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A whole generation of computer nerds are growing up and never knowing the joy of making your own crossover cat 5 cables.
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White/orange, orange, white/green, blue, white/blue, green, white/brown, brown
Edit: oh, crossover. Switch the....orange and green on the other end? Lol. Can't recall off the top of my head. I'm a software developer, dammit.
2nd edit: Yep. Orange and green.
3rd edit: I remember cutting a hole between my brother's room and mine, buying a hub with cascade capability, and cutting a hole in the wall with my neighbors. Four person LAN action. We didn't have broadband.
Edit: oh, crossover. Switch the....orange and green on the other end? Lol. Can't recall off the top of my head. I'm a software developer, dammit.
2nd edit: Yep. Orange and green.
3rd edit: I remember cutting a hole between my brother's room and mine, buying a hub with cascade capability, and cutting a hole in the wall with my neighbors. Four person LAN action. We didn't have broadband.
If you don't have a turbo button on your pc, are you even alive?
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oh man i've never done that before but one of my old roomies did once. i also watched an IT guy i used to work with do that with some spare cables he had since he had crimpers. glad i never had to deal with OLD old problems.
but yeah, i knew what a Soundblaster was. i remember my dad being psyched we were getting one in a PC he had built for us when i was in highschool. the day i started using integrated sound was weird. then again i always seemed to have issues with my sound cards so i don't exactly miss them.
but yeah, i knew what a Soundblaster was. i remember my dad being psyched we were getting one in a PC he had built for us when i was in highschool. the day i started using integrated sound was weird. then again i always seemed to have issues with my sound cards so i don't exactly miss them.
Tried that. Studied enough for the Net+ to know what you're talking about but stupid enough so that i'd never be able to put it to good use.
Instead kids these days are hosting and administrating their own servers, firewall port forwarding, cheating using packet injection and local proxies, and writing their own mods. I'm only nostalgic for rj45 crimping when I'm making one for a friend. I definitely do not miss making hundreds at a time.
That said I'm sure kids these days could learn how to do it (maybe not well but good enough) after 20 minutes of YouTube.
That said I'm sure kids these days could learn how to do it (maybe not well but good enough) after 20 minutes of YouTube.
Much the same for me, to be honest. I am definitely in agreement on jumper settings though... I do not miss IDE drives.
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I remember tryign to get a DOS game to run, I ended making computer ONLY boot up into that gameHaving to write a specific AUTOEXEC.BAT config so I could run this:
I'm an 90's baby and never dealt with these demonic phrases. Although our family didn't get our first PC until 2000.
Yeah. I'm sorry but I never wan't to deal with that shit again. Its like lamenting about having to clean and adjust a carburetor.
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Hey, as long as you didn't have to edit config.sys as well it was easy going.Having to write a specific AUTOEXEC.BAT config so I could run this:
OMG the horror for trying to get multiplayer Doom running over a modem from a DOS prompt.
Crimping parties were good fun back in the day. Get paid to drink a bunch of beer and see who can crank out the most working cables.
They will also never know the joy of modifying your PC to have 640KBs of ram on it rather than 256.
Haha, I had a similar experience at uni. Then we discovered the pay phone when we had a few drinks, we took it apart and hooked it up to a 56k modem to play CS online. It was brutal but brilliant.
I'm so glad that IRQs are managed by the OS now. Embedded hardware would be a mistake otherwise. It's also why DOSBox is so great; turns out the thing that makes DOS games run more effortlessly is an operating system managing the underlying hardware, go figure
We called it a Null Modem, and I wired one up at home so I could play 2p Populous and Stunt Car Racer.
