Very old computer working?

[angry_ducky]

WHO THE HELL POSTED THE SUPER-WIDE POST WHICH IS SCREWING UP MY BROWER WINDOW?? WHOEVER IT IS, I'M GONNA REPORT YOU IF YOU DON'T DELETE THAT CRAP SOON!

 

[angry_ducky]

I seriously wish all this talk about light would inspire something to strike down these friggin wide posts!

jesus christ; don't we all.

 

[angry_ducky]

Satans minons man.. the colors.. they burn man, they freakin burn!!!
.....
Nope no chages yet... you think i should use more drugs?

SOOOOOOOOOO... Why the 6800XT with the C2D X6800?

 

[dasickninja]

All I could afford after blowing my graduation money on everything else. Besides it's a tide over until I can buy something else. Got any suggestions on what I should buy? :?:

 

[angry_ducky]

All I could afford after blowing my graduation money on everything else. Besides it's a tide over until I can buy something else. Got any suggestions on what I should buy? :?:

Even this GF7300GT is better than that 6800XT crap. Right now, this X1900XT is amazing value for teh dollar, but I'd be tempted to just wait for DX10 cards rather than spend a lot of money on DX9.

 

[dasickninja]

Duely noted. Tigerdirect was basically throwing it away. Couldn't resist.
EDIT:
Will the Crossfire ATI work with a SLI mobo?

 

[TeraMedia]

Hi. I would like to know if my old computer can work again. I will tell the specs:

CPU: Pentium 66 MHZ
Hard disk: WD 500 mb
GFX card: Unknown
Sound card: None
Network card: Unknown


Does it can work again?

I'd like to know if my old computer can work again. Specs:

MITS Altair with 8080 at 2 MHz
64 KB static ram system memory (that's all of the system memory)
Lear Siegler ASCII terminal
2 x 8" hard-sector floppy drives
1 x tape reader
1 x diablo daisywheel printer

I think the Smithsonian has one of these in the A&S museum. You know it's time to upgrade when your computer is on display in a museum.

Can it work? Yes. If you put enough time and money into it, it will work. You may lose your marriage, your friends, and your sanity in the process, but I would be very pleased to hear that you got it to work.

 

[dasickninja]

Bahh, sanity is all relative. Marriage is overrated and jobs are for the fools deluded by the evils that are capitalism. Thats why i have decide to become a bum.
I think i'll be the first ninja bum. Laziness suits my kind.

 

[uber_g]

sup Angry Ducky how u been Bro ?

 

[aBg_rOnGak]

WHO THE HELL POSTED THE SUPER-WIDE POST WHICH IS SCREWING UP MY BROWER WINDOW?? WHOEVER IT IS, I'M GONNA REPORT YOU IF YOU DON'T DELETE THAT CRAP SOON!

A noob i could say....the last i checked (several seconds ago), his post was still there....AND THAT PISSED ME OFF :!: :!: :!: WTF IS HE THINKING WHEN HE POST IT ANYWAY :?: :?: :?: A RESPECTABLE NAME FOR GIVING SUCH A LONG NUMBERS :?: :?: :?: HE WON'T GET ANY FROM ME BTW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT OTHERS MIGHT THINK...I DON'T REALLY CARE ACTUALLY...I'TS PERSONAL OPINION

 

[cme2c]

I seriously wish all this talk about light would inspire something to strike down these friggin wide posts!

Also, the dud that said th frequency wouldn't detect a change, sorry can't quote you since no button, i'm not sure thats true. Are you aware that galaxies moving away from us at high speed have a rec shift, they look redder because their frequency is stretched, and the opposite is true for galaxies moving toward us, they have a blue shift. I'm not sure but i think if you hav elight hitting your retina at twice the speed of light, then along with "some" heat, i would expect the person to see everything in front of them with a major blue hue, and nothing behind since no light would be entering their eye.

The speed of light in a vacuum is a constant. constant. constant. No such thing as light travelling at twice the speed of light. That's why time gets screwed up if you travel too fast.

Also, you can't see things behind your retina because your head gets in the way

BTW did that guy ever get his old computer working???

 

[gm0n3y]

He could just put a few spaces into his post, that would fix it.

I don't really care anymore, we're on a different page now.

 

[gm0n3y]

I seriously wish all this talk about light would inspire something to strike down these friggin wide posts!

Also, the dud that said th frequency wouldn't detect a change, sorry can't quote you since no button, i'm not sure thats true. Are you aware that galaxies moving away from us at high speed have a rec shift, they look redder because their frequency is stretched, and the opposite is true for galaxies moving toward us, they have a blue shift. I'm not sure but i think if you hav elight hitting your retina at twice the speed of light, then along with "some" heat, i would expect the person to see everything in front of them with a major blue hue, and nothing behind since no light would be entering their eye.

The speed of light in a vacuum is a constant. constant. constant. No such thing as light travelling at twice the speed of light. That's why time gets screwed up if you travel too fast.

Also, you can't see things behind your retina because your head gets in the way

BTW did that guy ever get his old computer working???

I agree that light can't travel faster than the speed of light (obviously, and it can't go slower either), but if you were traveling at the same speed towards the light source, then I guess the frequency of the light would change. There is probably some physics formula out there to tell you, given a certain frequency the light was originally travelling and your velocity, you could find out the resulting observed frequency.

 

[cme2c]

[quote="gm0n3yI agree that light can't travel faster than the speed of light (obviously, and it can't go slower either), but if you were traveling at the same speed towards the light source, then I guess the frequency of the light would change. There is probably some physics formula out there to tell you, given a certain frequency the light was originally travelling and your velocity, you could find out the resulting observed frequency.[/quote]

Correct. there are 2 things happening. One is the doppler effect (that is what causes the change in pitch of a siren as the ambulance passes you...) and the other is relativistic time dilation.

Explaining this makes my head hurt see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity. This also explains that Lorenz contraction is not the same as Brewers droop

 

[angry_ducky]

Will the Crossfire ATI work with a SLI mobo?

It's possible, through driver tweaks and hacks. I wouldn't attempt it. Just get the single best video card that's available at the time.

 

[angry_ducky]

sup Angry Ducky how u been Bro ?

Quack.

 

[aBg_rOnGak]

sup Angry Ducky how u been Bro ?

Quack.

8O 8O 8O :lol: :lol: :lol:
U guys are damn intelligent and also damn funny :!:

I was like ..roar!!! ... if i ever being asked the same question.Hahaha....


SickNinja, about your question that angry_ducky answered, i also think that's possible, you could even use nV and ATi card together (for quad output at that time), but i can't find the article (i read it at THG though), but i dunno if it's still possible right now

 

[dasickninja]

Thanks to both of you for the clearification. Now I'm of to make my own homebrew SLI x Crossfire hybrid solution. Hope I don't get fried.

 

[vikris]

WHO THE HELL POSTED THE SUPER-WIDE POST WHICH IS SCREWING UP MY BROWER WINDOW?? WHOEVER IT IS, I'M GONNA REPORT YOU IF YOU DON'T DELETE THAT CRAP SOON!

A noob i could say....the last i checked (several seconds ago), his post was still there....AND THAT PISSED ME OFF :!: :!: :!: WTF IS HE THINKING WHEN HE POST IT ANYWAY :?: :?: :?: A RESPECTABLE NAME FOR GIVING SUCH A LONG NUMBERS :?: :?: :?: HE WON'T GET ANY FROM ME BTW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT OTHERS MIGHT THINK...I DON'T REALLY CARE ACTUALLY...I'TS PERSONAL OPINION

R E P O R T E D ! ! !

 

[uber_g]

sup Angry Ducky how u been Bro ?

Quack.

word

 

[dasickninja]

Exactly how did he get the page to do that? I thought the coding automatically engaged word wrap on all posts?

 

[TBlaar]

after 360-odd posts and a dual core system for yourself, i cannot believe you're asking this question.

and, the power cable will cost more than you'll get for the pc.

 

[blunc]

You might be able to see 2x the speed of light if you got a retina upgrade and then OC'd it, but I think you would have to increase the voltage to your brain by .0025 microvolts and hope you don't fry yerself.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

I seriously wish all this talk about light would inspire something to strike down these friggin wide posts!

Also, the dud that said th frequency wouldn't detect a change, sorry can't quote you since no button, i'm not sure thats true. Are you aware that galaxies moving away from us at high speed have a rec shift, they look redder because their frequency is stretched, and the opposite is true for galaxies moving toward us, they have a blue shift. I'm not sure but i think if you hav elight hitting your retina at twice the speed of light, then along with "some" heat, i would expect the person to see everything in front of them with a major blue hue, and nothing behind since no light would be entering their eye.

ahahhah Did I say color wouldnt change? Rofl.
Yes the dopler effect would apply here and since the light wave's direction is towards the viewer at 2x its normal speed, the waves get compressed and shift towards the Blue range. HOWEVER, a 2x increase of speed over lightspeed would shift the color into a range we can not see, such as gamma rays, which would destroy your eyes.

If I wasnt at work I would do the wave calcualtions for you to figure out how far a shift a 656nm wave would compress and increase in energy.

 

[thetanman]

Lost cause. Time would be better spent trying to make money for new computer. Anything you would run on it would probably take longer to work (if it did work) than it was worth.