Old Computers Sucked

1994

The third year of the series. I think I'm going to aim for a 6 month gap between seasons, this felt like a reasonable production time.

New in this season, is that I bought a camera and mic. I'm still learning to use the mic, and it seems I got the completely wrong camera to film CRTs, but at least the camera isn't destroying 60% of the footage like my phone used to do.

Gaming on a 386 Was a Choice

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This episode presents an overview of how the computer hardware landscape changed over 1994, followed by gameplay footage to demonstrate how my 386 performs with some games from 1994.

Exploring the Multimedia Capabilities of a 386 Running Windows 3.1

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This episode presents an overview of the multimedia titles becoming available on Windows 3, as well as an attempt to run some of them on my 386..

The Debian Experience

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Overview of the happenings in Linux during 1994, as well as an overview of the Debian project followed by me installing Debian on my 386.

Computer Networking and the Internet

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An overview of the state of PC networking. This is followed by me setting up a small 2 computer network, and browsing the web over dialup.

Attempting to Build a Radio to Receive Pictures From Space

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I try to build everything I need to downlink weather satellite images. It went okay.

Motif: When Linux's Best GUI Toolkit Cost $150/User

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A showcase of Motif, both the types of applications that was written using it, and how I wrote a simple application using it.