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Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@gardenman wrote:
@Sooner

My first computer (not a more modern PC) was a Timex/Sinclair 1000. No drive of any kind. If you wanted to save a program you would record it to a cassette tape recorder. It had two whole KBs of memory. That was in 1982. Times have changed. Timex was making digital watches and decided "Hey, our watches are kind of computers. Let's make a computer!" They hooked up with Sinclair and the Timex/Sinclair 1000 was born.

@gardenman I got an IBM PC at work in 1983. Boy was that an adventure! I had to make it interface with other equipment at another site that didn't use the same software and get a Hayes modem to work. . . I cried a lot sometimes!

The modem software book had a candlestick phone on the front--I did not make that up! Of course the modem people said it's the software and the software folks said it's the modem and yada yada. Finally figured out the rotary dial phone system was the culprit.

What an adventure we've had! Had a friend who quit a job in 2005 because she had to start using a computer and she cried. I said I've been crying since 1983! Buck up!

gardenman · ‎03-09-2010

@Sooner

Modern computers are much easier to deal with than the older ones. The good old days of DOS and MS-DOS were more challenging. These days the tedious stuff like assigning ports and whatnot are done automatically. My first modem was a 14.4 kbs modem. Insanely slow by modern standards. (Though when I was working with Frontier we had some customers who were stuck at less than 12 kbs in extreme rural areas. They were paying $19.95 for that kind of blindingly slow Internet. But it was better than none. I guess.)

Fly!!! Eagles!!! Fly!!!

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@gardenman wrote:
@Sooner

Modern computers are much easier to deal with than the older ones. The good old days of DOS and MS-DOS were more challenging. These days the tedious stuff like assigning ports and whatnot are done automatically. My first modem was a 14.4 kbs modem. Insanely slow by modern standards. (Though when I was working with Frontier we had some customers who were stuck at less than 12 kbs in extreme rural areas. They were paying $19.95 for that kind of blindingly slow Internet. But it was better than none. I guess.)

@gardenman I wore out and went Apple in I think 2011 or maybe 3 or 4 years earlier. I got tired of waiting to boot up in the morning getting ready for work. SO, pretty soon hubby is jealous and went that route too. Computing for the lazy I guess!!!!!

gardenman · ‎03-09-2010

@Sooner

My new computer with the m.2 drives boots in about thirty seconds from completely off, and almost instantly from sleep mode. The computer it replaces had an SSD and would boot from completely off in about a minute. The one before that was about five to seven minutes to boot with a 'normal' hard drive. Now I sit in my chair, hit the power button, take sip of my drink, and the computer is all up and ready to go. The technology has improved a ton. The gen 3 m.2 drives that I'm using read 2400 MBPS. Tradtional hard drives were more like 160 MBPS. The gen4 m.2 drives are even faster, but a little too pricey for me now.

I like to be able to fix a computer if something goes wrong, so that pretty much leaves out Apple desktops. They just don't want you fixing them.

Fly!!! Eagles!!! Fly!!!

gardenman · ‎03-09-2010

I never thought my old computer was noisy, but this one is so quiet it's scary. I can hear my plecos (they're fish) knocking the gravel around in their aquarium and I've never heard that before. When I first heard it, I thought it came from the computer and was looking around like crazy, but no, it's the plecos kicking up the gravel. My old computer drowned out that sound. (Either that or I've developed extra good hearing in the last 24 hours.) This thing is super silent. It's got the power supply fan, two case fans, and the CPU cooler fan and I hear nothing. Nada. Not a hint of sound. My old computer always had a bit of a hum, but this one is silent.

Fly!!! Eagles!!! Fly!!!

gardenman · ‎03-09-2010

@gardenman wrote:
The new computer is up and running. Still on Windows 10 until Microsoft gets around to upgrading it. Only one hiccup so far. For whatever reason, it's not letting me add my verizon.net email to Outlook. A minor annoyance but I can access that account through the browser so it's not a big deal. It's fully up to date on updates and is working fine. I haven't added the older hard drives yet, but I'll get around to that in a few days. It's very, very quiet. Almost silent.

And I finally got my verizon.net account working. I needed an App Password instead of my normal password. Sure. That makes sense. Anyway, it worked. It took some poking around to figure out the issue, but it's fixed.

Fly!!! Eagles!!! Fly!!!

gardenman · ‎03-09-2010

In one of those "I didn't even know that was possible" moments, I discovered that my new computer shuts off the lights on my modem/router. On the back of the router are the status lights for each port and they're typically flashing away nonstop as the router directs traffic here, there, and everywhere. I was online earlier and noticed the router was dark. No lights lit anywhere. I thought I might have unplugged the router, but how was I still online? And I was still online. I ran a speedtest and everything was good. "That's weird. I guess something broke in the router, but it still works, so okay." Then later I shut down the computer and back came the lights.

Somehow, the new computer is controlling the LEDs in the router. I used minimal LED lighting in this build and I'm not an LED laden case fan. The only LEDs lit in the case are on the motherboard and I have them set to go off when the computer sleeps or is turned off. It has LED controller software, but I'd assumed that only controlled the LEDs in the computer. Somehow, someway, it's figured out there are LEDs on the router and it turns them off too. Weird! A bit confusing for a bit, but interesting. I never knew you even could control those lights but the new computer apparently can and does.

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SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

I just now got a notification on my desktop from Microsoft saying Win11 is now ready to download onto my PC. I declined it for now. They will probably keep sending me that notification in the future until I load it.