This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Hacker FAQ (please comment and help fix)
Article: 7699 of alt.hackers From: mikelea@access5.digex.net (Michael Lea) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Hacker FAQ (please comment and help fix) Followup-To: alt.hackers Date: 23 Apr 1995 08:51:16 -0400 Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA Lines: 26 Sender: mikelea@access.digex.net Approved: me@my.own.bad.site Expires: 11/16/95 Message-ID: 3ndig4$4qf@access5.digex.net NNTP-Posting-Host: access5.digex.net Summary: it's almost summary here Status: RO
In article <grobsonD7EqBz.8Dn@netcom.com>, Gary D. Robson <grobson@netcom.com> wrote: >If they had said "if your A: drive is 5-1/4", do this...", I would have >been happy. Having them ignore the issue and force me to tear open my >computer isn't a reasonable solution. As a "hacker", you shy away from tearing open your machine? hmm.... ObHack: The lone 286 sitting on our network at work? A woman was bugging us for a machine on her desk, so I went to the "computer storage room" Among about 10 partially disassembled XT's, I found a 286 motherboard. I scavanged a harddrive (the hardest part, really), a powersupply, some old simms from before I upgraded my personal computer at home, a disk controller, a video card, a keyboard (hard to find an AT keyboard...), a monitor (found an EGA!), and a floppy drive and threw it all into an XT case. The case still has the original 5 1/4 floppy drive that takes up two drive bays (not hooked up cuz the disk controller didn't want to recognize it). It all is still working! (except for the CMOS battery, oh well, leave it turned on) --mikelea -- All of life is // aMAZE. // ==============//
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