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1. Samuel Hodgkins (samis) 🍄 (samis@mastodon.9net.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Apr-2018 22:24:13 EDT Samuel Hodgkins (samis) 🍄

   this is two weeks old, but apparently #intel are incompetent at keeping backups of their important old things: 'Intel branded desktop motherboards were discontinued in 2013. We no longer have the motherboard-specific BIOS source code, build environment, and tools to build new BIOS releases with the microcode update for some discontinued products.'
   (source: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000026630/boards-and-kits/desktop-boards.html)

   1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 13-Apr-2018 02:56:32 EDT clacke

      in reply to
      @samis Meanwhile, Microsoft and IBM still keep old computers in store somewhere configured to act as official build machines for software from the 80s.