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  • The Decline of PCs

    From Arelor@VERT to Rob Mccart on Tuesday, December 30, 2025 06:12:00
    Re: The Decline of PCs
    By: Rob Mccart to OGG on Thu Dec 25 2025 09:07 am


    Looking briefly at the RClone info online it appears to be a
    tool to Handle other Cloud accounts and your devices rather
    than being a cloud storage system itself, although I'd imagine
    it must offer some degree of that..

    Rclone is just a tool for moving data in and out of any supported storage backend. This can be your FTP server, some mainstream cloud provider, or whatever have you.

    Rclone does not provide storage itself.


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  • From Rob Mccart@VERT to DUMAS WALKER on Tuesday, December 30, 2025 08:40:00
    In the past couple of years I cleaned
    >> out a lot of my old spare systems and a number of machines that needed
    >> only one relatively inexpensive part got 'recycled' too. At some point
    >> you have to stop hoarding everything you outgrow or take in or buy
    >> a bigger house.. B)

    No joke. I eventually went to parting out and/or e-cycling most of what I
    >had around. I few old cases became risers on my basement floor. A mini
    >fridge sits on an empty old pentium case, for example. :D

    Ha.. For ages I had a huge Server system with 5 full sized bays but
    the hardware eventually got too old to mess with anymore and for
    a number of years it ended up being an end table beside my main
    computer desk. Sitting on the floor it was as tall as the desk.

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  • From Rob Mccart@VERT to OGG on Tuesday, December 30, 2025 08:40:00
    One student in my univ. residence had the habit of transcribing
    >his handwritten notes in class to type-written notes. That
    >seemed to be a fine way to revisit/study one's notes.

    I never seemed to have time to do things once, let along twice.. B)

    I knew student that would often fall asleep in class. But he
    >seemed to pull things off and got high grades and went on for a
    >Masters.

    Ha.. I once had a chemistry teacher yell at me in class that I
    shouldn't disturb the other students because not everyone can
    get 80's on tests without paying attention.. B)

    My disturbing the class was when I yelped when the guy beside
    me took a hot Bunsen Burner and laid it across the back of my
    hand as a 'joke'. I didn't turn him in but I ended up with a
    wicked blister on my hand. He apologized later saying he didn't
    think it had been quite that hot..

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT to Rob Mccart on Thursday, January 01, 2026 09:39:00
    Rob Mccart wrote to DUMAS WALKER <=-

    Ha.. For ages I had a huge Server system with 5 full sized bays but
    the hardware eventually got too old to mess with anymore and for
    a number of years it ended up being an end table beside my main
    computer desk. Sitting on the floor it was as tall as the desk.

    One of the BBS's systems in the 90s was a cast-off 486 server that came
    in a desktop case as tall as a table. Locking front door, some unreal
    number of 5 1/4" drive bays, and casters to move it around. I don't
    think I had more than a single IDE drive and a tape drive in it.

    I should have kept the case...



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  • From Rob Mccart@VERT to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Saturday, January 03, 2026 09:35:00
    Ha.. For ages I had a huge Server system with 5 full sized bays but
    the hardware eventually got too old to mess with anymore and for
    a number of years it ended up being an end table beside my main
    computer desk. Sitting on the floor it was as tall as the desk.

    One of the BBS's systems in the 90s was a cast-off 486 server that came
    >in a desktop case as tall as a table. Locking front door, some unreal
    >number of 5 1/4" drive bays, and casters to move it around. I don't
    >think I had more than a single IDE drive and a tape drive in it.

    Sounds similar to mine, although I didn't have casters on mine or a
    locking front door. Mine was a 386 system originally. I would have
    had two 5.25 floppy drives in it and I think a 32 meg (updated from
    a 10 meg) hard drive. I remember having to custom make my own cables
    so I could get a Mouse to work on it..

    This would have been around 1988 or 89.

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