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Sociology > Depression |
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"Teilhard Knight" |
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11 Sep 2004 04:36:53 PM |
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My 486 again |
I am fascinated with this little piece of junk. It is so slow, that I can do
many things in other machines while she chugs her way in most tasks. And to
think that we went through that in our (my?) times make me awe. 66 MHz, just
imagine. And that was FAST! when I was young.
--
Teilhard Knight
The Extraterrestrial
Change "privacy" for "softhome" if you want to intrude my inbox
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| User: "DaKitty" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
11 Sep 2004 10:46:10 PM |
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"Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:2qh9frFv9bcjU1@uni-berlin.de...
I am fascinated with this little piece of junk. It is so slow, that I can
do
many things in other machines while she chugs her way in most tasks. And
to
think that we went through that in our (my?) times make me awe. 66 MHz,
just
imagine. And that was FAST! when I was young.
I was 19 or 20 when 486's came out
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| User: "lisa in mass." |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
11 Sep 2004 10:56:09 PM |
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DaKitty wrote...
"Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:2qh9frFv9bcjU1@uni-berlin.de...
I am fascinated with this little piece of junk. It is so
slow, that I can
do
many things in other machines while she chugs her way in
most tasks. And
to
think that we went through that in our (my?) times make me
awe. 66 MHz,
just
imagine. And that was FAST! when I was young.
I was 19 or 20 when 486's came out
i remember getting an ibm ps2/50 when it was the newest hot
thing. 10 mz, and with the 20 meg hdd, rather than the usual
10 meg. and a *color* monitor to go with! we were the envy of
all our computer geek friends.
-lisa
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| User: "DaKitty" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
11 Sep 2004 10:58:51 PM |
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"lisa in mass." <mccats@rcn.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9561F37DB9C0Fmccatsjavanetcom@199.184.165.239...
DaKitty wrote...
"Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:2qh9frFv9bcjU1@uni-berlin.de...
I am fascinated with this little piece of junk. It is so
slow, that I can
do
many things in other machines while she chugs her way in
most tasks. And
to
think that we went through that in our (my?) times make me
awe. 66 MHz,
just
imagine. And that was FAST! when I was young.
I was 19 or 20 when 486's came out
i remember getting an ibm ps2/50 when it was the newest hot
thing. 10 mz, and with the 20 meg hdd, rather than the usual
10 meg. and a *color* monitor to go with! we were the envy of
all our computer geek friends.
-lisa
My first PC computer was a 486/33... man I thought that was super fast!!!
Now I'm using a 2.8Gigahertz P3... how things change!
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12 Sep 2004 02:18:34 AM |
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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:58:51 -0700, "DaKitty"
<Imgonna@dotcomsomething.net> wrote:
My first PC computer was a 486/33... man I thought that was super =
fast!!!
Now I'm using a 2.8Gigahertz P3... how things change!
hmpf. I had a Sanyo 555 that ran at 3.58Mhz
it was like a PC, ran MS-DOS, but was better
Sanyo dumped it and made IBM clones...
then I got a 16Mhz 286
then a 486-33 with 20 megs of RAM
and a 20-meg HDD. a bit small, but that gave me some attitude
I ain't bloated. I just feel fat...
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| User: "Whiskers" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
12 Sep 2004 11:19:45 AM |
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On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 07:18:34 +0000, =^.^= wrote:
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I ain't bloated. I just feel fat...
Would it be worth gettng my old 386/25 sub-notebook repaired? Broken
battery contacts, lots of dead pixels on the 16-tone greyscale backlit LCD
(640x480), broken latches on battery holder and clamshell lid. 80MB HD,
4MB RAM, 14.4Kb modem. I'd like to see if I could get Linux running on
that; I still think it's about the neatest PC I've ever used, and they
don't seem to make 'em like that any more :((
I suspect there would be problems getting parts, even if anyone was
prepared to try.
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| User: "=^.^=" |
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13 Sep 2004 01:12:50 AM |
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On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:19:45 +0100, Whiskers
<catwheezel@operamail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 07:18:34 +0000, =3D^.^=3D wrote:
I ain't bloated. I just feel fat...
waaah!
Would it be worth gettng my old 386/25 sub-notebook repaired? Broken
battery contacts, lots of dead pixels on the 16-tone greyscale backlit =
LCD
(640x480), broken latches on battery holder and clamshell lid. 80MB HD,
4MB RAM, 14.4Kb modem. I'd like to see if I could get Linux running on
that; I still think it's about the neatest PC I've ever used, and they
don't seem to make 'em like that any more :((
it might be cheaper to get a known-good Pentium class notebook
I suspect there would be problems getting parts, even if anyone was
prepared to try.
yep. I've seen plenty of surplus stuff, but my bottom-line is
400Mhz AMD K-6 mule machines, except for the bastion host
it does its' job quite nicely with hardened NT4.0 on a Pentium Pro
there's an Overdrive that'll run it up to 333Mhz; that's not needed
all it does is send the right stuff to the right machines and the
wrong stuff into a nice tidy black hole. pisses assholes off...
tough. go hassle a IIs Microsoft Enterprise box
you ain't getting anywhere here...
the PeerGuardian application solution weeds-out fuckasses, too
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| User: "Whiskers" |
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13 Sep 2004 09:11:05 AM |
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 06:12:50 +0000, =^.^= wrote:
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it might be cheaper to get a known-good Pentium class notebook
snip
Sadly I'm inclined to agree.
I recently dashed out in a hurry to get the S/H laptop I'm using now (and
can't really afford) when I bollixed my Desktop machine trying to install
a second HD, and started getting usenet-withdrawal symptoms and couldn't
concentrate enough to work out what I'd broken. That was at the end of
last month and I still haven't felt up to tackling the damaged machine
:(( That one is an AMD K6/2 500 - and this laptop is a Celeron 2GHz, so
it feels /really/ fast. But it's twice the size of my dear old
sub-notebook, and the touch-pad on this thing is a real pain, I only have
to relax a thumb for the input-cursor to leap all over the place while I'm
typing. Why did they have to put the touch-pad in front? It's magical
technology but very silly design. Seems to be the 'norm' though.
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13 Sep 2004 08:34:49 PM |
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:11:05 +0100, Whiskers
<catwheezel@operamail.com> wrote:
I recently dashed out in a hurry to get the S/H laptop I'm using now =
(and
can't really afford) when I bollixed my Desktop machine trying to =
install
a second HD, and started getting usenet-withdrawal symptoms and couldn't
concentrate enough to work out what I'd broken. That was at the end of
last month and I still haven't felt up to tackling the damaged machine=20
:(( That one is an AMD K6/2 500 - and this laptop is a Celeron 2GHz, so
it feels /really/ fast. But it's twice the size of my dear old
sub-notebook, and the touch-pad on this thing is a real pain, I only =
have
to relax a thumb for the input-cursor to leap all over the place while =
I'm
typing. Why did they have to put the touch-pad in front? It's magical
technology but very silly design. Seems to be the 'norm' though.
that's what they aim-for...the norm. gets more buyers...
you might wanna get an external USB keyboard and mouse
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| User: "Whiskers" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
14 Sep 2004 04:38:31 PM |
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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 01:34:49 +0000, =^.^= wrote:
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you might wanna get an external USB keyboard and mouse
I prefer a trackball. THe touchpad would be OK if it were between the
keypoard and the screen instead of right where I want to rest my thumbs.
I now have a flap of cardboard held on with masking tape, which works
fairly well as a lid for the touchpad while I'm typing.
The 'microwriter' system was the best method of data entry that I've ever
used. Sadly, my 'Microwriter AgendA' pocket computer 'died' years ago. I
used to control my office PC with it via the serial socket, back in the
days of DOS. There are apparently a few still working.
<http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~len/boog/aghome.htm>.
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| User: " SortaLily" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
11 Sep 2004 10:57:54 PM |
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i remember when 'color' meant amber or green whoooooo
i'm old
"lisa in mass." <mccats@rcn.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9561F37DB9C0Fmccatsjavanetcom@199.184.165.239...
| DaKitty wrote...
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| > "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@privacy.net> wrote in message
| > news:2qh9frFv9bcjU1@uni-berlin.de...
| >> I am fascinated with this little piece of junk. It is so
| >> slow, that I can
| > do
| >> many things in other machines while she chugs her way in
| >> most tasks. And
| > to
| >> think that we went through that in our (my?) times make me
| >> awe. 66 MHz,
| > just
| >> imagine. And that was FAST! when I was young.
| >>
| > I was 19 or 20 when 486's came out
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| >
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| i remember getting an ibm ps2/50 when it was the newest hot
| thing. 10 mz, and with the 20 meg hdd, rather than the usual
| 10 meg. and a *color* monitor to go with! we were the envy of
| all our computer geek friends.
|
| -lisa
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| User: "lisa in mass." |
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11 Sep 2004 11:04:59 PM |
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SortaLily wrote...
i remember when 'color' meant amber or green whoooooo
i'm old
we had an amber one on our commodore 64. we'd souped that baby
up as far as it would go (modem, 2nd floppy, tape drive).
i went back to my old workplace which i left when i became
disabled 7 1/2 yrs ago. all my old files are still in my file
drawer. i have a list of staff in the building and whether they
were using color or monochrome monitors. this (in part) was to
know who most needed the new 386sx machines we were buying.
-lisa
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| User: "DaKitty" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
11 Sep 2004 10:59:28 PM |
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I was thrilled to have a computer with 16 colors at one time!
That was very high end!
" SortaLily" <up.downn@near.far> wrote in message
news:4143c943$0$6914$61fed72c@news.rcn.com...
i remember when 'color' meant amber or green whoooooo
i'm old
"lisa in mass." <mccats@rcn.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9561F37DB9C0Fmccatsjavanetcom@199.184.165.239...
| DaKitty wrote...
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| > "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@privacy.net> wrote in message
| > news:2qh9frFv9bcjU1@uni-berlin.de...
| >> I am fascinated with this little piece of junk. It is so
| >> slow, that I can
| > do
| >> many things in other machines while she chugs her way in
| >> most tasks. And
| > to
| >> think that we went through that in our (my?) times make me
| >> awe. 66 MHz,
| > just
| >> imagine. And that was FAST! when I was young.
| >>
| > I was 19 or 20 when 486's came out
| >
| >
| >
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| i remember getting an ibm ps2/50 when it was the newest hot
| thing. 10 mz, and with the 20 meg hdd, rather than the usual
| 10 meg. and a *color* monitor to go with! we were the envy of
| all our computer geek friends.
|
| -lisa
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| User: "=^.^=" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
12 Sep 2004 02:25:29 AM |
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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:59:28 -0700, "DaKitty"
<Imgonna@dotcomsomething.net> wrote:
I was thrilled to have a computer with 16 colors at one time!
That was very high end!
the Sanyo was RGB, 600x200, with per-pixel control
I gotta PC compatibility add-in card and got CGA...
that was fucked. the Sanyo side had 48K devoted to colour
instrad of 64K for Basic, I got 640K+ for Basic. a real good BASIC
I developed re-usable code modules so I didn't have to recode
something from scratch. it took a fucking long time to do the
Mandelbrot set or Julia sets, but whooped-***** on chaos graphs
....that didn't use color, just black-n-white
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| User: " SortaLily" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
11 Sep 2004 11:00:12 PM |
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are we geeks? yes we are geeks!
"DaKitty" <Imgonna@dotcomsomething.net> wrote in message
news:AQP0d.293642$Oi.94965@fed1read04...
| I was thrilled to have a computer with 16 colors at one time!
| That was very high end!
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| " SortaLily" <up.downn@near.far> wrote in message
| news:4143c943$0$6914$61fed72c@news.rcn.com...
| > i remember when 'color' meant amber or green whoooooo
| > i'm old
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| > "lisa in mass." <mccats@rcn.com> wrote in message
| > news:Xns9561F37DB9C0Fmccatsjavanetcom@199.184.165.239...
| > | DaKitty wrote...
| > |
| > | >
| > | > "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@privacy.net> wrote in message
| > | > news:2qh9frFv9bcjU1@uni-berlin.de...
| > | >> I am fascinated with this little piece of junk. It is so
| > | >> slow, that I can
| > | > do
| > | >> many things in other machines while she chugs her way in
| > | >> most tasks. And
| > | > to
| > | >> think that we went through that in our (my?) times make me
| > | >> awe. 66 MHz,
| > | > just
| > | >> imagine. And that was FAST! when I was young.
| > | >>
| > | > I was 19 or 20 when 486's came out
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| > |
| > | i remember getting an ibm ps2/50 when it was the newest hot
| > | thing. 10 mz, and with the 20 meg hdd, rather than the usual
| > | 10 meg. and a *color* monitor to go with! we were the envy of
| > | all our computer geek friends.
| > |
| > | -lisa
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| >
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| User: "DaKitty" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
11 Sep 2004 11:08:07 PM |
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Geek-ettes you mean? ;)
hehehe
Yea, I pestered the heck out of my mom and dad when I was around 12 to get
me a computer, back when first Apples and Commodores and Sinclair's came out
I think before that was Atari 2600, and before that the Atari that you used
to play Pong. I [heart] PONG!
" SortaLily" <up.downn@near.far> wrote in message
news:4143c9cc$0$6916$61fed72c@news.rcn.com...
are we geeks? yes we are geeks!
"DaKitty" <Imgonna@dotcomsomething.net> wrote in message
news:AQP0d.293642$Oi.94965@fed1read04...
| I was thrilled to have a computer with 16 colors at one time!
| That was very high end!
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| " SortaLily" <up.downn@near.far> wrote in message
| news:4143c943$0$6914$61fed72c@news.rcn.com...
| > i remember when 'color' meant amber or green whoooooo
| > i'm old
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| > "lisa in mass." <mccats@rcn.com> wrote in message
| > news:Xns9561F37DB9C0Fmccatsjavanetcom@199.184.165.239...
| > | DaKitty wrote...
| > |
| > | >
| > | > "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@privacy.net> wrote in message
| > | > news:2qh9frFv9bcjU1@uni-berlin.de...
| > | >> I am fascinated with this little piece of junk. It is so
| > | >> slow, that I can
| > | > do
| > | >> many things in other machines while she chugs her way in
| > | >> most tasks. And
| > | > to
| > | >> think that we went through that in our (my?) times make me
| > | >> awe. 66 MHz,
| > | > just
| > | >> imagine. And that was FAST! when I was young.
| > | >>
| > | > I was 19 or 20 when 486's came out
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| > |
| > | i remember getting an ibm ps2/50 when it was the newest hot
| > | thing. 10 mz, and with the 20 meg hdd, rather than the usual
| > | 10 meg. and a *color* monitor to go with! we were the envy of
| > | all our computer geek friends.
| > |
| > | -lisa
| >
| >
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| User: "lisa in mass." |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
11 Sep 2004 11:12:26 PM |
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DaKitty wrote...
Yea, I pestered the heck out of my mom and dad when I was
around 12 to get me a computer, back when first Apples and
Commodores and Sinclair's came out I think before that was
Atari 2600, and before that the Atari that you used to play
Pong. I [heart] PONG!
we had a pong game for our tv when i was in high school. a litle
computer that attached to the tv, all it did was play pong. my
friends thought it was amazing. i think that was before the
atari was out yet.
-lisa
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| User: "DaKitty" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
11 Sep 2004 11:36:52 PM |
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"lisa in mass." <mccats@rcn.com> wrote in message
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DaKitty wrote...
Yea, I pestered the heck out of my mom and dad when I was
around 12 to get me a computer, back when first Apples and
Commodores and Sinclair's came out I think before that was
Atari 2600, and before that the Atari that you used to play
Pong. I [heart] PONG!
we had a pong game for our tv when i was in high school. a litle
computer that attached to the tv, all it did was play pong. my
friends thought it was amazing. i think that was before the
atari was out yet.
-lisa
Yea, that was before Atari 2600
Now that you mention it I don't remember if Pong was made by Atari or
someone else.
Sounds like we're talking about the same pong... attached to the TV, the
joystick actually had a little knob/wheel on it to move the bars up and
down.
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
12 Sep 2004 02:59:16 AM |
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On 12 Sep 2004 04:12:26 GMT, "lisa in mass." <mccats@rcn.com> wrote:
we had a pong game for our tv when i was in high school. a litle=20
computer that attached to the tv, all it did was play pong. my=20
friends thought it was amazing. i think that was before the=20
atari was out yet.
-lisa
Joe Lee (dude who went to China to do ping-pong)
had one of them. I put a whoopass security system
in his house. later-on I met his sister at the LRC at
a showing of a womens' air defense squad propaganda
film. the LRC hadda lot of socialist-leaning lesbians...
she wasn't into money and didn't even know she had
a $850/mo income from an apartment property she owned
her comment "*****! I could get a fucking car with money like that"
Joe Lee was into Western, as was his sis. miss her. she died...
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| User: "Whiskers" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
12 Sep 2004 10:57:37 AM |
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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:57:54 -0400, SortaLily wrote:
i remember when 'color' meant amber or green whoooooo i'm old
I remember when the only output was punched tape or cards :))
Home-builders used octal keypads for programming.
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| User: "=^.^=" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
13 Sep 2004 01:04:12 AM |
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On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:57:37 +0100, Whiskers
<catwheezel@operamail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:57:54 -0400, SortaLily wrote:
i remember when 'color' meant amber or green whoooooo i'm old
I remember when the only output was punched tape or cards :))=20
Home-builders used octal keypads for programming.
the phone company used octal for their ESS central offices
and dumped the printouts into unlocked dumpsters, too...
heh. who needs a blue box when you can forward your phone
to anything in the world, and then call yerself? no LAMA, either
they didn't discover this untill well over a year later...
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| User: "Whiskers" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
13 Sep 2004 08:39:08 AM |
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 06:04:12 +0000, =^.^= wrote:
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they didn't discover this untill well over a year later...
<WEG>
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| User: " SortaLily" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
12 Sep 2004 04:46:58 PM |
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yea i remember cards. my dad used to take me to the computer center where
he worked. we would go on weekends when it was almost empty and i'd get go
play with some of the cards.
"Whiskers" <catwheezel@operamail.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.09.12.15.57.36.975748@ID-107770.user.uni-berlin.de...
| On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:57:54 -0400, SortaLily wrote:
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| > i remember when 'color' meant amber or green whoooooo i'm old
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| I remember when the only output was punched tape or cards :))
| Home-builders used octal keypads for programming.
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| User: "lisa in mass." |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
12 Sep 2004 04:52:49 PM |
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SortaLily wrote...
yea i remember cards. my dad used to take me to the
computer center where he worked. we would go on weekends
when it was almost empty and i'd get go play with some of
the cards.
my dad devloped industrial computers that ran on punch tape in
the 60's. we'd go to his work and write our names on the tape,
or save handfuls of the punches to use as confetti later. my mom
wasn't too amused about that part.
-lisa
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| User: "Whiskers" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
12 Sep 2004 06:39:03 PM |
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On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:46:58 -0400, SortaLily wrote:
yea i remember cards. my dad used to take me to the computer center where
he worked. we would go on weekends when it was almost empty and i'd get
go play with some of the cards.
<SHOCK!!> You *played* with the punched cards??? That's like using the
HD to play skipping-stones or something!! ;))
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| User: "lisa in mass." |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
12 Sep 2004 07:45:02 PM |
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Whiskers wrote...
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:46:58 -0400, SortaLily wrote:
yea i remember cards. my dad used to take me to the
computer center where he worked. we would go on weekends
when it was almost empty and i'd get go play with some of
the cards.
<SHOCK!!> You *played* with the punched cards??? That's
like using the HD to play skipping-stones or something!!
;))
old hard drives contain metal disks. when hung together, they
make nice windchimes.
-lisa
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| User: "Whiskers" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
13 Sep 2004 08:37:35 AM |
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:45:02 +0000, lisa in mass. wrote:
Whiskers wrote...
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:46:58 -0400, SortaLily wrote:
yea i remember cards. my dad used to take me to the computer center
where he worked. we would go on weekends when it was almost empty and
i'd get go play with some of the cards.
<SHOCK!!> You *played* with the punched cards??? That's like using the
HD to play skipping-stones or something!! ;))
old hard drives contain metal disks. when hung together, they make nice
windchimes.
<covers computer's input devices> That's cruel! ;))
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-- Whiskers
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| User: "skubik" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
12 Sep 2004 01:11:13 PM |
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lisa in mass. wrote:
i remember getting an ibm ps2/50 when it was the newest hot
thing. 10 mz, and with the 20 meg hdd, rather than the usual
10 meg. and a *color* monitor to go with! we were the envy of
all our computer geek friends.
I still have mine and it works fine to this day! Actually, it was a PS2
Model 20 I believe. 10MHZ, 40MB HDD, ran DOS 6.0 (wouldn't even run
Windows). Ended up getting a ZIP Drive for it which gave it new life
(could install more proggies and store media files... even though it had
no soundblaster, but I had a program that played sound files through the
internal speaker. Oh the glory days of computing.
- Shawn.
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| User: "dennis" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
11 Sep 2004 05:01:35 PM |
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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 16:36:53 -0500, "Teilhard Knight"
<teilhk@privacy.net> wrote:
I am fascinated with this little piece of junk. It is so slow, that I can do
many things in other machines while she chugs her way in most tasks. And to
think that we went through that in our (my?) times make me awe. 66 MHz, just
imagine. And that was FAST! when I was young.
we are not old, we are not old, we are not old
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| User: "skubik" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
12 Sep 2004 01:04:53 PM |
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dennis wrote:
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 16:36:53 -0500, "Teilhard Knight"
<teilhk@privacy.net> wrote:
I am fascinated with this little piece of junk. It is so slow, that I can do
many things in other machines while she chugs her way in most tasks. And to
think that we went through that in our (my?) times make me awe. 66 MHz, just
imagine. And that was FAST! when I was young.
we are not old, we are not old, we are not old
I have found that any computer, with the right OS, can kick the @$$ of
most 'new' hardware systems. I'm still running a K6-2 333 Mhz CPU with
Win2000, and run all sorts of things in the background, including
webservers, database servers and a bunch of other things, and it is
EXTREMELY stable and runs more applications quicker than my brothers
Emachines Celeron 2 Ghz system running WinXP. A little fine-tuning goes
a long way too.
- Shawn.
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| User: "neoholistic" |
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| Title: Re: My 486 again |
12 Sep 2004 11:10:40 AM |
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Teilhard Knight wrote:
I am fascinated with this little piece of junk. It is so slow, that I can do
many things in other machines while she chugs her way in most tasks. And to
think that we went through that in our (my?) times make me awe. 66 MHz, just
imagine. And that was FAST! when I was young.
Look at it this way: *if* you had a good quality, well-designed
mainboard, with fast (for the time) memory and cache, the thing
could keep a sustained rate of 3 million floating-point operations
per second and a peak rate of 50 million integer operations per
second (around 30 million sustained). What awes me is that that
is considered /slow/ nowadays! ;)
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