h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*looks up from the programming book and the laptop*

In just a few minutes I will have a 42 program running .... next is the SEP program

Courtesy

*back to the programming*

*comes to lab with Unix text under her arm*

Has my Indigo arrived?

Hands Lil a cd of Mood Indigo by Duke Ellington. Was this what you wanted?
Looks more like you're after a render farm for building your worlds.

I want an Indigo so I can use Maya, wwhich a sort of ultimate 3D renderer app. I have a farm over at the planet workshop, but I'm hoping to get permission to link to the CLI computers, which are off-world techno. I hope the interface is simple.

What? I like the commi-64.

Anyone fancy adding this to the collection?
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9782

Takes over a workstation to work on his ECDL.

Hmm, now I have to figure out how these work.

I think that I need an E10000 box or two to get my seti stats up.

Digs out an old cd of solaris and frisbee's it accross the lab to Marv

Thanks Bloke. Now I just have to learn Slowaris on the fly .

This may sound strange, but is there a prehistoric computer I could use to install Windows for Workgroups? An old 386 would do nicely, as long as the floating point chip is on the motherboard. I have some old apps I'd like to run. I'll be using DOS 6, actually, but having Win 3.1 will let me run PC Tools as well.

I've got an AMD 386DXL40 vanilla box there under that rack It has a VGA card so most of hte monitors will work. It has DOS 5.1 and GeoWorks on it at the moment, but it could use an upgrade. Feel free to use it.

I am workign on my new project, it is a case mod that will house a gaming peecee in a model of the Nergal Heavy Industries Battleship Nadesico.

If they are not carefull I might have to post a raid on this place...
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4102

Great old comptuers in there.

puts the old 386 and some components on a trolley and wheels them off to the user area*

*comes in from salon moving along edges of rooms, avoiding cables and things with sharp edges*

*whisks out*

*walks in carrying Apple IIc reverantly*

Looks like I've found the right place.

*starts looking for accesories*

*finds second 5 1/2" disk drive*
*finds ****hard drive**** *
*find original green screen monitor*

Wooohooo!!!

*heads towards user lab*

Make yourself at home here.

I need to finish my Mac128 to fishtank project. Any one good with a dremel?

*enters carrying a Pace digital tv box*

Anyone know how to fix a digibox? It's the second one in two days! The neighbours are going to start talking if the nice young SA technician comes round again today.

*moves the box around examining it*

Oh, its a PC, look....its got an ethernet card and a printer port.

My first instinct is to fix it with an axe. I *hate* settop boxen, and not because of the users.

Well, I can give it a go, but I have no guarantees.