Pangloss Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Very funny bit from the BBC, with a cute girl who happens to be the same age as the Mac she's comparing with a modern PC. Watch how long it takes the Windows machine to boot. (hehe) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7846575.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJBruce Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 That PC does take a long time to load but of course it does have quite a bit more information to retrieve. I could never imagine having to constantly switch disks like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 It loads a lot faster than mine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrP Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I've always been a fan of today's hardware with last years software. PC runs at a usable speed then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I remember my best friend had that Mac. He had a special backpack he could carry it around in. He also knew EVERYTHING there was to know about that computer since he had every program that would run on it and knew them inside and out. It was pretty amazing at the time. it wasn't long before there was more than one person could keep up with, and he was forced to specialize more and more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Must be boring, knowing everything there is to know about a given subject. Takes the fun out of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Must be boring, knowing everything there is to know about a given subject. Takes the fun out of life.You've obviously never been the guru everyone relies on for answers. Being worshiped can be more fun than fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padren Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I could never imagine having to constantly switch disks like that. When I was a kid we had a Mac - now I am going to have nightmares about that disk drive sound! It had so little memory it could not load everything it needed off one disk and then just ask for a second after... the system disk would prep and ask for data off the other disk, you'd swap, it'd load it, then it would need the system disk for more and that would need more data off the second so you'd swap... It did generally hit that equilibrium where you rarely had to swap, but only after a lot during the OS start up or starting up a program. It was tedious. It was a godsend when we finally got an external disk drive... but it is pretty amazing what they could do at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 The old Macs were truly amazing when the rest of us were using Franklins and Commodores. Even the Apple IIs were greenscreen junk once the Mac's proto-windows made navigation so intuitive and we'd had a taste of a DOS-less diet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 You've obviously never been the guru everyone relies on for answers. Being worshiped can be more fun than fun. Oh I know the feeling, but that certainly doesn't mean that I know everything about that given subject. There's always more to learn. For people to depend on you, all you have to know is all they know, plus what they want to know. That, at least in my experience, rarely means knowing everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangloss Posted January 24, 2009 Author Share Posted January 24, 2009 Used to be you could get a high-paying IT job just for knowing how to reset a user's password. Those days are looooooooooooooong gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 I should have been born 40 years ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrappy Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 (edited) I should have been born 40 years ago... I was born 70 years ago (on March 19) and I can tell you that watching the evolution of computers has been quite interesting. I entered college in that Sputnik year of 1957, and not a single course I took in science, history, mathematics or philosophy ever mentioned or discussed the significance of that beeping ball in space, or of computers. The evolution and meaning of computers is so huge and happening so fast that I don't think we understand yet what's going on—an aggravated case of the Sputnik malaise. Thus I hold open the possibility that humans are here to serve the needs of computers and make them better and better as that ultra-species of life evolves before eyes. We may have been invaded by digital aliens and we don't even know it yet. Edited January 25, 2009 by scrappy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D H Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 I should have been born 40 years ago... Dang. So should I. 40 is close to ideal: old enough to have learned a lot academically and practically, nor so old that having a quick mind is a pleasant memory. I remember having a beige toaster on my desk. Pleasant memories ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 I wouldn't go as far as calling the Information Age "invasion by digital aliens" Anyway, I heard somewhere that the ideal age is 30-31..so I actually should have been born 30 years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 I remember having a beige toaster on my desk. Pleasant memories ...Was the bread you put in just as hard and cold when it popped out? I had that same toaster.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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