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   Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 12:22:39 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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   Compaq Contura Aero 4/25 486 laptop (1994).
   Cost me £12, it needs repairs to the screen bracket & a clean. Also I have no idea if it will work, additionally it has no PCMCIA floppy drive. BIOS info stored on a hidden partition on the HDD, no floppy = problems

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     The drive seems to be working well after 30 years....

     Cory Doctorow repeated this.
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     Remember to always clean your balls!

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     I've used an 18v PSU, we seem to have some life 😁 dudes!

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     Wow, the 171MB Seagate HDD is still working and it boots into MS-DOS 5.0. There's some 'interesting' names batch files on here 🤣🤣🤣