General Computer Thread

[camdudetenger2018]

remember the old days of computers during the ms dos era

where most pc computer games were old school classic like the sierra games and lucus arts games

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

remember the old days of computers during the ms dos era

where most pc computer games were old school classic like the sierra games and lucus arts games

Full Throttle.........

 

[camdudetenger2018]

Full Throttle.........

police quest series monkey island series sam and max leiusure larry series indiana jones the fate of atlantis kings quest series space quest series maniac mansion series and many others

 

[Santaman]

Finally had some time to eyeball my semi abandoned Dell Precision T3400, it's about as old as my Optiplex 745, so 20 years old, specs are not bad for such an old machine, Core2Quad Q6600 @2.4Ghz 8GB RAM, given the chipset it is DDR2, graphics card is a Quadro NVS 290 with the DMS-59 connector so with the twinview cable you can connect 2 monitors to it, the card has 256MB RAM so not super, it has a Seagate 360GB Harddrive which is old and has run about 3 years, it didn't come with the machine, as with many abandoned office machines the original drive was removed.
The powersuply is 525 watts and works, one SATA connector was broken, but it has more, over the years the plastic has become brittle.
At the moment it is installing Windows 8.1, it should run fine with that OS, it won't be a gaming beast because of the Quadro card but I bet it will run old stuff pretty well.

 

[Unicron]

"Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you're the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file."

 

[The Salt Umpire]

This channel has some good computer history vids. I owned a Compaq back in the 90s and wondered what happened to them.

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[The Salt Umpire]

remember the old days of computers during the ms dos era

where most pc computer games were old school classic like the sierra games and lucus arts games

Sierra On-Line had some sort of dial-up ecosystem you could play on your PC's modem. Loved playing Red Baron against other flight simmers in their air combat room and would do it for hours, my player name was Hans Von Hammer.

 

[Marc]

wondered what happened to them.

carly fiorina.

was a cluster fuck at nortel, then proceeded to try and destroy Compaq and HP.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

This channel has some good computer history vids. I owned a Compaq back in the 90s and wondered what happened to them.

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Yay I like those videos

 

[Santaman]

I still own a Compaq Deskpro 2000 with a Pentium MMX 200Mhz chip as CPU, a really old Contura laptop with a 486 and a Compaq Presario R3000 laptop with a Netburst Celeron at 2.8 Giggleherz.

 

[Marc]

major oh shit time for the IT community as there's an exploit now in the wild that allows the by-passing of the bitlocker encryption on Windows systems.

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it's not actually a breach of bitlocker, breaking of the AES encryption or diddling the TPM.

instead it's a by-passed through the Window recover environment which needs access the decrypted drive to do it's thing.

 

[Santaman]

That's great! Bet every sysadmin is loving Micro$lop even more now!

Ah well, it's software, nothing is bug free with how ridicilously complicated stuff has become.
There are some holes in Linux as well that they've just patched a while ago.

 

[camdudetenger2018]

Sierra On-Line had some sort of dial-up ecosystem you could play on your PC's modem. Loved playing Red Baron against other flight simmers in their air combat room and would do it for hours, my player name was Hans Von Hammer.

lol lol dial up

 

[bdub76]

For the Met Gala, it looks like Janelle Monet has found the cardboard box in my closet with the adapters, switches, spare cables and boards.

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I don't remember any plastic butterflies and dragon flies being in there.
They must be from someone else's collection.

The pictures from this gala remind me of the outfits for District 1 in the Hunger Games.

 

[bdub76]

remember the old days of computers during the ms dos era

where most pc computer games were old school classic like the sierra games and lucus arts games

I remember jumping through hoops back then to get stuff to work. We're in a much better place for computer video games.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

lol lol dial up

Yep. You did stuff on the World Wide Web using a modem and your phone line. Ex and I had two lines, one for internet alone. I started out with a 1200 Baud modem and ended up with a 36,000 Baud. I was still using dial-up in 2005 because no rural internet. Not enough population density.

Oh, yeah Sierra. Here's their Wiki

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[Candleicious Ghost]

And those sounds, don't forget all the sounds as the modem would dial and connect, those will be forever etched in the memories of the people that lived through that era..

Someone made music of it

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And for those that also remember the 80s and 90s Australia. We had the Microbee

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[Marc]

Yep. You did stuff on the World Wide Web using a modem and your phone line. Ex and I had two lines, one for internet alone. I started out with a 1200 Baud modem and ended up with a 36,000 Baud. I was still using dial-up in 2005 because no rural internet. Not enough population density.

Oh, yeah Sierra. Here's their Wiki

The Sierra Network - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

1200 was what I started with using bulletin boards.

For internet access started with 14.4, and finished with 56k which never gave the full speed but I did things like downloading the installed disks for FreeBSD which I ran for several years.

ADSL didn’t arrived in Australia until the early 2000’s because Telstra had a monopoly position and had some very profitable high speed services that they didn’t want comepition for.

And it wasn’t until some years later their stranglehold finally started to break (prior to the national broadband network).

They were selling access dsl access at the wholesale while also competing in the retail space until they decided to a retail package below what they were wholesaling access for.

That was step to far and they got a major slap down.

I left Australia before the non started to roll out.

It could have done wonders for telecommunications in Australia till the the conservatives won the 2013 election and set out utterly fucking it up and buying telstra’s clapped out copper network they were only too happy to sell.

 

[camdudetenger2018]

Yep. You did stuff on the World Wide Web using a modem and your phone line. Ex and I had two lines, one for internet alone. I started out with a 1200 Baud modem and ended up with a 36,000 Baud. I was still using dial-up in 2005 because no rural internet. Not enough population density.

Oh, yeah Sierra. Here's their Wiki

The Sierra Network - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

yup back in the 90s and 2000s when we had to use the land line style phones in order to connect to the internet

 

[camdudetenger2018]

And those sounds, don't forget all the sounds as the modem would dial and connect, those will be forever etched in the memories of the people that lived through that era..

Someone made music of it

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lol lol yup the dial up modem sounds

and do not forget about the times how long it took to load the web page lol lol