Chris
@droppedpacket.bsky.social
Cloud Infrastructure and Platforms, CCIE
lol! I seem to remember it did parallel port passthrough so you could connect a printer to the same port.
May 30, 2026 at 10:20 PM
lol! I seem to remember it did parallel port passthrough so you could connect a printer to the same port.
It really needed some cheesy 80s training montage music to go with it
May 30, 2026 at 10:17 PM
It really needed some cheesy 80s training montage music to go with it
I had a parallel port one and it was incredible at the time (which was around 1995!) Much quicker than floppy disks, and with the same capacity as my double height 5.25 inch ESDI hard disk!
I think it cost around £100 for the drive which was also pretty cheap for what it was
I think it cost around £100 for the drive which was also pretty cheap for what it was
May 30, 2026 at 10:05 PM
I had a parallel port one and it was incredible at the time (which was around 1995!) Much quicker than floppy disks, and with the same capacity as my double height 5.25 inch ESDI hard disk!
I think it cost around £100 for the drive which was also pretty cheap for what it was
I think it cost around £100 for the drive which was also pretty cheap for what it was
I’m a bit confused, what does this post have to do with vibe coding? The engineer doesn’t state at any point that they used AI to write the code, and to be fair to them this is a hard problem to spot. The point he’s making is more the importance of observability and why logging at scale is bad
April 18, 2026 at 10:37 PM
I’m a bit confused, what does this post have to do with vibe coding? The engineer doesn’t state at any point that they used AI to write the code, and to be fair to them this is a hard problem to spot. The point he’s making is more the importance of observability and why logging at scale is bad
What I find fascinating about this is that the AI is saying things like it panicked. Of course it didn’t, it’s an LLM, it’s a word prediction engine. It can’t panic. It can do things that are seemingly random, but then it is only responding how we would expect it to respond when asked why.
July 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
What I find fascinating about this is that the AI is saying things like it panicked. Of course it didn’t, it’s an LLM, it’s a word prediction engine. It can’t panic. It can do things that are seemingly random, but then it is only responding how we would expect it to respond when asked why.
On the switch now there’s a system option to permanently switch them to match Xbox :)
July 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
On the switch now there’s a system option to permanently switch them to match Xbox :)
Oh I miss PC Zone and wonderful reviews like this!
February 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Oh I miss PC Zone and wonderful reviews like this!
The original external one was parallel port, not sure USB even existed when it came out! I remember being impressed how much quicker it was than a floppy disk, to the point where you could run programs directly off it (slowly!)
The internal drive also came later.
The internal drive also came later.
February 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The original external one was parallel port, not sure USB even existed when it came out! I remember being impressed how much quicker it was than a floppy disk, to the point where you could run programs directly off it (slowly!)
The internal drive also came later.
The internal drive also came later.
Weren’t they 100MB? I remember getting a parallel port external Zip drive and each disk was the same size as my HD!
February 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Weren’t they 100MB? I remember getting a parallel port external Zip drive and each disk was the same size as my HD!
And we're in! Am liking that now it shows me the number of turns when I go somewhere, but strange I can't move units with the cursors anymore...
February 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
And we're in! Am liking that now it shows me the number of turns when I go somewhere, but strange I can't move units with the cursors anymore...
Ooh I forgot how fancy the palace is now though. I have a chair!
February 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Ooh I forgot how fancy the palace is now though. I have a chair!
What I realise about Civ II that I'd forgotten is it's largely a windows version of Civ I with fancier graphics. In a lot of ways I think I may prefer the original!
Nice to get health bars on units though!
Nice to get health bars on units though!
February 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
What I realise about Civ II that I'd forgotten is it's largely a windows version of Civ I with fancier graphics. In a lot of ways I think I may prefer the original!
Nice to get health bars on units though!
Nice to get health bars on units though!
Looking good so far! Not yey met any other Civs, but it would still put you in order, so I'm the biggest :)
February 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Looking good so far! Not yey met any other Civs, but it would still put you in order, so I'm the biggest :)
This is one of my favourite features that I really miss from modern CIV games, building your palace. (it looks a bit rubbish currently, but it gets much better!)
February 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is one of my favourite features that I really miss from modern CIV games, building your palace. (it looks a bit rubbish currently, but it gets much better!)