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    My money pits

    Dodge Dakota, that was the truck in Twister wasn’t it?
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    Favourite driving albums

    Whats your favourite driving album, or albums? I've got a few. Absolute number 1 top of the list is the Top Gun soundtrack. Others, in no particular order are: Top Gun Maverick soundtrack Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium Deep Purple - When We Rock, We Rock, and When We Roll, We Roll...
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    My money pits

    Since we've got a car forum, I thought I'd share some pics and info on my fleet. Sadly 4 of them are off the road at the moment, most of which were put away during COVID, much like the airlines I put them to sleep during the lockdowns when I couldn't go anywhere, and I'm now in the process of...
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    Feasibility of connecting a PCI GPU to a MiniPCI slot

    Theoretically it should be possible. I've got a D-Link 802.11b PCI card thats actually a Mini-PCI card in a PCI to Mini-PCI adapter with a cover over it. I don't recall ever seeing an off the shelf solution, but theoretically with the right equipment and skills, I can't think of any reason why...
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    Boot LC475 without battery?

    All the pizzabox LCs and I think the 6100 can be "jump started" as per above. I found this out back in the 90's when one of the LC IIs in our grade 7 classroom "died". Someone was just randomly trying stuff on it and jump started it and the damn thing booted right up.
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    Managing your collections

    Years ago I had a Filemaker database, though eventually I gave up on it. Haven't touched it in a good 15 years, don't even know if I still have it lol
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    Hi everyone :)

    Been lurking and thought I'd finally say hi. So far I've seen quite a few familiar faces. Some of you may remember me from 68kMLA. My name's David, I live in Sydney, Australia, I'm 40, and I'm into retro tech, cars and aircraft. I took a bit of a hiatus from vintage computing for a while first...