Senturion86

Same! I wish I still had my old computer stuff to be able to show my son how fortunate he is! Haha

I remember that! The action of that door sliding down was pretty addictive to play with. I would call it the original fidget spinner.

That’s RIGHT! Oh how I don’t miss messing with assigning IRQ addresses and dealing with those conflicts. I don’t even remember what my sound card was, but it was whatever was mainstream before Soundblaster was a thing.

I wonder if we will ever see a version of Microsoft Office, AdobeCC, and the like come to light for Linux. Microsoft has gone to pains to release Powershell for Linux, even now let’s you add the Linux kernel to Windows, added .NET Framework Core (cross plat form) and the same is true for ASP.NET. Yet... where is Office. Where is Adobe, etc. Those are my main reasons I keep going back to MS. And I’ve been going back and forth for more than 12 years. Back when Ubuntu was an unknown dist. I want ant to see more coming out for Linux. Because I absolutely love it and it’s stability. But I need Visual Studio, and Office, etc.

I think it was one of these. Looks more like what I remember than the IBM Personal System/2.

If you are old like me, you probably remember Windows 95 telling you that “it is now safe to turn off your computer”. Thinking back about this made me wonder, if it was even possible, would this message appear for Win 10, 8, or 7 if you could get a PC case with a two-way power switch? (or whatever they were called where they were like a retractable pen) I wonder if it could be possible to install a mod onto Windows that could present this screen if none existed. While we’re on the subject of old buttons, whatever happened to the switches that let you remove a 5.25” floppy disk out? Remember the switch you point down to eject, and then when inserted, the button acts as a barrier to prevent the disk from being removed. I sometimes miss miss my old CRT all in one DOS computer where the keyboard was the lid. I’ll have to attach a photo of it at some point.

I may be part of a different crowd, but being fairly newly married and now with a baby boy, my PC budget is to the level of “just make it work”. I can afford a Dell G5 but I’d rather focus on paying off debt and other higher priorities. I have a Dell Precision M4700 that has an ExpressCard slot and a spare one or two mini PCIe slots. I’d rather use an ExpressCard slot if it only means sacrificing a few frames per second. But if mini PCI e is really so much better I’ll just plan to mod the bottom door to have easy access to it and go that route. I will I’ll be ordering the EXP Beast EC version, and probably later a mini PCIe cable as well to compare myself. Just curious if somebody has already done a real-world comparison with same cards, same laptop, and use different ports and compare the same graphics settings in the same games. I’d be interested to see what you found, if so. I also have some other fellow network admin colleagues at work who talked about trying this with their trusty Lenovo (personal laptop).