Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
@dianea this picture is totally unrealistic!
Computers are well known not to run without at least a cm of sticky fluff buildup on every surface.
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
@dianea IRQ Conflict. Time to shuffle around a few jumpers.
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
@dianea fake picture! no cat !
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
@dianea For so many things...
I still remember spending a whole freaking day trying to get someone's new soundcard working one time. I don't even think we ever actually figured out what was wrong. (Interrupts and etc were correct!) It just suddenly started working out of the blue, lol.
We celebrated with some One Must Fall 2097 as anyone with a new soundcard must do.
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
@dianea and we had to do it against wind and uphill, both ways!
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
@dianea This was around the time I noticed that the Unix implementations were generally solid ... and winsock was a steaming broken pile of optimism-coding (closest they could come to vibecoding without genAI)
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@dianea IRQ Conflict. Time to shuffle around a few jumpers.
@BrianEnigma @dianea IRQ 3 baby!
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
@dianea The alt text on that image "inside of a vintage computer" has me crumbling to dust.
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
Don't forget having to scream our own connection.
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
@dianea@lgbtqia.space This is how dial up worked.
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
@dianea all of my 8250 UARTS were upgraded to 16550AFN and if you think you are going to steal their IRQs, you are going to end up on the table at the next swap meet, Mr Random POS expansion card
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
Lain's gran.
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
@dianea def reminds me of the old red queen build
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
@dianea i/o, dma, irq
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
@dianea She was also the one who would pick if the printer and SB card would attempt to share IRQ7 and cause conflicts, or be more reasonable and kick the SB to IRQ5.
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
@dianea Until ISA PNP which somehow managed to make things worse (at least I always thought so, grumble grumble).
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
@dianea In some way this looks like an old ATX / mATX housing... PSU top-left, 5.25" and 3.5" disk cages top-right.
And what looks like a flat (IDE) cable to boot.edit: Because it is
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
@dianea love that picture. Where did you get it?
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Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.
Not the first time it has happened - I click to open, and the connection is refused.
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@dianea love that picture. Where did you get it?
Old meme archive from 15 years ago
