Well, I can't be bothered to post a massive essay on this but as some of you know from the shoutbox I went on a trip to blechley park the other day and it was really intresting. We saw how the enigma machines worked and how colossus decrypted the messages. They also have a hands-on computer museum where you can actually go up to the old computers/consoles and play about on them. I found this really intresting to be honest and now I seem to have a geek obsession with the history of computers and game consoles.
Soooooooooooo... is anyone else intrested in this sort of stuff?
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i had a condor 57? i think it was, dont remember, i just remember that it was a dinosaur and that i had a big BIG book of codes and commands to make it do, well, very uninteresting things.
also, about 15 or 16 years ago, when i wanted to be a writer, my mother aquired a word prosessor...dear me...it took up a whole corner of my room and weighed at least 500 pounds. and it stank. and it was Loud.
i dont know if either of these stories tie into what your trying to find out or even if it is on topic, but! there they are non-the-less.
also, about 15 or 16 years ago, when i wanted to be a writer, my mother aquired a word prosessor...dear me...it took up a whole corner of my room and weighed at least 500 pounds. and it stank. and it was Loud.
i dont know if either of these stories tie into what your trying to find out or even if it is on topic, but! there they are non-the-less.
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The Kraken, which is found primarily in Scandinavian myth, was a huge sea creature. It was said to lie at the bottom of the sea for a long time and then it would rest at the surface....Like the Midgard serpent in the Norse myths, the Kraken was supposed to rise to the surface at the end of the world.
~Beatles..."I'm sorry, but I really can't see anything redeeming in your philosophy other than that dinosaurs are cute."
The Kraken, which is found primarily in Scandinavian myth, was a huge sea creature. It was said to lie at the bottom of the sea for a long time and then it would rest at the surface....Like the Midgard serpent in the Norse myths, the Kraken was supposed to rise to the surface at the end of the world.
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Haha, nice one, my first computer was a Commodore 64, clunky thing with a tape drive and it plugged into a TV I had in my bedroom. It was cool, until one day, I got really far in a game I was playing and since it couldn't be saved I decided to leave it on all night (I had to go to bed). The next morning I woke up and found that it had crashed... It never started up after that, I think something burnt out inside it 
thats it! commodor 64!
yess, i had a similar experience with mine, i left it on for....hours and it started to smell like burnt copper. it quit working as well the reason it was on was because i was typing in some program or another that would make letters jump all over the screen and such and i was too far into it to stop.
wow, whatta dinosaur.
yess, i had a similar experience with mine, i left it on for....hours and it started to smell like burnt copper. it quit working as well
the reason it was on was because i was typing in some program or another that would make letters jump all over the screen and such and i was too far into it to stop. wow, whatta dinosaur.
all about FAVRE, come on...you know you want to click it
The Kraken, which is found primarily in Scandinavian myth, was a huge sea creature. It was said to lie at the bottom of the sea for a long time and then it would rest at the surface....Like the Midgard serpent in the Norse myths, the Kraken was supposed to rise to the surface at the end of the world.
~Beatles..."I'm sorry, but I really can't see anything redeeming in your philosophy other than that dinosaurs are cute."
The Kraken, which is found primarily in Scandinavian myth, was a huge sea creature. It was said to lie at the bottom of the sea for a long time and then it would rest at the surface....Like the Midgard serpent in the Norse myths, the Kraken was supposed to rise to the surface at the end of the world.
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I belong to a younger era - my first computer was an old (even when I was using it) generic PC with Windows 3.1... I do believe I used that well into the Windows 95 era, before getting a school-loaned Win98 machine. When I eventually bought my own machine for a couple hundred $ about 3 1/2(?) years ago, I used the preinstalled XP until I installed Mandrakelinux after the rave reviews Mr. Beatles gave it.
The laptop I bought last August is the only "new" computer I've ever used - all the others have been old loaners (various Win95/98 machines from my old school) and a 3(?) year old Celeron WinXP machine.
The laptop I bought last August is the only "new" computer I've ever used - all the others have been old loaners (various Win95/98 machines from my old school) and a 3(?) year old Celeron WinXP machine.
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I too am fascinated with this stuff Slasher.
My first computer? It was an old 386 machine, ran windows 2.11 or something like that. We were in at the ground floor of the PC revolution, because my dad worked at one of the companies that started it, so he got that computer essentially for free. He is one of the few adults I know who has as much knowledge about computers as the kids I know do. Since then we have bought a new computer every 5 years or so. Went to a Packard Bell from the 386 in '95, then a Gateway in 2000, then this dell in '03, then a newer dell in '05. The latest one was actually a less capable machine than this one, because my dad just wanted it for work stuff after his old Gateway threw in the towel. There was also a compaq bought somewhere in there, also less capable than this machine, for my mom to websurf and send email. This is the best compy in the house, because my dad bought it especially for us, to be a gaming computer and such. So it's top end for it's time. 512 MB RAM, 100 GB HD, and the 3.7GHz processor. Updated the graphics card awhile back to a GeForce 4.
My first computer? It was an old 386 machine, ran windows 2.11 or something like that. We were in at the ground floor of the PC revolution, because my dad worked at one of the companies that started it, so he got that computer essentially for free. He is one of the few adults I know who has as much knowledge about computers as the kids I know do. Since then we have bought a new computer every 5 years or so. Went to a Packard Bell from the 386 in '95, then a Gateway in 2000, then this dell in '03, then a newer dell in '05. The latest one was actually a less capable machine than this one, because my dad just wanted it for work stuff after his old Gateway threw in the towel. There was also a compaq bought somewhere in there, also less capable than this machine, for my mom to websurf and send email. This is the best compy in the house, because my dad bought it especially for us, to be a gaming computer and such. So it's top end for it's time. 512 MB RAM, 100 GB HD, and the 3.7GHz processor. Updated the graphics card awhile back to a GeForce 4.
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