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Are you sure of the address? There's ticalc.org, which is still up and running.
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Cojawfee posted:There was a kid in my homeroom in high school who called them T-180s. I said "It's TI-83, because it's Texas Instruments." He replied with "I like to call it T-180." Ok, dude. There's always that one kid who pronounces stuff  and will try to start a fight if you correct them (so of course you correct them because fights are fun* yay fights). Like how do you decide that Megatron is actually Megatram, what is your brain doing?*) When you're six.
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Tucker Max has a wife and kid now and is running some kind of ghost writing business. http://bookinabox.com/about-us/ quote:At the time, there wasn’t a way. If you wanted to publish a book, you had to write it and publish it yourself, or navigate the complicated publishing industry. Otherwise, your book just stayed in your head. Say what you will about his frat boy stunts and made up stories but the message board on his site was really good for discussions on pretty much anything without having to argue with any Spurglords.
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Feb 16, 2016 18:25
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 Jesus, that's why the guy under the Deadpool mask looked so loving familiar
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A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:
You should try carrying that stuff through an airport in the U.S.
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Feb 16, 2016 19:17
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Mad Monk posted:You should try carrying that stuff through an airport in the U.S. As long as it isn't taped to your junk they don't care because all they look at is your junk because they want to see your junk.
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Feb 16, 2016 19:19
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Jerry Cotton posted:As long as it isn't taped to your junk they don't care because all they look at is your junk because they want to see your junk. This gives a whole new meaning to the term "Another mans junk..."
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Feb 16, 2016 19:22
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Mad Monk posted:This gives a whole new meaning to the term "Another mans junk..." "Is a TSA agent's... pleasure" 
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Feb 16, 2016 20:30
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Someone mentioned evergreen CPUs. I had an actual IBM box with a pentium 75 which I upgraded using an Evergreen chip. Something like 133mhz maybe? I don't recall exactly. I do recall RAM was expensive. Put a voodoo2 in it I believe. Eventually gave it away. Also from quite a few pages ago regarding porn on floppies. I had a C64 game floppy which had a file hidden somewhere, may have simply been on the root, which was a really really low def 2 or 4 color pixelated harcore porn loop, maybe 3 seconds long of some gal riding a dong. I loaned the disk to a friend who found it and pointed it out to me. The weird part is that as I recall that was a factory floppy. Probably 99% of the stuff we had was pirated so it may have been but I recall at the time wondering how in the world porn got on a factory disk. Who knows but it was the first I saw and the only I saw for a long time. I But I kinda lost interest in computers for a stretch after the power supply of our C64 died for the 4th or 5th time and we just stopped repairing it, and didn't get a computer again until the 3.11 era and that P75 which I got from work as it was an extra. I bought AMD stock a long time ago when their 1ghz Athlon was king and I was a true believer in their products but as a company they have poo poo the bed for over a decade. It was not a wise investment. Sten Freak has a new favorite as of 20:52 on Feb 16, 2016 |
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I kind of miss the processors that were shaped like video game cartridges 
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Feb 16, 2016 21:17
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Hey remember carpal tunnel syndrome? Everyone thought that as more people became more connected to computers all day long, we would all devolve into bony-clawed skeksis creatures. What ever became of that particular post-apocalyptic nightmare world?
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Feb 16, 2016 21:19
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EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A CPU INTO SLOT 1. ITS A PENTIUM III AND
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Feb 16, 2016 21:21
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That was funny how much Intel was behind back then, ocing a p3 to stay compatible with athlon and still having to recall them because of overheating issues. It's really sad how far and has gone down the tubes
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Feb 16, 2016 21:28
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Data Graham posted:What ever became of that particular post-apocalyptic nightmare world? Ergonomics.
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if ur feeling nostalgic for this, thers a ton of issues of maximum pc here
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theultimo posted:That was funny how much Intel was behind back then, ocing a p3 to stay compatible with athlon and still having to recall them because of overheating issues. It's really sad how far and has gone down the tubes  It's ugly. E: If you look right at the very itty bitty start of that graph AMD's stock price has gained more value than Intel's. Probably if you go back a few years from the start of this graph AMD beats them for a couple years but the decline since has been definitive. Sten Freak has a new favorite as of 21:39 on Feb 16, 2016 |
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Data Graham posted:Hey remember carpal tunnel syndrome? Oh god yes. I actually changed to a trackball for several years, swearing up and down that my wrist didn't tire so easily. Also it was a hell of an uphill battle getting used to playing Counter Strike with that. Which I again told myself made me much more precise because of reasons.
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Feb 16, 2016 21:46
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Mak0rz posted:I kind of miss the processors that were shaped like video game cartridges Back in the 90s, I seem remember Best Buy selling some computers that had a strange color-coded/boxy upgrade system for them. It was designed I guess as DIY computer systems and the components were more expensive than traditional but they were I think set up for more easy end-user upgrade. I can't find anything on them, now, but I seem to recall a sort of push with the design was that you could replace a lot of hardware components without needing to fully open up the system.
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Feb 16, 2016 22:07
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Data Graham posted:Hey remember carpal tunnel syndrome? The death of the desktop pc. Seriously, most people use laptops with touchpads or tablets/smartphones. Even in office settings, the traditional desk layout is going away, reducing repetitive stress injuries.
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Feb 16, 2016 22:09
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AA is for Quitters posted:The death of the desktop pc. Unless you work for the government and especially if you work in a classified environment.
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Feb 16, 2016 22:13
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AA is for Quitters posted:The death of the desktop pc. I bet a lot of jobs where you just bang on the keys all day are dead, too. I can only imagine there is a lot less "10 hours of data entry 5 days a week" going on with so much less paper being pushed anymore.
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Feb 16, 2016 22:37
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As long as we're monkeys with ten fingers the desktop isn't going anywhere in favor of devices much smaller, impractical and worse to handle. Maybe for people who only post selfies to their facebook but these weren't really serious users to begin with. Just because something doesn't dominate an entire market doesn't mean it's "dead". Also if you're working in a somewhat healthy way you're at no risk of screwing up your bones, and I say that as an emacs user.
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Feb 16, 2016 22:54
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Doing something that exercises your wrists like push ups helps a lot.
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A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:Also, here is another Nixie tube clock project. A testament to a horribly wasted youth. : Nixies projects are awesome, I wish I'd known about them in my youth. Make more!
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Feb 17, 2016 00:31
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Part of me wants to go back and play Raiders of the Lost Ark on Atari. I just remember it was a major pain in the rear end. Tsetse fly biting you slowing you down and no idea what to do but I was a kid.
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Police Automaton posted:As long as we're monkeys with ten fingers the desktop isn't going anywhere in favor of devices much smaller, impractical and worse to handle. Maybe for people who only post selfies to their facebook but these weren't really serious users to begin with. Just because something doesn't dominate an entire market doesn't mean it's "dead". pretty much everywhere I've worked even when you do have a laptop you're expected to use the monitor + kb/m ports they have
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Feb 17, 2016 01:46
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Any other office workers default to WASD home position when at work?
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Feb 17, 2016 02:54
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Any other office workers default to WASD home position when at work? Oddly, I have never done this. It never even occurred to me until you mentioned it just now. I inadvertently taught myself how to touchtype, so that might have some influence on it, though.
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stubblyhead posted:Are you sure of the address? There's ticalc.org, which is still up and running. This is what I was thinking of, weird. http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/5/56/56353.html?p=3 reading this brought back a lot of good memories of high school. The comments on there about having 8MB on board memory crack me up considering my phone has 128GB and the small cluster computer at work is cruising at just over a petabyte of disk.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Oddly, I have never done this. It never even occurred to me until you mentioned it just now. I inadvertently taught myself how to touchtype, so that might have some influence on it, though. What do you mean, touchtype?
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Touch typing is just normal typing, with your hands on the ASDF JKL; keys, as opposed to hunt-and-peck where you're staring at the keyboard and hitting letters individually. I'm wondering how many forums regulars or people who do a lot of online chatting don't actually know how to type.
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King Vidiot posted:Touch typing is just normal typing, with your hands on the ASDF JKL; keys, as opposed to hunt-and-peck where you're staring at the keyboard and hitting letters individually. I am almost forty years old. I have been a computer nerd most of my life. I work as a software developer. I learned to type last year. Mavis Beacon and Typeracer.com took me from 0-80ish words per minute (my best recorded score on Typeracer is 117 words per minute) in a matter of months. It took phenomenal discipline not to fall back on my old ways when it was taking me two minutes to type web addresses, and fifteen to peck out replies on the forums, but it was very much worth it.
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Centripetal Horse posted:I am almost forty years old. I have been a computer nerd most of my life. I work as a software developer. I learned to type last year. There are some pretty fast two-finger typists. Ah, here we go. PT-109   Looks like it got a slight update in 1994: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiFfw4VS6S8 In our original 1987 version, is glorious Hercules Monochrome, all the sound was in PC speaker. ----- Woo, 60 nostalgic DOS games! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUkdFW6NRdQ Gonzo the Eggman has a new favorite as of 05:12 on Feb 17, 2016 |
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I never learned to type "properly" and don't worry about home row or keeping my hands in a certain position but I can still type without looking at the keyboard. I even use one of those rear end in a top hat keyboards that doesn't have any labels on the keys. It seems like knowing where the keys are would have to come naturally if you type often even if you're doing it "wrong". I could definitely be faster though because for some reason I only use three fingers on each hand.
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Centripetal Horse posted:I am almost forty years old. I have been a computer nerd most of my life. I work as a software developer. I learned to type last year. Nice to see you - hope things are going well. I couldn't imagine not being able to type in this day and age. The closest thing to formal instruction I ever had with keyboarding was a Wizard of Id typing game we had for the Commodore 64. Then, years later, I was working in an office and realized it had been a while since I looked down at the keyboard. For a while if I thought about it then I couldn't touchtype, but it eventually just became second nature. The last time I took a test I can consistently hit 50wpm with no errors - I just take it for granted now.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:I never learned to type "properly" and don't worry about home row or keeping my hands in a certain position but I can still type without looking at the keyboard. I even use one of those rear end in a top hat keyboards that doesn't have any labels on the keys. It seems like knowing where the keys are would have to come naturally if you type often even if you're doing it "wrong". The QWERTY keyboard layout was designed to actually slow typists down. This was because, on the old manual typewriters, the keys would get jammed.
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Feb 17, 2016 05:15
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Gonzo the Eggman posted:The QWERTY keyboard layout was designed to actually slow typists down. This was because, on the old manual typewriters, the keys would get jammed. More myth than fact really. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-the-legend-of-the-qwerty-keyboard-49863249/
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Bovril Delight posted:More myth than fact really. Oh well. Worth a try. There's usually a kernel of truth in every myth, tho.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Nice to see you - hope things are going well. Thanks. I'm getting by. I was pretty fast without typing properly, but there is a world of difference between being able to burst-type at 70 words per minute, while looking down at the keyboard, and being able to consistently bang out 70 words per minute with your eyes closed.
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