Computer clock

[xwhatsit]

Is the Turbo button on or off? ^^

[Mom]

Is the Turbo button on or off? ^^

You guys are having a laugh eh? LOL. Turbo button?

[Edbear]

You guys are having a laugh eh? LOL. Turbo button?

He's showing his age... My first PC actually had a button marked 'Turbo'! It was a Pentium 100 with a blindingly fast 8x CD ROM... Oh, and the latest dot-matrix printer, too!

[steve_t]

Pshh.... first PC a pentium? You are young How about those 386's or 486's? I still remember Commodore 64 with tape drive! And Atari and Amstrad computers. Oh yeah, I remember being at primary school and playing on an Apple IIe with a "Logo" the turtle. It was a triangle on the screen. You'd tell it to go forward 2 squares and it would move up and draw a line. Turn right. forward 2 squares.... you could draw a square or a rectangle.... cutting edge

[Blackshear]

He's showing his age... My first PC actually had a button marked 'Turbo'! It was a Pentium 100 with a blindingly fast 8x CD ROM... Oh, and the latest dot-matrix printer, too!

Nostalgia, holy shit.
My case was made out of steel, too. None of this aluminium. Oh, and yellowing plastic, too.
1.2GB HDD, 8x CD ROM and a 3 1/2 floppy. Integrated graphics (WHOA) and something like 32MB of RAM. She was a fast bitch.


I'd advise against vacuuming, in the worry of static electricity, but that's just me. It's more thorough to take everything out and air compressor the fuck outta everything, also a paintbrush.

[Edbear]

Pshh.... first PC a pentium? You are young How about those 386's or 486's? I still remember Commodore 64 with tape drive! And Atari and Amstrad computers. Oh yeah, I remember being at primary school and playing on an Apple IIe with a "Logo" the turtle. It was a triangle on the screen. You'd tell it to go forward 2 squares and it would move up and draw a line. Turn right. forward 2 squares.... you could draw a square or a rectangle.... cutting edge

I was a late starter... At Primary School we had pencils and progressed to dip-pens and inkwells, before getting real Fountain Pens! The office copier was a Gestetner and the school bus was a Daimler with the pre-select Wilson gearbox, (driven by my mother). Telephones were crank-handle on party-lines and heaters were an optional extra in cars. Computers? They were those Government things the size of a shed, but I only heard about them at College.

We didn't have word-processors, we had typewriters, non-electric of course.

Fred Ladd was flying Grumman Widgens from Sandspit...
And sixty miles per hour was fast...

[=cJ=]

Umm, don't do the vaccum thiung aye. Vaccum cleaner = heaps of static = dead componentry....

Don't ask how I know, but lets say I went through a couple of graphics cards before I found that wee chestnut out...

[steve_t]

Oh sorry, my bad. I missed out on dipping pens in ink wells... but the desks had holes for the wells still.
I still remember when my phone number was 5 digits long... but no crank handle ones sorry

[Maha]

I was a late starter... At Primary School we had pencils and progressed to dip-pens and inkwells, before getting real Fountain Pens! The office copier was a Gestetner and the school bus was a Daimler with the pre-select Wilson gearbox, (driven by my mother). Telephones were crank-handle on party-lines and heaters were an optional extra in cars. Computers? They were those Government things the size of a shed, but I only heard about them at College.

We didn't have word-processors, we had typewriters, non-electric of course.

Fred Ladd was flying Grumman Widgens from Sandspit...
And sixty miles per hour was fast...

Fountain pens!! now theres a lost...........um, lost thing?
I remember using an Abacas, well being taught how they worked, not really using it for school work. Remember those rubbers in two halves white and coarse grey bit? Carbon paper which was replaced with NCR??

Wow way off topic here...as you were.

[phaedrus]

Ok, you wonderfully clever people, why is my PC clock running slow? It tells me that it is now 5:14pm. What a liar!

computer clocks are inaccurate. regular NTP updates are the way to go.

[Mom]

Pshh.... first PC a pentium? You are young How about those 386's or 486's? I still remember Commodore 64 with tape drive! And Atari and Amstrad computers. Oh yeah, I remember being at primary school and playing on an Apple IIe with a "Logo" the turtle. It was a triangle on the screen. You'd tell it to go forward 2 squares and it would move up and draw a line. Turn right. forward 2 squares.... you could draw a square or a rectangle.... cutting edge

Once a long time ago I learned to write basic on a Commodore 64. Far out. It was amazing at the time....LOL

Oh sorry, my bad. I missed out on dipping pens in ink wells... but the desks had holes for the wells still.
I still remember when my phone number was 5 digits long... but no crank handle ones sorry

Hah! I beat you! When I first moved up here from Auckland we had a party line, complete with crank handle call to the exchange to make a call. Serious! You cranked this handle on the side of a big black box and the operator (once she had finished overhearing the call she place prior to yours) answered and asked who you wanted to call.

If I remember ours was an S number, had three short rings?

[Edbear]

Oh sorry, my bad. I missed out on dipping pens in ink wells... but the desks had holes for the wells still.
I still remember when my phone number was 5 digits long... but no crank handle ones sorry

5 digits? I think our old number was 9-5-K or something like that, anyway you wound the crank and the operator, always a woman, would say, "Number please!". Of course you had to pick up the ear-piece first and see if the line was free before you wound the handle otherwise it would really bug anyone already on the line...

Fountain pens!! now theres a lost...........um, lost thing?
I remember using an Abacas, well being taught how they worked, not really using it for school work. Remember those rubbers in two halves white and coarse grey bit? Carbon paper which was replaced with NCR??

Wow way off topic here...as you were.

Yeah I remember getting those new-fangled rubbers, that was when they really were, "rubbers" not plastic. And I did manage to understand the Abacus, surprisingly...

Yeah, sorry, off-topic... My clock's fine...

[hayd3n]

Umm, don't do the vaccum thiung aye. Vaccum cleaner = heaps of static = dead componentry....

Don't ask how I know, but lets say I went through a couple of graphics cards before I found that wee chestnut out...

ive never had a problem and my old 486 that i gave my grandad still goes!!!!!!

[Mom]

"Number please!". Of course you had to pick up the ear-piece first and see if the line was free before you wound the handle otherwise it would really bug anyone already on the line...
Yeah, sorry, off-topic... My clock's fine...

We must be of a similar vintage! The black thingy that hung on the side you put to your ear! That was far too long ago to even comtemplate. Worst of all it was not actually that long ago. I remember this in 1978

[Edbear]

ive never had a problem and my old 486 that i gave my grandad still goes!!!!!!

A mate of mine has his old DOS with a 5" floppy drive that still works!

We must be of a similar vintage! The black thingy that hung on the side you put to your ear! That was far too long ago to even comtemplate. Worst of all it was not actually that long ago. I remember this in 1978

Ah, '78, I'd been married a year and we had a '54 Hillman Minx and listened to BoneyM on the tape deck!