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This is just hit me on the head today.
most of your here probably have a $150-$200 3D card right?
and in about a year or a year and a half max will probably replace it with another card and thus shelling out another $200bux.
that's how it is for me. but I'm still using a $2 mouse pad and a $30 1.44 diskette drive from the 286 16mhz computer I had back in 1992...
isn't it ironic when a $2 piece of "hardware" last 10 years when our other $100+ stuff get replaced in a year or two...
yea but is your 1.44 diskette calling for more / new demands?
new games / better graphic games have demands.
so your camparing the wrong hardware.
He got it right no target there. Wrong hardware to compare, but yeah I still find it kind of odd, seeing as how I'm still using an AT keyboard on one of my rigs with a AT-PS/2 converter.Quote:
Originally posted by oXyCoNTiN
yea but is your 1.44 diskette calling for more / new demands?
new games / better graphic games have demands.
so your camparing the wrong hardware.
yeah some one wasnt around much back in the day.
They used to bench floppies...talk about sad
EDIT: 3000th Post shout out goes to ua549 and Skydog, the only two people who keep me honest in Networks and Networking.
LOL :D boy that's hillarious...lol, I only got into PCs about 2 yrs ago, when the first 1ghz CPUs were coming out, so no I don't have experience with some of the legacy devices (other than my school class, Comp. Maint. Tech. I). I did however have an ADAM family computer, anyone ever remember those? :DQuote:
Originally posted by Isezumi
yeah some one wasnt around much back in the day.
They used to bench floppies...talk about sad
you remember the Commadore 64 or the Apple IIe?
talking of legacy devices boy they were bad :(
anyone remembers the 5.25 disks?
just like lays, you twist them a little and they would break. and i havent forgotten times when i used to spend hours configuring my cd-rom and creative sound blaster in win 3.1, cd-rom always gave me hard times because i kept losing the drivers disk, damn autoexec.bat :mad:
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Originally posted by toastbim
talking of legacy devices boy they were bad :(
anyone remembers the 5.25 disks?
just like lays, you twist them a little and they would break. and i havent forgotten times when i used to spend hours configuring my cd-rom and creative sound blaster in win 3.1, cd-rom always gave me hard times because i kept losing the drivers disk, damn autoexec.bat :mad:
Thats wierd. I used to twist my 5.25" floppy disks a lot and they never broke. I mean they were true floppy disks after all. The 5.25" floppies I wanted to destroy for any reason, I'd have to literally cut them up with a scissors to do any real damage. :o
The new 3.5" ones are difficult to bend. They are not floppies as much as stiffies. ;) :D
I used to love Dos and Win31. Heh, I was almost the king of config.sys and autoexec.bat. Could write them in my sleep once upon a time. :)
I just pulled out a 5.25" drive from my old computer because I needed the stepper motors in it :)
I used to use an 80/86 about 3 yrs ago at work i used it to access a symax controller and write and monitor ladder logics
what exactly are the config.sys and autoexec.bat files? i know that when i installed my scanner on my p1 166 it rewrote the autoexec.bat files, bu ti never understood what they acutally were. for smoeone who knews a lot about comptuers i kno this is a n00bquestion, but hey, everyones gotta learn sometime.
Lol, punkrawk, starting with Win95, there is little use for them so its not surprising you don't know what they do if you weren't computing then. These are where you put dos device drivers - cd rom, mouse, sound card, modem, memory managers, smartdrive, terminal emulation, etc. Its also where you configure the memory usage yourself. I'm sure you know about the famous 640k ram barrier, but if you've never gotten in a fight with it, you missed probably the single biggest tech support issue ever with pc's. I spent days at a time trying to get the right combination/arrangement of drivers and the right amount/combination of conventional ram, ems, xms, pms, xfl (heh) to run my games. The one remnant of those days is people who still use dos boot disks and need to get their cd rom working.
This is the worst thread ever created in messageboard history.
i'm really glad youve made such aprositive contributiont o change it. ;) :p :D . it is comparing apples to organes though.
werd, you didn't miss to much. I personally never touched computers till the 98se/2k era, but at school the PCs I deal with have DOS 6.22/95, and have to add the MSCDEX.EXE and HIMEM= lines, ugh what a hassle compared to todays Win. Xp machines, can we say God Bless PnP? :DQuote:
Originally posted by russ_watters
Lol, punkrawk, starting with Win95, there is little use for them so its not surprising you don't know what they do if you weren't computing then. These are where you put dos device drivers - cd rom, mouse, sound card, modem, memory managers, smartdrive, terminal emulation, etc. Its also where you configure the memory usage yourself. I'm sure you know about the famous 640k ram barrier, but if you've never gotten in a fight with it, you missed probably the single biggest tech support issue ever with pc's. I spent days at a time trying to get the right combination/arrangement of drivers and the right amount/combination of conventional ram, ems, xms, pms, xfl (heh) to run my games. The one remnant of those days is people who still use dos boot disks and need to get their cd rom working.
yeah, AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS two pain in the butt settings. :mad:
and also ISA cards where u have to manually change the IRQ from jumpers on the acutal card :mad:
computer users back in the 286 days are lot more geekier then now.
see the legendary pad here:
http://www.geniv.com/kin/downloads/pad.jpg
hmm. mouse pad these days are thinner than they use to be.. why is that?