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Turns out I never delete anything.
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| Topic: | Turns out I never delete anything. This thread has 11 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Tuesday March 16, 2010 at 06:47 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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Dated May 4th, 1995 for a BBS I used to help run. Anyone remember some of these ancient compression formats? LinkLabs Present: Compression Tests Edition 1.01
Archiver EXE TXT BMP Program Average
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Original: 300,000 100,000 100,000 700,000 0%
RAR 1.53 113,904 (1) 27,144 (1) 26,155 (6) 278,203 (1) 62.9%
AIN 2.2 118,709 (5) 27,527 (4) 25,579 (3) 279,424 (2) 62.4%
PKZip 2.04g 117,464 (2) 27,503 (2) 25,475 (2) 286,139 (4) 62.0%
PKZip 4.1v 117,565 (3) 27,521 (3) 25,848 (4) 286,355 (5) 61.9%
SQZ 1.08.3 118,508 (4) 27,637 (5) 26,502 (8) 285,616 (3) 61.8%
ARJ 2.42a 119,652 (6) 27,774 (6) 26,164 (7) 288,170 (6) 61.6%
PAK 2.51 141,331 (7) 31,132 (7) 28,260 (10) 317,763 (7) 56.8%
LHARC 4.00c 141,371 (8) 33,977 (8) 27,629 (9) 321,463 (8) 56.3%
ZOO 2.1 187,630 (9) 41,663 (10) 25,120 (1) 401,954 (10) 45.5%
ARC 2.0 191,275 (10) 41,441 (9) 25,974 (5) 397,998 (9) 45.3%
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| Post 2 made on Tuesday March 16, 2010 at 12:18 |
djy RC Moderator |
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Nope - we didn't get a computer until around 97/98, a blisteringly fast Pentium 2 400Mhz - with an original Orchid Righteous 3D II (12MB) Voodoo II sli setup.
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| Post 3 made on Tuesday March 16, 2010 at 15:54 |
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On March 16, 2010 at 12:18, djy said...
Nope - we didn't get a computer until around 97/98, a blisteringly fast Pentium 2 400Mhz - with an original Orchid Righteous 3D II (12MB) Voodoo II sli setup. lucky! 
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| Post 4 made on Tuesday March 16, 2010 at 16:53 |
djy RC Moderator |
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Oh if only I still had curly coloured hair and were so slim.
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| OP | Post 5 made on Tuesday March 16, 2010 at 18:52 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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I have an "old games" PC that sits here generally unused. Occasionally I turn it on (or not, as happened the last time when the power supply died).
It's a P-III 350MHz, runs DOS and Windows 98, has two SCSI DVD drives, a functional 5 1/4" floppy drive, ISA Sound Blaster Gold 64 sound card, an ancient ISA-based MIDI card with a fully functional Roland MT-32 attached, one of the original ATI All-In-Wonder video cards (one that still has a DOS video mode-aware BIOS) with TV tuner... and it's even on the network.
With the Roland it's great for ancient Lucasarts and Sierra adventure games. Also hooked up to my main 24" LCD, which is quite "interesting" for all those 320x200 resolution games.
I keep meaning to use it to try and archive all my old floppy disks.
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| Post 6 made on Tuesday March 16, 2010 at 22:09 |
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On March 16, 2010 at 18:52, Daniel Tonks said...
With the Roland it's great for ancient Lucasarts and Sierra adventure games. Also hooked up to my main 24" LCD, which is quite "interesting" for all those 320x200 resolution games. Leisure Suit Larry ftmfw!
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| Post 7 made on Saturday April 10, 2010 at 01:54 |
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On March 16, 2010 at 22:09, Duct Tape said...
Leisure Suit Larry ftmfw! Yeah baby!
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| Post 8 made on Wednesday May 5, 2010 at 00:22 |
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i think i've owned em all.
apple IIe w/ 80 column card AND a Z80 micropocessor card
486 66 w/40g HDD and 64k of ram. Ran Doom like a Big Dog!
Pentium 100
Pentium 266
Blurry in the middle but at the ripe age of 41, I've owned no less than 20 PCs so far.
Imma Dork
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| Post 9 made on Wednesday May 5, 2010 at 10:32 |
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On May 5, 2010 at 00:22, oex said...
. . . but at the ripe age of 41 . . . Whippersnapper!
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| Post 10 made on Tuesday June 8, 2010 at 03:37 |
Ernie Bornn-Gilman Yes, That Ernie! |
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Somewhere I've got an ad for a PC that "screams along at 27 mHz!"
Also, there's a blue bag in the garage with a Zenith portable -- too heavy to be called a laptop -- that has a 10 megabyte hard drive. Just thought I'd spell that out so you'd be less likely to think it was a typo!
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| OP | Post 11 made on Tuesday June 8, 2010 at 04:09 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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I still have an advertisement for Dell's first color laptop. The ad has a plastic transparency and a divider you pull up to turn the black-and-white screen into color.
The amazing specs:
* 9.25" LCD
* 256 colors @ 320x200, 16 colors at 640x480
* 386SL 25MHz
* 4mb RAM
* 80mb HD
* "a mere 7.1 pounds" and 2.3" thick
Price? $5379 in 1992.
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| Post 12 made on Wednesday June 16, 2010 at 07:26 |
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10 years before that I used to lug an Osborne 1 around. It weighed around 11 kilos (24 lb). After showing that off for a month the wow factor died and it stayed on the desk. I think it was around the $2500 mark (probably $1800 US)
You nearly needed a magnifying glass to read the screen, and I used to program Dbase II on it (call that programming!)
It had Supercalc and Wordstar as well
PS I've used all those compression formats except AIN 2.2 - did not know of that one
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