Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Four

[CasketWeaver]

For me - it is either my desktop or a laptop - do not own a tablet yet, but my daughter and her friends only own tablets and laptops... They think that desktops are a worthless investment...

LOL! Desktops - they aren't even desktops anymore - they're all towers. ROFLMAO! Desktop used to mean something. When someone said "I got a DESKTOP I need you to look at..." they usually brought with them, a giant, beige, machine with these funny slot like things on the front of them. Depending on the age of it... it was either a 5.25" or a 2.5" floppy disk drive... unless you had more money than common sense, and could afford the "ZIP 100+" drive. And CD-Rom drives were a thing nobody ever saw coming ... until I had someone bring me a system that had one in it... and it used a "CD Caddy"... a damn plastic case that you put the CD into and then inserted the caddy into the CD drive like a floppy disk... I was like "PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THIS VOODOO MAGIC DOOHICKEY IS!"

Really... a 2nd CD case? For real? You gotta be kiddin me right? So you're telling me I have to remove the CD from one case, put it in ANOTHER case, THEN put it into the computer! Voodoo magic I tell ya... VOODOO!

 

[yiddleboge6]

I know that laptops can handle two external monitors - do not know about the others. My daughter runs two off of hers - if I need multiple monitors - I get on my desktop - it is configured for 3 monitors... Can handle 4 if I wanted it to...

On laptops that can handle two.....are they VGA or HDMI ? Having recently had a problem develop with my HDMI port....I can say with certainty....there is a very noticeable difference in quality of what I'm seeing ...even with these old eyes..

 

[CasketWeaver]

On laptops that can handle two.....are they VGA or HDMI ? Having recently had a problem develop with my HDMI port....I can say with certainty....there is a very noticeable difference in quality of what I'm seeing ...even with these old eyes..

Some of the newer ones will support both. Just know that the GPU may start to flip out and yell insults at you for using both... but it's definitely capable.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

Your floppy what?

 

[Myrany]

Even that post has me stumped...? In all my grand knowledge of bulletin boards, forum postings, etc... I can't figure it out either. Oh I loved the day when I dialed a number to connect to a DOS based chat room... or when I dialed my friends phone number and connected to their computer for some DOOM or DESCENT... gone are the glory days.

I dont miss the long distance phone bills

 

[Semiretired]

LOL! Desktops - they aren't even desktops anymore - they're all towers.

Yep, and you have multiple sizes to boot with them..

On laptops that can handle two.....are they VGA or HDMI ? Having recently had a problem develop with my HDMI port....I can say with certainty....there is a very noticeable difference in quality of what I'm seeing ...even with these old eyes..

Some of the newer ones will support both. Just know that the GPU may start to flip out and yell insults at you for using both... but it's definitely capable.

She runs both of hers off of HDMI - I think that when you run one on the VGA and another on the HDMI - it can then get confused - even though it shouldnt'...

 

[Semiretired]

I dont miss the long distance phone bills

That is why Magic Jacks are so great... $20 a year if you pay for 5 years at a time...

Oops you meant from modems - yea we had to be careful to what we connected to with them...

 

[Kenna]

You guys cursed me! I had to get on the step ladder and change bulbs in the computer room tonight.

But...HAPPY NEW YEAR!! [emoji362] [emoji362] [emoji362] [emoji362]

 

[CasketWeaver]

Yep, and you have multiple sizes to boot with them..

She runs both of hers off of HDMI - I think that when you run one on the VGA and another on the HDMI - it can then get confused - even though it shouldnt'...

Yeah... but I'm specifically referring to the GPU's being drastically underpowered. Pull too much data from them and the drivers as well as the hardware tends to get upset. Telling you that: "THE DRIVER HAS STOPPED RESPONDING..." or the much hated BSOD when the GPU stalls for too long and stops sending information to the driver.

 

[Semiretired]

I just got to add one thing - I am not savy with the latest in computer stuff anymore - after Win 95 - I had geeks working for me or with me that did that kind of stuff...

 

[Semiretired]

Yeah... but I'm specifically referring to the GPU's being drastically underpowered. Pull too much data from them and the drivers as well as the hardware tends to get upset. Telling you that: "THE DRIVER HAS STOPPED RESPONDING..." or the much hated BSOD when the GPU stalls for too long and stops sending information to the driver.

Got ya... Isn't a lot of that caused by all the stuff running in the background that is keeping the computer busy with its stuff instead of what you are wanting it to do...

 

[clnire]

I got into computers in the CPM/MPM days.. The beginning of personal computers. Then along came Microsoft, and the world changed...

 

[Robert Cromwell]

Yep my first computer I owned was a Kaypro CPM machine.
Before that I had worked with HP commercial Mini Computers and such.
A whole 8 K of magnetic core ram! Paper tape reader and 9 track mag tape drives and a big ol 12 inch double platter that held an entire megabyte of data.

Mechanical TTY's and VDU's for human interface.

Was bleeding edge stuff.

 

[CasketWeaver]

Got ya... Isn't a lot of that caused by all the stuff running in the background that is keeping the computer busy with its stuff instead of what you are wanting it to do...

Depends... since the driver issue is usually caused by a defective bit of software, it really depends. The actual GPU based BSOD - that's caused by many many things. One of them being power failure, underpowering, or just a defective GPU chip altogether. If it's an I-GPU (integrated graphics processing unit) you can usually rule out the faulty GDDR (and toss memory problems / slow memory into the mix instead) since the system allocates a portion (usually 128MB - 512MB - depending on the motherboard inside the machine) of the installed memory to graphics processing... but if it's a separate GPU (as found in most "performance" based laptops - USUALLY SEEN on machines running NVidia based graphics cards - notable by the [SERIES][number]M ie. NVidia GTX 980M ) - then you could add a defective strand of GDDR to the potential BSOD. Neither of those GPU issues are common, but they have shown their ugly head when the GPU suffers any type of thermal damage - SO DONT KEEP YOUR LAPTOP ON YOUR LAP - place it on a cooling mat if anything.

 

[Fuzzy Thunderbear]

Yea, it is really crazy nowadays. My first hard drive had 80mb (if I remember correctly - and I never did fill it up during the time I owned it)

Now I know which of us is the oldest of the oldt pharts... my first personal computer was an Apple Lisa graphics computer with a 5 Mb hard drive and it was generally accepted at the time that it would never get full. Har har har.... I have a portable 200 Gb today that is almost full now, but I didn't have digital photo archives back in... ummm... 1983? Let's see.... I was teaching CAD at Tektronix in 1978... Sigh. Today all I do is pick up cow/horse/chicken crap...

 

[Robert Cromwell]

Only use Efest 40 amp batteries in your laptop!

 

[Robert Cromwell]

I started messing with computers in 74.

 

[DavidOck]

NAILED IT! Woot! Hot off the CW labs is a spot on clove cigarette flavored e-liquid! The flavor is there, all I'm missing is the tongue numbing effect.

5 ml of Tobasco per 1 ml of juice?

 

[CasketWeaver]

5 ml of Tobasco per 1 ml of juice?

For the tongue numbing effect? I think that would possibly cause my lungs to BLEED!

 

[misswish1]

I was teaching CAD at Tektronix in 1978...

Fuzzy, I worked at Tek in 1975.........