General computer talk/advice

Around 250GB is enough (though more is preferred), but this is the cheapest 250GB SSD on Amazon at $75. The 1Tb SSHD, on the other hand, is only $68.

 

Having ran sshd setups, don't bother, you will get 0 performance benefit

 

We've find this in our attic :

My father remembered that he found it in a bin 10 years ago

I also have the Monitor. It's pretty freaking cool ^^
I will try to make it works tomorrow, but I might keep the keyboard for my personal use because it's really enjoyable to type on it.

I don't want to sell it but do you know if it worth anything ?

Edit :

After making some researches "Goupil' is apparently a French Brand, it's probably why I don't find many infos on Internet.

 

It must be a mechanical keyboard then?

 

I have a theory on keyboard, could you carefully pry off the key on like an arrow or escape or something and get a picture of the switch beneath, if you think it's gonna break stop of course. Or maybe a picture of the label
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Actually just did some Google trawling myself. If I'm right, the key should pull straight upwards to come off, it'll be a tad stiff. Beneath you shall find the keys are ABS double shot and they sit atop vintage cherry MX black linear switches

 

Of course!

After my small researches it's apparently using "MX Black" switches, the equivalent to cherry red switches apparently.

This is the most complet english review I've found : https://deskthority.net/photos-f62/smt-goupil-g5-t416.html

Edit :
Ups, did not see your edit, like you said I guess.

 

oh man

 

The cherry black is similar to a red yes but not the same. The spring is a bit stiffer in the black which in my opinion leaves them more pleasant to use than the red.

It's a g80-1000 effectively. Only price I can find on one is $160 in an eBay auction. Your French model may be worth more due to the rare black/grey case moulding.

Wicked find. Enjoy it

 

Don't worry I'm not going to sell it. The keys feeling is growing on me. It's really REALLY enjoyable. I've just found my new Keyboard!

 

my dad has an old mechanical keyboard in his studio, going unused. But he won't let me have it, which is really annoying lol
It was from a cheap Windows 3.1 PC I think - But it's still nicer to type on than my everyday membrane keyboard.

 

I was personally looking for a Model M for quite sometimes, but they are really expensive. But now I have this beast so yeah. Why won't he let you have it ?

Btw thanks people for the help ^^

 

Das rite boi, replace your 6600k with a 6 year old CPU that will be worse in single core, require DDR 3 RAM and X79 motherboard and beefier cooler.
Top 10 most solid advice of 2017.

But for real tho, this site seems a little sketchy

 

I dunno, he has let me have loads of old stuff in the past, but not that which is odd.

 

Meh, maybe he want to sell it. It's pretty amazing to think a school litterally trashed this thing few years ago.

 

I Doubt anyone will be searching high and low for logitech k12's anytime soon. Or I at least hope not, since that would indicate some form of fallout situation, or a series of really bad years for keyboards.

Having said that Dell and logitech were as good as it gets for school based typing experiences. There were much much worse keyboards that lagged and flexed horribly.

 

I've currently got 3 mechanical keyboards and am designing a 4th

 

Bought one 212 EVO, two arrived, yey free stuff

 

Can I have one :'(

Yay! It's working! I don't have any MS-DOS 4.0.1 applications though... So yeah...

Cleaning the old beast:

 

Will it run beam?

 

Funny, but I think MS-DOS is far too advanced for Beam to play on.