Subj : floppy disks are cool!
To   : Ben Collver
From : Blue White
Date : Mon Apr 22 2024 05:00 pm

 > That old Sharp laptop sounds cool!  I too have experienced instant
 > regret
 > more than once attempting to modify/repair hardware and
 > unintentionally
 > bricking it for eternity.
 > 
 > I wonder what caused it to eat hard drives.

Well, to say it at the hard drives might have been misleading.  What I
actually think the problem was is that the hard drives made to fit that
machine were not very good.  Keeping in mind we are talking about a
laptop, the drives were very sensitive to vibration.  I have used other
laptops that I have traveled with that (knock-on-wood!) have been a lot
better about actually being able to be moved!

 > Once i had a Sharp pocket PC with a MIPS processor.  It came with an
 > old
 > version of Windows CE and i installed NetBSD on it.  It had a PCMCIA
 > slot,
 > which i could use to get on WIFI.  It ran NetHack and a text editor
 > just
 > fine, but it was definitely a situation where i would want to
 > cross-compile the binaries from a more powerful system.

Speaking of nethack, one of the programs I would load onto the RAM drive
on the Sharp was a DOS version of Rogue.  I used to play that one all the
time!  Another one that would fit, believe it or not, was Simcity 2000,
another game I was very found of.



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