OT: Who has the oldest computer?

On 4/17/2011 6:22 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:


My guess is that we'll be seeing smaller, quick loading apps instead of
big fat bloatware. Who would have guessed that the cell phone would
change the future of computing? If you ask me, the future is looking
pretty good. Finally, no more Microsoft and it's DOS-legacy OS. OTOH,
Google may be running the world. :-)
 
On 4/17/2011 5:32 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

My first computer was something they called a clone. 386, 2 mb RAM, 40
MB HD. I only wanted DOS OS but I found something called Windows on it
and decided to check it out. It cost well over $1200. I used that
computer for more than 10 years. I learned a lot about hardware working
on that thing. Over the years I replaced the RAM, the hard drive, added
another one as a slave, installed a CD ROM and zip drive, the
motherboard, swapped out the CPU (Evergreen) and added a fan, and then
the power supply when the original one started smoking and shut down.
During that computer's life, it went from the original DOS with Windows
3.1, WFW, Windows NT 3.5 because I acquired a set of diskettes, and
Windows 2000 was the final OS.

I only use laptops now, and I've never done more to them than add memory.
 
On 4/18/2011 11:39 AM, Dave Smith wrote:


You remind me of a laptop I found in storage at one of our other
facilities. It was a Compaq and it was in a suitcase kind of carrier.
The top of the case had the monitor. Oddest computer I've seen but I can
tell many of you have seen older.
 
Cheryl wrote:

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Here's a fun one...

I took a class in computer crime.

One of the greatest computer crimes that required the least amount of
knowledge...

A man opens a checking account at a bank. He takes a stack of
"anonymous" (no account number) checking deposit slips from the customer
area.

He goes home and with an IBM golf ball with the computer numeral
typeface, types his account number on hundreds of deposit slips.

He puts them back in the stack at various bank branches.

Everyone who needed a deposit slip took one and filled it out.

The bank's computer scanned the deposit slip and reading the account
number, happily deposited the money into his account.

He eventually made off with over $1,000,000 dollars and was never
caught!!!

The resulting corrections to the system were magnetic ink and a change
in size of the "anonymous" deposit slips which would be kicked out to be
handled manually.

Easy money!!!

LOL!

Best,

Andy
 
On 4/19/2011 3:46 AM, J. Clarke wrote:

You guys just like to go back and forth on the dumbest of things. My
point is that Windows biggest problem is that it's never been able to
break away from that legacy of DOS. Your position is that this is not
true. Feel free to imply that you know every line of code in Windows.

My suggestion is that you KF me with great haste cause I'm not going to
play this game with you or anybody. Thanks, it's been swell.
 
On 4/17/2011 6:56 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:


You're right about the C64. It was one of those products where you read
the specs and come to the realization that it's going to change
everything. It was a great time for computers. Then the IBM PC came
out... :-)
 
On 23/04/2011 4:26 PM, Andy wrote:

The thing I hated most about those acoustic couplers was that they would
often pick up noise in the room and drop out if the noise persisted long
enough. When I was working from home I definitely could not play any of
the classical music I loved. The coupler would drop out every time. They
were supposed to be sound proof but I found they weren't even close.

What I did have was plenty of time to make coffee or even, with care,
cook a meal as those modems were slowwwww! When my employer installed
cable into my home, gone were the slow speeds and the time to even make
the coffee.

Krypsis
 
On 18/04/2011 6:00 AM, Mark Thorson wrote:

Used to run Windows NT 3.5 on a server at the office years back. I think
it was a DEC. All the desktops ran NT4 until they upgraded to Win2K. NT4
was quite stable.

Krypsis
 
On 18/04/2011 6:30 AM, Sqwertz wrote:

Win 2K is the same "family" as NT4 so will come up as Win NT.

Netscape is the predecessor to Mozilla but Mozilla is definitely not
Netscape. That's like saying my new car is like its 20 year predecessor.
Been a few changes and improvements since then!

Krypsis
 
On 18/04/2011 6:08 AM, Sqwertz wrote:

No, that is still soft sectored. You cannot change hard sectored disks
as it is fixed by the disk itself. Hard sectored floppy disks have an
index hole for each sector. Soft sectored have only one index hole. Last
set of hard sectored floppy disks I saw were 5.25" on an S100 bus.

Krypsis
 
On 4/22/2011 12:43 PM, Andy wrote:

I don't know too much about the history of Apple marketing since I'm a
newcomer to the darkside. I saw my younger brother last night at dinner
and he says that he's waiting for the new iPhone to come out. His
current phone is a classic Blackberry which is getting a bit long in the
tooth but he can use it anywhere in the world - this is useful for his
occupation. Ha ha, I'm stuck on this rock and he moves freely all over
the world. I'm not sure what he's going to do if the iPhone 5 does not
have the capability of working in Asia and Europe.

He just got a iPad 2 and says he just loves it. He agrees with me that
the iPad gives a favorable into to iPhone's OS.

We had dinner at Buzz's Steakhouse in Kailua. I had a ground sirloin
burger. These days, I just don't feel like ordering a big hunk of meat
like I used to.
 
Krypsis wrote:

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Krypsis,

The room at school was probably 6'x 10' behind glass. It was built to be
quiet to us and THEM!

We especially loved when the IBM golf ball sprang to life!

OUTPUT!!!

LOL!

Best,

Andy
 
On 20/04/2011 2:49 AM, Paul M. Cook wrote:

Try to run any DOS apps that require direct access to the hardware and
you might be in for a shock. That includes any apps that use sound.
Under Win NTx, backward compatibility only went so far and no further.
When they moved all of our desktops to Win NT4, most of our commonly
used apps needed to be totally rewritten. The whole idea of the NT
(Enterprise) line of Windows was to control program access to hardware,
a necessary first step in computer security.

Krypsis
 
On 4/22/2011 11:05 PM, Andy wrote:

It pretty much all I can stomach these days. I'm so lazy that the
thought of chewing meat is a daunting one.


It's a pretty cool set of characters. I can dig it.
 
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