kobrakommander56 Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 The other day, my brother and I were cleaning out my computer room, its literally a room full of computer junk, old ram, a few mobos, cases, and lots of screws and cords. In the middle of the clean my brother turned to me and said "what the hell is this, this slave master thing". I turned around like wtf is he talking about only to realize he was holding an ide cable for a hard drive or optical drive. My brother being a 21 year old college frat guy, turned to me , one of the most analytical persons ever with a near photographic memory and showed me this. I was surprised and pissed off at myself, becuz in all this time, i never realized that the cord basically said "Slave Master" Insert random C4 joke here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Hehe, "slave" and "master" sounds a little kinky. Master is first harddisk. Slave is second harddisk. There are 2 busses, IDE 0 and IDE 1, which both allow to have 2 IDE devices on each bus. (Even though you probably already knew that) I also cleaned my room a while ago, had to throw away much stuff, had so much things laying around everywhere. Tossed old computers 486's, monitors, old IDE and SCSI harddisks, cables, ZipDrive (parallel port eww) and a million floppy disks. I had like several drawers full of old floppies, some with stuff on them from prior to 1980. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokoike Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Yeah, I did some hardware cleanup a little while back; I found an 3.5" hard drive with only 125 MB total! A plain old CD can hold nearly 6 times that! Crazy how things have advanced... Save a tree, eat a beaver. Save a tree, wipe with an owl. Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked! ding, ding! Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive. If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Rochip Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 My first computer was a Packard Bell. 340 Meg HD 5 1/4 Floppy 3.5 Floppy SINGLE Speed CD-ROM (Advertised as 1st Multi-Media PC) 1200 Baud Modem Windows 3.1 The Internet was entirely text based (No WWW) You had to download an image to view it You had to access servers manually (all 2400 of them world-wide) The closest thing to a search engine was Gopher (Go For) But... No viruses No pop-ups, pop-unders, redirects, etc FREE access (my local library offered a free phone number) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 My first computer was a Intel 386. No modem. MS-DOS with Norton Commander. I had plenty of games, like Ski or Die, Skate or Die, Winter Olympics, Prehistorik 2, Pinball Fantasy, Tristan flipper, etc... Back in the days, you didnt need a fan to cool your CPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobrakommander56 Posted January 10, 2006 Author Share Posted January 10, 2006 yeah I remember those, days, i think my first actual computer..... hmm.. cant really remember. You guys have too good of memory, that or I gotta stop smoking the green stuff. Insert random C4 joke here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokoike Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 I gotta stop smoking the green stuff. RAM? You'd almost think that would improve your "memory". Save a tree, eat a beaver. Save a tree, wipe with an owl. Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked! ding, ding! Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive. If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Rochip Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 I forgot to mention paying $200 for 4 megs of RAM... Talk about smoking the green stuff (money)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newhotness Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 I forgot to mention paying $200 for 4 megs of RAM... Talk about smoking the green stuff (money)! my mom spent $10,000 on her first pc, a 386 i believe, she was the eny of all her friends, then the following year the price halved, still loved that old beast though, only programs i remember were: typing tutor, word perfect, where in the world is carmen sandiago, jill of the jungle, and star trek....aww the good 'ol days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Yeah, a 386 at 16 MHz, with 2-8 mb RAM or something. Actually had a SCSI disk on that beast. * Revenge of Frogger * Stunts * Prehistorik 2 * Joe & Mac * Wolfenstein 3D * Prince of Persia etc etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Rochip Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 The reason I spent $200 on on 4mb of RAM was so MS Flight Simulator would run, it still didn't . The funny thing was waiting for weeks so I would buy a computer with the best features at the lowest price. We all know how well that works ! 2 weeks later- Dang, if only I waited TWO more weeks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0pera Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Take a tour through this computer museum. It shows how far we've come! http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=973 Cheers,0pera~ It is my firm belief that it is a mistake to hold firm beliefs ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Rochip Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Take a tour through this computer museum. It shows how far we've come! http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=973 Thanks for the link, nerds like me should find it very interesting ! I read once that the lights in Philly would actually dim when they fired up the Univac. Besides the incredible heat generated by the 5,200 vacuum tubes, just maintaining them was an incredible endeavor. I was also amazed the Commodore C-64 sold 30,000,000 units, more than all the Macs in the world! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokoike Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Wow! The Univac 1 ran at a "blazing" 2 Khz! My TI-86 calculator is literally over 3,149 times faster (6 Mhz > 1,905 Hz), costs over 6,818 times less ($110 < $750,000), and weighs over 17,466 times less (1.5 lbs < 26,200 lbs), to put it in perspective. The times have changed indeed. Save a tree, eat a beaver. Save a tree, wipe with an owl. Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked! ding, ding! Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive. If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobrakommander56 Posted January 19, 2006 Author Share Posted January 19, 2006 man you guys are all way behind me, I OWN THE ENIAC! Insert random C4 joke here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krit86lr Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 I also cleaned my room a while ago, had to throw away much stuff, had so much things laying around everywhere. Tossed old computers 486's, monitors, old IDE and SCSI harddisks, cables, ZipDrive (parallel port eww) and a million floppy disks. I had like several drawers full of old floppies, some with stuff on them from prior to 1980. Why throw it all away? People (like me) buy stuff like that on ebay all of the time. You could have made some money. $$$$ K Windows Pro Media 8.1 x64 | 8GB Ram | 500G HDD 7200 RPM | All that I know about my graphics is that it's Intel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokoike Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 You buy old computer parts?! Hmm... I could make a fortune with all the crap I got! Save a tree, eat a beaver. Save a tree, wipe with an owl. Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked! ding, ding! Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive. If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krit86lr Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 You buy old computer parts?! Hmm... I could make a fortune with all the crap I got! Seriously...My stepdad is a programmer for boeing, and he emails me daily with good buys on ebay. People buy, and I'm one of them. FYI K Windows Pro Media 8.1 x64 | 8GB Ram | 500G HDD 7200 RPM | All that I know about my graphics is that it's Intel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokoike Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 I believed you! I just thought it was funny, cause what is junk to one person is useful to someone else. What do you do with old parts? Just collect? Save a tree, eat a beaver. Save a tree, wipe with an owl. Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked! ding, ding! Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive. If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krit86lr Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 I believed you! I just thought it was funny, cause what is junk to one person is useful to someone else. What do you do with old parts? Just collect? Sell Baby!!! Unless a family member needs a part, they have first dibs. I still haven't had a used part fail on me (knock on wood). K Windows Pro Media 8.1 x64 | 8GB Ram | 500G HDD 7200 RPM | All that I know about my graphics is that it's Intel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokoike Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 Sell Baby!!! Unless a family member needs a part, they have first dibs. I still haven't had a used part fail on me (knock on wood). K Wow! So you actually do use them then?! So you're probably pretty good with Win 3.1 and DOS and golden oldies like that, huh? As far as parts go, I'll have to look through them and test some of them out. Heck, I still got EDO RAM and HDs with less than 1 GB! Also, I've got a bunch of old Intel procs (100-533 Mhz) that all work. I didn't realize people would buy this stuff! I've tried to sell it to pawn shops here in my town, but with no luck; I can't even give the stuff away! Hooray for the Internet! Save a tree, eat a beaver. Save a tree, wipe with an owl. Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked! ding, ding! Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive. If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krit86lr Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 Wow! So you actually do use them then?! So you're probably pretty good with Win 3.1 and DOS and golden oldies like that, huh? As far as parts go, I'll have to look through them and test some of them out. Heck, I still got EDO RAM and HDs with less than 1 GB! Also, I've got a bunch of old Intel procs (100-533 Mhz) that all work. I didn't realize people would buy this stuff! I've tried to sell it to pawn shops here in my town, but with no luck; I can't even give the stuff away! Hooray for the Internet! I've found that people like to use old computers/parts for their little kids. Kids are being taught how to use computers beginning at the age of 2 so it comes in handy (and cheap). They mostly use them to play games. This seems like useless knowledge until you realize that you can make money from it. $$$ Windows Pro Media 8.1 x64 | 8GB Ram | 500G HDD 7200 RPM | All that I know about my graphics is that it's Intel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeb Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 Where could one go to find out what going rates for computer parts are? For example to find out how much a five year old system is worth? Anything better than scouring ebay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobrakommander56 Posted February 1, 2006 Author Share Posted February 1, 2006 I can sell you an old computer, about 5 years old and packed full of C4 Insert random C4 joke here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokoike Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 I can sell you an old computer, about 5 years old and packed full of C4 Heh, that reminds me of a movie I saw (I think Tech TV) where they destroyed a hard drive with thermite. I gotta try that some time. Save a tree, eat a beaver. Save a tree, wipe with an owl. Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked! ding, ding! Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive. If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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