discussion One of those days....................

[Dave Ward]

Very similar tale Dave, only I dabbled with a mate mid to late 80's. Windows 3.1 era!! HD's less than the average stick of RAM in the 90's.
When I built my own, I used the most expensive mother boards, graphic and sound cards, banks of HD's and used the cheapest case I could find!! Working on the premise of someone looked at my awful case they would think it not worth nicking!!!
It was a good time to learn. Banging phrased or terms like POST, autoexec.bat files, Epromms etc and other such jargon!! Thank goodness it's all done for us these days!!

I did a few installations of Windows 3.1 - with floppy disks! 10 or was it 12 - you had to sit and eject & insert disks at the screen prompts - it took ages - no short cuts. With internet connections as rare as hens' teeth, the serial numbers were used time & time again with no fear of being caught...........
Dave

 

[Dave Ward]

Computer was delivered - a day late - Parcelforce - that's where all the previous Hermes drivers went - ' couldn't find the address!!! '
PC is now up & running, but now I have to install all those little programmes I find so useful - which is going to take a while. No problems - plugged in & away, boots up in about 30 seconds from cold. OA is still with me - one handed living isn't much fun at the moment - everything takes much longer to do!
Dave

 

[The Smythe Meister]

Computer was delivered - a day late - Parcelforce - that's where all the previous Hermes drivers went - ' couldn't find the address!!! '
PC is now up & running, but now I have to install all those little programmes I find so useful - which is going to take a while. No problems - plugged in & away, boots up in about 30 seconds from cold. OA is still with me - one handed living isn't much fun at the moment - everything takes much longer to do!
Dave

Oh well Dave,at least you've got one ....
...yes,it may take some time to get it up and running,but, it's a positive :thumb2:I'm in a similar place at the moment.. my laptop is PAINFULLY slow:sad-face:

 

[boatman]

Oh well Dave,at least you've got one :smiling3: ....
...yes,it may take some time to get it up and running,but, it's a positive :thumb2:I'm in a similar place at the moment.. my laptop is PAINFULLY slow:sad-face:

DITTO for me to on my pc laptop
chrisb

 

[Dave Ward]

Oh well Dave,at least you've got one :smiling3: ....
...yes,it may take some time to get it up and running,but, it's a positive :thumb2:I'm in a similar place at the moment.. my laptop is PAINFULLY slow:sad-face:

Of course it also hinders things, that Windows 11 is subtly different to 10, but I'm getting there, I'ne managed to partition the ITb SSD into 3 bits, and migrated a whole load of music files from my old PC, using an external hard drive. I spent all afternoon updating the OS. I find it amazing that it boots up in under a minute. My old PC, I could go and boil the kettle, make a cup of tea, and still wait before it was up & running - I also notice that it makes virtually no noise!
Dave