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Just for the record, that was intended to be a wee joke. Not weevil, but WEE VIL.
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Obsolete within weeks of the first one shipping out.
It certainly was a pleasure to watch!
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I remember the first hard drive i bought. It was a 400 mb Conner, thinking I would never need anything larger. A few years ago, sitting in a meeting about cloud storage I found myself saying that I didn't feel half a petabyte was large enough to start off with. And I remember the celery processors (a nickname for them). I have a Cyrex heat sink as a refer magnet.
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You're so young. My 286sx had a 40 Meg hard drive and 2 Meg of RAM. Additional RAM was $100.00/meg!
You had a hard drive???
My first PC was a Zenith Z-100, 384 KB RAM, dual 5.25" floppy drives. Dual floppies were GREAT, 'cuz we'd have the OS in Drive A and everything else on Drive B. IIRC, mine was the upscale model; the previous one was 128 KB RAM and 1 floppy, a real PITA to keep swapping the OS and data disks.
We've come a long ways ... I started a post regarding the change in PC costs.
https://www.winemakingtalk.com/threads/pcs-have-changed-a-lot.79735/
OK mine: We used punch cards made out of stone!!! Actually single floppy with a 10MB HDD.
My that I am REALLY old, even my floppy doesn't work......
My that I am REALLY old, even my floppy doesn't work......
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Nothing on mine works!! MS did an update. The end. Machine crashed, gone into a startup loop now. I spent 2 days doing every manner of things. Finally did a full reset.... it went right back to the start up loop.
My next plan....... I'm going to use it for a target this spring, dig a hole with the excavator and bury it.
My next plan....... I'm going to use it for a target this spring, dig a hole with the excavator and bury it.
Does anyone remember Digital Equipment Corporation? I worked for DEC in the late 70's (fortunately for a short time). DEC made some outstanding hardware at the time and was the darling of the "Mini-Computer" world. I had the misfortune to work in their only product line that dealt directly with the end user, the Graphic Arts Product Line. We sold text entry and editing systems mainly to small and mid-sized newspapers.
It was an interesting experience, to say the least. Our three main competitors were Harris, Hendrix and CSI, for whom DEC was their OEM. Because DEC was the OEM, DEC service people serviced their hardware. The four legs of the sales stool were value, hardware, software and service. Our competitors had the same hardware and service, their software was superior and somehow through OEM agreements and pricing, they could undercut us in price.
The newspaper business is very interesting. I quickly learned that newspapers are not really competitors in any major sense and they are more like a fraternity. If we had a troubled installation in Indiana, the news would quickly spread to Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan. I recall making a sales presentation in Kentucky and things seemed to be going very well. I was getting good and penetrating questions and there seemed to be a level of interest. Then one of the people raised his hand and said, "You ain't talking about that system they got in Columbus, Indiana, are you?" Unfortunately I was so I had to try to recover but I could see the lights going out in peoples' eyes and others looking at their watches. It was time to go.
You might be wondering how this relates to this thread and I will tell you. We were selling systems for between $750K and $900K that could not do what this $500 laptop I am using can do, faster and more reliably!
It was an interesting experience, to say the least. Our three main competitors were Harris, Hendrix and CSI, for whom DEC was their OEM. Because DEC was the OEM, DEC service people serviced their hardware. The four legs of the sales stool were value, hardware, software and service. Our competitors had the same hardware and service, their software was superior and somehow through OEM agreements and pricing, they could undercut us in price.
The newspaper business is very interesting. I quickly learned that newspapers are not really competitors in any major sense and they are more like a fraternity. If we had a troubled installation in Indiana, the news would quickly spread to Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan. I recall making a sales presentation in Kentucky and things seemed to be going very well. I was getting good and penetrating questions and there seemed to be a level of interest. Then one of the people raised his hand and said, "You ain't talking about that system they got in Columbus, Indiana, are you?" Unfortunately I was so I had to try to recover but I could see the lights going out in peoples' eyes and others looking at their watches. It was time to go.
You might be wondering how this relates to this thread and I will tell you. We were selling systems for between $750K and $900K that could not do what this $500 laptop I am using can do, faster and more reliably!
Sounds like you need to do a clean install.
What is your tech skill level? I can tell you installing Windows is easy ... but I've been building PCs for decades, so for me it is simple. Following are instructions:
https://www.wikihow.com/Install-Windows-10
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This is a 14 yr old computer. I do not have a disc, never did. It came preloaded. I tried the self reloading from the internal copy that was supposed to work using the reset. 3X same result. Some driver or ??? Is corrupted and it won't down load a fix from the net. It says downloading critical files. Goes right back into the same loop.
Target time
Target time
14 yo? Yeah, target time!
I have some PDP-8, PDP-11, VAX, and Alpha experience under my belt.
You could download a small Linux distro (distribution). There are ones as Puppy Linux which should be small enough to run off a 3.5 inch disk. A typical distro is bundled with basic programs as a web browser and word processing. Linux also has rescue disks that fit on flash drives again with the purpose of starting hardware/ recovering what might be on the hard drive.
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