Ever try and find a motherboard for just a two year old system? I thought it would be pretty easy. Boy was I wrong. My wife's system died and I needed a new motherboard for her system. I only built it two years ago. I need to stay with the same type of board but boy was it murder calling around trying to find one. I think I got a line on one on Ebay but you know how that can turn around. May need to just upgrade the whole system. Was hoping not to do that for awhile but may not have a choice in this.


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Ozone Rambler wrote:

All this talk of old computer systems made me decide to do a list for old computer geeks. Some thing along Jeff Foxworthy only for computer geeks. So here is the start of the list. Please feel free to add to it if you think of anything new to add.

You might be an old Computer Geek if:

1.   You ever owned a computer by Commodore, Atari, Coleco, or Franklin
2.   You used a game cartridge or cassette tape to load programs for you computer
3.   You thought 16 colors out of a computer were cool
4.   You know what a 300 baud modem is and used one
5.   You know what a bulletin board system is
6.   You know what ANSI graphic are
7.   You know what a tagline is
8.   You had two telephone lines in your house, one for voice and the other for the computer
9.   You used a TV for a computer monitor
10. You know what punch cards are
11. You keypunched cards
12. You remember when mainframes took up whole rooms and only had 64KB of memory
13. You know what a 9 track tape drive is
14. Your first PC was an 8 bit computer
15. You know what EGA is
16. You remember 8 inch floppy drives
17. Your first computer used KB instead of MB for memory size
18. Your first printer was dot matrix

OhforFive Added
19. You had to buy a clock/calendar board for your first PC.
20. You know what a CPM OS is

Ozone Rambler Added
21. You know what an Apple Lisa is
22. You built your first computer and it wasn’t a PC
23. You know what GWBasic is
24. You consider Windows the Johnny come lately has you owned an Appler Mac or Commodore Amiga in the 80's

Will Added
25. Radio Shack sold their own line of computers (ie TRS-80, Tandy)
26. You know what a Timex Sinclair is

All but 21.

At one time I let my kids gut a System 36 IBM so I could turn it in to a wet bar.  It had two 75mb (yes MB) hard drives that weighed about 40 pounds each.  The kids couldn't lift them out by themselves.
You forgot my favorite, the TI 99-4A
And I still have a copy of Windows 1.0 (on Tape!) somewhere around here.
Yup, formerly a Net Admin, now I healed my ulcers and I'm working on the sleeping by selling stuff on eBay for other people.

I think what Will said about Radio Shack and the TRS-80 get the TI-99. Radio Shack use to have an interesting approach to their systems.


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Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

I have a couple of new ones to add to the list of Old Computer Geeks.

27. You were on the Internet before the World Wide WEB.
28. You know Al Gore did not invent the Internet.

Any comments??


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Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

I had to build a new computer as the old desktop I had up died on me finally. Thank goodnew for backups. It had been so long since I had built a computer I had only an old 32 bit processor. My new one has the AMD 64 bit processor in it. I was wondering if anyone was running either Window XP64, Windows Vista64, or a flavor of Linux that is 64 bit. What do you think of the 64 bit software and is it any faster than the 32 bit?


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Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

Has any here been beta testing Windows 7 and what do you think of it?

I got a new laptop last year with Windows Vista loaded on it. I was really disappointed in Vista. It seemed like Microsoft had rushed it out the door. Well Windows 7 seems to be everything Visat should have been. Very nice. I have been using the release canidate of Windows 7 for about three months and it is great. I think Microsoft got it right this time. I was really like to hear from any one else that is testing Windows 7 and what you think of it.


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Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

My parents used to use an old Tandy Radio Shack Model III, and I had more than my share of TRS Color Computers. :)

Of course, these days, I run with a custom built machine, but still using XP (I have no problems with it, and I don't need the latest bells/whistles.)

What sort of custom machine do you have and did you build it yourself?


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Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

Computer geek here as well.  Am a senior software developer and work in the world of Java and JEE.  Starting to do some iPhone development.  Had a motorcycle but sold it due to losing a very close family member.