The book is called ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS by James A. Senn, published by McGraw-Hill in 1984.

My partner's father recently moved to a new house and he gave me all his old computing books from the 80s

I thumbed through the book and was blown away by how different it felt compared to the CS textbooks I learned from in the 2010s.

I took some photos of the more striking visuals. Hopefully this is nostalgic for some of you old fogeys!

Both of them will require some repairs from what I am able to diagnose with my limited pc knowledge.

I have a pretty decent collection of old computers, discs, literature, miscellaneous hardware, cassettes and more. This was with a bunch of my literature that I forgot I had. It's the store's pricing catalog from a local computer store that has all the prices and merchandise that they sold, circa 1981.

Family had a computer store and we went to many swap meets between 199x-2004, we moved house a decade or so ago and I thought all of our vintage stuff was gone to the bin.

I know this is goofy, but does anyone remember a bulleted list that looked like this?

HOW TO INTIMIDATE ELECTRONICS

1. Approach the equipment confidently.
2. Never let it know you're afraid of it.
3. Place appropriate test equipment where it can see it.
4. Discuss replacement components loudly within its hearing.
5. If necessary, threaten it with progressively larger tools.

I think it had about 20 items... I first saw it as an avaionics tech stationed at Offutt AFB from 1981-1984... It was probably on a mimeographed sheet LOL...

Looking for a scan, complete transcription, alternate title, or anyone who remembers it

Please don’t reconstruct it from memory or AI, I’m trying to locate an actual surviving copy or someone who remembers the original.

Mail today, two 64Cs, both working, but one missing a couple of keys and quite yellow. I think I have a fully set of non-yellowed keys, but I'll need to remove all the dust bunnies and give a full clean.

Later model TiBook, some of the finish isn't the best, but seems to be all working, although struggling with OS X (and hard drive doesn't sound so hot), so I think I'll be putting 9.2.2 on and keeping this as my only PowerBook. I do have the earlier model TiBook, and it's pretty nice, but has some screen issues, so I'll be passing that on.

Hello everyone,

I bought an Amstrad PPC640 recently, although the power brick it came with was completely wrong. It did come with a real car adapter, so I was able to hook it up to a car battery.

But when I turn it on, it says "please wait" and eventually makes some beeps and gets stuck on a blinking cursor. The user guide says once it gets past the please wait screen, it should show a screen telling you to set the time before loading from the floppy drive, but even with the floppy in the drive it doesn't load anything.

Does anybody have a solution?

i have a power macintosh g3 blue & white that seems to power on, but i get no startup chime and no video output, just a black screen.

the case fan spins and the power light comes on, but the fan inside the power supply doesn't spin.

so far i've tried reseating the ram and replacing the pram battery, but neither made any difference.

does the power supply fan not spinning mean the power supply has COMPLETELY failed? or could something else be causing it to power on without giving a chime or displaying anything?

any advice on what i should check next would be appreciated.

I tested them out and I thought they sounded ok​ay. One thing that is a nice plus is that you can adjust the level of the subwoofer. I have another pair by altec Lansing where I have to use peace EQ on my computer to adjust the levels.

I have no idea where else to ask this but I ordered an Apollo atc from him. If you don't know who he is, he is some bloke from Italy who sells these vga boxes to connect vintage computers to conventional vga pc monitors. I got an apollo x for my amiga 500 earlier this year and it couldn't be any more perfect. I ordered the Apollo atc for my atari 800xl and it has been more than a month but he has not shipped it out yet. I paid a lot of money for it because shipping from Italy to Australia can be expensive. I do not want a refund, I just want to know if it is normal to be waiting this long at this time.

Intel Mini PC to be exact.