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Adventures with Windows
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Heck, one burrito supreme from Taco Bell would take care of that.
ROFL....so true, especially when you're over 50
I'd love to try one, but then everyone would have to leave the forums for a half an hour or so.
Rukbat
Extreme Android User
Late 1980s-early 1990s, some time in there. System 350. We needed a way to turn off one particular indicator light on the front panel of the CPU (which was a cabinet large enough to turn into a 4 room apartment). Manually turn it off - you know, operator reaches out, throws switch, light stops blinking.
IBM researches the problem and comes up with a solution, but it's going to cost us more memory than we have cabinet space for, so we'll have to rearrange the cabinets to install another cabinet to add memory to control the switching, etc.
I ran out to Rat Shack and bought one of those DPDT center off toggle switches with the screw terminals - you remember, about 79 cents? Drilled a hole in the cabinet, installed the switch, cut one of the wires leading to the lamp and ran it through the switch.
The IBM CEs were amazed - their engineers said it couldn't be done with the amount of memory we had.
desktop
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Actually, you can only have one light bulb per socket. If you want to put a light bulb in another socket you will need to buy it first.
For those who have never seen it still one of the best :goodnight:
irate man smashing computer - YouTube
irate man smashing computer - YouTube
zuben el genub
Extreme Android User
I had no trouble getting my dual boot 2 harddrive computer to use Ubuntu/Mint and XP. Guess I was lucky.
The computer was always dual boot - 2K and XP. Booted through the BIOS. First time I saw Grub, I panicked.
One of the worst I ran across was IE4 and W95. Something would go haywire, and Windows would tell you to turn off the active desktop. MS had forgotten to put in a command to turn the damn thing off. After going to 98SE I found a shell called Lite that hid IE. Couldn't use it as normal. The shell did a good job. Something tried to download once, said it couldn't find Favorites, and Good-bye.
Getting an AV was a total PITA. Every AV required IE to install. Eset didn't. It needed winsock.dll. So I've stayed with Eset.
I canned or disabled most of MS programs. I used 98SE and 2K for Adobe in college courses. Cross platformed with the Macs. No problem. The computer rarely crashed. Maybe if the cat sat on the keyboard. XP and now 7 have been stable.
The computer was always dual boot - 2K and XP. Booted through the BIOS. First time I saw Grub, I panicked.
One of the worst I ran across was IE4 and W95. Something would go haywire, and Windows would tell you to turn off the active desktop. MS had forgotten to put in a command to turn the damn thing off. After going to 98SE I found a shell called Lite that hid IE. Couldn't use it as normal. The shell did a good job. Something tried to download once, said it couldn't find Favorites, and Good-bye.
Getting an AV was a total PITA. Every AV required IE to install. Eset didn't. It needed winsock.dll. So I've stayed with Eset.
I canned or disabled most of MS programs. I used 98SE and 2K for Adobe in college courses. Cross platformed with the Macs. No problem. The computer rarely crashed. Maybe if the cat sat on the keyboard. XP and now 7 have been stable.