Computer tech: gotta love it!

[Lawrence00]

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So when all the oracles came together to decide what to call the new video display port, some troublemaker said "Hey let's call it display port". I had a very confusing phone call once with a young overseas support lady. I thought she was an idiot and she thought I was an idiot. It was like "Who's on first?"

 

[Nathan]

 

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[MoBeans]

Got these two in the basement. I remember actually using them at work. Suitcase computers.

 

[Nathan]

 

[MoBeans]

Have you ever seen one of these OLPC laptops before? This 2007 laptop isn’t just tough, it's so tough you could throw it across a room. It was meant to be produced for children in poor countries. OLPC stands for One Laptop Per Child. It still works.

 

[Nathan]

I remember the OLPC laptops, I wanted one but the project was faltering at some point, so I went with an Asus Eee PC 1001PX.

Here's the Eee PC 1001PX sitting on my iBook:

 

[MoBeans]

I remember the OLPC laptops, I wanted one but the project was faltering at some point, so I went with an Asus Eee PC 1001PX.

Here's the Eee PC 1001PX sitting on my iBook:

I remember those. Asus made some nice stuff back then. I have had a few of their laptops over the years before I went all Mac. Turns out the OLPC looked cool but was way too slow and pretty much unusable for anything other than simple games like pong. I got it early with the get one give one promotion.. It makes a nice desk ornament.

 

[Lawrence00]

Got these two in the basement. I remember actually using them at work. Suitcase computers.

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I serviced those, and have the scars to prove it

 

[MoBeans]

I serviced those, and have the scars to prove it

I opened one up and was poking around inside. Thats a solidly built computer and I seem to remember that I did cut myself on some sharp edge. I wonder if I can use the keyboard on a modern computer

 

[Lawrence00]

I opened one up and was poking around inside. Thats a solidly built computer and I seem to remember that I did cut myself on some sharp edge. I wonder if I can use the keyboard on a modern computer

 

[MoBeans]

Hmmm, thank you AI. I just hope it wasn't making that up.

 

[Nathan]

I opened one up and was poking around inside. Thats a solidly built computer and I seem to remember that I did cut myself on some sharp edge. I wonder if I can use the keyboard on a modern computer

I would have loved to use my old Sun Sparc keyboard with a PC but the DIN pinout was different, and there weren't any adapters available at the time.

 

[papa tiger]

My first was A Commodore 128 with dual floppy disc drives, Okidata Printer and Commodore Monitor.
About $1500 total. I turned a wide Closet with folding doors into a computer desk. Microsoft's Office
was actually called Jane then with word processor and Money. Its memory was small thus the Dual Disc
drives had to Floppy Disc it all there.

My friend had a Comm. 64. The Neighbor had a Windows 95 but it took about 1/2 hour to get online then.

Later I had a Microsoft Millenium system with AOL & Telephone system. After that it was Laptops, HP then Dell.
Its windows 11 Pro now with Dell Desktops.