Posts by The Self Taught Man

1. 2015-09-08 at 8:19 PM UTC in The Spectarded Thread: Pre-Email Edition
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Gotcha… not true. There was no way to pre-select the correct positioning of the jumpers, as the jumpers were not labelled and the IRQ the drive was set to use was unknown. There's no way you could pick the correct jumper position unless you used a live trial and error process, with the ribbon already connected, of moving the jumpers around in sequence until the drive booted.
   
   You're a fraud, Darkie. Face the music, dude.

   That is the biggest line of bullshit you have posted on this site. Every manufacturer included drive maps. And had there own specific pin/jumper scheme. If you were doing by trial and error you an even bigger idiot than anyone here ever thought.
2. 2015-09-08 at 6:13 PM UTC in fuck space jam
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Suuuuuure you did. I believe you.

   I'm not posting to convince you. I'm posting to make you embarrass yourself like you just did there.
3. 2015-09-08 at 6:05 PM UTC in I thought i could trust you guys
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Not in general use until the mid '90's.

   Meaning amateurs such as yourself weren't using it until then. On that we agree.
4. 2015-09-08 at 6:03 PM UTC in The Spectarded Thread: Pre-Email Edition
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   @SpectraL P.S. This will be the last time I respond to one of your rudimentary quiz questions until you provide contrary documents to the vast number of sources I have cited in regard to the actual history of email.
5. 2015-09-08 at 6 PM UTC in Homeopathy conference in Germany disrupted by people trippin.
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   Oh those crazy Germanz.
6. 2015-09-08 at 5:57 PM UTC in The Spectarded Thread: Pre-Email Edition
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   The question was actually very simple. I asked WHAT IS THE FIRST STEP AFTER CONNECTING THE SCSI DRIVE.
   
   The correct answer, as even the most novice '80's n00b would have known, was to jumper the drive. All you did was post a bunch of information about connecting the drive, but that wasn't the question.
   
   You're a fraud, Darkie. Plain and simple.

   
   First all you set the jumpers before you connect the device to the cable not after. Secondly your a big mouthed moron who appears to posses a substandard level a athletic abilities and retention.
   
   
   

   I don't sit at a desk all day and all night waiting for an opportunity to finally best you as I do it by instinct and a superior knowledge base and it's really an effortless endeavor on my part. I've been socializing with my peers most of the evening with no thought of you whatsoever in my thought process. But now that I'm winding down and looking for the last bit of mild entertainment at day's end in a day filled with real world social interaction I will smack you about a bit for the communities amusement. The Small Computer Systems Interface platform was preferred by enterprise environments for it's superior data read/write performance (due to a higher RPM of the platters vs IDE) and it's higher average MTBF. Unlike IDE architecture which was limited to two devices per channel SCSI supported up to 7 devices per channel. The 8th position on the cable being reserved for the terminator. Not the the terminator was limited to the 8th position on the cable but the architecture's requirements dictate the after all positions on the chain which were to be populated by physical devices the final "device" be the terminator. The physical location on the SCSI chain/ribbon cable had to be hard pinned on the drive itself with jumpers similar in function to the jumpers on early ISA and PCI modems which had to be hard pinned for the correct IRQ. Son I was earning a living supporting early x86 hardware when Totse was a new and exciting experienceto you. So you can Google all you want to try and stump me.But the sad truth is your knowledge base sucks in comparison .

   Next either pay attention and learn or at least keep your foot on the floor and your mouth shut to avoid the taste of dirty alley and shoe leather. Because for the umpteenth time just this week you have once again stuck your foot in your big toothless mouth.
7. 2015-09-08 at 5:45 PM UTC in fuck space jam
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Nobody even used Libwww, Mosaic, Arena, or Lynx, dummy. Just because something was available does not automatically translate to anyone using it. That's where your Google information falls short, and actual experience wins out. It was only when Netscape came out in 1994 that anyone started browsing the WWW.

   
   Just because you didn't use them doesn't mean they weren't in use. You really need to stop pretending you know more about this than I do.
   
   When you were hanging out in the garage practicing some which you would be good enough to pay your bills with (drumming) in the early 80s I was at KSU working with Apple It's learning to program in both BASIC and Machine Language. Right after that in 83 I moved in with a check who managed the local Radio Shack. This gave me unfettered access to all things Tandy. In that year Compuserve went online for residential consumer Internet (not WWW but internet) service. They also had a channel partnership with Tandy in the form of a 30 free trial of Compuserve with the purchase of a TRS 80 COCO II and a 900 baud acoustic modem.
   
   During that Era Radio Shack managers had such total control of inventory that they could fudge reports to the point where inventory ceased to exist. This allowed the aforementioned hardware to find it's way to my home. Back then there was no online payment capabilities. So Compuserve had a "page" where you could enter your checking account info to have the monthly fee automatically deducted each month. Now as I've said there was no mechanism to auto verify payment info. This allowed me to enter completely bogus banking info and have access after the 30 trial. It was over 5 months before a human reviewed the info and shut the account down. After that I opened a legitimate account for something like $15.00 per month.
   
   While there was not really a browser (everything was ASCII ) or even IRC we did have what they called CB channels which afforded us live real time texting with other users and they gave one free email address with each account and the option to pay for additional email accounts.
   
   So you see Specky boy while many younger people might be initially
   bamboozled by your bullshit version of history I was there before you and managed to raise a son, a stepson, and a step daughter from 1997-2009 by working as an IT hardware tech and later as a LAN/WAN admin for both state and federal enterprise environments.
   
   To sum it up it's not Google or me that's falling short, it's your bullshit falling on your own feet. I was there before you and didn't waste what I learned by trying to impress random strangers on the internutz. I used it to feed and house my family.
   
8. 2015-09-08 at 4:38 PM UTC in I thought i could trust you guys
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   So you had to work it, huh? At least you'll get quadruple time and half.

   Email
9. 2015-09-08 at 3:29 PM UTC in fuck space jam
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   People didn't even use web browsers until 1994, you ignorant piece of shit.

   First of all you are off by about three years. The WWW was launched in 91 along with Libwww. By 93 Mosaic, Arena, and Lynx were up and running. None of which had anything to do with email which was "invented" in 72 and in widespread use by government employees, academicians, students, and hobbyists years before NirvanaNET.
   
   It's cute though the way you cling to a reality that is based on your limited experience and fragile ego.
10. 2015-09-08 at 3:09 PM UTC in I thought i could trust you guys
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    All the feds and LEOs are on holiday today. I find that special.

    
    You are an idiot. All Leo's are not off work on Labor Day.
11. 2015-09-08 at 3:05 PM UTC in The Spectarded Thread: Pre-Email Edition
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    The easy answer is it needed to be jumpered correctly through order of elimination, you fucking twit.

    That might be the easy answer but as usual from you it it neither the whole nor correct answer.
12. 2015-09-08 at 2:42 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    That was pretty funny Malice. Altho my first drink was probably when I was 3 or 4 and having sips of my parents wine with meals. I think I have a good chance of getting it cos one of my other mates works there and told her manager I'm a lovely guy. So we'll probably both get sacked when they find out that's a lie.
    
    And thank you Haiti, I'm sure I will. I had a dream the other night which is meant to symbolise good luck. Even if it was seeing some chick hanging herself.
13. 2015-09-08 at 8:23 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    I have an interview at a bar tomorrow. One of my friends told me to get a job based on my hobbies, so of course the answer was a drinking establishment.
14. 2015-09-08 at 5:47 AM UTC in fuck space jam
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Darkie is like a love-sick puppy who has to follow me around everywhere I go. He can't resist replying to every post I make. I guess insanity really is the sincerest kind of flattery.

    Email
15. 2015-09-08 at 4:28 AM UTC in The Judas Thread
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16. 2015-09-08 at 2:07 AM UTC in The Spectarded Thread: Pre-Email Edition
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Suuure you were, you fucking total poser. I believe you. Tell me, Mr. Knowledgeable, what's the first thing you had to do after connecting a SCSI drive, which is pretty well the universal type of drive in those days? You should be able to answer this question in a matter of seconds, if you were really there, but of course, you weren't there, so all you can do is Google it and report back in 20 minutes. p.s truly pathetic, you are, Rodent

    I don't sit at a desk all day and all night waiting for an opportunity to finally best you as I do it by instinct and a superior knowledge base and it's really an effortless endeavor on my part. I've been socializing with my peers most of the evening with no thought of you whatsoever in my thought process. But now that I'm winding down and looking for the last bit of mild entertainment at day's end in a day filled with real world social interaction I will smack you about a bit for the communities amusement. The Small Computer Systems Interface platform was preferred by enterprise environments for it's superior data read/write performance (due to a higher RPM of the platters vs IDE) and it's higher average MTBF. Unlike IDE architecture which was limited to two devices per channel SCSI supported up to 7 devices per channel. The 8th position on the cable being reserved for the terminator. Not the the terminator was limited to the 8th position on the cable but the architecture's requirements dictate the after all positions on the chain which were to be populated by physical devices the final "device" be the terminator. The physical location on the SCSI chain/ribbon cable had to be hard pinned on the drive itself with jumpers similar in function to the jumpers on early ISA and PCI modems which had to be hard pinned for the correct IRQ. Son I was earning a living supporting early x86 hardware when Totse was a new and exciting experienceto you. So you can Google all you want to try and stump me.But the sad truth is your knowledge base sucks in comparison .
17. 2015-09-08 at 1:21 AM UTC in Can We Get a Spoiler
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    
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    Nice copy pasta but if you want to legitimize your self professed expertise why didn't you add some explanation of what this accomplishes and how it does so?
18. 2015-09-08 at 1:18 AM UTC in ITT: We scare spekkk[][]]\.ttrkl
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19. 2015-09-07 at 6:39 PM UTC in The Spectarded Thread: Pre-Email Edition
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    It's very amusing to hear people like TheDarkRodent boasting about how knowledgeable they are about the pre-WWW era, when they weren't even there, and probably didn't even know what a computer was in 1989. I'll bet you a dozen chocolate donuts to a bag of live hand grenades with the pins already pulled they don't even know how you connected to Totse, don't even know what Totse looked like in those early years, don't even know how to configure a dial-up modem. Hahaha.. truly pathetic.

    Does it make feel better to say things you have no way of knowing? I was installing and configuring modems before there was a Totse. Your problem is Totse was your first network experience and you have no clue what was or wasn't around before that, like email for example. Everyone here knows how full of bullshit you are and nobody believes a word you type.
    
    So please feel free to take your ineffective shots at me Specky boy. It pleases me to witness you play the fool and dance to the tune I play.
20. 2015-09-07 at 1:46 PM UTC in WHY
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    The UBB was heavily modified. It was more than decent and more than sufficient for the purpose. It was when all the useless bells and whistles started appearing that things headed downhill fast.

    
    

    The UBB was heavily modified. It was more than decent and more than sufficient for the purpose. It was when all the useless bells and whistles started appearing that things headed downhill fast.

    By bells and whistles do you stuff like email that you never discovered until 10 years after everyone else?
    
    Or was there something else specifically you referring to?
    
    Or did you just use the idiom "bells and whistles" because as per usual you have no idea of WTF you're talking about?