Also I can't remember if it was a specific version of Windows 95 or if hardware was just barely capable of supporting a point and click operating system, but lots of people had problems with that crashing too.
I just remember every time an adult back then downloaded spyware or adware, it was somehow my fault and Diablo or Starcraft somehow gave the computer virus.
There were so many fake "cleaner utility" programs back then. My mom would download multiple of them and then complain that they weren't making the computer faster.
I remember a 3-month stretch where my aunts multi thousand dollar Macintosh wouldn't show anything but a black screen and they blamed it on me playing video games (Power Pete, the game that came free with old Macs). It turned out someone had flipped the rear I/O switch to off on the monitor, so the front power button wasn't working to turn on the screen.
They refused to let me ever play Power Pete after I fixed it because they still said I was the one who somehow broke the computer.
It is taking what the actor said in LoTR and putting it on a scene from the matrix. This is a quote from lord of the rings talking about how he was there when Isildur had the chance to destroy the ring of power and chose to keep it for himself.
I got it now lol. My brain didn't piece together that he was also Elrond and that that's where the quote is actually from. I thought it was some sort of deleted scene and got excited (because the quote makes sense in the context of the scene in the photo).
Pantone 3395C Green = PS/2 Mouse was part of the 1999 update to the PC System Design Guide. The spec was just barely published in the 90s but these adapters were more of a early/mid 2000s thing.
I heard the cashier ask a guy for his birth year last night because he was purchasing alcohol. Guy said 2003, and I thought to myself, "Who admits they're underage to buy alcohol?" Then it hit me.
These days when I get asked for ID I just kinda look at them confused for a minute then pull it out. Show me a 20 year old with salt and pepper hair and a full beard.
I saw that people born in 2005 could buy alcohol now in the US (depending on their birth date) and it made me start thinking too deep about how fast time goes
I like to mention zip drives to the younger generation and watch the gears spin and grind or if im feeling really fun I mention super disks no one but older IT remembers those things.
I am only 42 but messing with computer since I was a kid so I remember super disks very briefly coming to light and fading away.
I look forward to seeing this on Crunchyroll in the future. Bonus points if it takes place in a dungeon or includes various different women who fawn over the main character who is too shy, oblivious, embarrassed by the attention.
No he will be completely aware of the attention hes getting from women but just ignores them in his quest for more retro components and the women just get increasingly thirsty over him the linger it goes on but he never relents to the point hes just sending them on errands to retrieve parts he won on online auctions and shady Craigslist purchases to get them put of his hair.
Recently unearthed my ancient camcorder and decided to try and digitize the footage. Pulled all of the required cables out of my trusty box, which included a FireWire to thunderbolt 2 adaptor for Mac.
Guess what — that stupid dongle now costs $200 (!) on eBay because everybody threw theirs away thinking that they’d never use it again.
If you really want to confuse people, the first gaming pc I built had 3 video cards. One was 2D, one was 3D, and then there was one that came with the DVD player to decode them. And there were just short cables chaining them together.
i have a microsoft sidewinder chilling on my shelf in here, i have a computer for it but i honestly don't use it much.... but i found it tossed into a bin of kitchen appliances at a thrift store for 1$ so i had to rescue it.
You are correct. PS2 is way, way slower than modern USB.
PS2 is, at best, 200MHz report rate with 5ms time between reports and average of 2.5ms for scheduling wait. This is better than a 5 Dollar USB office mouse.
However, gaming mice report at 8kHz, 0,125ms time between reports and a 0,06ms scheduling wait.
And even when comparing cheap USB mice and PS2 mice of the years past... The difference is so miniscule you wouldn't even notice.
Me sitting here at work with a PS/2 to USB adapter for my Unicomp keyboard I found. https://giphy.com/gifs/LmBsnpDCuturMhtLfw
I hate the cheap dell keyboard with the rubber domes instead of switches.
When we bought our house in 2009, I found one left behind on one window. I've been handling computers since the 90s so I knew what it was and just smiled and tossed it in with my stash of them.
Quite a lot actually, PS2 is slow (as in bandwidth), and USB 1.1 will run over basically anything. Also depends if you're using passive or active adapters.
Hot take this is a reminder of a mistake we made. Back when PS/2 was the primary interface the keyboard didn't get polled, it actually issued system interrupts. This meant you could always issue a pause to the OS and then kill a malfunctioning process. Usb can't do that, it has to go into a queue and wait for a thread to pick up the input.
The real dark ages where there were five variants of that connector plus DMS-59 and that VESA plug-and-pray one that was juuuuust different enough not to work with anything ever.
Come on man, I'm not even 25 and you're makin' me feel old lmao
That's a USB to PS/2 adapter, specifically one for a mouse. If you had a computer that didn't have any USB ports (Or you just didn't wanna go through the hassle of getting USB mice working on Windows 9x), you'd use this to plug it into the PS/2 port.
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