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MacGyver

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Posted: 10:15pm 30 Sep 2010

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Anyone want to hazard a guess what happens when you knock a strong neodymium magnet off your workbench, it bounces off the concrete floor and sticks to your laptop?

I'm posting this from the Apple Store as my MacBook awaits surgery!

. . . . . . Mac

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Perhaps better stated in the words of Morgan Freeman,
"Where there is no struggle, there is no progress!"
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Posted: 02:08pm 01 Oct 2010

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Hi Mack

Sounds like magnets like eating apples'

All the best

Bob

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Posted: 03:17am 02 Oct 2010

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Hi. Bob.

It's times like these that makes one ponder the silly little things in life . . . . . like backing up all your crap!

I had a new hard drive installed today by a friend; the thing works like new. The funniest thing is, my old hard drive was 80 gigabyte and I only used about 1/100th of the space available. The new one has 250 gigs! Go figure.

. . . . . Mac

Nothing difficult is ever easy!
Perhaps better stated in the words of Morgan Freeman,
"Where there is no struggle, there is no progress!"
Copeville, Texas

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Posted: 01:02pm 07 Oct 2010

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250 gig is a baby nowdays, as the last one i bought was 2 terabyte and only $120.00

I remember my first pc had 500 meg drive in it and 32 meg of edo ram, the ram was worth more than the pc cost, it was blistering SLOW.

The mind boggles at the speed current computers process data.

Pete

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Posted: 11:36pm 07 Oct 2010

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Hi Pete

I still have my old 500 meg drive and it still works, but as they get bigger I have replaced them a lot more often, so much for progress.
I tried a 4 gig usb thing and it ran my old computer, DOS, ten times faster with 8 times the capacity, if a smart guy could make a little logging computer around a couple of these usb thingos it would be real handy. Not sure if they like magnets though.

I have a dell server that I can't grt to work onits own as it dosent find its hard drives so I loaded linix on a usb dongle thing and it ran of that, so it may be possible in a little one as well.

I hate computers.

All the best

Bob

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Posted: 09:23pm 08 Oct 2010

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Old computers, the very first one I had anything to do with had 16kB of memory. Storage was paper tape with holes punched in it, and the I/O was an electric typewriter. No monitor, again just the typewriter. To start it up you had to set toggle switchs in various orders to boot. It could use Basic, Fortran, Assembly, and one other language. Even then you could get "porn" for it (naked women made from the various letters of the electric typewriter) and games for it too. One called Hamrabi in which you as the leader tax the people to the most that they would tolerate without giving you the boot. I do believe that this is the system used by all governments the world over.
The first actual computer I owned was an Amstrad with a 20 meg hard drive, 512 kB of ram and 5 1/4" floppies. The system I use now has more than that built into the CPU.
My how things changed.

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