Very old computer working?

[vikris]

I think that VLB=Vesa Local Bus ?

 

[dasickninja]

Your monitor is made by KFC? Mmmmm, fried chicken...

Case in point.
@Vikris
Ahhhh, I remember ISA. I still have a ISA modem and other devices and cards for it including one that you can put RAM into. Don't know what it does but it looks pretty cool.

 

[gm0n3y]

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[dasickninja]

F@$% that man. Your reality scares the hell out of me.

 

[gm0n3y]

But its so happy and fun!

thread post #1132

 

[CodeJunkie]

EDO brings back geeky memories, my first year in college (1997) my rommate and I got each other a pair of 32MB EDO SIMMs from OnSale.com which eventually became Yahoo auctions I think. He had a p200 and I had a cyrix 6x86 p166+ but our dorm room network connection was blazing fast, never been back to anything less than DSL.

Now that I am reminiscing I remember I got a Palm Pilot Pro for high school graduation, I think it had 2MB memory and an 8MHz processor.

 

[CodeJunkie]

My world is better than the outside world.

Or to quote "I reject your reality and substitute my own."

(insert diety) I love that qoute! Adam Savage - Myth Busters. My wife has it as her screensaver.

 

[dasickninja]

Now I have both a Livedrive and a Tungsten C that both have Wifi and the C has a 500Mhz Intle Xscale processor, more than the 266 my P2 has and the Lifedrive has a 4GB hard drive, which is more than what my Pentium Pro came with.


The Orignal Palm.....
Atleast it ain't a Newton :lol:

 

[CodeJunkie]

funny you mention newton, the kid across the hall had one, then he wised up and got a palm!

my rommate also had a TI-92, that was a beast of a calculator but it could do symbolic math.

Anyone else hate differential equations?

 

[dasickninja]

If you mean hate it like I hated high school geometry then yes.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

No not really. What I hate about them, and any other math question, is when you have to do them for no other reason, other then to get a grade.

 

[gm0n3y]

I barely remember anything about the few courses of calculus I took in school. Its funny how a couple of years will make you forget almost anything learned in school (could also have been the copious amounts of alcohol). Then again, I have learned way more in my last 2 years of working.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Highschool Geomertry? That as a blast. I ended the year with an A+. I didnt have a perfect 100%, I had a 137%. I did as much extra credit as I could. I even wrote my homework in C++ for extra credit as it showed an advanced uderstanding.

Boy I want to go back to that class and take it again.

 

[dasickninja]

Calculus kicked my ass up and down. I'm still in school and I'm so happy that I managed to place above it.
@comptia
I did better in trig than and calc than I did geometry. Still can't figure out why.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

ROFL, I havent got that far yet. I couldnt pass Trig. I got an horrible teacher that ended up cancling class, which reduced my hours, which voided my schollarship. I tried taking the class again, but school became too expencive for me and I had to leave. Will return... someday.

 

[OldGoat]

I'm with ya brother.........

Physics was my favorite..

 

[CodeJunkie]

exactly what I hated, no point to calc/diff Eq for a CS major with DB/Network focus. On the other hand, the aerodynamics guys on my solar car team loved calc! They litterally drooled over CFD models.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Ya, I was going into astrophyics because everything reguarding physics is very cool. I was going for astrophyiscs and a paleogeophyics double major. College was free for long enough to get most of my Astronomy and geology out of the way. Did a bit of phyiscs, but the math part held me up.

 

[CodeJunkie]

Physics was great, where else can you charge up a layden jar (capacitor) and give the entire class a 100,000+ Volt shock!

Funny physics story, when we were covering momentum and inertia my prof set up a .22 rifle adn shot it into a block of wood suspended on cables like a pendulum, he was soo eager to pull the trigger he didn't check the aim and nearly missed the block, good show!

 

[OldGoat]

Physics was great, where else can you charge up a layden jar (capacitor) and give the entire class a 100,000+ Volt shock!

Funny physics story, when we were covering momentum and inertia my prof set up a .22 rifle adn shot it into a block of wood suspended on cables like a pendulum, he was soo eager to pull the trigger he didn't check the aim and nearly missed the block, good show!

Ahhh, The good old days... then you have to grow up and become responsible..

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

LOL.
The best physics lesson I can remember was when the teacher was explaining the properties of Liquid Nitrogen and its effect on electromagnetic waves, and energy dissapation. Towards the end of the lecture, he spilt some on his hand and the class gasped. No damage done, and he did the ol rutine of the ballon / carrot dipped in the stuff, and breaks it over the table. Then he picked up the container (was like a thermos) and poured it over his arm. It was great!

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Physics was great, where else can you charge up a layden jar (capacitor) and give the entire class a 100,000+ Volt shock!

Funny physics story, when we were covering momentum and inertia my prof set up a .22 rifle adn shot it into a block of wood suspended on cables like a pendulum, he was soo eager to pull the trigger he didn't check the aim and nearly missed the block, good show!

Ahhh, The good old days... then you have to grow up and become responsible..

Or a physics teacher.

 

[dasickninja]

I'm remember when I was sitting in Geometry sleeping my way thru class as was the custom of the day. Halkway thru the class I heard a pop... that brought me out of lala land too quickly...
Anyways after the pop something told me to look down at my calculator. There was a hissing sound coming from it. I opened the back of the TI 82 and I was greeted with the sight of the inards of the battery pouring out over the calculator. Needless to say the need for me to get rid of the battery and get some new ones fromthe school store got me out of the rest of class.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

You used calcualtors in geometry?

Our class didnt touch them.

 

[dasickninja]

Yep, all the time. Teach' believed in the answer, not how you got there.