My New Desk Top Computer

[jinman]

So in rambling on, here I think I have owned and used some of the oldest "iron" on here.

James K0UA

Wow! Baudot code. . . I'd completely forgotten that one. Boy-oh-boy! We've sure hijacked Eddie's thread about his new computer. Hey Eddie! How about some computer pictures? What I'd love is to see you on a laptop surfing TBN while out in your highrise deer blind.

 

[ultrarunner]

Hardly any mention of Apple?

The first home computer I bought was a used was the Apple //

I was able to sell it for 50% more than I paid, got $1200 for it.

The reason I sold is it only had the 40 column screen and I wanted the new 80 column //e

 

[RobertN]

Wife and I know all about that(stock). It did break 25 last week...

All my time was in Folsom; I was born and grew up around here(still live only 15 miles away). My wife was in Santa Cruz for a while, then in Folsom. I have since been back there for a couple contracts.

Robert,

I worked at Intel in Oregon, and out in sales in sourthern California from 1991 to 2002.

I still have a grunch of shares from the employee stock plan that are STILL under water from those days...

Be well sir,
David

 

[Dargo]

Lenovo makes a decent machine, and that is coming from a Mac guy.

I just crossed over to the dark side (iMac and Macbook Pro). I've been a PC guy since before Bill Gates first stole the GUI concept and programming from Wozniak. It's taking a while to get used to but, so far, it hasn't been as bad as I thought. I do like having all the space under my desk again and the totally silent 27" monitor. I just can't do that standard little keyboard that comes with the iMac. I'm using a Microsoft brand keyboard but have actually grown to like Apple's "magic mouse".

Good luck to you Eddie. My first venture in self employment was a basement computer builder. And that was literally what I did; build them in my basement! I sold that business when the internet came along. My customers seemed to fail to comprehend that buying a computer from me didn't mean that they got free lifetime internet training. That with the fact that half of the games sold for PC's were loaded with bugs that would bring down an entire system drove me nuts. People seemed to refuse to believe that the 200 games they installed on their system was causing it to lock up.

I think that brand has something to do with the remnants of IBM if I'm not mistaken. Back when IBM built their own computers, they generally were pretty darn good machines and most problems were software related....which is why I've made this leap of faith; believing my two kids in college and all their friends who all run Apple products. I'm yet to decide if it's just the "cool" thing to do and you have to have a Mac computer to be in the "in" crowd. With 5 kids, my two college age ones are the only ones with Mac products. The other 8 systems in my network are all still PC's.

 

[lilranch2001]

My first computer was a Tandy 2000 from Radioshack. It didn't have a hard drive; only two disk drives. One for the application and one for the data files. It had the old "green screen" monitor - no graphics. The printer was the size of a large microwave oven and was so loud that when you hit "print" it was best to leave the room. It used a rollerball head like the IBM Selectric typewritter. I used it mainly for word processing (early Wordperfect, I think). It did have some games such as Pirate, but without graphics you had to type each direction line by line. If you got fustrated and typed in a curse word, it warned you not to use such language. I found out that it had a fairly large vocabulary of curse words. I paid about $2,500 for it.

Norm

^5 same here

 

[EddieWalker]

I just installed IE9, and I have to say that it's a huge difference in how fast my pages open up. An hour ago, I was going along like normal. I saw the link on yahoo to upgrade to IE9 and thought I'd give it a try since I just bought my new computer.

The download went quickly, as did the install. The tabs at the top are different. Mostly they removed all the extra stuff and you just have the things you need. I'm excited about having a little bit more screen to see what I'm looking at, but I'm expecially excited about how fast everything is loading. It's like going for DSL to Cable internet!!!!!!

Eddie

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I just crossed over to the dark side (iMac and Macbook Pro). I've been a PC guy since before Bill Gates first stole the GUI concept and programming from Wozniak.

Xerox star had a GUI back in the 81-82 timeframe.... which was the basis for the Apple GUI.

 

[nigelhenricks]

nice lenevo is good brand!

 

[ronjhall]

I just installed IE9, and I have to say that it's a huge difference in how fast my pages open up. An hour ago, I was going along like normal. I saw the link on yahoo to upgrade to IE9 and thought I'd give it a try since I just bought my new computer.

The download went quickly, as did the install. The tabs at the top are different. Mostly they removed all the extra stuff and you just have the things you need. I'm excited about having a little bit more screen to see what I'm looking at, but I'm expecially excited about how fast everything is loading. It's like going for DSL to Cable internet!!!!!!

Eddie

Load Foxfire 8. It makes IE look clunky.

 

[JDgreen227]

We have DSL, switched over to IE 9 on my newest laptop but could really tell almost no difference in how fast things loaded.

 

[Bird]

We have DSL, switched over to IE 9 on my newest laptop but could really tell almost no difference in how fast things loaded.

Of course there's different DSL speeds. I used to have the slower DSL, but now http://www.speedtest.net/result/1602916337.png

 

[JDgreen227]

Of course there's different DSL speeds. I used to have the slower DSL, but now http://www.speedtest.net/result/1602916337.png

Thanks Bird, we are on the very fringe of DSL range here, a quarter mile further and we would basically have no benefit from DSL. The laptop I am using right now with a wireless connection tests out at just a shade over 2000 kbps, which is really slow but still 4X faster than the maximum we could get from Hughesnet satellite service. Slow internet speed is about the only thing I dislike about country living.

 

[Bird]

By the way, i am using IE9, but can't remember just when I upgraded to that. My computer occasionally slows down or it gets to where clicking on the "up" arrow on the left side of the page results in jerky movement instead of smooth scrolling, just as it has the last couple of days. So this morning, I used the "Internet Options" in IE9 to delete the browsing history, then restarted the computer and that always fixes it.

 

[Dargo]

Of course there's different DSL speeds. I used to have the slower DSL, but now http://www.speedtest.net/result/1602916337.png

I guess I have a bit faster connection
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1603662917.png

 

[JDgreen227]

I guess I have a bit faster connection
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1603662917.png

Just did some more checking...our family room desktop that is hardwired to the router tests out at 2200 kbps, the laptop I gave the original test results on is wireless and 20 feet from the router, and delivers a shade over 2000 kbps, and my basement desktop is using a USB wireless adapter, that one checks out at 1895 kbps. The furnace ductwork is directly overhead and enclosed in drywall, which blocks some of the signal. I have measured the actual vertical distance from the adapter and router as five feet.

 

[viceprincipal]

Lets see now....

I have a pair of TI-99/4's...but no monitors

Gateway 386/SX

Gateway 486--uses Windows 98

Dell 2400--XP

Dell 4700--heavily modded--XP

Dell 530--heavily modded--Vista

Toshiba M35X--15.4 laptop--XP

Toshiba M115-S3094--14.1 laptop--XP

Toshiba L305-S5921--15.6 laptop--Vista

Toshiba L-355-S7901--17.3 laptop--Vista

5 each 19 to 23.6 inch LCD monitors

1 Kodak, 1 HP, and 4 Canon MFP's.

For TWO OF US...and everything works but the TI-99's--don't ask why I have those...:laughing:

My list looks kinda like yours... but with the good stuff :thumbsup:

Macintosh SE
Strawberry G3 iMac
G4 iMac
G4 eMac
G4 PowerMac
15" G4 PowerBook Ti
17" G4 PowerBook Al
13" MacBook Pro
17" MacBook Pro
MacMini
Apple TV 1st gen
Apple TV 2nd gen
iPad

And the black sheep - Dell Dimension (for iracing.com)

 

[texasjohn]

OK you old farts, how many of you had the joy of converting a deck of univac 90 column punched cards, round holes, to IBM Hollerith 80 column rectangular chad punch cards?

Such fun in the old days.

spoken from my toshiba tablet using voice input

 

[MossflowerWoods]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1606050151.png

Have pity on me...

Mine is SO SLOW... How Slow is it?
So Slow that even crappy virus filled access at the LIBRARY whups it...

Seriously my server is in KANSAS!!! WTH?

David

 

[texasjohn]

jinman, bet you even know that
1 = read a card
2 =punch a card

sorry , wordmarks are hard on a THrive tablet :laughing:

It's hard to BCD these days ..... remember those days:confused2::confused2:

where'd my 029 keypunch go

 

[JDgreen227]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1606050151.png

Have pity on me...

Mine is SO SLOW... How Slow is it?
So Slow that even crappy virus filled access at the LIBRARY whups it...

Seriously my server is in KANSAS!!! WTH?

David

OUCH...that is BAD...my test results from CNET informed me my speed test was slower than 55% of the USA...and Bird, I installed IE 9 on my newest laptop, going to see if that makes any difference. Nope, IE9 made no difference.