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[astrokat]

Hi Everyone,

I've been a geek since long before it was cool to to be a geek (it is, now, right?) - my first computer was a TRS-80..

SNAP - it was mine too. That 1985 purchase changed my life.

Yep, me too! Which model? I had the Model 1 (still have it) with 16K, from Tandy (being in the UK at the time).

 

[jimandrews1980]

Hi Everyone,

I've been a geek since long before it was cool to to be a geek (it is, now, right?) - my first computer was a TRS-80...

Also, I was using internet protocol on an academic network called JANET in the UK, before it became the Internet. I now live in Silicon Beach (Southern California) after a stint in Silicon Valley.

I wouldn't say I've been lurking here but it seems I often land on this site when looking for tech answers so it's about time I became a member.

Something about me? We love black cats and have three fluffy black rescues (because it's difficult to get black cats adopted). I'll post some pics at some point because, after all, pictures and videos of cats is what the Internet was invented for...

Cheers,

AstroKat

My first computer experience was with a Teletype in the early 70s. I thought that was so cool ... !!! I wish that I had studied computers back then and entered the Geek World of computing in the earlier days .....

 

[Saga Lout]

Hi Everyone,

I've been a geek since long before it was cool to to be a geek (it is, now, right?) - my first computer was a TRS-80..

SNAP - it was mine too. That 1985 purchase changed my life.

Yep, me too! Which model? I had the Model 1 (still have it) with 16K, from Tandy (being in the UK at the time).

I don't remember any spec figures because I knew absolutely nothing about PCs back then. If I had, I might have gone for the new fangled MSDOS and not the soon to be killed off TRSDOS.

I'm in England too and I borrowed and then hired the TRS80 from a friend of a friend because my typewriter had died. I seem to remember he wanted me to have a TRS100. After three weeks I bought the 80 from him and had all my business matters, including accounts, were on that machine.

The time it saved me allowed me to expand the business considerably using an Amstrad dot matrix printer allowed me to ship out an eleven hundred mail shot. Now, over thirty years down the line, I still use my PCs to give me time to do other things outside of work.

 

[tomek.cosmonaut]

Hello everyone I'm Thomas

 

[Joshua_128]

I'm Sampson. I'm the police. new here. worked in Law enforcement 12 years (10 at current job). got into computers when I decided I was done upgrading consoles and built a PC. I'm in an 8320e with a MSI970 krait edition, looking to get a 9590 and a 990fx motherboard just because I can. I like building things, It's just fun for me. PM me if you have a 990fxa motherboard you're interested in selling.

 

[theo.esk]

Yo ! I'm from Denmark and my name's Theodor Eskesen yup thats right, old skool name from before man got his first legs. i'm 31 yrs old i have been working with tech since i was 11 yrs old. that includes electronics (repair-service check);- pc builds hardware and software, building new systems and repairing and maintaining old systems, Network IT Infrastructure with switches, routers etc. I'm also a multi musician i play electric bass, electric guitars, drums, piano, synthesizer and percusion.

My pc rig at the moment:
Cpu: Amd FX-8350 octacore 4Ghz
Motherboard: Asrock 970 Pro3 Rev. 2.0
Graphic: Asus GTX 1050 Dual 2G 2V
PSU: 550 watt Enermax (cheap shitty PSU)
Ram: Corsair Vegeance 12G (3x4gb) Dual Channel

 

[karandoda]

Hello

 

[tomek.cosmonaut]

Could anyone help me? No one seemed to answer at my question which I guess is simple.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3662313/headphones-minijacks.html

 

[Saga Lout]

Perhaps it is difficult. I'll see if I can find a sound expert who also knows about water cooling.

 

[niki99164]

Hi there, I'm Nick, from Italy, I'm 18 and I'm attending the last year in a Technical school, I love playing around with Arduino and I'm a lot interested in wearable electronics. I began reading some posts from this website several months ago because I bought a new custom PC (assembled on my own) and began having troubles with it XD. Hope you'll help me if needed and if you need something from me I'm available for all your needs. Have a wonderful day everybody and sorry for my bad English 😉.

 

[Saga Lout]

Trust a born Englishman with 71 years of speaking it, you have nothing to apologise for in relation to your command of English.

If my Italian could be anywhere near as good in Verona this July I would be a happy bunny but it will just about get me a meal in a restaurant.

 

[niki99164]

Trust a born Englishman with 71 years of speaking it, you have nothing to apologise for in relation to your command of English.

If my Italian could be anywhere near as good in Verona this July I would be a happy bunny but it will just about get me a meal in a restaurant.

Ahahahah thanks man, I'm glad you like my English. Have a nice day.

 

[aleh6407]

Hello..
Im mior!!

 

[azriahl]

Hi. My Name is Sarah. I Repair electronics for people under the Guise Ms. Fixit. My specialty is Game consoles. I also specialize in large scale wireless infra Structure, Off Grid power systems, Linux, Data center, Standby Power Systems etc. My full time job is as the Network engineer for GoldenRual High speed. I work with Ubiquiti, Mikrotik, Mimosa & Ruckus Wireless tech. Im well versed in everything from It to Remote off grid radio Relay. Part of my FT job is to repair equipment that gets damaged by our harsh canadian climate. Thanks for having me.

 

[frenzy_bomber]

hello world

 

[nostalgicbuilder]

Howdy, for the sake of the forum I'll just call myself NostalgicBuilder. Besides goofing around with older PC's. I like goofing around with older cars (preferably cars without computers) and building 1/25 scale model drag cars. I hail from Roscoe, IL which is where Aaron Rodger's girlfriend is from (as though that's supposed to mean sumthin'). I prefer PC gaming over Xbox 360 and Xbox one gaming even though somewhere in the abyss of my basement, there's a box that has my original Ninetendo, a Super Nintendo, a Ninetendo GameCube and a PlayStation 2. Oh and I have a Wii around here too.

 

[hurtlocker]

I want to learn, eventually build my own p.c., I am a casual gamer, want to learn the ins and outs of how to upgrade fix and build p.c.'s Learning a lot from this forum. I would rather learn and do correctly than have to tote this big case off to a pc repair shop over a small item. I currently am in the process of upgrading video cards from a ddr3 to a ddr5 using a ddr3 mother board have a few questions which I posted and can not find the thread. I hope that this forum and the community thereof can help me learn what pc tech already know and save lots of money in the end. If anyone can help me here is a thread I made regarding that:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3670369/upgrade-msi-n580gtx-twin-frozr-ddr3-motherboard.html


Thank you

 

[nostalgicbuilder]

I want to learn, eventually build my own p.c., I am a casual gamer, want to learn the ins and outs of how to upgrade fix and build p.c.'s Learning a lot from this forum. I would rather learn and do correctly than have to tote this big case off to a pc repair shop over a small item. I currently am in the process of upgrading video cards from a ddr3 to a ddr5 using a ddr3 mother board have a few questions which I posted and can not find the thread. I hope that this forum and the community thereof can help me learn what pc tech already know and save lots of money in the end. If anyone can help me here is a thread I made regarding that:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3670369/upgrade-msi-n580gtx-twin-frozr-ddr3-motherboard.html


Thank you

Sorry hurtlocker. I don't know squat about any DDR over 3 and that is only experiences I've had with my GeForce 7950 GX2's.

 

[reedo_43]

Hi everyone,

I am 63, l have footered about with computers for many years, never becoming an expert, just determined and stubborn. But it gets harder to fix things by yourself. So it's great to have this kind of a forum.

My present frustration is with my elderly HP w2408h monitor which constantly attempts "auto adjustment" and prevents me getting anything done.

I have tried resting it for 24 hours and starting in safe mode, but nothing works.

The monitor has its own controls, but touching any of them triggers the "auto adjustment" to appear.

Any ideas anyone?

Is it set to it's native resolution in windows?
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01182751

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Hi everyone,

I am 63, l have footered about with computers for many years, never becoming an expert, just determined and stubborn. But it gets harder to fix things by yourself. So it's great to have this kind of a forum.

My present frustration is with my elderly HP w2408h monitor which constantly attempts "auto adjustment" and prevents me getting anything done.

I have tried resting it for 24 hours and starting in safe mode, but nothing works.

The monitor has its own controls, but touching any of them triggers the "auto adjustment" to appear.

Any ideas anyone?

Is it set to it's native resolution in windows?
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01182751

Wrong thread?

 

[thanatos26]

Hi guys!

 

[ehbowen]

Hello. My name is Eric Bowen and, yes, that's my real name. I made the decision back during the CompuServe days that I was not going to conceal my identity online and, except for a handful of sites where it was required by the TOS, I never have.

My first exposure to computers was a time-shared HP2000F on an ASR33 teletype at school back in 1974. Scratch that; my actual first exposure was in the Lunar Module Simulator at what is now the Johnson Space Center...my father was a simulation engineer in Building 5 and he took me for a ride. I thought we were actually landing on the Moon! Of course, I was only five years old at the time....

I quickly became the school's BASIC programming whiz. I picked up a bit of FORTRAN 77 during my one year at Michigan State University, but since then my skills have atrophied for lack of use. I'm also old enough to remember working with a couple of the original Altair 8800s. However, the first computer I actually owned for myself was a VIC-20. Then a Commodore 64, then a Commodore SX-64, then an Amiga 1000, and then an Amiga 3000. See a pattern?

Then Commodore folded, and the Amiga 3000 was my primary computer for thirteen years. Finally, I got a used Dell desktop from my parents, and then in 2007 I built my first system from a TigerDirect bundle. I rebuilt it after a motherboard failure in 2009, then built an AMD system originally intended as a media PC in 2010. However, it was too much computer for a media PC, so I replaced it in that role with a Raspberry Pi running OpenELEC and re-purposed the AMD machine as a Linux desktop.

I replaced the rebuilt system with a mostly-new Intel system in 2014. My most recent project was a screamer of a rackmount PC intended for video work...32 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 7 CPU, EVGA 850W Gold PSU...only to find that a lot of what I wanted to do can't be done these days as Microsoft broke many of their drivers with Vista and especially Windows 8. So, I've just purchased a used Windows XP Dell that I'm looking to re-case and upgrade As Much As Possible.

Any questions?

 

[kenny.indrasmoro]

Hello I'm Kenny

 

[thehasselhoff]

Yo, I'm Charley. I work for Web Host Pro and have been working or playing on computers since commodore 64 was relevant. I love to build new stuff which can sometimes make older projects seem boring.

As I'm trying to post this it's asking me to choose a solution. And this reply is called your solution which, I guess is a solution for asking to introduce yourself. I kind of feel a solution is definite though where there thread is ongoing.

And it keeps saying We failed to process your request. Please wait a few seconds and try again.

I'll keep trying then I guess. It all seems awfully complex to just be able to introduce yourself.

 

[Saga Lout]

The forum is suffering from some upgrading at the moment and the development team is working on it so hopefully, things will improve quite soon.

Stick with us - it will be worth it in the long-term but it won't be necessary to mention the company you work for. It would be taken as an advertisement.