Computer tech: gotta love it!

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.

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Nathan said:
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.
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MoBeans said:
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
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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.
 
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.
 
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Nathan said:
I tried to sell it for 10 years, nobody wanted it. Finally sent it to e-waste, broke my heart.
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I hear you. I have a couple old Compaq compact suitcase computers. Every year my wife asks if I will be bringing them to the electronics collection but I just can't do it. I checked what they would sell for and its really nothing. Maybe next year.
 
My first experience with computers was a GE Tymeshare with punched tape, a teleprinter, and dial up modem at work.
My first personal computer was a Cordata luggable 4.7 MHz processor 640K memory. I had to add a Western Digital hardcard with 20 Meg storage.
 
Nathan said:
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I worked for a hard drive manufacturer in the early 80’s. They would fire people on Friday at 4pm with no warning. My office was close to the VP of HR. Around 4:15-4:30 I would see the newly fired go by with a cardboard box, escorted by a guard. Many tears and shocked expressions.
They didn’t used to do it this way, but had a bad experience with someone who they let finish the workday. She went back to her office and erased most of the manufacturing standards for our products. It took days to restore them all from backup tapes. BTW, she was fired for cocaine use. The 80’s, man!
 
Hi all you techies.

I have Mac OS Monterey now ten years old and beginning to get 'fussy'
I am very old and really don't want to buy again.

WhenI had windows way back then I installed Ubuntu and while I did not use it for everything I remember liking it and it actually sort of set me up for my Mac which has been trouble free since I bought in 2015.

So been thinking about running with Ubuntu again but see different methods of installation.
I have an 8gb Sandisk USB and wondered if I can download on to that and use Ubuntu as a 'spare' without actually installing on my system.

I use Office Libre for Excel worksheets and that would be one app I would be happy to use as it is now very sophisticated and my Mac cannot seem to handle as it did but this is where I am confused.....
Would I be able to open the sheets with this type of installation.

Am I making any sense ??
I am one of the ancient ones and still got some brainpower but don't get too techie with me.:unsure::LOL:

Opinions and help appreciated.
 
Mizmo said:
Hi all you techies.

I have Mac OS Monterey now ten years old and beginning to get 'fussy'
I am very old and really don't want to buy again.

WhenI had windows way back then I installed Ubuntu and while I did not use it for everything I remember liking it and it actually sort of set me up for my Mac which has been trouble free since I bought in 2015.

So been thinking about running with Ubuntu again but see different methods of installation.
I have an 8gb Sandisk USB and wondered if I can download on to that and use Ubuntu as a 'spare' without actually installing on my system.

I use Office Libre for Excel worksheets and that would be one app I would be happy to use as it is now very sophisticated and my Mac cannot seem to handle as it did but this is where I am confused.....
Would I be able to open the sheets with this type of installation.

Am I making any sense ??
I am one of the ancient ones and still got some brainpower but don't get too techie with me.:unsure::LOL:

Opinions and help appreciated.
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I used to run a large network that was all Linux servers. We gave users that hated windows Ubuntu instead so good choice. After I retired in 2015 I switched to Mac and haven't touched anything else since. That was too long ago for me to be really useful to you but I did find this tutorial that may help. It would be better to install it on an external ssd drive instead of a usb stick. Much faster. The instructions should be the same. Hope this helps.

Create a bootable USB stick on macOS | Ubuntu
 

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