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Should Auld Computers Be Forgot ...

Friday, 20. June 2008, 00:39:08

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Thursday, the 29th of May, 2008, and - unable to throw anything out - David Scott Aubrey banishes his sturdy old workhorse of a computer to a dark, dusty room full of cobwebs.

That's right, my old 1992 AST Bravo 5133 with 64 Mb of RAM, an Original Pentium processor and 1.8 Gb of hard disk space running Windows 98SE with a Canon BJC 210 printer is finally being put out to pasture.



But never fear, ladies and gentlemen, because it's being replaced by my new Intel Celeron 540 1.8GHz Processor, 80Gb Hard Drive, 512 Mb RAM, graphics accelerator 528 Mb Compaq Presario C731TU Notebook (which - in the olden-days - used to be called a laptop) running Vista Home Basic with a Canon Pixma MP610 MFC. And - from Paint Shop Pro 7 - I'm being slapped in the frontal lobes with the learning curve of Photoshop CS3 ...





... which is why I haven't been around for a while. It's just all so new and there's a lot to take in!

Microphone, webcam, voice control, ADSL, Office 2003 (up from '97) ...

... did I mention it was all just so new and a lot to take in? :faint: :lol:

(Yes, I know it's not Thursday, the 29th of may, 2008 any more ... but ... uh ... it's all just so new and there's a lot to take in ... ? :wink: )

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b_laudanum 20. June 2008, 01:28

:lol: moooo??? poor old one!!

clean 20. June 2008, 07:24

:wink:

theoddbod 21. June 2008, 20:59

You must have upgraded that first PC like crazy. The PC I got in 1992 had 4MB RAM and 120MB hard disk, and that was deemed 'a lot!'.

Unless 1992 doesn't refer to the year...:left:

clean 21. June 2008, 22:01

Oh, it was the year! Yes, I applied just about every tweak and upgrade (short of changing the motherboard) I could find to keep that one working (and crashed it more times than I can count - I can reinstall Windows 98SE with my eyes closed). :lol:

theoddbod 21. June 2008, 22:51

My 1992 PC had the aforementioned RAM and hard disk, ran DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1, and stayed that way for 7 years (apart from a copy of DOS 6 finding it's way on there somehow :left:). Fortunately, these days I control the PC and not my dad :D

clean 22. June 2008, 00:21

:lol:

So if I said things like, "TRS-80", you'd know what I was on about? :wink:

theoddbod 22. June 2008, 00:30

No, but i'm pretty sure i knew people then who did. The '92 PC was the first computer i ever had :smile:.
My friends had Ataris, Amigas, Spectrums, BBC Micros, SEGA Master Systems and so on...i had one of those cheap little electronic handhelds where you press left and right to make a sprite dodge things or catch things. And the sprite only had four places to stand.

clean 22. June 2008, 10:24

:D I remember the Atari!

Those little handhelds your're talking about ... anything like this? :wink:

theoddbod 22. June 2008, 10:37

Yes, just like that :D. The one I had was a little man trying to dodge debris flung out from a volcano :D. I've still got it somewhere.

galadriel 23. June 2008, 14:29

Uh oh...Vista?! P:

I have no idea what my computer's details are, so when it dies the obituary wont be too flash.

clean 23. June 2008, 16:33

:lol:

There was a steep learning curve with Vista, that's for sure - and I had to do a bit of tweaking here and there to stop unnecessary processes (I need all the memory I can get running Photoshop). Would you believe the first thing I was supposed to do was back up my system (according to the manual)? Nearly a month now and ... uh ... wellllllllll ... :rolleyes: :lol:

(Tried Linux but it couldn't detect my Internet connection :irked: )

galadriel 24. June 2008, 00:28

I don't back up anything...if my USB dies, everything for uni has gone. Probably should back up one day...but...nah!

Vista runs Office 2007, yeah? We have that at uni and no one knows how to use it. I'm pretty sure everyone spends more time looking for stuff in word than actually typing! My dad got 2007 for me and put it on my PC and I told him to get 2003 back on there :D

clean 24. June 2008, 01:25

:lol: I had the trial copy of 2007 but I got rid of it - my wife has a Student and Teacher edition of 2003 with licences for 3 computers in the same house (so I got the second one and we're leaving the 3rd in reserve for whomever's stuffs up and requires a reinstall first! :lol: )

galadriel 24. June 2008, 12:26

haha good idea :smile:

Mickeyjoe_irl 29. June 2008, 22:58

So we get see clean's sentimental side. Afraid I would have stripped it for any useable parts and then taken the rest to the recycling center.

Like the new laptop, BTW. :up:

clean 30. June 2008, 14:03

:lol: Unfortunately, none of the parts worked with anything from this century :lol:

But when I do ultimately dispose of it, I will look into taking it somewhere parts can be recycled. :smile:

thatgirl 2. July 2008, 17:03

Poor old AST Bravo 5133 has been replace with younger model soon Celeron 540 will join with them and they can sit around and get dust in there keys and look at there owner hair get more grayer pressing the keys of again newer one and they holding back there tear, Hmm tears. Its sad when go from old dino to new wiz bang thing and still Visa huh yeah I update to visa went back to xp. Hmm make sure you give old comp wink now and then because you really dont wont them stand up to you one day

clean 3. July 2008, 00:34

:lol: True. If the laptop stuffs up, I'll need to go back to the old one for word processing and such!

pfelelep 8. July 2008, 04:19

good one :lol:
moooo!!

clean 8. July 2008, 12:43

Thank you :smile:

thatgirl 8. July 2008, 13:26

You could always beat it up and tell it your the owner and your not it slave

clean 9. July 2008, 13:40

Well, after a little over a month, I'm starting to feel a little more like I've got a handle on it all - of course, with Photoshop, there's still that huge learning curve and I'm only about three degrees along that one ... :rolleyes: :wink:

thatgirl 11. July 2008, 12:34

With Photoshop you kinda when you know the basic to it all you kinda find there really no end on what you can do and find starting to download bruehes and filters and list go on and on till can stop haveing fun

clean 11. July 2008, 13:23

It's awesome! And I've been lucky to find Photoshop for Beginners fairly early on. What drew me in was the opening part of the site;

"Manuals for Adobe Photoshop are written by experts and checked by experts. What they never do is grab a complete newbie and say, 'Please learn the program from this new manual and see how you get on'. If that were done, most manuals would end up in the trash before they got printed".

Something I found to be very true as the manuals I found in the library were way beyond me.

Of course ... it's all starting to become a little more familiar. One day I'll even RTFM :lol:

thatgirl 11. July 2008, 13:35

Yeah there magazine in newsagent what cover basics of photoshopand come out every 2 months

clean 11. July 2008, 13:45

There's heaps of magazines in the newsagent I'd like to get on a regular basis - Artist's Palette and things like that are good inspiration for painting; Nexus and things like that are full of off-beat wackyness (well, some people take it seriously) which inspires some of my short stories; computer and software mags; comics (of course). I love the places ... ! :smile:

thatgirl 11. July 2008, 13:52

I know some them people should be shot because they think it make em expert in that. Yeah some art mags are not to bad but alot are full of shit and it drive me up the rafters. But there good one out there called paper clip look for it

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