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Need Help Salvaging Data From an Old Xenix System 325

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 21, 2010 @08:23AM from the warrior-princess dept.

Milo_Mindbender writes "I've recently gotten ahold of an old Altos 586 Xenix system (a late '80s Microsoft flavor of Unix) that has one of the first multi-user BBS systems in the US on it, and I want to salvage the historical BBS posts off it. I'm wondering if anyone remembers what format Xenix used on the 10MB (yes MB) IDE hard drive and if it can still be read on a modern Linux system. This system is quite old, has no removable media or ethernet and just barely works. The only other way to get data off is a slow serial port. I've got a controller that should work with the disk, but don't want to tear this old machine apart without some hope that it will work. Anyone know?"

An Early Look At Civilization V 286

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday March 11, 2010 @07:02AM from the new-and-shiny dept.

c0mpliant writes "IGN and Gamespot have each released a preview of the recently announced and eagerly awaited Civilization V. Apart from the obvious new hexagon shape of tiles and improved graphics, the articles go on to outline some of the major changes in the game, such as updated AI, new 'flavors' to world leaders, and a potentially game-changing, one-unit-per-tile system. No more will the stack of doom come to your city's doorsteps. Some features which will not be returning are religion and espionage. The removal of these two have sparked a frenzy of discussion on fan-related forums."

Comment The Real Goal (no competition) (Score 1) 174

by g00dy on Thursday June 15, 2006 @08:50AM (#15539011) Attached to: Senators, ISPs, and Network Neutrality

Remember back a few years ago when there were internet service providers all over the place. Everybody had a choice of who they wanted for internet service. That was until the Telcos decided that they wanted the business. They started offering their own service and driving the prices down. That forced the independent ISPs to consolidate or go out of business. The benefit of that shift in business is cheep internet service.

The problem is that the Telcos do not want to raise the cost of the local access, because that would leave room for independent ISPs to start popping up again. If the Telcos cannot afford to build out infrastructure because the Joe home user isn't paying enough, I say raise the price and keep Net Neutrality. We as consumers would have more choices. Choices cost money. I want more choices.

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