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Silicon Valley Sleuth reports that Costco has picked up a boat-load of Mac Minis and is selling them for $699, plus including other goodies such as mouse and keyboard that weren’t originally included in the Mac Mini package. Since Apple is now including the Intel Core Solo and Duo chips in it’s latest Minis, seems …
A while back I was playing with UTM to setup an x86 VM on my M1 MacBook to install Windows 98 from an iso. I got as far as booting and starting the install but then ran into issue with the MSCDEX driver on subsequent boots during the install where it would no longer see …
I just picked up a Unisys TO300G VT terminal to use for a few retro projects, and tried connecting it to my VT132 and use it as a wifi AT modem. Initially I wasn’t getting anything echo’d to the screen, then remembered I needed to set the speed to 115200, and then started getting a …
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Microsoft officially announced Windows 11 today. There was the usual online comparisons between the announced features and other comparable features in MacOS and Linux, like the centered Task Bar that now looks suspiciously like how MacOS’s Dock has looked for, well, years. In the tech requirements though, there is an unusual detail – Windows 11 …
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