probably something like:
dontgetcaughtlooking…
dontgetcaughtlooking…
dontgetcaughtlooking…
zomg!!!
ihopenobodysawme…

and all that was inside was a smelly shoe with a can of soup stuffed in it. thanks amazon.

if that’s truly from 1957, the whole setup would have several pieces that size. the 803 a few years later was three (one about this size, two a little smaller), plus user console, printer, tape reader. nearly 2000 lbs worth of equipment.

a buck a can, and you can buy one at a time. prime eligible.

it costs more to deliver it than to buy it.

yea, i know they can be relatively inexpensive. but i saw them as a waste of money–which was and still is in short supply.

nearly everything i have as far as pc stuff was salvaged or given to me. the last things i bought myself was 24tb of hdds for media storage (when they were still ‘cheap’), replacing a literal laundry basket of small (160gb-2tb) 2.5in, 3.5in and externals that was getting to be an unmanageable mess.

i had thought of that, but my setup would have had more drives than ports so i needed a switch that did power and signal.

instead of all that now, i just have a literal stack of old pizzabox form factor sff and switch between entire systems.

my ideal setup at one time was a huge case with lots of drive bays and a switch or switches on front to choose which drives to have connected and powered-up.

i only ever got so far as to have the case and a few drives. i did ‘dual boot’ it for years, though, by simply swapping cables internally. lateral bays put the connectors close to the side panel, which itself was easy to slide on and off. it wasn’t very often, so i never got ‘motivated enough’ to get the switch for it.

i never have had an opportunity to pull or salvage a functional hot-swappable bay or enclosure and sleds. i did run across one once, but internally it was usb 2 so it got tossed on the recycle pile like the old junk it came in.

it is very much a ‘legacy’ system that has no clue what uefi is. but it has plenty of ram, decent-enough gpu, and the cpu is still faster than some of the cheap shit sold today by the major oems.

the boxes here say 56g per serving, 8 per us pound. but your estimation is what i end up with when i’m prepping… 5 containers with sauce per box (pound).

for me, it’s either half a regular-size box, or a whole box. there is no other way.

i very much prefer separate boxes, but i do have one dual boot system, and i let windows do it instead of grub. it sucks, basically booting windows up just to get the boot menu to switch to linux, but hey. it works. even survived an 8->11 ‘upgrade’ intact.

had to check mine, now. i don’t plug things into it very often. right-side up.

we do have several dell mini-towers of different generations. among them we got right-side up, we got left, and we got right. only missing the upside-down.

this is what they’re having to bring in to have actual attendees at the dumpster fire 250 for dipshit’s speechpolitically-motivated tantrum tonight?

australia is ‘rehabilitated’.

the u.s. is run by repeat offenders.

i guess you could say you’re at your wits lowest limit

reminds me of alien tv, the short-lived aussie/netflix series.

duck knows what’s what.

if you’re in the u.s. pbs passport is $5/mo or $60/yr away, and you know the money is going to good things, not corporate profits.

i thought it was missing ‘random sandler slop’ but then i realized it was already there, several times.

and it is a slog to start up. op ain’t lying there. but if its files remain in windows’ cache after that, it’s fast.