The can of worms we opened when we learned of the server switched off after eighteen years and ten months' service is still wriggling, as a reader has contacted us to tell of nearly 30-year-old laptops still in service.
Reader "Holrum" says he has "a couple dozen Toshiba T1000 laptops from the mid [1980s] still fully functional (including floppy drives)".
The T1000 was introduced in 1987. [...] The machine was one of the very first computers to use a clamshell form factor. [...] It also offered a rather archaic LCD display, as illustrated.
[...]The machine ran MS-DOS 2.11 on a ROM [and] came with a colossal 512kB of RAM [...] and a single 3.5-inch floppy drive.
Holrum says the T1000s are taken offline every few years for just the few minutes required to replace the NiCad batteries and give them a clean before they are returned to duty as process monitoring terminals.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @11:56PM
Yes. My error.
According to what I understand, intentionally-injected noise which is marked as abuse should be getting mod'd to -10.
...and, again, a serial abuser should have been banned.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 16 2016, @01:39AM
Ahh, there's a misunderstanding there. The -10 is to the person getting modded's karma. In this case that ipid. The score to the comment is still a -1 so that multiple instances can be stacked on for additional karma hits.
Yeah, already laid out the instances where we'd ip/subnet ban someone and this guy don't fit. Hell, you've gotten more spam hits than anyone of late. Or at least someone signing your name has. There haven't been enough of them to bother even looking at the ipid though, so I haven't.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 16 2016, @06:40AM
you've gotten more spam hits than anyone
Not I. I don't recall ever getting one.
Or at least someone signing your name has
Bingo!
haven't been enough of them to bother
Hmmm. I've seen a bunch.
There have been a lot of -1 mods for SPAMmy as well--but using other descriptors.
Like I said, some folks are timid about using the Spam mod even when it clearly applies.
Ah, well.
Thanks for splainin'.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]