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Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 25 December 2010, 08:55:04: The title says it pretty well. What did people give you today for Christmas?
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sat, 25 December 2010, 09:03:02: I don't know yet, but I hope it has "IBM" on it.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: nmd on Sat, 25 December 2010, 09:04:12: Clothes, clothes, clothes, some tiny bottles of Jim Beam, more clothes and movie tickets.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 25 December 2010, 09:17:30: Jim Bean? Beans come in cans.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: nmd on Sat, 25 December 2010, 09:20:28: Oops, meant Jim Beam. Obvious I don't drink that much?
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: keyboardlover on Sat, 25 December 2010, 10:22:29: Seeing my sister laughing and joking and acting like her old self in the hospital. That was the best Christmas present I've ever received.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sat, 25 December 2010, 10:39:01: Quote from: ripster;268654
EIBM gave me a facepalm.

Nah, I didn't give you anything for christmas, not even a facepalm.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: iMav on Sat, 25 December 2010, 10:55:18: Quote from: nmd;268646
Clothes, clothes, clothes, some tiny bottles of Jim Beam, more clothes and movie tickets.
If you were my daughter, I'd give you oversized sweaters. I'm just sayin'...

Quote from: EverythingIBM;268689
Nah, I didn't give you anything for christmas, not even a facepalm.
He just gave ME one too!
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: nmd on Sat, 25 December 2010, 10:58:54: Quote from: iMav;268695
If you were my daughter, I'd give you oversized sweaters. I'm just sayin'...

Ew, don't like baggy clothes.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: ch_123 on Sat, 25 December 2010, 11:05:49: Got some books and Starcraft 1 between various friends. My parents got me a Leatherman. I got myself a NIB Mac Mini G4, which I picked up for 40 euro.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 25 December 2010, 11:06:55: How slow is the Mac Mini?
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: ch_123 on Sat, 25 December 2010, 11:12:38: A lot less slower since I put a gig of RAM in it.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 25 December 2010, 11:14:08: But how bad's the processor? The G4's were pretty lousy. But the 1Ghz ones were better than the 400Mhz ones.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: clickclack on Sat, 25 December 2010, 11:14:09: I don't know yet...

but...

Quote from: iMav;268695
If you were my daughter, I'd give you oversized sweaters. I'm just sayin'...
...

This ^ was my X-mas morning LoL!
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: ch_123 on Sat, 25 December 2010, 11:27:01: Quote from: microsoft windows;268708
But how bad's the processor? The G4's were pretty lousy. But the 1Ghz ones were better than the 400Mhz ones.

It's a 1.5GHz one. About as quick as a 2GHz Pentium 4, meaning that it's sufficiently usable for most things.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 25 December 2010, 11:36:08: How much cache does it have? One of my laptop's got a Pentium 4 or M (I'll have to take a look) that's 1.4Ghz with 2MB of cache. It runs quite fast.

I know that many of the G4's I've worked with have 1MB of cache, but I'm not sure about some of the later ones.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: ch_123 on Sat, 25 December 2010, 12:05:02: 512KB according to the system specs.

Again, cache numbers don't mean a huge lot without taking the rest of CPU design into context. My old 2.4GHz Athlon 64 with 512KB of cache could take on a 3.6GHz or 3.8GHz P4 with 2MB cache.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: Ekaros on Sat, 25 December 2010, 12:15:20: Some books, some sushi kit and for the tech-savy Shure SRH440 head-phones...
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: chuckading on Sat, 25 December 2010, 12:28:17: Quote from: Ekaros;268719
Some books, some sushi kit and for the tech-savy Shure SRH440 head-phones...

Nice head-phones, you can use those to listen to Little Orphan Annie's secret message tonight on the radio.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: guilleguillaume on Sat, 25 December 2010, 12:41:16: The main gift I received from my aunt and my grandparents are a pair of Headphones: Sennheiser HD-25 1 II Adidas Originals

I have a pair of HD 595 too and I like both but I needed closed headphones, I'm liking it but I have no time to enjoy them this weekend since I work this 2 nights.

I received a Box with a window to put there all my watches too. I will make pictures when possible.

Here it's 20:35! :D
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Sat, 25 December 2010, 12:56:04: Quote from: nmd;268696
Ew, don't like baggy clothes.

We can tell from your avatar...
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: guilleguillaume on Sat, 25 December 2010, 13:14:54: Quote from: ripster;268735
HD595's FTW!

My bedroom setup.

Ripster is the Logitech similar to this one?:
http://www.pixmania.com/es/es/6801336/art/creative/tarjeta-de-sonido-sound-b.html (http://www.pixmania.com/es/es/6801336/art/creative/tarjeta-de-sonido-sound-b.html)

(http://pan5.fotovista.com/dev/5/4/06803245/g_06803245.jpg)

I didn't find any real opinion about that and I will appreciate some advice about it.

If not which AMp and what Logitech product it's that?

I'm thinking about using my HD 595 at the Living Room for music only and use the HD-25 1 II for PC.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: ch_123 on Sat, 25 December 2010, 13:17:43: I want to know what the OP got for Christmas.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: NAVIWORLDINC on Sat, 25 December 2010, 13:30:54: Quote from: ripster;268735
HD595's FTW!

Glad you are happy with them, I didn't like them so much after I tested them out...

Anyway, this is what I got...
CR-48 (from Santa @Google)
All else from Regular Santa:
Rosewill RK-9000
Set of Snow Tires and Rims from NTB, Santa even remembered to pre-pay for them to be mounted and balanced. ^_^
Tickets to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra (Tomorrow)
Since I left you (cd)
Plastic Beach (cd)
the moon and antartica (LP)
Two sweaters
Pair of jeans, pair of slacks both black
A few collared shirts
Tabasco sleepwear
a dark green robe (olive?)
box of lemonheads (Candy).
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: ktkr on Sat, 25 December 2010, 13:35:27: Cash. Much more useful than some useless **** I'd never use.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: ricercar on Sat, 25 December 2010, 14:10:02: A bunch of coal and 16-year Lagavulin single malt. I was very bad this year.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: msiegel on Sat, 25 December 2010, 14:34:37: Quote from: ricercar;268761
Lagavulin single malt

that's filtered through coal, isn't it? ;D
Title: ah HA!
Post by: clickclack on Sat, 25 December 2010, 15:00:44: Just found out what I got!
Mooooooola ;)

(we're not a very creative bunch)
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: db_Iodine on Sat, 25 December 2010, 17:06:00: Mostly clothes, some chocolate, and a LG BD570 Blu-ray player.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 25 December 2010, 17:13:30: Got any discs to play on it?
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: J888www on Sat, 25 December 2010, 17:43:16: I received a big surprise for Xmas......................................and the surprise was "nothing".
What I got for Xmas was a big "headache".
If I ever see Father Xmas, I will.......

Nah, seriously now, I got these two items while I was searching for a keyboard. :confused:
MG P-Rocket Cree XP-G R5 Neutral White.

and a Ultrfire SS C3 Cree Q5

.....and Yes, I have now learned to purchase my own pressies, so I will always like them.

I had wanted a McGizmo Haiku Titanium but was toooo afraid that pull that trigger in case I burn a finger Edit:- paw.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sat, 25 December 2010, 19:03:45: Okay, what did I get for christmas?

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Like over a hundred 3" floppy disks (including those containers with the semi-transparent brown plastic lids). A bunch of CD ROM drives, floppy drives, DVD drives, various cards... including a nice Creative AWE64 card. Gotta try that one out later, quite anxious actually. Never heard the AWE MIDI EMU canvas before.

Some manuals...

And a bottle of jagermeister...
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: Ekaros on Sat, 25 December 2010, 19:32:55: Quote from: EverythingIBM;268873
Okay, what did I get for christmas?

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Like over a hundred 3" floppy disks (including those containers with the semi-transparent brown plastic lids). A bunch of CD ROM drives, floppy drives, DVD drives, various cards... including a nice Creative AWE64 card. Gotta try that one out later, quite anxious actually. Never heard the AWE MIDI EMU canvas before.

Some manuals...

And a bottle of jagermeister...

You sure some didn't mistake your apartment from garbage dump? I pretty much carried half of that stuff to recyle center or trash...
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: ch_123 on Sat, 25 December 2010, 19:43:06: EIBM and Jagerbombs? I think this would be an amazing sight, one way or another...
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: Mr. Fish on Sat, 25 December 2010, 20:15:19: I think the gift I have gotten the most use out of so far is a bag of chips and a can of Guinness.

But I really did like the floor lamp I got.

I also got a trip to the US, from my mother's parents, I can't wait to go!
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sat, 25 December 2010, 21:29:10: Quote from: ch_123;268887
EIBM and Jagerbombs? I think this would be an amazing sight, one way or another...

My friends want to see me drunk so bad.

Actually, I probably look a lot different than what you and others think.

Not at all like this:
(http://globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/nerd.jpg)
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: Sam on Sat, 25 December 2010, 22:49:14: A Christmas cake is all I got.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: db_Iodine on Sun, 26 December 2010, 02:40:59: Quote from: microsoft windows;268838
Got any discs to play on it?

I did get Shutter Island and all Star Wars movies on the side. That'll get me started.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sun, 26 December 2010, 03:03:52: (http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=14264&stc=1&d=1293354200)

Okay, finally got around to taking a picture.

I got so many official microsoft disks now.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: woody on Sun, 26 December 2010, 04:22:02: These are 3.5", not 3" as you wrote.
3" are very odd and rare.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: woody on Sun, 26 December 2010, 04:24:11: Quote from: Sam;268926
A Christmas cake is all I got.

I had fine dishes, that's more than enough.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: Ekaros on Sun, 26 December 2010, 05:27:38: I think I throw some part of Win 95 3.5" instalation disc set away... One boring operation to get that one on comp...
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: nmd on Sun, 26 December 2010, 05:35:48: Also ended up getting snow, /cry. I hate snow.

Quote from: EverythingIBM;268919
My friends want to see me drunk so bad.

Same, I dunno why. I get silly as hell.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sun, 26 December 2010, 06:38:58: Quote from: woody;268970
These are 3.5", not 3" as you wrote.
3" are very odd and rare.

Yes... I meant 3.5, I was too lazy to put the .5 because I thought people wouldn't make a FUSS about it and KNOW I was referring to 3.5.

Quote from: Ekaros;268976
I think I throw some part of Win 95 3.5" instalation disc set away... One boring operation to get that one on comp...

That's one set I don't have yet, I have like three sets of windows 3.1 installation floppies.

I find the stuff kind of fascinating, and, I enjoy having it around. I don't see a point of throwing it away. It's like a little bit of history. Plus I actually use them for driver disks. If you have old computers, it's imperative to have floppies around.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: iMav on Sun, 26 December 2010, 06:56:23: Quote from: EverythingIBM;268993
It's like a little bit of history. Plus I actually use them for driver disks. If you have old computers, it's imperative to have floppies around.

To me, keeping floppies around is like keeping 64MB USB sticks around. The technology is new enough that you can still buy it new, but the physical space it takes up in my office is not worth it due to the small amount of data storage.

3.5" floppies aren't old enough to be retro-cool.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: ch_123 on Sun, 26 December 2010, 07:19:04: Quote from: EverythingIBM;268993
Yes... I meant 3.5, I was too lazy to put the .5 because I thought people wouldn't make a FUSS about it and KNOW I was referring to 3.5.

You could have very easily been talking about any number of 3" floppy disk designs.

(http://www.deepsonic.ch/deep/pix/roland_l-120_quickdisk_set_3.jpg)
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: nmd on Sun, 26 December 2010, 07:22:09: @ch_123

Ok, that's crazy. Never seen a 3" disk and didn't know Nintendo ever got involved in anything that had to do with floppies. Double awesome.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sun, 26 December 2010, 07:34:47: Quote from: ch_123;269009
You could have very easily been talking about any number of 3" floppy disk designs.

Show Image
(http://www.deepsonic.ch/deep/pix/roland_l-120_quickdisk_set_3.jpg)

Everyone well knew what I was referring to. If I was referring to 3.0" floppy disks, I would have made an effort to emphasize that fact.
And those are Roland disks, obviously my PC 300 doesn't have a 3.0" floppy drive.

Quote from: iMav;268999
To me, keeping floppies around is like keeping 64MB USB sticks around. The technology is new enough that you can still buy it new, but the physical space it takes up in my office is not worth it due to the small amount of data storage.

3.5" floppies aren't old enough to be retro-cool.

I use a 128 Verbatim jump drive for school work. Nothing wrong with that. A 64 MB stick is actually a lot of memory.

Generally buying 3" floppy disks is a pain. New ones are made cheaply anyhow, bit rot galore.
If you want to keep something, you'll do so. Space is never the issue, it's personal choice.

With that said I do have 5" floppy disks, low density ones too.
But I'm not trying to be retro-cool (all of this old computer stuff I just randomly inherited from various places: in fact, I only really bought my modern computer equipment, with the exception of my dear 6562).
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: kip69 on Sun, 26 December 2010, 07:46:27: Quote from: EverythingIBM;268873
Okay, what did I get for christmas?

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Like over a hundred 3" floppy disks (including those containers with the semi-transparent brown plastic lids). A bunch of CD ROM drives, floppy drives, DVD drives, various cards... including a nice Creative AWE64 card. Gotta try that one out later, quite anxious actually. Never heard the AWE MIDI EMU canvas before.

Some manuals...

And a bottle of jagermeister...

Get a shot of the Jim Beam from above poster, not quite full. Poor a stream of jagermeister right into the center of the shot = Black Hole. Deadly combo.

I got a reef hook. The cool one with one hand deploy action. Will use it on the very deadly hammer head shark dive I have coming up. Deadly due to currant and water conditions not the sharks.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sun, 26 December 2010, 08:01:40: Quote from: kip69;269023
Get a shot of the Jim Beam from above poster, not quite full. Poor a stream of jagermeister right into the center of the shot = Black Hole. Deadly combo.

I got a reef hook. The cool one with one hand deploy action. Will use it on the very deadly hammer head shark dive I have coming up. Deadly due to currant and water conditions not the sharks.

Dear family members were actually trying to make me drink some "Jim Beam".
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 26 December 2010, 08:44:45: Quote from: EverythingIBM;268919
My friends want to see me drunk so bad.

Actually, I probably look a lot different than what you and others think.

Not at all like this:
Show Image
(http://globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/nerd.jpg)

What about this?

(http://wc.k12.mo.us/barney.jpg)
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 26 December 2010, 08:46:51: Quote from: EverythingIBM;269017
Everyone well knew what I was referring to. If I was referring to 3.0" floppy disks, I would have made an effort to emphasize that fact.
And those are Roland disks, obviously my PC 300 doesn't have a 3.0" floppy drive.

I use a 128 Verbatim jump drive for school work. Nothing wrong with that. A 64 MB stick is actually a lot of memory.

Generally buying 3" floppy disks is a pain. New ones are made cheaply anyhow, bit rot galore.
If you want to keep something, you'll do so. Space is never the issue, it's personal choice.

With that said I do have 5" floppy disks, low density ones too.
But I'm not trying to be retro-cool (all of this old computer stuff I just randomly inherited from various places: in fact, I only really bought my modern computer equipment, with the exception of my dear 6562).

I have 5.25" floppy disks as well. I like them because they take up much less space than the 3.5" ones, and hold almost as much information.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: ch_123 on Sun, 26 December 2010, 08:51:05: Quote from: nmd;269010
@ch_123

Ok, that's crazy. Never seen a 3" disk and didn't know Nintendo ever got involved in anything that had to do with floppies. Double awesome.

This thing, apparently. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom_Disk_System)
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 26 December 2010, 09:01:19: Quote from: EverythingIBM;268993
Yes... I meant 3.5, I was too lazy to put the .5 because I thought people wouldn't make a FUSS about it and KNOW I was referring to 3.5.

That's one set I don't have yet, I have like three sets of windows 3.1 installation floppies.

I find the stuff kind of fascinating, and, I enjoy having it around. I don't see a point of throwing it away. It's like a little bit of history. Plus I actually use them for driver disks. If you have old computers, it's imperative to have floppies around.

I have a complete set of Windows 95 upgrade floppies, but I don't have the disks for a clean installation. But that's OK though since I can just install Windows for Workgroups and then upgrade.

Oh, and here's something I bet you want:
(http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9492/020gf.jpg)
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: nmd on Sun, 26 December 2010, 09:06:42: I remember downloading Slackware Linux from a local BBS and having to install it from floppies. Was something like 15ish 3.5" floppies. I think I still have a few around somewhere.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: woody on Sun, 26 December 2010, 10:06:47: Quote from: EverythingIBM;268993
Yes... I meant 3.5, I was too lazy to put the .5 because I thought people wouldn't make a FUSS about it and KNOW I was referring to 3.5.

When you're talking about presents and 3", it's kinda not obvious at all that you meant the regular 3.5" ones. Or you didn't know that 3" exist and are very rare? I have friends that spent fortune on 3" drives and diskettes.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: iMav on Sun, 26 December 2010, 10:13:49: Quote from: nmd;269057
I remember downloading Slackware Linux from a local BBS and having to install it from floppies. Was something like 15ish 3.5" floppies. I think I still have a few around somewhere.

I remember doing that as well. Repartitioned my whopping 80MB hard drive to make room for it. Although, I think I found the disk images with Archie. (I was still running my own BBS at the time too)

Moved to Redhat v. 3.0.3. It used to take me two and a half days to compile the kernel. :) (mainly because I had a very limited amount of ram)
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: didjamatic on Sun, 26 December 2010, 11:23:07: A pair of JBL L100T3's Mint in original boxes from when IBM used to make their own Model M's. :)

I actually got them for myself just before Christmas. That's why I haven't been posting as much lately, I've been monkeying around with vintage stereo stuff in my free time. Cranking good music has never been so fun!

Fav thing I opened Christmas day was Nanodots!
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: didjamatic on Sun, 26 December 2010, 12:00:57: Yeah, I'm finding that out in a hurry.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: woody on Sun, 26 December 2010, 13:21:43: I use AKG K44 for few years now, must say really awesome price/performance ratio.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: keyb_gr on Sun, 26 December 2010, 14:14:58: Quote from: ripster;269114
Vintage or not audio will be a MUCH more expensive hobby than keyboards.

True. You can get by with a relatively modest amount if you know exactly what you want and need though. I ultimately spent a lot more on music than on the hardware.

A larger part of the fun with vintage audio tends to be in the restorative work involved. Nothing like having them oldies play and look like new.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: didjamatic on Sun, 26 December 2010, 15:13:08: I got a pair of Ultimate Ears Triple.Fi 10's last year and it has spoiled my ears compared to what I had tried previously. Now I've been getting into home audio stuff since LCD TV's have come down enough in price to warrant consideration of setting up a good home theater. But first I'm setting up a good home stereo system.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: godly_music on Sun, 26 December 2010, 16:51:46: (http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/1967/69837538.jpg)
Dynamic, Semi-open

Frequency: 5 - 35,000 Hz
Impedance: 250 Ohm per cartridge
SPL: 96 dB
T.H.D.: < 0.2%
Power handling capacity: 100 mW
Sound coupling to ear: Circumaural
Headband pressure: 3.5 N
Weight: 295g
Cable: 3m / single-sided coiled
Connection: Gold plated 3.5 mm and 6.35mm adapter
(http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/5604/graphcomparephpe.png)

Best headphones ever.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: msiegel on Sun, 26 December 2010, 17:22:40: classy :)

now i'm hungry for pizza :(
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: msiegel on Sun, 26 December 2010, 17:27:25: zomg

*gurgles ominously*
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: InSanCen on Sun, 26 December 2010, 17:58:45: My favourite this year has to be a novelty mug that holds >1.5 pints (UK). Sadly I'll actually use it to hold stupid amounts of coffee, like I am now.

Other than that, clothes, Smellies, and lots of shiny things to clip on ropes.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: a_fluffy_kitten on Sun, 26 December 2010, 18:09:42: So I got a copy of Starcraft II, a wine bottle holder shaped like the GEICO gecko, some Hanes socks, and a 2011 BMW 328i. I think out of the four, I like Starcraft II the most. But the GEICO gecko is a close second.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: ironman31 on Sun, 26 December 2010, 18:58:36: Quote from: didjamatic;269111

Fav thing I opened Christmas day was Nanodots!

Is 216 worth getting, or should one start off with more?
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 26 December 2010, 19:14:03: I opened Internet Explorer on Christmas.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sun, 26 December 2010, 20:25:32: Quote from: microsoft windows;269055
I have a complete set of Windows 95 upgrade floppies, but I don't have the disks for a clean installation. But that's OK though since I can just install Windows for Workgroups and then upgrade.

Oh, and here's something I bet you want:
Show Image
(http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9492/020gf.jpg)

I do have workgroups floppy disks.

That is neat.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 26 December 2010, 20:43:01: I have lots of of other crazy old software on floppies and lots of CAD software from the late 1980's to the mid 1990's as well.

Some of the floppies I had weren't well-cared for though and did not work. But my old Gateway2000 OEM Windows disks lasted a long time.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: ManjyomeThunder on Sun, 26 December 2010, 21:26:24: I got a GHSS :D
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: didjamatic on Mon, 27 December 2010, 08:18:23: Quote from: ManjyomeThunder;269301
I got a GHSS :D

One of the last ones too!

Quote from: ironman31;269253
Is 216 worth getting, or should one start off with more?

Most of the things I've made is with 216, it's a mathematically good number to use. But having 2 sets has been really fun. I'd like to get 4 sets at some point for some of the bigger creations. This for example took 660 which is nearly 4 sets to make.

Quote from: ripster;269114

Show Image
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5127/5294692930_80e295240a_z.jpg)

Dang, that's a lot of nice tubes! When I replied earlier it was from my iphone and that pic never came through.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: Daniel Beaver on Mon, 27 December 2010, 08:22:04: I got a Camera and a Sony eBook reader. I'm digging the eBook reader - I've been wanting to try one for awhile.

This Christmas was very light on the presents. I love it that way. The fuss of finding gifts for people always dragged down the holiday for me in the past.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: Minskleip on Tue, 28 December 2010, 19:02:43: Let Over Lambda :biggrin:

(http://static.lulu.com/product/paperback/let-over-lambda/12297149/thumbnail/320)

I has LOLs

My mother got a new lolcat:

(http://haapets.com/Emos%209%20weeks%20142.jpg-for-web-large.jpg)
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: keyboardlover on Tue, 28 December 2010, 20:46:07: Quote from: Minskleip;270033

My mother got a new lolcat:

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Pew pew pew!

Nice catgun.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: Minskleip on Tue, 28 December 2010, 21:08:35: His brother is out of ammo. So my ladies, so little time..
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Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: EverythingIBM on Wed, 29 December 2010, 09:46:52: Quote from: microsoft windows;269287
I have lots of of other crazy old software on floppies and lots of CAD software from the late 1980's to the mid 1990's as well.

Some of the floppies I had weren't well-cared for though and did not work. But my old Gateway2000 OEM Windows disks lasted a long time.

I actually have two microsoft font pack disks. Was going to try them out for fonts (as I like having a decent amount of fonts)... but haven't got around to it... I thought they were broken, but my floppy drive was having a conflict with my USB jumpdrive, ugh. Fandangled new contraptions...
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: microsoft windows on Wed, 29 December 2010, 13:23:12: I don't really ever use flash drives on my computers. I transfer everything over the network.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: Lanx on Thu, 30 December 2010, 00:40:42: i got 20in of snow and i'm still stuck in ny, haven't plowed my street yet, car can't get out, might not make it back home fast enough to mod my v2 to beat out truely ergonomic release date! this is total fail on ny, never saw a street snowed in for more than a few hours, let alone 4 days, going on 5.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: msiegel on Thu, 30 December 2010, 00:49:04: Quote from: microsoft windows;270357
I don't really ever use flash drives on my computers. I transfer everything over the network.

tsk, should be using stacks of floppies to maintain historical authenticity ;)
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: TheSoulhunter on Thu, 30 December 2010, 08:52:26: - Some money
- Clothes (Pullovers)
- A coffee machine
- More clothes (Boxers)
- Too much candy stuff
- Even more clothes (Socks)
- Canon EF 35mm f/1.4 L (from myself ^^;)
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: microsoft windows on Thu, 30 December 2010, 09:21:02: Quote from: msiegel;270588
tsk, should be using stacks of floppies to maintain historical authenticity ;)

I've got those too.
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: Mazora on Thu, 30 December 2010, 09:25:53: Quote from: ricercar;268761
A bunch of coal and 16-year Lagavulin single malt. I was very bad this year.

Thats a nice scotch...my gf can't stand the odor (that makes me laugh)
Title: What did people give you for Christmas?
Post by: panda-R on Thu, 30 December 2010, 12:45:43: i got a big tv so i can watch some panda pr0n. Apparently the larger the tv size the more effective the learnding of the panda mating rituals.