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Dangleberry, I think I can save you a few pounds. Just post your Mastercard number and I'll get it for you and FedEx it over immediately https://forums.windrivers.com/
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Who the hell is General Protection and why is he messing with my comuter?
Hi Mayhem,
Laugh, I nearly **** myself.
You have as much chance of me sending you any details of any of my TEN accounts (Techs are rich) as I have of hitting the moon with a BIG MAC.
Good Try keep them coming
It was a thought. Just trying to help https://forums.windrivers.com/
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Who the hell is General Protection and why is he messing with my comuter?
A rich computer tech must be an impostor!!!
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-Garfield99-
England 1 Germany 0
first computer being a cpm brittish telecom box, (3 feet tall two feet wide two feet deep) with a nine inch green screen and a keyboard the size of france with a grand total of 64k of memeory.
nice.
second computer a tandy (radio shack for the peops in the us) 1000ex with tga colour (tandy rip off of ega) 512k of memeory that I upgraded to 640k (woohoo!)and twin floppy disks (5 1/4 dd of course)
thurd was a amstrand with vga, 30 meg hard disk (I now have a graphics card with more memory on it than that)3 1/2 floppy disk drive (dd)
all of the above were ****. I now build the things for my self so I now know what the h*ll I am getting in the thing.
keep on smiling,
me, somewere in the london aea seriously considering a beer right now
I thought the topic was "first pc you built." Why are we hearing about the first you used/owned?
I have owned many many many....but the firs one i built was a z80 powered deal sometime around 20 years ago....yes to those who know me ....i was eight. the same year i had a coleco adam i rebuilt from landfill machines
and a 4.77mhz pc again from scrounged parts
oh and a vic 20 with an upgraded board for more sounds and ram.
my poor mom musta thought she gave birth to a scrawny little wired frankenstein.
My first PC was a sparkling 8088 with a 10 meg hd and 2 5 1/4 floppies. And from that point I went on to assemble several hundred more for the company I worked for. At a whopping $5.50 an hour!!!! Boy have times changed
8088 with 640k ram and a 20mb hd and color monitor cga. dont forget that 63 watt power supply what a screamer you could go out for dinner and it might be done booting when you got back. but i built it my self out of used parts and that ega monitor upgrade what a thrill. wow the colors. hard to belive the monitor was worth 1500.00 or so when it was new. 6 or 8 mhz of raw power.. HAHAHA
In all reality the first I helped build was a monster at the Navel Air station In Memphis in the early 60s. No HDs, no floppies, no ram as it is now known. It did have over 5000 tubes not counting the same amount in redundancy state, over 1000 miles of wire. sorry no video output and it was programed with huge amounts of jumper boards. You walked inside of this one. It only did two tasks. Base inventory and twice a month payroll. It took 8 of us 16 hrs to change programs. Input was through 80 x 80 NCR cards via Keypunch. Internal temp was about 125 degrees and we had to work in it not on it. housed in a 40' by 60' room. Went through about 200 to 350 tube a day. Thank god they got smaller.
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If life is a bitch then what is death? I believe I will take the bitch!
In all reality the first I helped build was a monster at the Navel Air station In Memphis in the early 60s. No HDs, no floppies, no ram as it is now known. It did have over 5000 tubes not counting the same amount in redundancy state, over 1000 miles of wire. sorry no video output and it was programed with huge amounts of jumper boards. You walked inside of this one. It only did two tasks. Base inventory and twice a month payroll. It took 8 of us 16 hrs to change programs. Input was through 80 x 80 NCR cards via Keypunch. Internal temp was about 125 degrees and we had to work in it not on it. housed in a 40' by 60' room. Went through about 200 to 350 tube a day. Thank god they got smaller.
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If life is a bitch then what is death? I believe I will take the bitch!
Well my first PC that I built was actually a migration from my Packard Bell
I built on a Biostar at board using my Pentuim 166 64 megs edo ram and my ATI expert@play video card, 10 gig drive and a 32 x cd rom drive, I upgraded to a p233 mmx CPU since the board could handle it ( All this since I wanted some L2 cache memory
I have had about 5 Mother boards,2 CPUs and 2 cases since then
I now have a Celeron powered system on an Asus board
I am glad I started now I would faint in a roon full of vacuum tubes and jumper boards
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Format c:( I'm givin er all she's got cap'in !!! )
AMD 233, 3.2 ghd, Built on video & sound (not good) Went to a computer with a friend got all the parts, then drops them off at my house for me to build ( I had no idea what to do with these strange looking things and it took 3 days to finish it)
Last summer I built myself a 486 DX4/100 out of spare bits.
This died soon after, so I bit the bullet and bought a new Jetway (I know...) motherboard, K62-350 and 64MB DIMM. Recently I upgraded the HD to 13GB but apart from that the only problem's been Win98... But again, that's another story for another board.
I built the first home PC. It was a Heatkit, I think it was in the early 70's. '72-'74 maybe? I had to make the keyboard, it had 9 "momentary on" pushbuttons. 8 for the bits, press one of the first 8 keys, and it represented a 1 bit, not pressing a key represented a 0 bit. The ninth key was the "enter" key. You used the enter key, to enter the byte. It had an RF output, you had to use a TV as a monitor. Useless by today's standards/needs, but at the time, it was real fun. At the time, I understood very little about computers, but I was on my way nonetheless. I wish I still had it. It was not only the first computer I ever built, but it was the first Home PC ever. Anyone out there still remember it?
HF