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Re:Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami by showerst on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @09:25AM (#36212328)
The sheer variety of weird and wonderful ways things could be incompatible is really tamed by modern standards. I remember spending days as a kid working out obscure IRQ conflicts blindly flipping plastic jumpers, or editing config files.

I don't miss it!

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Re:Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami by EricE on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @01:54PM (#36230599)
My first use of spreadsheets was to track IRQ, IO Port and memory address conflicts :p
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