who remembers

[rezinn]

Back when I didn't know what windows was. I'll also admit that I used to reach behind the computer and spin one of the screws that held the monitor cable in to turn the sound down when I was playing doom, which I installed off of something like 14 floppies.

 

[DougK62]

Plugged a keyboard in when the computer was on. Gray screen death.

 

[MaxDepth]

Two thoughts:

How in hell do I turn off the duplexing?

and

If I don't spend all my computer time do I get the remainder in a check to me?


First one: My first compuserve account and I had all my messages coming and going twice. I had to have a person in the forum show me what keyset to press to stop it.

Second one: In college, those who got computer time had it not in hours but in money. And it was very expensive. And no, I didn't get the refund but my professor was very pleased when I always came in under budget.

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
When I was a youngin back in 1997 and windows 95 started throwing illegal operation error messages at me, I freaked out and turned the computer off because I thought the cops were going to come to the front door and take the computer away or something. But I was like 9 at the time so I think that's kind of normal.

They really shouldn't have called them illegal operations, I know that's freaked out soooooo many people because they didn't know what an illegal operation was.

now if those downloaders today saw an 'illegal operation' on the screen

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: faenix
I always thought the monitor was the 'computer' itself and I was really disillusioned when my father told me my little Packard Bell 75mhz box was actually the real 'computer.'

lol :laugh:

 

[iamaelephant]

Originally posted by: pinion9

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Assembly language looks like gobbledy-guck...how can anyone make any sense of this?

Are you serious? It is just another language. Learn the syntax and grammar and it is easy.

WTF, do you know what thread you're in?

 

[rhino56]

on my first computer build i couldnt get it to boot up, i tried everything, had people on aim trying to help me, took the mobo out of the case, barebones trying to boot, they figured it was the mobo or cpu that was bad, so i thought i would rma it. when i took it apart i noticed that little lever on the cpu socket that i had never lifted. lol