.SIHcyLmn1I4

Enjoy

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"Dakota: A Spiritual Geography", by Kathleen Norris.

Foundation's Edge - Asimov.

Cheers.

"Astrophysics for People in a Hurry", by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Added to my TRP. If there are people here on social bookmarking website Goodreads, especially if you love SF and science, you're more than welcome to add me to your contacts.

"Astrophysics for People in a Hurry", by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

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Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020

"A Man Called Ove", by Fredrik Backman.

I'm reading "Into Thin Air", by Jon Krakauer, about climbing Mount Everest. First time I've heard the term, "third pole" used.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

"A Distant Mirror, The Calamitous 14th Century", by Barbara W. Tuchman. This is not a new book, with a 1978 copyright.
However, I am finding that it provides an interesting perspective of our own times (ours, being better, certainly).