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Posted: **Thu Nov 17, 2011 23:30**

especially Keens 1 - 3 (their sound effects are not something I would really miss)

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Posted: **Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:01**

Commander Spleen wrote:>:

Oh, I certainly have my nostalgic moments, but at times I get tired of PC Speaker beeps. Had way too many of them as a kid.

Besides, Keen is just as fun when it is silent. I can imagine my own sound effects in my head

Benvolio wrote:I would strongly recommend you broaden your horizons...

Don't worry - the number of mods I am familiar with just rose to 8 - I downloaded Episodes X, Y, Z, and NULL.

Woo, twitching Bloog tongue!

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2011 16:55**

Without any warning, yesterday my father took our old 33MHz Windows 3.11 machine to the dump.

RIP beloved machine...

Incidentally, if anyone would like its 8 1MB sticks of 32 pin RAM, PM me.

[edit]Woops

Posted: **Mon Nov 21, 2011 8:55**

yesterday took our old 33MHz Windows 3.11 machine to the dump.

Yesterday is an arsehole. This is terrible news. I'd take you up on that RAM, but I've got way more than I can use already so there'd be no real point.

Posted: **Mon Nov 21, 2011 9:39**

Ow, my first real computer was a 40 MHz machine. Used it for many long years.

Well, nothing lasts forever, no matter how much we've cared for it

Posted: **Mon Nov 21, 2011 9:53**

Except lemm's 386 that's apparently been running for over 10 years straight.

Posted: **Mon Nov 21, 2011 10:29**

Ten years without a single blackout? Is it running on a UPS or something?

Posted: **Mon Nov 21, 2011 10:46**

ATTENTION READERS: LEMM DOES NOT HAVE A GIGANTIC FREE ENERGY RF ANTENNA

THIS CONVERSATION DID NOT HAPPEN

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:12**

DHeadshot wrote:Without any warning, yesterday took our old 33MHz Windows 3.11 machine to the dump. RIP beloved machine...

Incidentally, if anyone would like its 8 1MB sticks of 32 pin RAM, PM me.

Oh man, sorry about that. Like Spleen said, yesterday is definitely a jerk for doing that.

I'd take you up on the RAM, but:
a) I'm not exactly sure what my Magitronic uses for RAM
b) I don't have any extra cash for shipping at the moment.

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2011 4:22**

The switch has remained in the on position for the last ten years, I should say. There are very few power outages here, maybe 1 (or fewer) per year, thanks to the mild weather.

And it has 32 MB ram.

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2011 22:57**

lemm wrote:The switch has remained in the on position for the last ten years, I should say.

That HAS to be some kind of record! We all think (in my family) that my Grandfather's mad for never shutting his laptop down (even when he takes it on a plane) for 3 years, but TEN?!

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2011 22:34**

We did something similar many years ago. But it wasn't voluntary - the switch was broken and it was impossible to turn off the computer

So, the easiest thing to do was to leave it on for some time. Then pull the plug and, eventually, fix the switch.

Posted: **Thu Nov 24, 2011 0:31**

Actually now that I think about it, my 386's switch stopped working once as well and we would just plug and unplug the power cord. When the switch was failing, it was necessary to flick it on and off a heap of times before it worked.

The switch got fixed eventually, upside down.

Actually I rather miss those chunky switches. I do still have the face from that 386, so maybe I can attach it to a newer computer...

Posted: **Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:47**

Commander Spleen wrote:Actually I rather miss those chunky switches. I do still have the face from that 386, so maybe I can attach it to a newer computer...

I've had experience with case face hacking - I want in.

Posted: **Thu Nov 24, 2011 13:14**

An excellent project for KeenConVic.

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