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Thread: I Must Be An Old Phart
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10th July 2007, 08:26 PM #1
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I Must Be An Old Phart
just found this phrase online
old guys who ran on 386 computers had the skills equavalent to a turn of the century wooden furniture maker
an I thought 386's were the bees knees when I was running an XT.
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10th July 2007, 08:29 PM #2
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What, you mean there not any more?
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11th July 2007, 01:18 AM #3
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Maybe so, but the corollary is that people who build modern PC's are just Ikea flat-pack assemblers... and replaceable by trained monkeys.
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11th July 2007, 09:52 AM #4
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We had a Compaq 386 at work. It cost about $12,000. We used it to play Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizard on overnight shift. I think there was some work-related use for it too, but not sure what that was...
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11th July 2007, 11:57 AM #5
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Originally Posted by echnidna
just found this phrase online
old guys who ran on 386 computers had the skills equavalent to a turn of the century wooden furniture maker
an I thought 386's were the bees knees when I was running an XT.
I still have a few 486 CPU's floating about as well as a couple of megs of memory 8 in all a 40 meg HDD a 150 and 250meg belonged to a solicitor had to get files of it so he could upgrae to his PIII
I still have my PI Dos 3, Win 3 disks Worperfect 5.1 Lotus
Had a situation where I needed to get off a floppy documents done on a wordprocessor/typwriter some time ago 1999 it was Wordperfect 4 took a little work but did it.
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11th July 2007, 04:30 PM #6
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I've said it before - I still have a fully functional Apple ][e here in my office (and a 386, a 486 DX4-100, a P3, a ZX81, a P4, and a Dual Core 2 MacBookPro, copies of Windows 3.11 and Dos 6.22a both still in original shrink-wrap)
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11th July 2007, 04:33 PM #7
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I think a couple of the ones at work were assembled by monkeys..... Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!
and replaceable by trained monkeys.I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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11th July 2007, 05:34 PM #8
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I've got a computer that is so old, it is made from matches.
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11th July 2007, 07:08 PM #9
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surely your shrinkwrapped software is history now.
Floppies don't last all that long.
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11th July 2007, 07:24 PM #10
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All mine still work I check them now and again even have transfered to CD. Originally Posted by echnidna
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11th July 2007, 07:31 PM #11
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