• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    I’m not very technical, but I had to move a jumper on my old 386 when I upgraded my modem

    I spent 25 years without remembering that, you sonuvabitch! :-D. Sorry, the PTSD takes over sometimes. Goddamned supra winmodems and hot-glued ISA cards in overpriced junk RadioShack/FutureShop computers…

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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      3 days ago

      Right?

      How about jumpers on hard drives while figuring out interrupts and hard drive/controller card matching (I forget what it was called, but there was something about figuring out the interleave, etc).

      I’m about to have some awful flashbacks, dammit.