The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agoIt's gotten so flashymedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1650arrow-down15
arrow-up1645arrow-down1imageIt's gotten so flashymedia.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agomessage-square44fedilink
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·edit-218 hours agoI have a 486 with a mouse driven BIOS… Edit: Here is a screenshot I found online that looks like the one I have (note the 1994 copyright at the top):
minus-squarelichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up19·edit-217 hours agoThe BIOS on some old Thinkpads has a bird flapping its wings as a mouse cursor. My 560X from 1998 has one of those BIOSes, too.
minus-squareGork@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·17 hours agoThat Antivirus must have had the last security update decades ago lol
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·17 hours agolol, in this case ‘update’ would require physically replacing the ROM chip on the motherboard. Sometimes they were nice enough to make it a socketed chip.
minus-squareGork@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·16 hours agoAt least the attack surface is super small right now. Probably not many viruses out in the wild targeting 486s.
I have a 486 with a mouse driven BIOS…
Edit: Here is a screenshot I found online that looks like the one I have (note the 1994 copyright at the top):
The BIOS on some old Thinkpads has a bird flapping its wings as a mouse cursor.
My 560X from 1998 has one of those BIOSes, too.
That Antivirus must have had the last security update decades ago lol
lol, in this case ‘update’ would require physically replacing the ROM chip on the motherboard. Sometimes they were nice enough to make it a socketed chip.
At least the attack surface is super small right now. Probably not many viruses out in the wild targeting 486s.